The New Testament in the Order

It Was Written (J. N. Darby Version)

 

Contents:

 

Galatians (A. D. 49)

James (A. D. 50)

1 Thessalonians (A. D. 51)

2 Thessalonians (A. D. 52)

1 Corinthians (A. D. 55)

2 Corinthians (A. D. 57)

Romans (A. D. 57)

Mark (late 50s - early 60s)

Matthew (late 50s - early 60s)

Luke (A. D. 60-61)

Colossians (A. D. 61)

Philemon (A. D. 61)

Ephesians (A. D. 61)

Philippians (A. D. 62)

 

I Timothy (A. D. 63)

Acts (A. D. 63)

Hebrews (A. D. 64)

Titus (A. D. 65)

John (A. D. 65)

1 John (A. D. 65)

2 John (A. D. 65)

3 John (A. D. 65)

1 Peter (A. D. 65)

2 Timothy (A. D. 67)

2 Peter (A. D. 67)

Jude (A. D. 68)

Revelation (A.D. 70)

 

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Galatians (A. D. 49)

 

48N   1     1     Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through  Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among  [the] dead, 

48N   1     2     and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.

48N   1     3     Grace to you, and peace, from God [the] Father, and our Lord  Jesus Christ, 

48N   1     4     who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us  out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God  and Father;

48N   1     5     to whom [be] glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

48N   1     6     I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called  you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

48N   1     7     which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble  you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.

48N   1     8     But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad  tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as  glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

48N   1     9     As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one  announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have  received, let him be accursed.

48N   1     10    For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to  please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's  bondman.

48N   1     11    But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings  which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

48N   1     12    For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I  taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

48N   1     13    For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in  Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and  ravaged it;

48N   1     14    and advanced in Judaism beyond many [my] contemporaries in  my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my  fathers.

48N   1     15    But when God, who set me apart [even] from my mother's  womb, and called [me] by his grace,

48N   1     16    was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce  him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not  counsel with flesh and blood,

48N   1     17    nor went I up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles  before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to  Damascus.

48N   1     18    Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make  acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

48N   1     19    but I saw none other of the apostles, but James the brother  of the Lord.

48N   1     20    Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

48N   1     21    Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

48N   1     22    But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea  which [are] in Christ;

48N   1     23    only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly  now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he  ravaged:

48N   1     24    and they glorified God in me.

48N   2     1     Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to  Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];

48N   2     2     and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before  them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but  privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I  run or had run in vain;

48N   2     3     (but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek,  compelled to be circumcised;)

48N   2     4     and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in  surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our  liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us  into bondage;

48N   2     5     to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that  the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

48N   2     6     But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat --  whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does  not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous  communicated nothing;

48N   2     7     but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the  uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of  the circumcision,

48N   2     8     (for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the  circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

48N   2     9     and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and  John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and  Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go]  to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;

48N   2     10    only that we should remember the poor, which same thing  also I was diligent to do.

48N   2     11    But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the]  face, because he was to be condemned:

48N   2     12    for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those  of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated  himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;

48N   2     13    and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling  part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by  their dissimulation.

48N   2     14    But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly,  according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter  before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and  not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

48N   2     15    We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,

48N   2     16    but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of  works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also  have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on  the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of  law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be  justified.

48N   2     17    Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have  been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be  the thought.

48N   2     18    For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again,  I constitute myself a transgressor.

48N   2     19    For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to  God.

48N   2     20    I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but  Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live  by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and  given himself for me.

48N   2     21    I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness  [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

48N   3     1     O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as  before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed,  crucified [among you]?

48N   3     2     This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the  Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of  faith?

48N   3     3     Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to  be made perfect in flesh?

48N   3     4     Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in  vain?

48N   3     5     He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works  miracles among you, [is it] on the principle of works of law,  or of [the] report of faith?

48N   3     6     Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as  righteousness.

48N   3     7     Know then that they that are on the principle of faith,  these are Abraham's sons;

48N   3     8     and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the  nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the  glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be  blessed.

48N   3     9     So that they who are on the principle of faith are blessed  with believing Abraham.

48N   3     10    For as many as are on the principle of works of law are  under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does  not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of  the law to do them;

48N   3     11    but that by law no one is justified with God [is] evident,  because The just shall live on the principle of faith;

48N   3     12    but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that  shall have done these things shall live by them.

48N   3     13    Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having  become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every  one hanged upon a tree,)

48N   3     14    that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in  Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit  through faith.

48N   3     15    Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed  covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.

48N   3     16    But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his  seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,  And to thy seed; which is Christ.

48N   3     17    Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the  law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does  not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

48N   3     18    For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it  is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in  grace to Abraham by promise.

48N   3     19    Why then the law? It was added for the sake of  transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was  made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.

48N   3     20    But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

48N   3     21    [Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the  thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then  indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

48N   3     22    but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that  the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should  be given to those that believe.

48N   3     23    But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up  to faith [which was] about to be revealed.

48N   3     24    So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we  might be justified on the principle of faith.

48N   3     25    But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;

48N   3     26    for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

48N   3     27    For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put  on Christ.

48N   3     28    There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman;  there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ  Jesus:

48N   3     29    but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed,  heirs according to promise.

48N   4     1     Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs  nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

48N   4     2     but he is under guardians and stewards until the period  fixed by the father.

48N   4     3     So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage  under the principles of the world;

48N   4     4     but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth  his Son, come of woman, come under law,

48N   4     5     that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive  sonship.

48N   4     6     But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his  Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

48N   4     7     So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir  also through God.

48N   4     8     But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to  those who by nature are not gods;

48N   4     9     but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do  ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye  desire to be again anew in bondage?

48N   4     10    Ye observe days and months and times and years.

48N   4     11    I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as  to you.

48N   4     12    Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I  beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

48N   4     13    But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the  glad tidings to you at the first;

48N   4     14    and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not  slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel  of God, as Christ Jesus.

48N   4     15    What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness  that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have  given [them] to me.

48N   4     16    So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

48N   4     17    They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut  you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

48N   4     18    But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is  right, and not only when I am present with you --

48N   4     19    my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ  shall have been formed in you:

48N   4     20    and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my  voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

48N   4     21    Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not  listen to the law?

48N   4     22    For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the  maid servant, and one of the free woman.

48N   4     23    But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to  flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

48N   4     24    Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two  covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is  Hagar.

48N   4     25    For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to  Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her  children;

48N   4     26    but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

48N   4     27    For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;  break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the  children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her  that has a husband.

48N   4     28    But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are  children of promise.

48N   4     29    But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted  him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

48N   4     30    But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and  her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with  the son of the free woman.

48N   4     31    So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but  [children] of the free woman.

48N   5     1     Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and  be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

48N   5     2     Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised,  Christ shall profit you nothing.

48N   5     3     And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that  he is debtor to do the whole law.

48N   5     4     Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated  [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen  from grace.

48N   5     5     For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await  the hope of righteousness.

48N   5     6     For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor  uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

48N   5     7     Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the  truth?

48N   5     8     The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

48N   5     9     A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

48N   5     10    *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will  have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the  guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

48N   5     11    But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I  yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done  away.

48N   5     12    I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw  you into confusion.

48N   5     13    For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do]  not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by  love serve one another.

48N   5     14    For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt  love thy neighbour as thyself;

48N   5     15    but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not  consumed one of another.

48N   5     16    But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil  flesh's lust.

48N   5     17    For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit  against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the  other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

48N   5     18    but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

48N   5     19    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are  fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

48N   5     20    idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers,  contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

48N   5     21    envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like  these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have  said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit  God's kingdom.

48N   5     22    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,  long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

48N   5     23    meekness, self-control: against such things there is no  law.

48N   5     24    But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh  with the passions and the lusts.

48N   5     25    If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

48N   5     26    Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another,  envying one another.

48N   6     1     Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are  spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness,  considering thyself lest *thou* also be tempted.

48N   6     2     Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the  Christ.

48N   6     3     For if any man reputes himself to be something, being  nothing, he deceives himself;

48N   6     4     but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his  boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs  to another.

48N   6     5     For each shall bear his own burden.

48N   6     6     Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that  teaches in all good things.

48N   6     7     Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall  sow, that also shall he reap.

48N   6     8     For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption  from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit  shall reap eternal life:

48N   6     9     but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if  we do not faint, we shall reap.

48N   6     10    So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all,  and specially towards those of the household of faith.

48N   6     11    See how long a letter I have written to you with my own  hand.

48N   6     12    As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh,  these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be  persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

48N   6     13    For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep  the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may  boast in your flesh.

48N   6     14    But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our  Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me,  and I to the world.

48N   6     15    For [in Christ Jesus] neither is circumcision anything, nor  uncircumcision; but new creation.

48N   6     16    And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and  mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

48N   6     17    For the rest let no one trouble me, for *I* bear in my body  the brands of the Lord Jesus.

48N   6     18    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit,  brethren. Amen.

 

James (A. D. 50)

 

59N   1     1     James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the  twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting.

59N   1     2     Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various  temptations,

59N   1     3     knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

59N   1     4     But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be  perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

59N   1     5     But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who  gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given  to him:

59N   1     6     but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that  doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed  about;

59N   1     7     for let not that man think that he shall receive anything  from the Lord;

59N   1     8     [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

59N   1     9     But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,

59N   1     10    and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's  flower he will pass away.

59N   1     11    For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has  withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the  comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall  wither in his goings.

59N   1     12    Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having  been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has  promised to them that love him.

59N   1     13    Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For  God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no  one.

59N   1     14    But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his  own lust;

59N   1     15    then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin  fully completed brings forth death.

59N   1     16    Do not err, my beloved brethren.

59N   1     17    Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from  above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor  shadow of turning.

59N   1     18    According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth,  that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.

59N   1     19    So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to  hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

 

59N   1     20    for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.

59N   1     21    Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of  wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is  able to save your souls.

59N   1     22    But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only,  beguiling yourselves.

59N   1     23    For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer,  *he* is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

59N   1     24    for he has considered himself and is gone away, and  straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

59N   1     25    But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of  liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a  doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his doing.

59N   1     26    If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his  tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

59N   1     27    Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is  this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep  oneself unspotted from the world.

59N   2     1     My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,  [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:

59N   2     2     for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring  in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile  apparel,

59N   2     3     and ye look upon him who wears the splendid apparel, and  say, Do thou sit here well, and say to the poor, Do thou stand  there, or sit here under my footstool:

59N   2     4     have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become  judges having evil thoughts?

59N   2     5     Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to  the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he  has promised to them that love him?

59N   2     6     But *ye* have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich  oppress you, and [do not] *they* drag you before [the]  tribunals?

59N   2     7     And [do not] *they* blaspheme the excellent name which has  been called upon you?

59N   2     8     If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the  scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do  well.

59N   2     9     But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being  convicted by the law as transgressors.

59N   2     10    For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in  one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.

59N   2     11    For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also,  Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but  killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law.

59N   2     12    So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by  [the] law of liberty;

59N   2     13    for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn  no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

59N   2     14    What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have  faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

59N   2     15    Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of  daily food,

59N   2     16    and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be  warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for  the body, what [is] the profit?

59N   2     17    So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

59N   2     18    But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have  works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works  will shew thee my faith.

59N   2     19    *Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The  demons even believe, and tremble.

59N   2     20    But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is  dead?

59N   2     21    Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had  offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

59N   2     22    Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by  works faith was perfected.

59N   2     23    And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham  believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and  he was called Friend of God.

59N   2     24    Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works,  and not on the principle of faith only.

59N   2     25    But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified  on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers  and put [them] forth by another way?

59N   2     26    For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith  without works is dead.

59N   3     1     Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall  receive greater judgment.

59N   3     2     For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he*  [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

59N   3     3     Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that  they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.

59N   3     4     Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by  violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder,  wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.

59N   3     5     Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great  things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

59N   3     6     and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the  tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body,  and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire  of hell.

59N   3     7     For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of  creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed  by the human species;

59N   3     8     but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an  unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

59N   3     9     Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse  we men made after [the] likeness of God.

59N   3     10    Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It  is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

59N   3     11    Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth  sweet and bitter?

59N   3     12    Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs?  Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.

59N   3     13    Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out  of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

59N   3     14    but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts,  do not boast and lie against the truth.

59N   3     15    This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but  earthly, natural, devilish.

59N   3     16    For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder  and every evil thing.

59N   3     17    But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful,  gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning,  unfeigned.

59N   3     18    But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them  that make peace.

59N   4     1     Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it]  not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?

59N   4     2     Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and  cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask  not.

59N   4     3     Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may  consume [it] in your pleasures.

59N   4     4     Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is  enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend  of the world is constituted enemy of God.

59N   4     5     Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit  which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

59N   4     6     But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself  against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

59N   4     7     Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and  he will flee from you.

59N   4     8     Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse  [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye  double-minded.

59N   4     9     Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be  turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

59N   4     10    Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt  you.

59N   4     11    Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks  against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against  [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law,  thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

59N   4     12    One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to  destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?

59N   4     13    Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into  such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

59N   4     14    ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what  [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little  while, and then disappearing,)

59N   4     15    instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we  should live, we will also do this or that.

59N   4     16    But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is  evil.

59N   4     17    To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not,  to him it is sin.

59N   5     1     Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that  [are] coming upon [you].

59N   5     2     Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

59N   5     3     Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall  be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire.  Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days.

59N   5     4     Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your  fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of  those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord  of sabaoth.

59N   5     5     Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged  yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of  slaughter;

59N   5     6     ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not  resist you.

59N   5     7     Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the  Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the  earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and  [the] latter rain.

59N   5     8     *Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the  coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.

59N   5     9     Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not  judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

59N   5     10    Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having  patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the]  Lord.

59N   5     11    Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have  heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord;  that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

59N   5     12    But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by  heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your  yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under  judgment.

59N   5     13    Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any  happy? let him sing psalms.

59N   5     14    Is any sick among you? let him call to [him] the elders of  the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with  oil in the name of [the] Lord;

59N   5     15    and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord  shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it  shall be forgiven him.

59N   5     16    Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray  for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent  supplication of the righteous [man] has much power.

59N   5     17    Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with  prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the  earth three years and six months;

59N   5     18    and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the  earth caused its fruit to spring forth.

59N   5     19    My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and  one bring him back,

59N   5     20    let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the]  error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a  multitude of sins.

 

1 Thessalonians (A. D. 51)

 

52N   1     1     Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of  Thessalonians in God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.  Grace to you and peace.

52N   1     2     We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of  you at our prayers,

52N   1     3     remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of  love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ,  before our God and Father;

52N   1     4     knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

52N   1     5     For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but  also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance;  even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

52N   1     6     and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having  accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy  Spirit,

52N   1     7     so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia  and in Achaia:

52N   1     8     for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in  Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is]  towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say  anything;

52N   1     9     for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we  had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a  living and true God,

52N   1     10    and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from  among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

52N   2     1     For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we  had] to you, that it has not been in vain;

52N   2     2     but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye  know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you  the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

52N   2     3     For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,  nor in guile;

52N   2     4     but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad  tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but  God, who proves our hearts.

52N   2     5     For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering  discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for  covetousness, God [is] witness;

52N   2     6     nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from  others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

52N   2     7     but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would  cherish her own children.

52N   2     8     Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having  imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own  lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

52N   2     9     For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working  night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have  preached to you the glad tidings of God.

52N   2     10    *Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously  and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that  believe:

52N   2     11    as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to  exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

52N   2     12    that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own  kingdom and glory.

52N   2     13    And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly  that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us,  ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's  word, which also works in you who believe.

52N   2     14    For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies  of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have  suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they*  of the Jews,

52N   2     15    who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and  have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and  [are] against all men,

52N   2     16    forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be  saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has  come upon them to the uttermost.

52N   2     17    But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated  for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more  abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

52N   2     18    wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both  once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

52N   2     19    For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are]  not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

52N   2     20    for ye are our glory and joy.

52N   3     1     Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we  thought good to be left alone in Athens,

52N   3     2     and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God  in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage  [you] concerning your faith,

52N   3     3     that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For  yourselves know that we are set for this;

52N   3     4     for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we  are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass,  and ye know.)

52N   3     5     For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself,  sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted  you and our labour should be come to nothing.

52N   3     6     But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought  to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have  always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as  we also you;

52N   3     7     for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in  all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

52N   3     8     because now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord.

52N   3     9     For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all  the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

52N   3     10    night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may  see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?

52N   3     11    But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct  our way to you.

52N   3     12    But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love  toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards  you,

52N   3     13    in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in  holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord  Jesus with all his saints.

52N   4     1     For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in  [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought  to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would  abound still more.

52N   4     2     For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

52N   4     3     For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification,  that ye should abstain from fornication;

52N   4     4     that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in  sanctification and honour,

52N   4     5     (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not  God,)

52N   4     6     not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in  the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these  things, even as we also told you before, and have fully  testified.

52N   4     7     For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in  sanctification.

52N   4     8     He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother],  disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy  Spirit to you.

52N   4     9     Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should  write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one  another.

52N   4     10    For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole  of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still  more,

52N   4     11    and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own  affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged  you,

52N   4     12    that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may  have need of no one.

52N   4     13    But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning  them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved  even as also the rest who have no hope.

52N   4     14    For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again,  so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep  through Jesus.

52N   4     15    (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that  *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in  no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

52N   4     16    for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with  archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from  heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

52N   4     17    then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up  together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the]  air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.

52N   4     18    So encourage one another with these words.)

52N   5     1     But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have  no need that ye should be written to,

52N   5     2     for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of [the]  Lord so comes as a thief by night.

52N   5     3     When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction  comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and  they shall in no wise escape.

52N   5     4     But *ye*, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should  overtake you as a thief:

52N   5     5     for all *ye* are sons of light and sons of day; we are not  of night nor of darkness.

52N   5     6     So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch  and be sober;

52N   5     7     for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink  drink by night;

52N   5     8     but *we* being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on  [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope  of salvation;

52N   5     9     because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining  salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

52N   5     10    who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or  sleep, we may live together with him.

52N   5     11    Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the  other, even as also ye do.

52N   5     12    But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among  you, and take the lead among you in [the] Lord, and admonish  you,

52N   5     13    and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their  work. Be in peace among yourselves.

52N   5     14    But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly,  comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards  all.

52N   5     15    See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue  always what is good towards one another and towards all;

52N   5     16    rejoice always;

52N   5     17    pray unceasingly;

52N   5     18    in everything give thanks, for this is [the] will of God in  Christ Jesus towards you;

52N   5     19    quench not the Spirit;

52N   5     20    do not lightly esteem prophecies;

52N   5     21    but prove all things, hold fast the right;

52N   5     22    hold aloof from every form of wickedness.

52N   5     23    Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your  whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the  coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

52N   5     24    He [is] faithful who calls you, who will also perform [it].

52N   5     25    Brethren, pray for us.

52N   5     26    Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

52N   5     27    I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the  [holy] brethren.

52N   5     28    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

 

2 Thessalonians (A. D. 52)

 

53N   1     1     Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of  Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

53N   1     2     Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

53N   1     3     We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it  is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love  of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

53N   1     4     so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies  of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions  and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

53N   1     5     a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the  end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for  the sake of which ye also suffer;

53N   1     6     if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render  tribulation to those that trouble you,

53N   1     7     and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the  revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of  his power,

53N   1     8     in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God,  and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus  Christ;

53N   1     9     who shall pay the penalty [of] everlasting destruction from  [the] presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,

53N   1     10    when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and  wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to  you has been believed,) in that day.

53N   1     11    To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may  count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all [the] good  pleasure of [his] goodness and [the] work of faith with power,

53N   1     12    so that the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ] may be  glorified in you and *ye* in him, according to the grace of our  God, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

53N   2     1     Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus  Christ and our gathering together to him,

53N   2     2     that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by  spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as  that the day of the Lord is present.

53N   2     3     Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will  not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin  have been revealed, the son of perdition;

53N   2     4     who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called  God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in  the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

53N   2     5     Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these  things to you?

53N   2     6     And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be  revealed in his own time.

53N   2     7     For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there  is] he who restrains now until he be gone,

53N   2     8     and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord  Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall  annul by the appearing of his coming;

53N   2     9     whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all  power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

53N   2     10    and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish,  because they have not received the love of the truth that they  might be saved.

53N   2     11    And for this reason God sends to them a working of error,  that they should believe what is false,

53N   2     12    that all might be judged who have not believed the truth,  but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

53N   2     13    But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren  beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the]  beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and  belief of [the] truth:

53N   2     14    whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to [the]  obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

53N   2     15    So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the  instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by  our letter.

53N   2     16    But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father,  who has loved us, and given [us] eternal consolation and good  hope by grace,

53N   2     17    encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good work  and word.

53N   3     1     For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the  Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

53N   3     2     and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for  faith [is] not [the portion] of all.

53N   3     3     But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep  [you] from evil.

53N   3     4     But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we  enjoin, ye both do and will do.

53N   3     5     But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and  into the patience of the Christ.

53N   3     6     Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus  Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly  and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

53N   3     7     For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because  we have not walked disorderly among you;

53N   3     8     nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in  toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to  any one of you:

53N   3     9     not that we have not the right, but that we might give  ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

53N   3     10    For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that  if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

53N   3     11    For we hear that [there are] some walking among you  disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

53N   3     12    Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ,  that working quietly they eat their own bread.

53N   3     13    But *ye*, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

53N   3     14    But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that  man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed  of himself;

53N   3     15    and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a  brother.

53N   3     16    But the Lord of peace himself give you peace continually in  every way. The Lord [be] with you all.

53N   3     17    The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is [the] mark  in every letter; so I write.

53N   3     18    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all.

 

1 Corinthians (A. D. 55)

 

46N   1     1     Paul, [a] called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and  Sosthenes the brother,

46N   1     2     to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to [those]  sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in  every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both  theirs and ours:

46N   1     3     Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

46N   1     4     I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of  God given to you in Christ Jesus;

46N   1     5     that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word  [of doctrine], and all knowledge,

46N   1     6     (according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed  in you,)

46N   1     7     so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of  our Lord Jesus Christ;

46N   1     8     who shall also confirm you to [the] end, unimpeachable in  the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

46N   1     9     God [is] faithful, by whom ye have been called into [the]  fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

46N   1     10    Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus  Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not  among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the  same mind and in the same opinion.

46N   1     11    For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by  those of [the house of] Chloe, that there are strifes among  you.

46N   1     12    But I speak of this, that each of you says, *I* am of Paul,  and *I* of Apollos, and *I* of Cephas, and *I* of Christ.

46N   1     13    Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or  have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

46N   1     14    I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless  Crispus and Gaius,

46N   1     15    that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.

46N   1     16    Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I  know not if I have baptised any other.

46N   1     17    For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad  tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ  may not be made vain.

46N   1     18    For the word of the cross is to them that perish  foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

46N   1     19    For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,  and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

46N   1     20    Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this  world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

46N   1     21    For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has  not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the  preaching to save those that believe.

46N   1     22    Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;

46N   1     23    but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and  to nations foolishness;

46N   1     24    but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks,  Christ God's power and God's wisdom.

46N   1     25    Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the  weakness of God is stronger than men.

46N   1     26    For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not  many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many  high-born.

46N   1     27    But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he  may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things  of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

46N   1     28    and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has  God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the  things that are;

46N   1     29    so that no flesh should boast before God.

46N   1     30    But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to  us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and  redemption;

46N   1     31    that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him  boast in [the] Lord.

46N   2     1     And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in  excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony  of God.

46N   2     2     For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you  save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.

46N   2     3     And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much  trembling;

46N   2     4     and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of  wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

46N   2     5     that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in  God's power.

46N   2     6     But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of  this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to  nought.

46N   2     7     But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden  [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our  glory:

46N   2     8     which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they  known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

46N   2     9     but according as it is written, Things which eye has not  seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's  heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

46N   2     10    but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit  searches all things, even the depths of God.

46N   2     11    For who of men hath known the things of a man except the  spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God  knows no one except the Spirit of God.

46N   2     12    But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but  the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which  have been freely given to us of God:

46N   2     13    which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom,  but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual  [things] by spiritual [means].

46N   2     14    But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the  Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know  [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

46N   2     15    but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is  discerned of no one.

46N   2     16    For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall  instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

46N   3     1     And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to  spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

46N   3     2     I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not  yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

46N   3     3     for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you  emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to  man?

46N   3     4     For when one says, *I* am of Paul, and another, *I* of  Apollos, are ye not men?

46N   3     5     Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants,  through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to  each.

46N   3     6     *I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the  increase.

46N   3     7     So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer;  but God the giver of the increase.

46N   3     8     But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall  receive his own reward according to his own labour.

46N   3     9     For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry,  God's building.

46N   3     10    According to the grace of God which has been given to me,  as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another  builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

46N   3     11    For other foundation can no man lay besides that which [is]  laid, which is Jesus Christ.

46N   3     12    Now if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver,  precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

46N   3     13    the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall  declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire  shall try the work of each what it is.

46N   3     14    If the work of any one which he has built upon [the  foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

46N   3     15    If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer  loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire.

46N   3     16    Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that]  the Spirit of God dwells in you?

46N   3     17    If any one corrupt the temple of God, *him* shall God  destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are *ye*.

46N   3     18    Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be  wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he  may be wise.

46N   3     19    For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for  it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

46N   3     20    And again, [The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that  they are vain.

46N   3     21    So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

46N   3     22    Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or  life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are  yours;

46N   3     23    and *ye* [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.

46N   4     1     Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and  stewards of [the] mysteries of God.

46N   4     2     Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found  faithful.

46N   4     3     But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined  of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.

46N   4     4     For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not  justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.

46N   4     5     So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the  Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden  things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of  hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.

46N   4     6     Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their  application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may  learn in us the [lesson of] not [letting your thoughts go]  above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for  [such a] one against another.

46N   4     7     For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou  hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest  thou as not receiving?

46N   4     8     Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye  have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we*  also might reign with you.

46N   4     9     For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last,  as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the  world, both to angels and men.

46N   4     10    *We* [are] fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in  Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in  dishonour.

46N   4     11    To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in  nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

46N   4     12    and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we  bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];

46N   4     13    insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of  the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.

46N   4     14    Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my  beloved children I admonish [you].

46N   4     15    For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ,  yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you  through the glad tidings.

46N   4     16    I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.

46N   4     17    For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my  beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in  mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach  everywhere in every assembly.

46N   4     18    But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to  you;

46N   4     19    but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I  will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the  power.

46N   4     20    For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.

46N   4     21    What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love,  and [in] a spirit of meekness?

46N   5     1     It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among  you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations,  so that one should have his father's wife.

46N   5     2     And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in  order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out  of the midst of you.

46N   5     3     For *I*, [as] absent in body but present in spirit, have  already judged as present,

46N   5     4     [to deliver,] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and  my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord  Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

46N   5     5     to deliver him, [I say,] [being] such, to Satan for  destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the  day of the Lord Jesus.

46N   5     6     Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little  leaven leavens the whole lump?

46N   5     7     Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,  according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ,  has been sacrificed;

46N   5     8     so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor  with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened  [bread] of sincerity and truth.

46N   5     9     I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with  fornicators;

46N   5     10    not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with  the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye  should go out of the world.

46N   5     11    But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be  fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a  drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one  not even to eat.

46N   5     12    For what have *I* [to do] with judging those outside also?  *ye*, do not ye judge them that are within?

46N   5     13    But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from  amongst yourselves.

46N   6     1     Dare any one of you, having a matter against another,  prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the  saints?

46N   6     2     Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world?  and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of [the]  smallest judgments?

46N   6     3     Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then  matters of this life?

46N   6     4     If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set  those [to judge] who are little esteemed in the assembly.

46N   6     5     I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a  wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to  decide between his brethren!

46N   6     6     But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that  before unbelievers.

46N   6     7     Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye  have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer  wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

46N   6     8     But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this [your] brethren.

46N   6     9     Do ye not know that unrighteous [persons] shall not inherit  [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor  idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of  themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

46N   6     10    nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive  persons, nor [the] rapacious, shall inherit [the] kingdom of  God.

46N   6     11    And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed,  but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the  name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

46N   6     12    All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit;  all things are lawful to me, but *I* will not be brought under  the power of any.

46N   6     13    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will  bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for  fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

46N   6     14    And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up  from among [the dead] by his power.

46N   6     15    Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ?  Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make [them]  members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

46N   6     16    Do ye not know that he [that is] joined to the harlot is  one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

46N   6     17    But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

46N   6     18    Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is  without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against  his own body.

46N   6     19    Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy  Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not  your own?

46N   6     20    for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God  in your body.

46N   7     1     But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]:  [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

46N   7     2     but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife,  and each [woman] have her own husband.

46N   7     3     Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like  manner the wife to the husband.

46N   7     4     The wife has not authority over her own body, but the  husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over  his own body, but the wife.

46N   7     5     Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a  time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be  together, that Satan tempt you not because of your  incontinency.

46N   7     6     But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

46N   7     7     Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has  his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

46N   7     8     But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for  them that they remain even as I.

46N   7     9     But if they have not control over themselves, let them  marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

46N   7     10    But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not  wife be separated from husband;

46N   7     11    (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain  unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not  husband leave wife.

46N   7     12    But as to the rest, *I* say, not the Lord, If any brother  have an unbelieving wife, and *she* consent to dwell with him,  let him not leave her.

46N   7     13    And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents  to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband.

46N   7     14    For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and  the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since  [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are  holy.

46N   7     15    But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother  or a sister is not bound in such [cases], but God has called us  in peace.

46N   7     16    For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy  husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save  thy wife?

46N   7     17    However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called  each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

46N   7     18    Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become  uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let  him not be circumcised.

46N   7     19    Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but  keeping God's commandments.

46N   7     20    Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

46N   7     21    Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern  thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

46N   7     22    For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord's  freedman; in like manner [also] the freeman being called is  Christ's bondman.

46N   7     23    Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of  men.

46N   7     24    Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide  with God.

46N   7     25    But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the]  Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of [the]  Lord to be faithful.

46N   7     26    I think then that this is good, on account of the present  necessity, that [it is] good for a man to remain so as he is.

46N   7     27    Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou  free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

46N   7     28    But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and  if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have  tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

46N   7     29    But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the  rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]:

46N   7     30    and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice,  as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

46N   7     31    and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as  their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

46N   7     32    But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for  the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

46N   7     33    but he that has married cares for the things of the world,  how he shall please his wife.

46N   7     34    There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The  unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be  holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares  for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

46N   7     35    But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a  snare before you, but for what [is] seemly, and waiting on the  Lord without distraction.

46N   7     36    But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his  virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it  must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them  marry.

46N   7     37    But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but  has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his  heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

46N   7     38    So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does  not marry does better.

46N   7     39    A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if  the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom  she will, only in [the] Lord.

46N   7     40    But she is happier if she so remain, according to my  judgment; but I think that *I* also have God's Spirit.

46N   8     1     But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we  all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

46N   8     2     If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as  he ought to know [it].

46N   8     3     But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):

46N   8     4     -- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols,  we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that  there [is] no other God save one.

46N   8     5     For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in  heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

46N   8     6     yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all  things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom  [are] all things, and *we* by him.

46N   8     7     But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of  the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and  their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

46N   8     8     But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should  not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an  advantage.

46N   8     9     But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a  stumbling-block to the weak.

46N   8     10    For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at  table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being  weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

46N   8     11    and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died,  will perish through thy knowledge.

46N   8     12    Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their  weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

46N   8     13    Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat  no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

46N   9     1     Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus  our Lord? are not *ye* my work in [the] Lord?

46N   9     2     If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to  you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.

46N   9     3     My defence to those who examine me is this:

46N   9     4     Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

46N   9     5     have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as  also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and  Cephas?

46N   9     6     Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

46N   9     7     Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a  vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock  and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

46N   9     8     Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also  say these things?

46N   9     9     For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle  the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the  oxen,

46N   9     10    or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our  sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in  hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of  [it].

46N   9     11    If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great  [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?

46N   9     12    If others partake of this right over you, should not rather  *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things,  that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of  the Christ.

46N   9     13    Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat  of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at  the altar partake with the altar?

46N   9     14    So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the  glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

46N   9     15    But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not  written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it  were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make  vain my boast.

46N   9     16    For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast  of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I  should not announce the glad tidings.

46N   9     17    For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not  of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

46N   9     18    What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the  glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so  as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in  [announcing] the glad tidings.

46N   9     19    For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all,  that I might gain the most [possible].

46N   9     20    And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might  gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being  myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

46N   9     21    to those without law, as without law, (not as without law  to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I  might gain [those] without law.

46N   9     22    I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain  the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all  events I might save some.

46N   9     23    And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that  I may be fellow-partaker with them.

46N   9     24    Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all,  but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may  obtain.

46N   9     25    But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in  all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a  corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

46N   9     26    *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as  not beating the air.

46N   9     27    But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after]  having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

46N   10    1     For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our  fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

46N   10    2     and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the  sea;

46N   10    3     and all ate the same spiritual food,

46N   10    4     and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a  spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the  Christ;)

46N   10    5     yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they  were strewed in the desert.

46N   10    6     But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should  not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

46N   10    7     Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written,  The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

46N   10    8     Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them  committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty  thousand.

46N   10    9     Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted,  and perished by serpents.

46N   10    10    Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished  by the destroyer.

46N   10    11    Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have  been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages  are come.

46N   10    12    So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest  he fall.

46N   10    13    No temptation has taken you but such as is according to  man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to  be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the  temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to  bear [it].

46N   10    14    Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

46N   10    15    I speak as to intelligent [persons]: do *ye* judge what I  say.

46N   10    16    The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the]  communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break,  is it not [the] communion of the body of the Christ?

46N   10    17    Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we  all partake of that one loaf.

46N   10    18    See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the  sacrifices in communion with the altar?

46N   10    19    What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is  anything, or that an idol is anything?

46N   10    20    But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to  demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in  communion with demons.

46N   10    21    Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons:  ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of  demons.

46N   10    22    Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than  he?

46N   10    23    All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all  things are lawful, but all do not edify.

46N   10    24    Let no one seek his own [advantage], but that of the  other.

46N   10    25    Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for  conscience sake.

46N   10    26    For the earth [is] the Lord's and its fulness.

46N   10    27    But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are  minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry  for conscience sake.

46N   10    28    But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy  purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and  conscience sake;

46N   10    29    but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the  other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

46N   10    30    If *I* partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of  for what *I* give thanks for?

46N   10    31    Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do  all things to God's glory.

46N   10    32    Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks,  or the assembly of God.

46N   10    33    Even as *I* also please all in all things; not seeking my  own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

46N   11    1     Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.

46N   11    2     Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me;  and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

46N   11    3     But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every  man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.

46N   11    4     Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his  head, puts his head to shame.

46N   11    5     But every woman praying or prophesying with her head  uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the  same as a shaved [woman].

46N   11    6     For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut  off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut  off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

46N   11    7     For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being  God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

46N   11    8     For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

46N   11    9     For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but  woman for the sake of the man.

46N   11    10    Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head,  on account of the angels.

46N   11    11    However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without  woman, in [the] Lord.

46N   11    12    For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by  the woman, but all things of God.

46N   11    13    Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray  to God uncovered?

46N   11    14    Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he  have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

46N   11    15    But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her;  for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.

46N   11    16    But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such  custom, nor the assemblies of God.

46N   11    17    But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter  on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for  the better, but for the worse.

46N   11    18    For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there  exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].

46N   11    19    For there must also be sects among you, that the approved  may become manifest among you.

46N   11    20    When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not  to eat [the] Lord's supper.

46N   11    21    For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before  [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

46N   11    22    Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye  despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have  not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this  [point] I do not praise.

46N   11    23    For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also  delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he  was delivered up, took bread,

46N   11    24    and having given thanks broke [it], and said, This is my  body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.

46N   11    25    In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying,  This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as  ye shall drink [it], in remembrance of me.

46N   11    26    For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the  cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

46N   11    27    So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of  the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body  and of the blood of the Lord.

46N   11    28    But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread,  and drink of the cup.

46N   11    29    For [the] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to  himself, not distinguishing the body.

46N   11    30    On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and  a good many are fallen asleep.

46N   11    31    But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

46N   11    32    But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that  we may not be condemned with the world.

46N   11    33    So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait  for one another.

46N   11    34    If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not  come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I  come, I will set in order.

46N   12    1     But concerning spiritual [manifestations], brethren, I do  not wish you to be ignorant.

46N   12    2     Ye know that when ye were [of the] nations [ye were] led  away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

46N   12    3     I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in [the  power of the] Spirit of God, says, Curse [on] Jesus; and no one  can say, Lord Jesus, unless in [the power of the] Holy Spirit.

46N   12    4     But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

46N   12    5     and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;

46N   12    6     and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God  who operates all things in all.

46N   12    7     But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for  profit.

46N   12    8     For to one, by the Spirit, is given [the] word of wisdom;  and to another [the] word of knowledge, according to the same  Spirit;

46N   12    9     and to a different one faith, in [the power of] the same  Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in [the power of] the  same Spirit;

46N   12    10    and to another operations of miracles; and to another  prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to a  different one kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation  of tongues.

46N   12    11    But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit,  dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

46N   12    12    For even as the body is one and has many members, but all  the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is]  the Christ.

46N   12    13    For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been  baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen  or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

46N   12    14    For also the body is not one member but many.

46N   12    15    If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the  body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

46N   12    16    And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of  the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

46N   12    17    If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if all  hearing, where the smelling?

46N   12    18    But now God has set the members, each one of them in the  body, according as it has pleased [him].

46N   12    19    But if all were one member, where the body?

46N   12    20    But now the members [are] many, and the body one.

46N   12    21    The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee;  or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

46N   12    22    But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be  weaker are necessary;

46N   12    23    and those [parts] of the body which we esteem to be the  more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour;  and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;

46N   12    24    but our comely [parts] have not need. But God has tempered  the body together, having given more abundant honour to [the  part] that lacked;

46N   12    25    that there might be no division in the body, but that the  members might have the same concern one for another.

46N   12    26    And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with  [it]; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice  with [it].

46N   12    27    Now *ye* are Christ's body, and members in particular.

46N   12    28    And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles;  secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers;  then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

46N   12    29    [Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all  teachers? [are] all [in possession of] miraculous powers?

46N   12    30    have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do  all interpret?

46N   12    31    But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I  unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.

46N   13    1     If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have  not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

46N   13    2     And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all  knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,  but have not love, I am nothing.

46N   13    3     And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I  deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I  profit nothing.

46N   13    4     Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of  others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

46N   13    5     does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what  is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

46N   13    6     does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

46N   13    7     bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,  endures all things.

46N   13    8     Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be  done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall  be done away.

46N   13    9     For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

46N   13    10    but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in  part shall be done away.

46N   13    11    When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child,  I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with  what belonged to the child.

46N   13    12    For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then  face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know  according as I also have been known.

46N   13    13    And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and  the greater of these [is] love.

46N   14    1     Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual  [manifestations], but rather that ye may prophesy.

46N   14    2     For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but  to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

46N   14    3     But he that prophesies speaks to men [in] edification, and  encouragement, and consolation.

46N   14    4     He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that  prophesies edifies [the] assembly.

46N   14    5     Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but  rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that  prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he  interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

46N   14    6     And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues,  what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in  revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

46N   14    7     Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp,  if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be  known what is piped or harped?

46N   14    8     For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall  prepare himself for war?

46N   14    9     Thus also *ye* with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct  speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be  speaking to the air.

46N   14    10    There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the  world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

46N   14    11    If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall  be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a  barbarian for me.

46N   14    12    Thus *ye* also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek  that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

46N   14    13    Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he  may interpret.

46N   14    14    For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my  understanding is unfruitful.

46N   14    15    What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will  pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit,  but I will sing also with the understanding.

46N   14    16    Since otherwise, if thou blessest with [the] spirit, how  shall he who fills the place of the simple [Christian] say  Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou  sayest?

46N   14    17    For *thou* indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not  edified.

46N   14    18    I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

46N   14    19    but in [the] assembly I desire to speak five words with my  understanding, that I may instruct others also, [rather] than  ten thousand words in a tongue.

46N   14    20    Brethren, be not children in [your] minds, but in malice  be babes; but in [your] minds be grown [men].

46N   14    21    It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and  by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus  will they hear me, saith the Lord.

46N   14    22    So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe,  but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to  those who believe.

46N   14    23    If therefore the whole assembly come together in one  place, and all speak with tongues, and simple [persons] enter  in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

46N   14    24    But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple  [person] come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

46N   14    25    the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling  upon [his] face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God  is indeed amongst you.

46N   14    26    What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each  [of you] has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a  revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to  edification.

46N   14    27    If any one speak with a tongue, [let it be] two, or at the  most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

46N   14    28    but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in [the]  assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

46N   14    29    And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others  judge.

46N   14    30    But if there be a revelation to another sitting [there],  let the first be silent.

46N   14    31    For ye can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and  all be encouraged.

 

46N   14    32    And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

46N   14    33    For God is not [a God] of disorder but of peace, as in all  the assemblies of the saints.

46N   14    34    Let [your] women be silent in the assemblies, for it is  not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the  law also says.

46N   14    35    But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own  husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in  assembly.

46N   14    36    Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you  only?

46N   14    37    If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual,  let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is  [the] Lord's commandment.

46N   14    38    But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

46N   14    39    So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid  the speaking with tongues.

46N   14    40    But let all things be done comelily and with order.

46N   15    1     But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I  announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye  stand,

46N   15    2     by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which  I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have  believed in vain.

46N   15    3     For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had  received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the  scriptures;

46N   15    4     and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third  day, according to the scriptures;

46N   15    5     and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

46N   15    6     Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of  whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen  asleep.

46N   15    7     Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

46N   15    8     and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to *me*  also.

46N   15    9     For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be  called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

46N   15    10    But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which  [was] towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more  abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God  which [was] with me.

46N   15    11    Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye  have believed.

46N   15    12    Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among  [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a  resurrection of [those that are] dead?

46N   15    13    But if there is not a resurrection of [those that are]  dead, neither is Christ raised:

46N   15    14    but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also [is]  our preaching, and vain also your faith.

46N   15    15    And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have  witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has  not raised if indeed [those that are] dead are not raised.

46N   15    16    For if [those that are] dead are not raised, neither is  Christ raised;

46N   15    17    but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are  yet in your sins.

46N   15    18    Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ  have perished.

46N   15    19    If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are [the]  most miserable of all men.

46N   15    20    (But now Christ is raised from among [the] dead,  first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

46N   15    21    For since by man [came] death, by man also resurrection of  [those that are] dead.

46N   15    22    For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all  shall be made alive.

46N   15    23    But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then  those that are the Christ's at his coming.

46N   15    24    Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him [who is]  God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all  authority and power.

46N   15    25    For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.

46N   15    26    [The] last enemy [that] is annulled [is] death.

46N   15    27    For he has put all things in subjection under his feet.  But when he says that all things are put in subjection, [it is]  evident that [it is] except him who put all things in  subjection to him.

46N   15    28    But when all things shall have been brought into  subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in  subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that  God may be all in all.)

46N   15    29    Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if [those  that are] dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for  them?

46N   15    30    Why do *we* also endanger ourselves every hour?

46N   15    31    Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus  our Lord.

46N   15    32    If, [to speak] after the manner of man, I have fought with  beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if [those that are]  dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

46N   15    33    Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

46N   15    34    Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant  of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

46N   15    35    But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with  what body do they come?

46N   15    36    Fool; what *thou* sowest is not quickened unless it die.

46N   15    37    And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall  be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the  rest:

46N   15    38    and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each  of the seeds its own body.

46N   15    39    Every flesh [is] not the same flesh, but one [is] of men,  and another flesh of beasts, and another [flesh] of birds, and  another of fishes.

46N   15    40    And [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but  different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the  earthly:

46N   15    41    one [the] sun's glory, and another [the] moon's glory, and  another [the] stars' glory; for star differs from star in  glory.

46N   15    42    Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in  corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

46N   15    43    It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown  in weakness, it is raised in power.

46N   15    44    It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body:  if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [one].

46N   15    45    Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a  living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

46N   15    46    But that which is spiritual [was] not first, but that  which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

46N   15    47    the first man out of [the] earth, made of dust; the second  man, out of heaven.

46N   15    48    Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and  such as the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones].

46N   15    49    And as we have borne the image of the [one] made of dust,  we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [one].

46N   15    50    But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot  inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit  incorruptibility.

46N   15    51    Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall  asleep, but we shall all be changed,

46N   15    52    in an instant, in [the] twinkling of an eye, at the last  trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be  raised incorruptible, and *we* shall be changed.

46N   15    53    For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility,  and this mortal put on immortality.

46N   15    54    But when this corruptible shall have put on  incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on  immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death  has been swallowed up in victory.

46N   15    55    Where, O death, [is] thy sting? where, O death, thy  victory?

46N   15    56    Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the  law;

46N   15    57    but thanks to God, who gives us the victory by our Lord  Jesus Christ.

46N   15    58    So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable,  abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your  toil is not in vain in [the] Lord.

46N   16    1     Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed  the assemblies of Galatia, so do *ye* do also.

46N   16    2     On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at  home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered,  that there may be no collections when I come.

46N   16    3     And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I  will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

46N   16    4     and if it be suitable that *I* also should go, they shall  go with me.

46N   16    5     But I will come to you when I shall have gone through  Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

46N   16    6     But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you,  that *ye* may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

46N   16    7     For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain  a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

46N   16    8     But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

46N   16    9     For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one],  and [the] adversaries many.

46N   16    10    Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without  fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

46N   16    11    Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward  in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the  brethren.

46N   16    12    Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that  he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all  [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good  opportunity.

46N   16    13    Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like  men; be strong.

46N   16    14    Let all things ye do be done in love.

46N   16    15    But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of  Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have  devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

46N   16    16    that *ye* should also be subject to such, and to every one  joined in the work and labouring.

46N   16    17    But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus  and Achaicus; because *they* have supplied what was lacking on  your part.

46N   16    18    For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore  such.

46N   16    19    The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla,  with the assembly in their house, salute you much in [the]  Lord.

 

46N   16    20    All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a  holy kiss.

46N   16    21    The salutation of [me] Paul with my own hand.

46N   16    22    If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ] let him be  Anathema Maranatha.

46N   16    23    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

46N   16    24    My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

 

48N   1     1     Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through  Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among  [the] dead,

 

2 Corinthians (A. D. 57)

 

47N   1     1     Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother  Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all  the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

47N   1     2     Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

47N   1     3     Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement;

47N   1     4     who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be  able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever,  through the encouragement with which we ourselves are  encouraged of God.

47N   1     5     Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards  us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

47N   1     6     But whether we are in tribulation, [it is] for your  encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the  same sufferings which *we* also suffer,

47N   1     7     (and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are  encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation:  knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of  the encouragement.

47N   1     8     For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our  tribulation which happened [to us] in Asia, that we were  excessively pressed beyond [our] power, so as to despair even  of living.

47N   1     9     But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves,  that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who  raises the dead;

47N   1     10    who has delivered us from so great a death, and does  deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

47N   1     11    ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the  gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the  subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.

47N   1     12    For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience,  that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly  wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the  world, and more abundantly towards you.

47N   1     13    For we do not write other things to you but what ye well  know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the  end,

47N   1     14    even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are  your boast, even as *ye* [are] ours in the day of the Lord  Jesus.

47N   1     15    And with this confidence I purposed to come to you  previously, that ye might have a second favour;

47N   1     16    and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from  Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to  Judaea.

47N   1     17    Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or  what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there  should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?

47N   1     18    Now God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and  nay.

47N   1     19    For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached  by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not  become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.

47N   1     20    For whatever promises of God [there are], in him is the  yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

47N   1     21    Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has  anointed us, [is] God,

47N   1     22    who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit  in our hearts.

47N   1     23    But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I  have not yet come to Corinth.

47N   1     24    Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of  your joy: for by faith ye stand.

47N   2     1     But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you  in grief.

47N   2     2     For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if  not he that is grieved through me?

47N   2     3     And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming  I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy;  trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

47N   2     4     For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to  you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye  may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

47N   2     5     But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in  part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

47N   2     6     Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been  inflicted] by the many;

47N   2     7     so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and  encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with  excessive grief.

47N   2     8     Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

47N   2     9     For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by  putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

47N   2     10    But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what  I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your  sakes in [the] person of Christ;

47N   2     11    that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us,  for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.

47N   2     12    Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad  tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the]  Lord,

47N   2     13    I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother;  but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

47N   2     14    But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in  the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge  through us in every place.

47N   2     15    For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and  in those that perish:

47N   2     16    to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the  others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient  for these things?

47N   2     17    For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of  God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak  in Christ.

47N   3     1     Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as  some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?

47N   3     2     *Ye* are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read  of all men,

47N   3     3     being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us,  written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God;  not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of [the] heart.

47N   3     4     And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

47N   3     5     not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as  of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;

47N   3     6     who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new  covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills,  but the Spirit quickens.

47N   3     7     (But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones,  began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix  their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his  face, [a glory] which is annulled;

47N   3     8     how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in  glory?

47N   3     9     For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather  the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

47N   3     10    For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in  this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

47N   3     11    For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much  rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.

47N   3     12    Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:

47N   3     13    and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so  that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the  end of that annulled.

47N   3     14    But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day  the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved,  which in Christ is annulled.

47N   3     15    But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon  their heart.

47N   3     16    But when it shall turn to [the] Lord, the veil is taken  away.)

47N   3     17    Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of [the]  Lord [is, there is] liberty.

47N   3     18    But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with  unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from  glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.

47N   4     1     Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn  us, we faint not.

47N   4     2     But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking  in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation  of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men  before God.

 

47N   4     3     But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that  are lost;

47N   4     4     in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of  the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of  the glory of the Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not  shine forth [for them].

47N   4     5     For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and  ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

47N   4     6     Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light  should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth  of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of [Jesus]  Christ.

47N   4     7     But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the  surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:

47N   4     8     every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent  issue, but our way not entirely shut up;

47N   4     9     persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

47N   4     10    always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that  the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

47N   4     11    for we who live are always delivered unto death on account  of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our  mortal flesh;

47N   4     12    so that death works in us, but life in you.

47N   4     13    And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is  written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; *we* also  believe, therefore also we speak;

47N   4     14    knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise  us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.

47N   4     15    For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace  abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to  the glory of God.

47N   4     16    Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is  consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.

47N   4     17    For our momentary [and] light affliction works for us in  surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

47N   4     18    while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the  things that are not seen; for the things that are seen [are]  for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

47N   5     1     For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be  destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with  hands, eternal in the heavens.

47N   5     2     For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put  on our house which [is] from heaven;

47N   5     3     if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

47N   5     4     For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being  burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but  clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

47N   5     5     Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who  also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

47N   5     6     Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while  present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

47N   5     7     (for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

47N   5     8     we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent  from the body and present with the Lord.

47N   5     9     Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to  be agreeable to him.

47N   5     10    For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of  the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the  body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or  evil.

47N   5     11    Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men,  but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have  been manifested in your consciences.

47N   5     12    [For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we  are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may  have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in  heart.

47N   5     13    For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are  sober, [it is] for you.

47N   5     14    For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged  this: that one died for all, then all have died;

47N   5     15    and he died for all, that they who live should no longer  live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been  raised.

47N   5     16    So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but  if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we  know [him thus] no longer.

47N   5     17    So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation;  the old things have passed away; behold all things have become  new:

47N   5     18    and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to  himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that  reconciliation:

47N   5     19    how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to  himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in  us the word of that reconciliation.

47N   5     20    We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were]  beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

47N   5     21    Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we*  might become God's righteousness in him.

47N   6     1     But [as] fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not  the grace of God in vain:

47N   6     2     (for he says, I have listened to thee in an accepted time,  and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now [is  the] well-accepted time; behold, now [the] day of salvation:)

47N   6     3     giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry  be not blamed;

47N   6     4     but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers,  in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

47N   6     5     in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings,  in fastings,

47N   6     6     in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in  [the] Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

47N   6     7     in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God; through the  arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

47N   6     8     through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good  report: as deceivers, and true;

47N   6     9     as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live;  as disciplined, and not put to death;

47N   6     10    as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching  many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

47N   6     11    Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is  expanded.

47N   6     12    Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your  affections;

 

47N   6     13    but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,)  let *your* heart also expand itself.

47N   6     14    Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what  participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness?  or what fellowship of light with darkness?

47N   6     15    and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a  believer along with an unbeliever?

47N   6     16    and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are  [the] living God's temple; according as God has said, I will  dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their  God, and they shall be to me a people.

47N   6     17    Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be  separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean,  and *I* will receive you;

47N   6     18    and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me  for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty.

47N   7     1     Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify  ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting  holiness in God's fear.

47N   7     2     Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one,  we have made gain of no one.

47N   7     3     I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said  that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.

47N   7     4     Great [is] my boldness towards you, great my exulting in  respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in  joy under all our affliction.

47N   7     5     For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no  rest, but [we were] afflicted in every way; without combats,  within fears.

47N   7     6     But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even]  God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;

47N   7     7     and not by his coming only, but also through the  encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating  to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so  that I the more rejoiced.

47N   7     8     For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret  [it], if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter,  if even [it were] only for a time, grieved you.

47N   7     9     Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye  have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved  according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.

47N   7     10    For grief according to God works repentance to salvation,  never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

47N   7     11    For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according  to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but [what]  excusing [of yourselves], but [what] indignation, but [what]  fear, but [what] ardent desire, but [what] zeal, but [what]  vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in  the matter.

47N   7     12    So then, if also I wrote to you, [it was] not for the sake  of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured,  but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested  to you before God.

47N   7     13    For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather  rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the  joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

47N   7     14    Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not  been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in  truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;

47N   7     15    and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling  to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling  ye received him.

47N   7     16    I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.

47N   8     1     But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God  bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

47N   8     2     that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their  joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their  [free-hearted] liberality.

47N   8     3     For according to [their] power, I bear witness, and beyond  [their] power, [they were] willing of their own accord,

47N   8     4     begging of us with much entreaty [to give effect to] the  grace and fellowship of the service which [was to be rendered]  to the saints.

47N   8     5     And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves  first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.

47N   8     6     So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before  begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;

47N   8     7     but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and  knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that  ye may abound in this grace also.

47N   8     8     I do not speak as commanding [it], but through the zeal of  others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

47N   8     9     For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for  your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that *ye* by  *his* poverty might be enriched.

47N   8     10    And I give [my] opinion in this, for this is profitable for  you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a  year ago.

47N   8     11    But now also complete the doing of it; so that as [there  was] the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of  what ye have.

47N   8     12    For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted  according to what he may have, not according to what he has  not.

47N   8     13    For [it is] not in order that there may be ease for others,  and for you distress,

47N   8     14    but [on the principle] of equality; in the present time  your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for  your lack, so that there should be equality.

47N   8     15    According as it is written, He who [gathered] much had no  excess, and he who [gathered] little was nothing short.

47N   8     16    But thanks [be] to God, who gives the same diligent zeal  for you in the heart of Titus.

47N   8     17    For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of  zeal, he went of his own accord to you;

47N   8     18    but we have sent with him the brother whose praise [is] in  the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

47N   8     19    and not only [so], but [is] also chosen by the assemblies  as our fellow-traveller with this grace, ministered by us to  the glory of the Lord himself, and [a witness of] our  readiness;

47N   8     20    avoiding this, that any one should blame us in this  abundance [which is] administered by us;

47N   8     21    for we provide for things honest, not only before [the]  Lord, but also before men.

47N   8     22    And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often  proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more  diligently zealous through the great confidence [he has] as to  you.

47N   8     23    Whether as regards Titus, [he is] my companion and  fellow-labourer in your behalf; or our brethren, [they are]  deputed messengers of assemblies, Christ's glory.

47N   8     24    Shew therefore to them, before the assemblies, the proof of  your love, and of our boasting about you.

47N   9     1     For concerning the ministration which [is] for the saints,  it is superfluous my writing to you.

47N   9     2     For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you  to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and  the zeal [reported] of you has stimulated the mass [of the  brethren].

47N   9     3     But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting  about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that,  as I have said, ye may be prepared;

47N   9     4     lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you  unprepared, *we*, that we say not *ye*, may be put to shame in  this confidence.

47N   9     5     I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that  they would come to you, and complete beforehand your  fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as  blessing, and not as got out of you.

47N   9     6     But this [is true], he that sows sparingly shall reap also  sparingly; and he that sows in [the spirit of] blessing shall  reap also in blessing:

47N   9     7     each according as he is purposed in his heart; not  grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

47N   9     8     But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards  you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may  abound to every good work:

47N   9     9     according as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has  given to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever.

47N   9     10    Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating  shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the  fruits of your righteousness:

47N   9     11    enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality,  which works through us thanksgiving to God.

47N   9     12    Because the ministration of this service is not only  filling up the measure of what is lacking to the saints, but  also abounding by many thanksgivings to God;

47N   9     13    they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration,  by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad  tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in  communicating towards them and towards all;

47N   9     14    and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire  for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God [which is]  upon you.

47N   9     15    Thanks [be] to God for his unspeakable free gift.

47N   10    1     But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and  gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present]  [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

47N   10    2     but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the  confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who  think of us as walking according to flesh.

47N   10    3     For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

47N   10    4     For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful  according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;

47N   10    5     overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts  itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive  every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

47N   10    6     and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when  your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

47N   10    7     Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has  confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this  again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are]  we.

47N   10    8     For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of  our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up  and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

47N   10    9     that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

47N   10    10    because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong,  but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

47N   10    11    Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by  letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

47N   10    12    For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with  some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by  themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not  intelligent.

47N   10    13    Now *we* will not boast out of measure, but according to  the measure of the rule which the God of measure has  apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

47N   10    14    For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch  ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of  the Christ;)

47N   10    15    not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but  having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you,  according to our rule, yet more abundantly

47N   10    16    to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond  you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready  to hand.

47N   10    17    But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

47N   10    18    For not *he* that commends himself is approved, but whom  the Lord commends.

47N   11    1     Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but  indeed bear with me.

47N   11    2     For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of  God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a  chaste virgin to Christ.

47N   11    3     But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve  by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from  simplicity as to the Christ.

47N   11    4     For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we  have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have  not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not  received, ye might well bear with [it].

47N   11    5     For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in  surpassing degree apostles.

47N   11    6     But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in  knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all  things to you.

47N   11    7     Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye*  might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the  glad tidings of God?

47N   11    8     I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry  towards you.

47N   11    9     And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily  burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia  supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from  being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

47N   11    10    [The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall  not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

47N   11    11    Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

47N   11    12    But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the  opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein  they boast they may be found even as we.

47N   11    13    For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers,  transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

47N   11    14    And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms  himself into an angel of light.

47N   11    15    It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also  transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end  shall be according to their works.

47N   11    16    Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if  otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may  boast myself some little.

47N   11    17    What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but  as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

47N   11    18    Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.

47N   11    19    For ye bear fools readily, being wise.

47N   11    20    For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one  devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt  himself, if any one beat you on the face.

47N   11    21    I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but  wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am  daring.

 

47N   11    22    Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also.  Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.

47N   11    23    Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside  myself) *I* above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly  abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly  abundant, in deaths oft.

47N   11    24    From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes],  save one.

47N   11    25    Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned,  three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed  in the deep:

47N   11    26    in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of  robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the]  nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in  perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;

47N   11    27    in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and  thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

47N   11    28    Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of  cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

47N   11    29    Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I  burn not?

47N   11    30    If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things  which concern my infirmity.

47N   11    31    The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is  blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.

47N   11    32    In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city  of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;

47N   11    33    and through a window in a basket I was let down by the  wall, and escaped his hands.

47N   12    1     Well, it is not of profit to me to boast, for I will come  to visions and revelations of [the] Lord.

47N   12    2     I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in  [the] body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God  knows;) such [a one] caught up to [the] third heaven.

47N   12    3     And I know such a man, (whether in [the] body or out of the  body I know not, God knows;)

47N   12    4     that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable  things said which it is not allowed to man to utter.

47N   12    5     Of such [a one] I will boast, but of myself I will not  boast, unless in my weaknesses.

47N   12    6     For if I shall desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for  I will say [the] truth; but I forbear, lest any one should  think as to me above what he sees me [to be], or whatever he  may hear of me.

47N   12    7     And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness  of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the  flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I  might not be exalted.

47N   12    8     For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart  from me.

47N   12    9     And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for [my] power  is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather  boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell  upon me.

47N   12    10    Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in  necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when  I am weak, then I am powerful.

47N   12    11    I have become a fool; *ye* have compelled me; for *I*  ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing  behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I  am nothing.

47N   12    12    The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought among you in  all endurance, signs, and wonders, and works of power.

47N   12    13    For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other  assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a  charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.

47N   12    14    Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I  will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but  you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but  the parents for the children.

47N   12    15    Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for  your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less  loved.

47N   12    16    But be it so. *I* did not burden you, but being crafty I  took you by guile.

47N   12    17    Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to  you?

47N   12    18    I begged Titus, and sent the brother with [him]: did Titus  at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit?  [have we] not in the same steps?

47N   12    19    Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to  you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved,  for your building up.

47N   12    20    For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I  wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest  [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil  speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

47N   12    21    lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again,  and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned  before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and  fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

47N   13    1     This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or  three witnesses shall every matter be established.

47N   13    2     I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present  the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned  before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not  spare.

47N   13    3     Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not  weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

47N   13    4     for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he  lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we  shall live with him by God's power towards you,)

47N   13    5     examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your  own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ  is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?

 

47N   13    6     Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.

47N   13    7     But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that  *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right,  and *we* be as reprobates.

47N   13    8     For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

47N   13    9     For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be  powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

47N   13    10    On this account I write these things being absent, that  being present I may not use severity according to the authority  which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for  overthrowing.

47N   13    11    For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be  encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love  and peace shall be with you.

47N   13    12    Salute one another with a holy kiss.

47N   13    13    All the saints salute you.

47N   13    14    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,  and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all.

 

Romans (A. D. 57)

 

45N   1     1     Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, [a] called apostle, separated  to God's glad tidings,

45N   1     2     (which he had before promised by his prophets in holy  writings,)

45N   1     3     concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,

45N   1     4     marked out Son of God in power, according to [the] Spirit of  holiness, by resurrection of [the] dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

45N   1     5     by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of  his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

45N   1     6     among whom are *ye* also [the] called of Jesus Christ:

45N   1     7     to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and [our] Lord Jesus  Christ.

45N   1     8     First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that  your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

45N   1     9     For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad  tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

45N   1     10    always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I  may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

45N   1     11    For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you  some spiritual gift to establish you;

45N   1     12    that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the  faith [which is] in the other, both yours and mine.

45N   1     13    But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I  often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until  the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too,  even as among the other nations also.

45N   1     14    I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise  and unintelligent:

45N   1     15    so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the  glad tidings to you also who [are] in Rome.

45N   1     16    For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's  power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew  first and to Greek:

45N   1     17    for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the  principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But  the just shall live by faith.

45N   1     18    For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all  impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in  unrighteousness.

45N   1     19    Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for  God has manifested [it] to them,

45N   1     20    -- for from [the] world's creation the invisible things of  him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the  things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, --  so as to render them inexcusable.

45N   1     21    Because, knowing God, they glorified [him] not as God,  neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts,  and their heart without understanding was darkened:

45N   1     22    professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

45N   1     23    and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into [the]  likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and  quadrupeds and reptiles.

45N   1     24    Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their  hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between  themselves:

45N   1     25    who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured  and served the creature more than him who had created [it], who  is blessed for ever. Amen.

45N   1     26    For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both  their females changed the natural use into that contrary to  nature;

45N   1     27    and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use  of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another;  males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the  recompense of their error which was fit.

45N   1     28    And according as they did not think good to have God in  [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to  practise unseemly things;

45N   1     29    being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness,  covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,  evil dispositions; whisperers,

45N   1     30    back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters,  inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

45N   1     31    void of understanding, faithless, without natural  affection, unmerciful;

45N   1     32    who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do  such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but  have fellow delight in those who do [them].

45N   2     1     Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who  judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou  condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same  things.

45N   2     2     But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth  upon those who do such things.

45N   2     3     And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do  such things, and practisest them [thyself], that *thou* shalt  escape the judgment of God?

45N   2     4     or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and  forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness  of God leads thee to repentance?

45N   2     5     but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart,  treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and  revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,

45N   2     6     who shall render to each according to his works:

45N   2     7     to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for  glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

45N   2     8     But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to  the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and  indignation,

45N   2     9     tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works  evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

45N   2     10    but glory and honour and peace to every one that works  good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

45N   2     11    for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

45N   2     12    For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also  without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be  judged by law,

45N   2     13    (for not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but  the doers of the law shall be justified.

45N   2     14    For when [those of the] nations, which have no law,  practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law,  are a law to themselves;

45N   2     15    who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their  conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or  else excusing themselves between themselves;)

45N   2     16    in [the] day when God shall judge the secrets of men,  according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.

45N   2     17    But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and  makest thy boast in God,

45N   2     18    and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things  that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

45N   2     19    and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the  blind, a light of those who [are] in darkness,

45N   2     20    an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having  the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

45N   2     21    thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach  thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

45N   2     22    thou that sayest [man should] not commit adultery, dost  thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou  commit sacrilege?

45N   2     23    thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the  law dishonour God?

45N   2     24    For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the  nations, according as it is written.

45N   2     25    For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but  if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become  uncircumcision.

45N   2     26    If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of  the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for  circumcision,

45N   2     27    and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge  thee, who, with letter and circumcision, [art] a  law-transgressor?

45N   2     28    For he is not a Jew who [is] one outwardly, neither that  circumcision which is outward in flesh;

45N   2     29    but he [is] a Jew [who is so] inwardly; and circumcision,  of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise [is] not  of men, but of God.

45N   3     1     What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the  profit of circumcision?

45N   3     2     Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were  entrusted the oracles of God.

45N   3     3     For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief  make the faith of God of none effect?

45N   3     4     Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man  false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be  justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in  judgment.

45N   3     5     But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what  shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak  according to man.

45N   3     6     Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

45N   3     7     For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his  glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

45N   3     8     and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and  according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil  things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

45N   3     9     What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before  charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

45N   3     10    according as it is written, There is not a righteous [man],  not even one;

45N   3     11    there is not the [man] that understands, there is not one  that seeks after God.

45N   3     12    All have gone out of the way, they have together become  unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there  is not so much as one:

45N   3     13    their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they  have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:

45N   3     14    whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

45N   3     15    swift their feet to shed blood;

45N   3     16    ruin and misery [are] in their ways,

45N   3     17    and way of peace they have not known:

45N   3     18    there is no fear of God before their eyes.

45N   3     19    Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it  speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped,  and all the world be under judgment to God.

45N   3     20    Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified  before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.

45N   3     21    But now without law righteousness of God is manifested,  borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

45N   3     22    righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,  and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

45N   3     23    for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

45N   3     24    being justified freely by his grace through the redemption  which [is] in Christ Jesus;

45N   3     25    whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his  blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect  of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through  the forbearance of God;

45N   3     26    for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present  time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of  [the] faith of Jesus.

45N   3     27    Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what  law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

45N   3     28    for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without  works of law.

45N   3     29    Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations  also? Yea, of nations also:

45N   3     30    since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the]  circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by  faith.

45N   3     31    Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought:  [no,] but we establish law.

45N   4     1     What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to  flesh has found?

45N   4     2     For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works,  he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

45N   4     3     for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God,  and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

45N   4     4     Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of  grace, but of debt:

45N   4     5     but to him who does not work, but believes on him who  justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

45N   4     6     Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to  whom God reckons righteousness without works:

45N   4     7     Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and  whose sins have been covered:

45N   4     8     blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon  sin.

45N   4     9     [Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or  also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been  reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

45N   4     10    How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision,  or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in  uncircumcision.

45N   4     11    And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the  righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision,  that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in  uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them  also;

45N   4     12    and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of  [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of  the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

45N   4     13    For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or  to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by  righteousness of faith.

45N   4     14    For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made  vain, and the promise made of no effect.

45N   4     15    For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there]  transgression.

45N   4     16    Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might  be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to  all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to  that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us  all,

45N   4     17    (according as it is written, I have made thee father of  many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens  the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

45N   4     18    who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of  many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy  seed be:

45N   4     19    and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body  already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the  deadening of Sarah's womb,

45N   4     20    and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief;  but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

45N   4     21    and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is  able also to do;

45N   4     22    wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

45N   4     23    Now it was not written on his account alone that it was  reckoned to him,

45N   4     24    but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised  from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

45N   4     25    who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised  for our justification, it will be reckoned.

45N   5     1     Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith,  we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

45N   5     2     by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in  which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

45N   5     3     And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations,  knowing that tribulation works endurance;

45N   5     4     and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

45N   5     5     and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is  shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been  given to us:

45N   5     6     for we being still without strength, in [the] due time  Christ has died for [the] ungodly.

45N   5     7     For scarcely for [the] just [man] will one die, for perhaps  for [the] good [man] some one might also dare to die;

45N   5     8     but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still  sinners, Christ has died for us.

45N   5     9     Much rather therefore, having been now justified in [the  power of] his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

45N   5     10    For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God  through the death of his Son, much rather, having been  reconciled, we shall be saved in [the power of] his life.

45N   5     11    And not only [that], but [we are] making our boast in God,  through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have  received the reconciliation.

45N   5     12    For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the  world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men,  for that all have sinned:

45N   5     13    (for until law sin was in [the] world; but sin is not put  to account when there is no law;

45N   5     14    but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those  who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who  is [the] figure of him to come.

45N   5     15    But [shall] not the act of favour [be] as the offence? For  if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has  the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which [is] by the  one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

45N   5     16    And [shall] not as by one that has sinned [be] the gift?  For the judgment [was] of one to condemnation, but the act of  favour, of many offences unto justification.

45N   5     17    For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one,  much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and  of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one  Jesus Christ:)

45N   5     18    so then as [it was] by one offence towards all men to  condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for  justification of life.

45N   5     19    For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many  have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the  one the many will be constituted righteous.

45N   5     20    But law came in, in order that the offence might abound;  but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

45N   5     21    in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of]  death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to  eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

45N   6     1     What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace  may abound?

45N   6     2     Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we  still live in it?

45N   6     3     Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto  Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

45N   6     4     We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto  death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from  among [the] dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also  should walk in newness of life.

45N   6     5     For if we are become identified with [him] in the likeness  of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;

45N   6     6     knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with  [him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should  no longer serve sin.

45N   6     7     For he that has died is justified from sin.

45N   6     8     Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall  also live with him,

45N   6     9     knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the]  dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

45N   6     10    For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all;  but in that he lives, he lives to God.

45N   6     11    So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to  God in Christ Jesus.

45N   6     12    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its  lusts.

45N   6     13    Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness  to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the]  dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

45N   6     14    For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not  under law but under grace.

45N   6     15    What then? should we sin because we are not under law but  under grace? Far be the thought.

45N   6     16    Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for  obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin  unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

45N   6     17    But thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but  have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye  were instructed.

45N   6     18    Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become  bondmen to righteousness.

45N   6     19    I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh.  For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to  uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield  your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

45N   6     20    For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from  righteousness.

45N   6     21    What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which  ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.

45N   6     22    But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having  become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and  the end eternal life.

45N   6     23    For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of  God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

45N   7     1     Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing  law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

45N   7     2     For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long  as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear  from the law of the husband:

45N   7     3     so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an  adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should  die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress,  though she be to another man.

45N   7     4     So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the  law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been  raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear  fruit to God.

45N   7     5     For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which  [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit  to death;

45N   7     6     but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in  which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of  spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

45N   7     7     What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the  thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not  had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt  not lust;

45N   7     8     but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment,  wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

45N   7     9     But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment  having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

45N   7     10    And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as]  to me, itself [to be] unto death:

45N   7     11    for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment,  deceived me, and by it slew [me].

45N   7     12    So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy,  and just, and good.

45N   7     13    Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the  thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me  by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment  might become exceeding sinful.

45N   7     14    For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly,  sold under sin.

45N   7     15    For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will,  this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

45N   7     16    But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to  the law that [it is] right.

45N   7     17    Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin  that dwells in me.

45N   7     18    For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not  dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find]  not.

45N   7     19    For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I  do not will, that I do.

45N   7     20    But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no  longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

45N   7     21    I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is  right, that with *me* evil is there.

45N   7     22    For I delight in the law of God according to the inward  man:

45N   7     23    but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition  to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the  law of sin which exists in my members.

45N   7     24    O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of  this body of death?

45N   7     25    I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I*  *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh  sin's law.

45N   8     1     [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ  Jesus.

45N   8     2     For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me  free from the law of sin and of death.

 

45N   8     3     For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through  the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh  of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

45N   8     4     in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be  fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but  according to Spirit.

45N   8     5     For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the  flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the  Spirit.

45N   8     6     For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the  Spirit life and peace.

45N   8     7     Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it  is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

45N   8     8     and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

45N   8     9     But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's  Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of  Christ *he* is not of him:

45N   8     10    but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of  sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

45N   8     11    But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from  among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ  from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on  account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

45N   8     12    So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to  live according to flesh;

45N   8     13    for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but  if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye  shall live:

45N   8     14    for as many as are led by [the] Spirit of God, *these* are  sons of God.

45N   8     15    For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for  fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we  cry, Abba, Father.

45N   8     16    The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we  are children of God.

45N   8     17    And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's  joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with [him], that we may also  be glorified with [him].

45N   8     18    For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are  not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be  revealed to us.

45N   8     19    For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the  revelation of the sons of God:

45N   8     20    for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of  its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in  hope

45N   8     21    that the creature itself also shall be set free from the  bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the  children of God.

45N   8     22    For we know that the whole creation groans together and  travails in pain together until now.

45N   8     23    And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the  first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in  ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our  body.

45N   8     24    For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope;  for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

45N   8     25    But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

45N   8     26    And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our  weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is  fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with  groanings which cannot be uttered.

45N   8     27    But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of  the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

45N   8     28    But we *do* know that all things work together for good to  those who love God, to those who are called according to  purpose.

45N   8     29    Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated  [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be  [the] firstborn among many brethren.

45N   8     30    But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called;  and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom  he has justified, these also he has glorified.

45N   8     31    What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us,  who against us?

45N   8     32    He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him  up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all  things?

45N   8     33    Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? [It is]  God who justifies:

45N   8     34    who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but  rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand  of God; who also intercedes for us.

45N   8     35    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation  or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or  danger, or sword?

45N   8     36    According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to  death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for  slaughter.

45N   8     37    But in all these things we more than conquer through him  that has loved us.

45N   8     38    For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor  angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to  come, nor powers,

45N   8     39    nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be  able to separate us from the love of God, which [is] in Christ  Jesus our Lord.

45N   9     1     I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience  bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,

45N   9     2     that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

45N   9     3     for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ  for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

45N   9     4     who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory,  and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the  promises;

45N   9     5     whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh,  [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

45N   9     6     Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not  all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

45N   9     7     nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children:  but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

45N   9     8     That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these  [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise  are reckoned as seed.

45N   9     9     For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will  come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

45N   9     10    And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one,  Isaac our father,

45N   9     11    [the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done  anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according  to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

45N   9     12    it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

45N   9     13    according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have  hated Esau.

45N   9     14    What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with  God? Far be the thought.

45N   9     15    For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew  mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel  compassion.

45N   9     16    So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that  runs, but of God that shews mercy.

45N   9     17    For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I  have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew  in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all  the earth.

45N   9     18    So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will  he hardens.

45N   9     19    Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for  who resists his purpose?

45N   9     20    Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again  to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it,  Why hast thou made me thus?

45N   9     21    Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the  same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to  dishonour?

45N   9     22    And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power  known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted  for destruction;

45N   9     23    and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon  vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

45N   9     24    us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the]  Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?

45N   9     25    As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My  people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

45N   9     26    And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them,  *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of  [the] living God.

45N   9     27    But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of  the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant  shall be saved:

45N   9     28    for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting  [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the  matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth.

45N   9     29    And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of  hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like  even as Gomorrha.

45N   9     30    What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did  not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness,  but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

45N   9     31    But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not  attained to [that] law.

45N   9     32    Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith,  but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

45N   9     33    according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone  of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him  shall not be ashamed.

45N   10    1     Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication  which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.

45N   10    2     For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but  not according to knowledge.

45N   10    3     For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and  seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not  submitted to the righteousness of God.

45N   10    4     For Christ is [the] end of law for righteousness to every  one that believes.

45N   10    5     For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is  of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live  by them.

45N   10    6     But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in  thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring  Christ down;

45N   10    7     or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up  Christ from among [the] dead.

45N   10    8     But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and  in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

45N   10    9     that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord,  and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from  among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.

45N   10    10    For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and  with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.

45N   10    11    For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be  ashamed.

45N   10    12    For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same  Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him.

45N   10    13    For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the  Lord, shall be saved.

45N   10    14    How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not  believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have  not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

45N   10    15    and how shall they preach unless they have been sent?  according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that  announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad  tidings of good things!

45N   10    16    But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias  says, Lord, who has believed our report?

45N   10    17    So faith then [is] by a report, but the report by God's  word.

45N   10    18    But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice  has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the  extremities of the habitable world.

45N   10    19    But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I*  will provoke you to jealousy through [them that are] not a  nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger  you.

45N   10    20    But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by  those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not  inquiring after me.

45N   10    21    But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched  out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.

45N   11    1     I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the  thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of  Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

45N   11    2     God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye  not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he  pleads with God against Israel?

45N   11    3     Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down  thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my  life.

45N   11    4     But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to  myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

45N   11    5     Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a  remnant according to election of grace.

45N   11    6     But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise]  grace is no more grace.

45N   11    7     What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not  obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been  blinded,

45N   11    8     according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit  of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this  day.

45N   11    9     And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a  gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

45N   11    10    let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their  back alway.

45N   11    11    I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might  fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is]  salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

45N   11    12    But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss  [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?

45N   11    13    For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am  apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

45N   11    14    if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which  are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

45N   11    15    For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation,  what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?

45N   11    16    Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if  the root [be] holy, the branches also.

45N   11    17    Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and  *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst  them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the  fatness of the olive tree,

45N   11    18    boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is]  not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.

45N   11    19    Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in  order that *I* might be grafted in.

45N   11    20    Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and  *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

45N   11    21    if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it  might be he spare not thee either.

45N   11    22    Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them  who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou  shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] *thou* also wilt be  cut away.

45N   11    23    And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be  grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.

45N   11    24    For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by  nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the  good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according  to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

45N   11    25    For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this  mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that  blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of  the nations be come in;

45N   11    26    and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is  written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn  away ungodliness from Jacob.

45N   11    27    And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall  have taken away their sins.

45N   11    28    As regards the glad tidings, [they are] enemies on your  account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the  fathers.

45N   11    29    For the gifts and the calling of God [are] not subject to  repentance.

45N   11    30    For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God,  but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of  *these*;

45N   11    31    so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in  order that *they* also may be objects of mercy.

45N   11    32    For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order  that he might shew mercy to all.

45N   11    33    O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of  God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

45N   11    34    For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, or who has  been his counsellor?

45N   11    35    or who has first given to him, and it shall be rendered to  him?

45N   11    36    For of him, and through him, and for him [are] all things:  to him be glory for ever. Amen.

45N   12    1     I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of  God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,  acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

45N   12    2     And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by  the renewing of [your] mind, that ye may prove what [is] the  good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

45N   12    3     For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to  every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above  what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has  dealt to each a measure of faith.

45N   12    4     For, as in one body we have many members, but all the  members have not the same office;

45N   12    5     thus we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and each one  members one of the other.

45N   12    6     But having different gifts, according to the grace which  has been given to us, whether [it be] prophecy, [let us  prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;

45N   12    7     or service, [let us occupy ourselves] in service; or he  that teaches, in teaching;

45N   12    8     or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in  simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy,  with cheerfulness.

45N   12    9     Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

45N   12    10    as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one  another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the  other:

45N   12    11    as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit  fervent; serving the Lord.

45N   12    12    As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation,  enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

45N   12    13    distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to  hospitality.

45N   12    14    Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

45N   12    15    Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that  weep.

45N   12    16    Have the same respect one for another, not minding high  things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own  eyes:

45N   12    17    recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things  honest before all men:

45N   12    18    if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace  with all men;

45N   12    19    not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath;  for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will  recompense, saith the Lord.

45N   12    20    If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he  should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap  coals of fire upon his head.

45N   12    21    Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

45N   13    1     Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above  [him]. For there is no authority except from God; and those  that exist are set up by God.

45N   13    2     So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority  resists the ordinance of God; and they who [thus] resist shall  bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

45N   13    3     For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil  [one]. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority?  practise [what is] good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

45N   13    4     for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou  practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for  it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does  evil.

45N   13    5     Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on  account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

45N   13    6     For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's  officers, attending continually on this very thing.

45N   13    7     Render to all their dues: to whom tribute [is due],  tribute; to whom custom, custom; to whom fear, fear; to whom  honour, honour.

45N   13    8     Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he  that loves another has fulfilled the law.

45N   13    9     For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,  Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any  other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou  shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

45N   13    10    Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore [is  the] whole law.

45N   13    11    This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that  *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation  nearer than when we believed.

45N   13    12    The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast  away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the  armour of light.

45N   13    13    As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and  drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in  strife and emulation.

45N   13    14    But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take  forethought for the flesh to [fulfil its] lusts.

45N   14    1     Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to [the]  determining of questions of reasoning.

45N   14    2     One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak  eats herbs.

45N   14    3     Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and  let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has  received him.

45N   14    4     Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his  own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand;  for the Lord is able to make him stand.

45N   14    5     One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every  day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

45N   14    6     He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he  that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he  that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and  gives God thanks.

45N   14    7     For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

45N   14    8     For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live;  and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we  should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.

45N   14    9     For to this [end] Christ has died and lived [again], that  he might rule over both dead and living.

45N   14    10    But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou,  why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be  placed before the judgment-seat of God.

45N   14    11    For it is written, *I* live, saith [the] Lord, that to me  shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

45N   14    12    So then each of us shall give an account concerning  himself to God.

45N   14    13    Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye  this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before  his brother.

45N   14    14    I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing  is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be  unclean, to that man [it is] unclean.

45N   14    15    For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou  walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy  meat for whom Christ has died.

45N   14    16    Let not then your good be evil spoken of;

45N   14    17    for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but  righteousness, and peace, and joy in [the] Holy Spirit.

45N   14    18    For he that in this serves the Christ [is] acceptable to  God and approved of men.

45N   14    19    So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and  things whereby one shall build up another.

45N   14    20    For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All  things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil to that man who eats  while stumbling [in doing so].

45N   14    21    [It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do  anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is  weak.

45N   14    22    Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God.  Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

45N   14    23    But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because [it  is] not of faith; but whatever [is] not of faith is sin.

45N   15    1     But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities  of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

45N   15    2     Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what  is good, to edification.

45N   15    3     For the Christ also did not please himself; but according  as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee  have fallen upon me.

45N   15    4     For as many things as have been written before have been  written for our instruction, that through endurance and through  encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

45N   15    5     Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you  to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ  Jesus;

45N   15    6     that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the  God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

45N   15    7     Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ  also has received you to [the] glory of God.

45N   15    8     For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the]  circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of  the fathers;

45N   15    9     and that the nations should glorify God for mercy;  according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to  thee among [the] nations, and will sing to thy name.

45N   15    10    And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

45N   15    11    And again, Praise the Lord, all [ye] nations, and let all  the peoples laud him.

45N   15    12    And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse,  and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall  [the] nations hope.

45N   15    13    Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in  believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of  [the] Holy Spirit.

45N   15    14    But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning  you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all  knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

45N   15    15    But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in  part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me  by God,

45N   15    16    for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations,  carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad  tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations  might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.

45N   15    17    I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the  things which pertain to God.

45N   15    18    For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which  Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the]  nations, by word and deed,

45N   15    19    in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of  [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a  circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad  tidings of the Christ;

45N   15    20    and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where  Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's  foundation;

45N   15    21    but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing  told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not  heard shall understand.

45N   15    22    Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to  you.

45N   15    23    But now, having no longer place in these regions, and  having great desire to come to you these many years,

45N   15    24    whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I  go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I  shall have been in part filled with your company;)

45N   15    25    but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

45N   15    26    for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a  certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in  Jerusalem.

45N   15    27    They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their  debtors; for if the nations have participated in their  spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to  them.

45N   15    28    Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them  this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

45N   15    29    But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in [the]  fulness of [the] blessing of Christ.

45N   15    30    But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and  by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in  prayers for me to God;

45N   15    31    that I may be saved from those that do not believe in  Judaea; and that my ministry which [I have] for Jerusalem may  be acceptable to the saints;

45N   15    32    in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and  that I may be refreshed with you.

45N   15    33    And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

45N   16    1     But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of  the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

45N   16    2     that ye may receive her in [the] Lord worthily of saints,  and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of  you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

45N   16    3     Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ  Jesus,

45N   16    4     (who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I*  only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

45N   16    5     and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my  beloved, who is [the] first-fruits of Asia for Christ.

45N   16    6     Salute Maria, who laboured much for you.

45N   16    7     Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and  fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were  also in Christ before me.

45N   16    8     Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

45N   16    9     Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys,  my beloved.

45N   16    10    Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who  belong to Aristobulus.

45N   16    11    Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to  Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.

45N   16    12    Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in [the] Lord.  Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in [the]  Lord.

45N   16    13    Salute Rufus, chosen in [the] Lord; and his mother and  mine.

45N   16    14    Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and  the brethren with them.

45N   16    15    Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and  Olympas, and all the saints with them.

45N   16    16    Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of  Christ salute you.

45N   16    17    But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create  divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine  which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.

45N   16    18    For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly,  and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the  unsuspecting.

45N   16    19    For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore  as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise [as] to that which  is good, and simple [as] to evil.

45N   16    20    But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet  shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

45N   16    21    Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and  Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

45N   16    22    I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in  [the] Lord.

45N   16    23    Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you.  Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother  Quartus.

45N   16    24    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all.  Amen.

45N   16    25    Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my  glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to  [the] revelation of [the] mystery, as to which silence has been  kept in [the] times of the ages,

45N   16    26    but [which] has now been made manifest, and by prophetic  scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made  known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

45N   16    27    [the] only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be  glory for ever. Amen.

 

Mark (late 50s - early 60s)

 

41N   1     1     Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;

41N   1     2     as it is written in [Isaiah] the prophet, Behold, *I* send  my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.

41N   1     3     Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of  [the] Lord, make his paths straight.

41N   1     4     There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching  [the] baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

41N   1     5     And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and  all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river  Jordan, confessing their sins.

41N   1     6     And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle  about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.

41N   1     7     And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier  than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to  stoop down and unloose.

41N   1     8     *I* indeed have baptised you with water, but *he* shall  baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit.

41N   1     9     And it came to pass in those days [that] Jesus came from  Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.

41N   1     10    And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens  parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon  him.

41N   1     11    And there came a voice out of the heavens: *Thou* art my  beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

41N   1     12    And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the  wilderness.

41N   1     13    And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan,  and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

41N   1     14    But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee  preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,

41N   1     15    and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God  has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.

41N   1     16    And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and  Andrew, [Simon's] brother, casting out a net in the sea, for  they were fishers.

41N   1     17    And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you  become fishers of men;

41N   1     18    and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him.

41N   1     19    And going on thence a little, he saw James the [son] of  Zebedee, and John his brother, and these [were] in the ship  repairing the trawl-nets;

41N   1     20    and straightway he called them; and leaving their father  Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away  after him.

41N   1     21    And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath  he entered into the synagogue and taught.

41N   1     22    And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught  them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

41N   1     23    And there was in their synagogue a man [possessed] by an  unclean spirit, and he cried out

 

41N   1     24    saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene?  Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy  one of God.

41N   1     25    And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace and come out  of him.

41N   1     26    And the unclean spirit, having torn him, and uttered a cry  with a loud voice, came out of him.

41N   1     27    And all were amazed, so that they questioned together among  themselves, saying, What is this? what new doctrine is this?  for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and  they obey him.

41N   1     28    And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of  Galilee around.

41N   1     29    And straightway going out of the synagogue, they came with  James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew.

41N   1     30    And the mother-in-law of Simon lay in a fever. And  straightway they speak to him about her.

41N   1     31    And he went up to [her] and raised her up, having taken her  by the hand, and straightway the fever left her, and she served  them.

41N   1     32    But evening being come, when the sun had gone down, they  brought to him all that were suffering, and those possessed by  demons;

41N   1     33    and the whole city was gathered together at the door.

41N   1     34    And he healed many suffering from various diseases; and he  cast out many demons, and did not suffer the demons to speak  because they knew him.

41N   1     35    And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and  went away into a desert place, and there prayed.

41N   1     36    And Simon and those with him went after him:

41N   1     37    and having found him, they say to him, All seek thee.

41N   1     38    And he says to them, Let us go elsewhere into the  neighbouring country towns, that I may preach there also, for  for this purpose am I come forth.

41N   1     39    And he was preaching in their synagogues in the whole of  Galilee, and casting out demons.

41N   1     40    And there comes to him a leper, beseeching him, and falling  on his knees to him, and saying to him, If thou wilt thou canst  cleanse me.

41N   1     41    But Jesus, moved with compassion, having stretched out his  hand, touched him, and says to him, I will, be thou cleansed.

41N   1     42    And as he spoke straightway the leprosy left him, and he  was cleansed.

41N   1     43    And having sharply charged him, he straightway sent him  away,

41N   1     44    and says to him, See thou say nothing to any one, but go,  shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing what  Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.

41N   1     45    But he, having gone forth, began to proclaim [it] much, and  to spread the matter abroad, so that he could no longer enter  openly into the city, but was without in desert places, and  they came to him from every side.

41N   2     1     And he entered again into Capernaum after [several] days,  and it was reported that he was at [the] house;

41N   2     2     and straightway many were gathered together, so that there  was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the  word to them.

41N   2     3     And there come to him [men] bringing a paralytic, borne by  four;

41N   2     4     and, not being able to get near to him on account of the  crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug  [it] up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.

41N   2     5     But Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the paralytic, Child,  thy sins are forgiven [thee].

41N   2     6     But certain of the scribes were there sitting, and reasoning  in their hearts,

41N   2     7     Why does this [man] thus speak? he blasphemes. Who is able  to forgive sins except God alone?

41N   2     8     And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are  reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye  these things in your hearts?

41N   2     9     Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are  forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and  walk?

41N   2     10    But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth  to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic,

41N   2     11    To thee I say, Arise, take up thy couch and go to thine  house.

41N   2     12    And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch,  went out before [them] all, so that all were amazed, and  glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.

41N   2     13    And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to  him, and he taught them.

41N   2     14    And passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting  at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up  and followed him.

41N   2     15    And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that  many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his  disciples; for they were many, and they followed him.

41N   2     16    And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with  sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, Why [is it]  that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners?

41N   2     17    And Jesus having heard [it] says to them, They that are  strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I  have not come to call righteous [men], but sinners.

41N   2     18    And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting;  and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and  [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast  not?

41N   2     19    And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber  fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have  the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

41N   2     20    But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been  taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.

41N   2     21    No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment:  otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and  there is a worse rent.

41N   2     22    And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine  bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins  will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.

41N   2     23    And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the  cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the  ears.

41N   2     24    And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the  sabbath what is not lawful?

41N   2     25    And *he* said to them, Have ye never read what David did  when he had need and hungered, *he* and those with him,

41N   2     26    how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of]  Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is  not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to  those that were with him?

41N   2     27    And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of  man, not man on account of the sabbath;

41N   2     28    so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.

41N   3     1     And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there  a man having his hand dried up.

41N   3     2     And they watched him if he would heal him on the sabbath,  that they might accuse him.

41N   3     3     And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up  [and come] into the midst.

41N   3     4     And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good  or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.

41N   3     5     And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the  hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy  hand. And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored.

41N   3     6     And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians  took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

41N   3     7     And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea; and a  great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,

41N   3     8     and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea and beyond the Jordan;  and they of around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having  heard what things he did, came to him.

41N   3     9     And he spoke to his disciples, in order that a little ship  should wait upon him on account of the crowd, that they might  not press upon him.

41N   3     10    For he healed many, so that they beset him that they might  touch him, as many as had plagues.

41N   3     11    And the unclean spirits, when they beheld him, fell down  before him, and cried saying, *Thou* art the Son of God.

41N   3     12    And he rebuked them much, that they might not make him  manifest.

41N   3     13    And he goes up into the mountain, and calls whom he himself  would, and they went to him.

41N   3     14    And he appointed twelve that they might be with him, and  that he might send them to preach,

41N   3     15    and to have power [to heal diseases, and] to cast out  demons.

41N   3     16    And he gave to Simon the surname of Peter;

41N   3     17    and James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of  James, and he gave them the surname of Boanerges, that is, Sons  of thunder;

41N   3     18    and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and  Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and  Simon the Cananaean,

41N   3     19    and Judas Iscariote, who also delivered him up. And they  come to [the] house.

41N   3     20    And again a crowd comes together, so that they cannot even  eat bread.

41N   3     21    And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold  on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.

41N   3     22    And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He  has Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons he casts out  demons.

41N   3     23    And having called them to [him], he said to them in  parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

41N   3     24    And if a kingdom has become divided against itself, that  kingdom cannot subsist.

41N   3     25    And if a house has become divided against itself, that  house cannot subsist.

41N   3     26    And if Satan rise up against himself, and is divided, he  cannot subsist, but has an end.

41N   3     27    But no one can, having entered into his house, plunder the  goods of the strong [man] unless he first bind the strong  [man], and then he will plunder his house.

41N   3     28    Verily I say unto you, that all sins shall be forgiven to  the sons of men, and all the injurious speeches [with] which  they may speak injuriously;

41N   3     29    but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy  Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the  guilt of an everlasting sin;

41N   3     30    -- because they said, He has an unclean spirit.

41N   3     31    And his brethren and his mother come, and standing without  sent to him calling him.

41N   3     32    And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold,  thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.

41N   3     33    And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother or my  brethren?

41N   3     34    And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting  around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:

41N   3     35    for whosoever shall do the will of God, *he* is my brother,  and sister, and mother.

41N   4     1     And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd  was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he  sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the  land.

41N   4     2     And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to  them in his doctrine,

41N   4     3     Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.

41N   4     4     And it came to pass as he sowed, one fell by the wayside,  and the birds came and devoured it.

41N   4     5     And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much  earth, and immediately it sprung up out [of the ground] because  it had no depth of earth;

41N   4     6     and when the sun arose it was burnt up, and because of its  not having any root, it withered.

41N   4     7     And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up  and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

41N   4     8     And another fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit,  growing up and increasing; and bore, one thirty, and one sixty,  and one a hundred.

41N   4     9     And he said, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

41N   4     10    And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve  asked him [as to] the parables.

41N   4     11    And he said to them, To you is given [to know] the mystery  of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things  are done in parables,

41N   4     12    that beholding they may behold and not see, and hearing  they may hear and not understand, lest it may be, they should  be converted and they should be forgiven.

41N   4     13    And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how  will ye be acquainted with all the parables?

41N   4     14    The sower sows the word:

41N   4     15    and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown,  and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the  word that was sown in them.

41N   4     16    And these are they in like manner who are sown upon the  rocky places, who when they hear the word, immediately receive  it with joy,

41N   4     17    and they have no root in themselves, but are for a time:  then, tribulation arising, or persecution on account of the  word, immediately they are offended.

41N   4     18    And others are they who are sown among the thorns: these  are they who have heard the word,

41N   4     19    and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and  the lusts of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it  becomes unfruitful.

41N   4     20    And these are they who have been sown on the good ground,  such as hear the word and receive it, and bear fruit; one  thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred [fold].

41N   4     21    And he said to them, Does the lamp come that it should be  put under the bushel or under the couch? [Is it] not that it  should be set upon the lamp-stand?

41N   4     22    For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made  manifest; nor does any secret thing take place, but that it  should come to light.

41N   4     23    If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.

41N   4     24    And he said to them, Take heed what ye hear; with what  measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you; and there shall be  [more] added to you.

41N   4     25    For whosoever has, to him shall be given; and he who has  not, even what he has shall be taken from him.

41N   4     26    And he said, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should  cast the seed upon the earth,

41N   4     27    and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed  should sprout and grow, he does not know how.

41N   4     28    The earth bears fruit of itself, first [the] blade, then an  ear, then full corn in the ear.

41N   4     29    But when the fruit is produced, immediately he sends the  sickle, for the harvest is come.

41N   4     30    And he said, How should we liken the kingdom of God, or  with what comparison should we compare it?

41N   4     31    As to a grain of mustard [seed], which, when it is sown  upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the  earth,

41N   4     32    and when it has been sown, mounts up and becomes greater  than all herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds  of heaven can roost under its shadow.

41N   4     33    And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as  they were able to hear,

41N   4     34    but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private  he explained all things to his disciples.

41N   4     35    And on that day, when evening was come, he says to them,  Let us go over to the other side:

41N   4     36    and having sent away the crowd, they take him with [them],  as he was, in the ship. But other ships also were with him.

41N   4     37    And there comes a violent gust of wind, and the waves beat  into the ship, so that it already filled.

41N   4     38    And *he* was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they  awake him up and say to him, Teacher, dost thou not care that  we are perishing?

41N   4     39    And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,  Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great  calm.

41N   4     40    And he said to them, Why are ye [thus] fearful? how [is it]  ye have not faith?

41N   4     41    And they feared [with] great fear, and said one to another,  Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

41N   5     1     And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country  of the Gadarenes.

41N   5     2     And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him  out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,

41N   5     3     who had his dwelling in the tombs; and no one was able to  bind him, not even with chains;

41N   5     4     because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and  the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were  shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.

41N   5     5     And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the  mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.

41N   5     6     But seeing Jesus from afar off, he ran and did him homage,

41N   5     7     and crying with a loud voice he says, What have I to do with  thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God,  torment me not.

41N   5     8     For he said to him, Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the  man.

41N   5     9     And he asked him, What is thy name? And he says to him,  Legion is my name, because we are many.

41N   5     10    And he besought him much that he would not send them away  out of the country.

41N   5     11    Now there was there just at the mountain a great herd of  swine feeding;

41N   5     12    and they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine that  we may enter into them.

41N   5     13    And Jesus [immediately] allowed them. And the unclean  spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed  down the steep slope, into the sea (about two thousand), and  were choked in the sea.

41N   5     14    And those that were feeding them fled and reported it in  the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it  was that had taken place.

41N   5     15    And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of  demons sitting [and] clothed and sensible, [him] that had had  the legion: and they were afraid.

41N   5     16    And they that had seen [it] related to them how it had  happened to the [man] possessed by demons, and concerning the  swine.

41N   5     17    And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.

41N   5     18    And as he went on board ship, the man that had been  possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.

41N   5     19    And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home  to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord  has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.

41N   5     20    And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how  great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.

41N   5     21    And Jesus having passed over in the ship again to the other  side, a great crowd gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

41N   5     22    And [behold] there comes one of the rulers of the  synagogue, by name Jairus, and seeing him, falls down at his  feet;

41N   5     23    and he besought him much, saying, My little daughter is at  extremity; [I pray] that thou shouldest come and lay thy hands  upon her so that she may be healed, and may live.

41N   5     24    And he went with him, and a large crowd followed him and  pressed on him.

41N   5     25    And a certain woman who had had a flux of blood twelve  years,

41N   5     26    and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent  everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had  rather got worse,

41N   5     27    having heard concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind and  touched his clothes;

41N   5     28    for she said, If I shall touch but his clothes I shall be  healed.

41N   5     29    And immediately her fountain of blood was dried up, and she  knew in her body that she was cured from the scourge.

41N   5     30    And immediately Jesus, knowing in himself the power that  had gone out of him, turning round in the crowd said, Who has  touched my clothes?

41N   5     31    And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the crowd  pressing on thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

41N   5     32    And he looked round about to see her who had done this.

41N   5     33    But the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had  taken place in her, came and fell down before him, and told him  all the truth.

41N   5     34    And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith has healed thee; go  in peace, and be well of thy scourge.

41N   5     35    While he was yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the  synagogue's [house], saying, Thy daughter has died, why  troublest thou the teacher any further?

41N   5     36    But Jesus [immediately], having heard the word spoken, says  to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not; only believe.

41N   5     37    And he suffered no one to accompany him save Peter and  James, and John the brother of James.

41N   5     38    And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue,  and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.

41N   5     39    And entering in he says to them, Why do ye make a tumult  and weep? the child has not died, but sleeps.

41N   5     40    And they derided him. But he, having put [them] all out,  takes with [him] the father of the child, and the mother, and  those that were with him, and enters in where the child was  lying.

41N   5     41    And having laid hold of the hand of the child, he says to  her, Talitha koumi, which is, interpreted, Damsel, I say to  thee, Arise.

41N   5     42    And immediately the damsel arose and walked, for she was  twelve years old. And they were astonished with great  astonishment.

41N   5     43    And he charged them much that no one should know this; and  he desired that [something] should be given her to eat.

41N   6     1     And he went out thence and came to his own country, and his  disciples follow him.

41N   6     2     And when sabbath was come he began to teach in the  synagogue, and many hearing were amazed, saying, Whence [has]  this [man] these things? and what [is] the wisdom that is given  to him, and such works of power are done by his hands?

41N   6     3     Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of  James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters  here with us? And they were offended in him.

41N   6     4     But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in  his own country, and among [his] kinsmen, and in his own house.

41N   6     5     And he could not do any work of power there, save that  laying his hands on a few infirm persons he healed [them].

41N   6     6     And he wondered because of their unbelief. And he went round  the villages in a circuit, teaching.

41N   6     7     And he calls the twelve to [him]; and he began to send them  out two [and] two, and gave to them power over the unclean  spirits;

41N   6     8     and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the  way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their  belt;

41N   6     9     but be shod with sandals, and put not on two body-coats.

41N   6     10    And he said to them, Wheresoever ye shall enter into a  house, there remain till ye shall go thence.

41N   6     11    And whatsoever place shall not receive you nor hear you,  departing thence, shake off the dust which is under your feet  for a testimony to them.

41N   6     12    And they went forth and preached that they should repent;

41N   6     13    and they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many  infirm, and healed them.

41N   6     14    And Herod the king heard [of him] (for his name had become  public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among [the]  dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

41N   6     15    And others said, It is Elias; and others said, It is a  prophet, as one of the prophets.

41N   6     16    But Herod when he heard [it] said, John whom *I* beheaded,  he it is; *he* is risen [from among the dead].

41N   6     17    For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound  him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his  brother, because he had married her.

41N   6     18    For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have  the wife of thy brother.

41N   6     19    But Herodias kept it [in her mind] against him, and wished  to kill him, and could not:

41N   6     20    for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just and holy  man, and kept him safe; and having heard him, did many things,  and heard him gladly.

41N   6     21    And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made  a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief  [men] of Galilee;

41N   6     22    and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and  danced, pleased Herod and those that were with [him] at table;  and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt  and I will give it thee.

41N   6     23    And he swore to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me I will  give thee, to half of my kingdom.

41N   6     24    And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I  ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.

41N   6     25    And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked  saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the  head of John the baptist.

41N   6     26    And the king, [while] made very sorry, on account of the  oaths and those lying at table with [him] would not break his  word with her.

41N   6     27    And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard,  ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded  him in the prison,

41N   6     28    and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the  damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

41N   6     29    And his disciples having heard [it], came and took up his  body, and laid it in a tomb.

41N   6     30    And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus. And they  related to him all things, [both] what they had done and what  they had taught.

41N   6     31    And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert  place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were  many, and they had not leisure even to eat.

41N   6     32    And they went away apart into a desert place by ship.

41N   6     33    And many saw them going, and recognised them, and ran  together there on foot, out of all the cities, and got [there]  before them.

41N   6     34    And on leaving [the ship] [Jesus] saw a great crowd, and he  was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep  not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

41N   6     35    And when it was already late in the day, his disciples  coming to him say, The place is desert, and it is already late  in the day;

41N   6     36    send them away that they may go into the country and  villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not  anything they can eat.

41N   6     37    And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And  they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth  of bread and give them to eat?

41N   6     38    And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go [and] see.  And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.

41N   6     39    And he ordered them to make them all sit down by companies  on the green grass.

41N   6     40    And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.

41N   6     41    And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes,  looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and  gave [them] to his disciples that they might set [them] before  them. And the two fishes he divided among all.

41N   6     42    And they all ate and were satisfied.

41N   6     43    And they took up of fragments the fillings of twelve  hand-baskets, and of the fishes.

41N   6     44    And those that ate of the loaves were five thousand men.

41N   6     45    And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board  ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while  *he* sends the crowd away.

41N   6     46    And, having dismissed them, he departed into the mountain  to pray.

41N   6     47    And when evening was come, the ship was in the midst of the  sea, and *he* alone upon the land.

41N   6     48    And seeing them labouring in rowing, for the wind was  contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes  to them walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.

41N   6     49    But they, seeing him walking on the sea, thought that it  was an apparition, and cried out.

41N   6     50    For all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he spoke  with them, and says to them, Be of good courage: it is *I*; be  not afraid.

41N   6     51    And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind fell.  And they were exceedingly beyond measure astonished in  themselves and wondered;

41N   6     52    for they understood not through the loaves: for their heart  was hardened.

41N   6     53    And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret  and made the shore.

41N   6     54    And on their coming out of the ship, immediately  recognising him,

41N   6     55    they ran through that whole country around, and began to  carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard  that he was.

41N   6     56    And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the  country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought  him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his  garment; and as many as touched him were healed.

41N   7     1     And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from  Jerusalem, are gathered together to him,

41N   7     2     and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled,  that is, unwashed, hands,

41N   7     3     (for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their  hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered  by the ancients;

41N   7     4     and [on coming] from the market-place, unless they are  washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which  they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels,  and brazen utensils, and couches),

41N   7     5     then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy  disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the  ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

41N   7     6     But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy  concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour  me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

41N   7     7     But in vain do they worship me, teaching [as their]  teachings commandments of men.

41N   7     8     [For], leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is  delivered by men [to keep] -- washings of vessels and cups, and  many other such like things ye do.

41N   7     9     And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of  God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves [to  keep].

41N   7     10    For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he  who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

41N   7     11    But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, [It  is] corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have  profit from me by ...

41N   7     12    And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father  or his mother;

41N   7     13    making void the word of God by your traditional teaching  which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.

41N   7     14    And having called again the crowd, he said to them, Hear  me, all [of you], and understand:

41N   7     15    There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which  can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it  is which defile the man.

41N   7     16    If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.

41N   7     17    And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples  asked him concerning the parable.

41N   7     18    And he says to them, Are *ye* also thus unintelligent? Do  ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man  cannot defile him,

41N   7     19    because it does not enter into his heart but into his  belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

41N   7     20    And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that  defiles the man.

41N   7     21    For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil  thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

41N   7     22    thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness,  a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;

41N   7     23    all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the  man.

41N   7     24    And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of  Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not  have any one know [it], and he could not be hid.

41N   7     25    But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an  unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet

41N   7     26    (and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and  asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

41N   7     27    But [Jesus] said to her, Suffer the children to be first  filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and  cast it to the dogs.

41N   7     28    But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the  dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

41N   7     29    And he said to her, Because of this word, go thy way, the  demon is gone out of thy daughter.

41N   7     30    And having gone away to her house she found the demon gone  out, and her daughter lying on the bed.

41N   7     31    And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he  came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of  Decapolis.

41N   7     32    And they bring to him a deaf [man] who could not speak  right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.

41N   7     33    And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his  fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;

41N   7     34    and looking up to heaven he groaned, and says to him,  Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

41N   7     35    And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his  tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

41N   7     36    And he charged them that they should speak to no one [of  it]. But so much the more *he* charged them, so much the more  abundantly *they* proclaimed it;

41N   7     37    and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all  things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless  to speak.

41N   8     1     In those days, there being again a great crowd, and they  having nothing that they could eat, having called his disciples  to [him], he says to them,

41N   8     2     I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed  with me already three days and they have not anything they can  eat,

41N   8     3     and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they  will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.

41N   8     4     And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to  satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?

41N   8     5     And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said,  Seven.

41N   8     6     And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And  having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke [them]  and gave [them] to his disciples, that they might set [them]  before [them]; and they set [them] before the crowd.

41N   8     7     And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he  desired these also to be set before [them].

41N   8     8     And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up of  fragments that remained seven baskets.

41N   8     9     And they [that had eaten] were about four thousand; and he  sent them away.

41N   8     10    And immediately going on board ship with his disciples, he  came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

41N   8     11    And the Pharisees went out and began to dispute against  him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

41N   8     12    And groaning in his spirit, he says, Why does this  generation seek a sign? Verily I say unto you, A sign shall in  no wise be given to this generation.

41N   8     13    And he left them, and going again on board ship, went away  to the other side.

41N   8     14    And they forgot to take bread, and save one loaf, they had  not [any] with them in the ship.

41N   8     15    And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the  leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.

41N   8     16    And they reasoned with one another, [saying], It is because  we have no bread.

41N   8     17    And Jesus knowing [it], says to them, Why reason ye because  ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive nor understand? Have  ye your heart [yet] hardened?

41N   8     18    Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and  do ye not remember?

41N   8     19    When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how  many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to  him, Twelve.

41N   8     20    And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of  how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

41N   8     21    And he said to them, How do ye not yet understand?

41N   8     22    And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring him a blind man,  and beseech him that he might touch him.

41N   8     23    And taking hold of the hand of the blind man he led him  forth out of the village, and having spit upon his eyes, he  laid his hands upon him, and asked him if he beheld anything.

41N   8     24    And having looked up, he said, I behold men, for I see  [them], as trees, walking.

41N   8     25    Then he laid his hands again upon his eyes, and he saw  distinctly, and was restored and saw all things clearly.

41N   8     26    And he sent him to his house, saying, Neither enter into  the village, nor tell [it] to any one in the village.

41N   8     27    And Jesus went forth and his disciples, into the villages  of Caesarea-Philippi. And by the way he asked his disciples,  saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?

41N   8     28    And they answered him, saying, John the baptist; and  others, Elias; but others, One of the prophets.

41N   8     29    And he asked them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And  Peter answering says to him, *Thou* art the Christ.

41N   8     30    And he charged them straitly, in order that they should  tell no man about him.

41N   8     31    And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer  many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief  priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days  rise [again].

41N   8     32    And he spoke the thing openly. And Peter, taking him to  [him], began to rebuke him.

41N   8     33    But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked  Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not  on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of  men.

41N   8     34    And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to  them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself,  and take up his cross and follow me.

41N   8     35    For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it,  but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's  shall save it.

41N   8     36    For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world  and suffer the loss of his soul?

41N   8     37    for what should a man give in exchange for his soul?

41N   8     38    For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in  this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of  man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his  Father with the holy angels.

41N   9     1     And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There are some  of those standing here that shall not taste death until they  shall have seen the kingdom of God come in power.

41N   9     2     And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter and James  and John, and takes them up on a high mountain by themselves  apart. And he was transfigured before them:

41N   9     3     and his garments became shining, exceeding white [as snow],  such as fuller on earth could not whiten [them].

41N   9     4     And there appeared to them Elias with Moses, and they were  talking with Jesus.

41N   9     5     And Peter answering says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we  should be here; and let us make three tabernacles, for thee  one, and for Moses one, and for Elias one.

41N   9     6     For he knew not what he should say, for they were filled  with fear.

41N   9     7     And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a  voice out of the cloud, *This* is my beloved Son: hear him.

41N   9     8     And suddenly having looked around, they no longer saw any  one, but Jesus alone with themselves.

41N   9     9     And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them  that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless  when the Son of man should be risen from among [the] dead.

41N   9     10    And they kept that saying, questioning among themselves,  what rising from among [the] dead was.

41N   9     11    And they asked him saying, Why do the scribes say that  Elias must first have come?

41N   9     12    And he answering said to them, Elias indeed, having first  come, restores all things; and how is it written of the Son of  man that he must suffer much, and be set at nought:

41N   9     13    but I say unto you that Elias also is come, and they have  done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.

41N   9     14    And when he came to the disciples he saw a great crowd  around them, and scribes disputing against them.

41N   9     15    And immediately all the crowd seeing him were amazed, and  running to [him], saluted him.

41N   9     16    And he asked them, What do ye question with them about?

41N   9     17    And one out of the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought  to thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;

41N   9     18    and wheresoever it seizes him it tears him, and he foams  and gnashes his teeth, and he is withering away. And I spoke to  thy disciples, that they might cast him out, and they could  not.

41N   9     19    But he answering them says, O unbelieving generation! how  long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring  him to me.

41N   9     20    And they brought him to him. And seeing him the spirit  immediately tore him; and falling upon the earth he rolled  foaming.

41N   9     21    And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has  been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;

41N   9     22    and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters  that it might destroy him: but if thou couldst [do] anything,  be moved with pity on us, and help us.

41N   9     23    And Jesus said to him, The 'if thou couldst' is [if thou  couldst] believe: all things are possible to him that believes.

41N   9     24    And immediately the father of the young child crying out  said [with tears], I believe, help mine unbelief.

41N   9     25    But Jesus, seeing that [the] crowd was running up together,  rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf  spirit, *I* command thee, come out of him, and enter no more  into him.

41N   9     26    And having cried out and torn [him] much, he came out; and  he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.

41N   9     27    But Jesus, having taken hold of him by the hand, lifted him  up, and he arose.

41N   9     28    And when he was entered into the house, his disciples asked  him privately, Wherefore could not *we* cast him out?

41N   9     29    And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing but by  prayer and fasting.

41N   9     30    And going forth from thence they went through Galilee; and  he would not that any one knew it;

41N   9     31    for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of  man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and  having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

41N   9     32    But they understood not the saying, and feared to ask him.

41N   9     33    And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked  them, Of what were ye reasoning by the way?

41N   9     34    And they remained silent, for by the way they had been  reasoning with one another who [was] greatest.

41N   9     35    And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them,  If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and  minister of all.

41N   9     36    And taking a little child he set it in their midst, and  having taken it in his arms he said to them,

41N   9     37    Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my  name, receives me; and whosoever shall receive me, does not  receive me, but him who sent me.

41N   9     38    And John answered him saying, Teacher, we saw some one  casting out demons in thy name, who does not follow us, and we  forbad him, because he does not follow us.

41N   9     39    But Jesus said, Forbid him not; for there is no one who  shall do a miracle in my name, and be able soon [after] to  speak ill of me;

41N   9     40    for he who is not against us is for us.

 

41N   9     41    For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in  [my] name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he  shall in no wise lose his reward.

41N   9     42    And whosoever shall be a snare to one of the little ones  who believe [in me], it were better for him if a millstone were  hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

41N   9     43    And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is  better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two  hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

41N   9     44    [where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched].

41N   9     45    And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is  better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two  feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

41N   9     46    [where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched].

41N   9     47    And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it  is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one  eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of  fire,

41N   9     48    where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.

41N   9     49    For every one shall be salted with fire, and every  sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

41N   9     50    Salt [is] good, but if the salt is become saltless,  wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at  peace with one another.

41N   10    1     And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea,  and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come  together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught  them.

41N   10    2     And Pharisees coming to [him] asked him, Is it lawful for a  man to put away [his] wife? (tempting him).

41N   10    3     But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?

41N   10    4     And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce,  and to put away.

41N   10    5     And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your  hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;

41N   10    6     but from [the] beginning of [the] creation God made them  male and female.

41N   10    7     For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and  shall be united to his wife,

41N   10    8     and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer  two but one flesh.

41N   10    9     What therefore God has joined together, let not man  separate.

41N   10    10    And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning  this.

41N   10    11    And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and  shall marry another, commits adultery against her.

41N   10    12    And if a woman put away her husband and shall marry  another, she commits adultery.

41N   10    13    And they brought little children to him that he might  touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought  [them].

41N   10    14    But Jesus seeing [it], was indignant, and said to them,  Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for  of such is the kingdom of God.

41N   10    15    Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the  kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter into  it.

41N   10    16    And having taken them in his arms, having laid his hands  on them, he blessed them.

41N   10    17    And as he went forth into the way, a person ran up to  [him], and kneeling to him asked him, Good Teacher, what shall  I do that I may inherit eternal life?

41N   10    18    But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? no one is  good but one, [that is] God.

41N   10    19    Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do  not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not  defraud, Honour thy father and mother.

41N   10    20    And he answering said to him, Teacher, all these things  have I kept from my youth.

41N   10    21    And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, One  thing lackest thou: go, sell whatever thou hast and give to the  poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow  me, [taking up the cross].

41N   10    22    But he, sad at the word, went away grieved, for he had  large possessions.

41N   10    23    And Jesus looking around says to his disciples, How  difficultly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom  of God!

41N   10    24    And the disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus  again answering says to them, Children, how difficult it is  that those who trust in riches should enter into the kingdom of  God!

41N   10    25    It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle  than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

41N   10    26    And they were exceedingly astonished, saying to one  another, And who can be saved?

41N   10    27    But Jesus looking on them says, With men it is impossible,  but not with God; for all things are possible with God.

41N   10    28    Peter began to say to him, Behold, *we* have left all  things and have followed thee.

41N   10    29    Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one  who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or  mother, [or wife], or children, or lands, for my sake and for  the sake of the gospel,

41N   10    30    that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time:  houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children,  and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age life  eternal.

41N   10    31    But many first shall be last, and the last first.

41N   10    32    And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus  was going on before them; and they were amazed, and were afraid  as they followed. And taking the twelve again to [him], he  began to tell them what was going to happen to him:

41N   10    33    Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be  delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they  shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him up to the  nations:

41N   10    34    and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall  spit upon him, and shall kill him; and after three days he  shall rise again.

41N   10    35    And there come to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee,  saying [to him], Teacher, we would that whatsoever we may ask  thee, thou wouldst do it for us.

41N   10    36    And he said to them, What would ye that I should do for  you?

41N   10    37    And they said to him, Give to us that we may sit, one on  thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy glory.

41N   10    38    And Jesus said to them, Ye do not know what ye ask. Are ye  able to drink the cup which *I* drink, or be baptised with the  baptism that *I* am baptised with?

41N   10    39    And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them,  The cup that *I* drink ye will drink and with the baptism that  *I* am baptised with ye will be baptised,

41N   10    40    but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to  give, but for those for whom it is prepared.

41N   10    41    And the ten having heard [of it], began to be indignant  about James and John.

41N   10    42    But Jesus having called them to [him], says to them, Ye  know that those who are esteemed to rule over the nations  exercise lordship over them; and their great men exercise  authority over them;

41N   10    43    but it is not thus among you; but whosoever would be great  among you, shall be your minister;

41N   10    44    and whosoever would be first of you shall be bondman of  all.

41N   10    45    For also the Son of man did not come to be ministered to,  but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many.

41N   10    46    And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from  Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of  Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind [man], sat by the wayside  begging.

41N   10    47    And having heard that it was Jesus the Nazaraean, he began  to cry out and to say, O Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me.

41N   10    48    And many rebuked him, that he might be silent; but he  cried so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.

41N   10    49    And Jesus, standing still, desired him to be called. And  they call the blind [man], saying to him, Be of good courage,  rise up, he calls thee.

41N   10    50    And, throwing away his garment, he started up and came to  Jesus.

41N   10    51    And Jesus answering says to him, What wilt thou that I  shall do to thee? And the blind [man] said to him, Rabboni,  that I may see.

41N   10    52    And Jesus said to him, Go, thy faith has healed thee. And  he saw immediately, and followed him in the way.

41N   11    1     And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and  Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,

41N   11    2     and says to them, Go into the village which is over against  you, and immediately on entering into it ye will find a colt  tied, upon which no [child] of man has ever sat: loose it and  lead it [here].

41N   11    3     And if any one say to you, Why do ye this? say, The Lord  has need of it; and straightway he sends it hither.

41N   11    4     And they departed, and found a colt bound to the door  without at the crossway, and they loose him.

41N   11    5     And some of those who stood there said to them, What are ye  doing, loosing the colt?

41N   11    6     And they said to them as Jesus had commanded. And they let  them [do it].

41N   11    7     And they led the colt to Jesus, and cast their clothes upon  it, and he sat on it;

41N   11    8     and many strewed their clothes on the way, and others cut  down branches from the trees [and went on strewing them on the  way].

41N   11    9     And those going on before and those following cried out,  Hosanna! blessed [be] he that comes in [the] Lord's name.

41N   11    10    Blessed [be] the coming kingdom of our father David.  Hosanna in the highest!

41N   11    11    And he entered into Jerusalem and into the temple; and  having looked round on all things, the hour being already late,  he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

41N   11    12    And on the morrow, when they were gone out of Bethany, he  hungered.

41N   11    13    And seeing from afar off a fig-tree which had leaves, he  came, if perhaps he might find something on it. And having come  up to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time  of figs.

41N   11    14    And answering he said to it, Let no one eat fruit of thee  any more for ever. And his disciples heard [it].

41N   11    15    And they come to Jerusalem, and entering into the temple,  he began to cast out those who sold and who bought in the  temple, and he overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and  the seats of the dove-sellers,

41N   11    16    and suffered not that any one should carry any package  through the temple.

41N   11    17    And he taught saying to them, Is it not written, My house  shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but *ye*  have made it a den of robbers.

41N   11    18    And the chief priests and the scribes heard [it], and they  sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because  all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.

41N   11    19    And when it was evening he went forth without the city.

41N   11    20    And passing by early in the morning they saw the fig-tree  dried up from the roots.

41N   11    21    And Peter, remembering [what Jesus had said], says to him,  Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up.

41N   11    22    And Jesus answering says to them, Have faith in God.

41N   11    23    Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this  mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall  not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes  place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.

41N   11    24    For this reason I say to you, All things whatsoever ye  pray for and ask, believe that ye receive it, and it shall come  to pass for you.

41N   11    25    And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything  against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens  may forgive you your offences.

41N   11    26    But if *ye* do not forgive, neither will your Father who  is in the heavens forgive your offences.

41N   11    27    And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he walked about  in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders  come to him,

41N   11    28    and they say to him, By what authority doest thou these  things? and who gave thee this authority, that thou shouldest  do these things?

41N   11    29    And Jesus answering said to them, *I* also will ask you  one thing, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority  I do these things:

41N   11    30    The baptism of John, was it of heaven, or of men? answer  me.

41N   11    31    And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should  say, Of heaven, he will say, Why [then] have ye not believed  him?

41N   11    32    but should we say, Of men -- they feared the people; for  all held of John that he was truly a prophet.

41N   11    33    And they answering say to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus  [answering] says to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what  authority I do these things.

41N   12    1     And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a  vineyard, and made a fence round [it] and dug a wine-vat, and  built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the  country.

41N   12    2     And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that  he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the  vineyard.

41N   12    3     But they took him, and beat [him], and sent [him] away  empty.

41N   12    4     And again he sent to them another bondman; and [at] him  they [threw stones, and] struck [him] on the head, and sent  [him] away with insult.

41N   12    5     And [again] he sent another, and him they killed; and many  others, beating some and killing some.

41N   12    6     Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to  them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.

41N   12    7     But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir:  come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.

41N   12    8     And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of  the vineyard.

41N   12    9     What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will  come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to  others.

41N   12    10    Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they  that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:

41N   12    11    this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

41N   12    12    And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the  crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them.  And they left him and went away.

41N   12    13    And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the  Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.

41N   12    14    And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou  art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not  men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it  lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?

41N   12    15    Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing  their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a  denarius that I may see [it].

41N   12    16    And they brought [it]. And he says to them, Whose [is]  this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.

41N   12    17    And Jesus answering said to them, Pay what is Caesar's to  Caesar, and what is God's to God. And they wondered at him.

41N   12    18    And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no  resurrection; and they demanded of him saying,

41N   12    19    Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die,  and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his  brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

41N   12    20    There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and  dying did not leave seed;

41N   12    21    and the second took her and died, and neither did he leave  seed; and the third likewise.

41N   12    22    And the seven [took her and] did not leave seed. Last of  all the woman also died.

41N   12    23    In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which  of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?

41N   12    24    And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err,  not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?

41N   12    25    For when they rise from among [the] dead they neither  marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels [who are]  in the heavens.

41N   12    26    But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read  in the book of Moses, in [the section of] the bush, how God  spoke to him, saying, *I* [am] the God of Abraham, and the God  of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

41N   12    27    He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. *Ye*  therefore greatly err.

41N   12    28    And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them  reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well,  demanded of him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?

41N   12    29    And Jesus answered him, [The] first commandment of all  [is], Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;

41N   12    30    and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,  and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and  with all thy strength. This is [the] first commandment.

41N   12    31    And a second like it [is] this: Thou shalt love thy  neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater  than these.

41N   12    32    And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast  spoken according to [the] truth. For he is one, and there is  none other besides him;

41N   12    33    and to love him with all the heart, and with all the  intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength,  and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the  burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

41N   12    34    And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said  to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one  dared question him any more.

41N   12    35    And Jesus answering said [as he was] teaching in the  temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?

41N   12    36    [for] David himself said [speaking] in the Holy Spirit,  The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put  thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet.

41N   12    37    David himself [therefore] calls him Lord, and whence is he  his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.

41N   12    38    And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the  scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations  in the marketplaces,

41N   12    39    and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at  suppers;

41N   12    40    who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make  long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

41N   12    41    And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how  the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich  cast in much.

41N   12    42    And a poor widow came and cast in two mites, which is a  farthing.

41N   12    43    And having called his disciples to [him] he said to them,  Verily I say unto you, This poor widow has cast in more than  all who have cast into the treasury:

41N   12    44    for all have cast in of that which they had in abundance,  but she of her destitution has cast in all that she had, the  whole of her living.

41N   13    1     And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples  says to him, Teacher, see what stones and what buildings!

41N   13    2     And Jesus answering said to him, Seest thou these great  buildings? not a stone shall be left upon a stone, which shall  not be thrown down.

41N   13    3     And as he sat on the mount of Olives opposite the temple,  Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

41N   13    4     Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign  when all these things are going to be fulfilled?

41N   13    5     And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any  one mislead you.

41N   13    6     For many shall come in my name, saying, It is *I*, and  shall mislead many.

41N   13    7     But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not  disturbed, for [this] must happen, but the end is not yet.

41N   13    8     For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom  against kingdom; and there shall be earthquakes in [different]  places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these things  [are the] beginnings of throes.

41N   13    9     But *ye*, take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver  you up to sanhedrims and to synagogues: ye shall be beaten and  brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to  them;

41N   13    10    and the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

41N   13    11    But when they shall lead you away to deliver you up, be  not careful beforehand as to what ye shall say, [nor prepare  your discourse]: but whatsoever shall be given you in that  hour, that speak; for *ye* are not the speakers, but the Holy  Spirit.

41N   13    12    But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father  child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause  them to be put to death.

41N   13    13    And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he  that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

41N   13    14    But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation  standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider  [it],) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;

41N   13    15    and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the  house, nor enter [into it] to take away anything out of his  house;

41N   13    16    and him that is in the field not return back to take his  garment.

41N   13    17    But woe to those that are with child and to those that  give suck in those days!

41N   13    18    And pray that it may not be in winter time;

41N   13    19    for those days shall be distress such as there has not  been the like since [the] beginning of creation which God  created, until now, and never shall be;

41N   13    20    and if [the] Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh  should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has  chosen, he has cut short those days.

41N   13    21    And then if any one say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ,  or Lo, there, believe [it] not.

41N   13    22    For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give  signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

41N   13    23    But do *ye* take heed: behold, I have told you all things  beforehand.

41N   13    24    But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be  darkened and the moon shall not give its light;

41N   13    25    and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the  powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;

41N   13    26    and then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds  with great power and glory;

41N   13    27    and then shall he send his angels and shall gather  together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to  end of heaven.

41N   13    28    But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch  already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that  the summer is near.

41N   13    29    Thus also *ye*, when ye see these things happening, know  that it is near, at the doors.

41N   13    30    Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise  pass away, till all these things take place.

41N   13    31    The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words  shall in no wise pass away.

41N   13    32    But of that day or of that hour no one knows, neither the  angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

41N   13    33    Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the  time is:

41N   13    34    [it is] as a man gone out of the country, having left his  house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one  his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

41N   13    35    Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the  house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;

41N   13    36    lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

41N   13    37    But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

41N   14    1     Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was  after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were  seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

41N   14    2     For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a  tumult of the people.

41N   14    3     And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the  leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an  alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and  having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his  head.

41N   14    4     And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying,  Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

41N   14    5     for this ointment could have been sold for more than three  hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very  angrily at her.

41N   14    6     But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she  has wrought a good work as to me;

41N   14    7     for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would  ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.

41N   14    8     What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed  my body for the burial.

41N   14    9     And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings  may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done  shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.

41N   14    10    And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the  chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;

41N   14    11    and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him  to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver  him up.

41N   14    12    And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the  passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go  and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?

41N   14    13    And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Go  into the city, and a man shall meet you carrying a pitcher of  water; follow him.

41N   14    14    And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house,  The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the  passover with my disciples?

41N   14    15    and *he* will shew you a large upper room furnished ready.  There make ready for us.

41N   14    16    And his disciples went away and came into the city, and  found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.

41N   14    17    And when evening was come, he comes with the twelve.

41N   14    18    And as they lay at table and were eating, Jesus said,  Verily I say to you, One of you shall deliver me up; he who is  eating with me.

41N   14    19    And they began to be grieved, and to say to him, one by  one, Is it *I*? [and another, Is it *I*?]

41N   14    20    But he answered and said to them, One of the twelve, he  who dips with me in the dish.

41N   14    21    The Son of man goes indeed as it is written concerning  him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered  up; [it were] good for that man if he had not been born.

41N   14    22    And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when  he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said,  Take [this]: this is my body.

41N   14    23    And having taken [the] cup, when he had given thanks, he  gave [it] to them, and they all drank out of it.

41N   14    24    And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the [new]  covenant, that shed for many.

41N   14    25    Verily I say to you, I will no more drink at all of the  fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the  kingdom of God.

41N   14    26    And having sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of  Olives.

41N   14    27    And Jesus says to them, All ye shall be offended, for it  is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be  scattered abroad.

41N   14    28    But after I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

41N   14    29    But Peter said to him, Even if all should be offended, yet  not *I*.

41N   14    30    And Jesus says to him, Verily I say to thee, that thou  to-day, in this night, before [the] cock shall crow twice, thou  shalt thrice deny me.

41N   14    31    But he said [so much] exceedingly the more, If I should  have to die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. And  likewise said they all too.

41N   14    32    And they come to a place of which the name [is]  Gethsemane, and he says to his disciples, Sit here while I  shall pray.

41N   14    33    And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he  began to be amazed and oppressed in spirit.

41N   14    34    And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto  death; abide here and watch.

41N   14    35    And, going forward a little, he fell upon the earth; and  he prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away  from him.

41N   14    36    And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to  thee: take away this cup from me; but not what *I* will, but  what *thou* [wilt].

41N   14    37    And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to  Peter, Simon, dost thou sleep? Hast thou not been able to watch  one hour?

41N   14    38    Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The  spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh weak.

41N   14    39    And going away, he prayed again, saying the same thing.

41N   14    40    And returning, he found them again sleeping, for their  eyes were heavy; and they knew not what they should answer him.

41N   14    41    And he comes the third time and says to them, Sleep on  now, and take your rest. It is enough; the hour is come;  behold, the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of  sinners.

41N   14    42    Arise, let us go; behold, he that delivers me up has drawn  nigh.

41N   14    43    And immediately, while he was yet speaking, Judas comes  up, [being] one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd, with  swords and sticks, from the chief priests and the scribes and  the elders.

41N   14    44    Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign between  them, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; seize him,  and lead [him] away safely.

41N   14    45    And being come, straightway coming up to him, he says,  Rabbi, Rabbi; and he covered him with kisses.

41N   14    46    And they laid their hands upon him and seized him.

41N   14    47    But a certain one of those who stood by, having drawn his  sword, struck the bondman of the high priest, and took off his  ear.

41N   14    48    And Jesus answering said to them, Are ye come out as  against a robber, with swords and sticks to take me?

41N   14    49    I was daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did  not seize me; but [it is] that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

41N   14    50    And all left him and fled.

41N   14    51    And a certain young man followed him with a linen cloth  cast about his naked [body]; and [the young men] seize him;

41N   14    52    but he, leaving the linen cloth behind [him], fled from  them naked.

41N   14    53    And they led away Jesus to the high priest. And there come  together to him all the chief priests and the elders and the  scribes.

41N   14    54    And Peter followed him at a distance, till [he was] within  the court of the high priest's palace; and he was sitting with  the officers and warming himself in the light [of the fire].

41N   14    55    And the chief priests and the whole sanhedrim sought  testimony against Jesus to cause him to be put to death, and  did not find [any].

41N   14    56    For many bore false witness against him, and their  testimony did not agree.

41N   14    57    And certain persons rose up and bore false witness against  him, saying,

41N   14    58    *We* heard him saying, *I* will destroy this temple which  is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will  build another not made with hands.

41N   14    59    And neither thus did their testimony agree.

41N   14    60    And the high priest, rising up before them all, asked  Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What do these testify  against thee?

41N   14    61    But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high  priest asked him, and says to him, *Thou* art the Christ, the  Son of the Blessed?

41N   14    62    And Jesus said, *I* am, and ye shall see the Son of man  sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds  of heaven.

41N   14    63    And the high priest, having rent his clothes, says, What  need have we any more of witnesses?

41N   14    64    Ye have heard the blasphemy; what think ye? And they all  condemned him to be guilty of death.

41N   14    65    And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face,  and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers  struck him with the palms of their hands.

41N   14    66    And Peter being below in the palace-court, there comes one  of the maids of the high priest,

41N   14    67    and seeing Peter warming himself, having looked at him,  says, And *thou* wast with the Nazarene, Jesus.

41N   14    68    But he denied, saying, I know not nor understand what thou  sayest. And he went out into the vestibule; and a cock crew.

41N   14    69    And the maid, seeing him, again began to say to those that  stood by, This is [one] of them.

41N   14    70    And he again denied. And again, after a little, those that  stood by said to Peter, Truly thou art [one] of them, for also  thou art a Galilean.

41N   14    71    But he began to curse and to swear, I know not this man of  whom ye speak.

41N   14    72    And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the  word that Jesus said to him, Before [the] cock crow twice, thou  shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he wept.

41N   15    1     And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having  taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole  sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried [him] away, and delivered  [him] up to Pilate.

41N   15    2     And Pilate asked him, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And  he answered and said to him, *Thou* sayest.

41N   15    3     And the chief priests accused him urgently.

41N   15    4     And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing?  See of how many things they bear witness against thee.

41N   15    5     But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marvelled.

41N   15    6     But at [the] feast he released to them one prisoner,  whomsoever they begged [of him].

41N   15    7     Now there was the [person] named Barabbas bound with those  who had made insurrection with [him], [and] that had committed  murder in the insurrection.

41N   15    8     And the crowd crying out began to beg [that he would do] to  them as he had always done.

41N   15    9     But Pilate answered them saying, Will ye that I release to  you the King of the Jews?

41N   15    10    for he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up  through envy.

41N   15    11    But the chief priests stirred up the crowd that he might  rather release Barabbas to them.

41N   15    12    And Pilate answering said to them again, What will ye then  that I do [to him] whom ye call King of the Jews?

41N   15    13    And they cried out again, Crucify him.

41N   15    14    And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But  they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.

41N   15    15    And Pilate, desirous of contenting the crowd, released to  them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged  him, that he might be crucified.

41N   15    16    And the soldiers led him away into the court which is  [called the] praetorium, and they call together the whole band.

41N   15    17    And they clothe him with purple, and bind round on him a  crown of thorns which they had plaited.

41N   15    18    And they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

41N   15    19    And they struck his head with a reed, and spat on him,  and, bending the knee, did him homage.

41N   15    20    And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off  him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that  they may crucify him.

41N   15    21    And they compel to go [with them] a certain passer-by,  Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of  Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.

41N   15    22    And they bring him to the place [called] Golgotha, which,  being interpreted, is Place of a skull.

41N   15    23    And they offered him wine [to drink] medicated with myrrh;  but he did not take [it].

41N   15    24    And having crucified him, they part his clothes amongst  [themselves], casting lots on them, what each one should take.

41N   15    25    And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

41N   15    26    And the superscription of what he was accused of was  written up: The King of the Jews.

41N   15    27    And with him they crucify two robbers, one on his right  hand, and one on his left.

41N   15    28    [And the scripture was fulfilled which says, And he was  reckoned with the lawless.]

41N   15    29    And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,  and saying, Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest  it in three days,

41N   15    30    save thyself, and descend from the cross.

41N   15    31    In like manner the chief priests also, with the scribes,  mocking with one another, said, He saved others; himself he  cannot save.

41N   15    32    Let the Christ the King of Israel descend now from the  cross, that we may see and may believe. And they that were  crucified with him reproached him.

41N   15    33    And when [the] sixth hour was come, there came darkness  over the whole land until [the] ninth hour;

41N   15    34    and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice,  [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being  interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

41N   15    35    And some of those who stood by, when they heard [it],  said, Behold, he calls for Elias.

41N   15    36    And one, running and filling a sponge with vinegar, fixed  it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone, let us  see if Elias comes to take him down.

41N   15    37    And Jesus, having uttered a loud cry, expired.

41N   15    38    And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to  the bottom.

41N   15    39    And the centurion who stood by over against him, when he  saw that he had expired having thus cried out, said, Truly this  man was Son of God.

41N   15    40    And there were women also looking on from afar off, among  whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James  the less and of Joses, and Salome;

41N   15    41    who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and  ministered to him; and many others who came up with him to  Jerusalem.

41N   15    42    And when it was already evening, since it was [the]  preparation, that is, [the day] before a sabbath,

41N   15    43    Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable councillor, who also  himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, coming, emboldened  himself and went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.

41N   15    44    And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having  called to [him] the centurion, he inquired of him if he had  long died.

41N   15    45    And when he knew from the centurion, he granted the body  to Joseph.

41N   15    46    And having bought fine linen, [and] having taken him down,  he swathed him in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre  which was cut out of rock, and rolled a stone to the door of  the sepulchre.

41N   15    47    And Mary of Magdala and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw  where he was put.

41N   16    1     And the sabbath being [now] past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary  the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that  they might come and embalm him.

41N   16    2     And very early on the first [day] of the week they come to  the sepulchre, the sun having risen.

41N   16    3     And they said to one another, Who shall roll us away the  stone out of the door of the sepulchre?

41N   16    4     And when they looked, they see that the stone has been  rolled [away], for it was very great.

41N   16    5     And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man  sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were  amazed and alarmed;

41N   16    6     but he says to them, Be not alarmed. Ye seek Jesus, the  Nazarene, the crucified one. He is risen, he is not here;  behold the place where they had put him.

41N   16    7     But go, tell his disciples and Peter, he goes before you  into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said to you.

41N   16    8     And they went out, and fled from the sepulchre. And  trembling and excessive amazement possessed them, and they said  nothing to any one, for they were afraid.

41N   16    9     Now when he had risen very early, the first [day] of the  week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom he had  cast seven demons.

41N   16    10    *She* went and brought word to those that had been with  him, [who were] grieving and weeping.

41N   16    11    And when these heard that he was alive and had been seen  of her, they disbelieved [it].

41N   16    12    And after these things he was manifested in another form  to two of them as they walked, going into the country;

41N   16    13    and *they* went and brought word to the rest; neither did  they believe them.

41N   16    14    Afterwards as they lay at table he was manifested to the  eleven, and reproached [them with] their unbelief and hardness  of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him  risen.

41N   16    15    And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the  glad tidings to all the creation.

41N   16    16    He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, and he  that disbelieves shall be condemned.

41N   16    17    And these signs shall follow those that have believed: in  my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new  tongues;

41N   16    18    they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any  deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands  upon the infirm, and they shall be well.

41N   16    19    The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken  up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.

41N   16    20    And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord  working with [them], and confirming the word by the signs  following upon [it].

 

Matthew (late 50s - early 60s)

 

 

 

40N   1     1     Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of  Abraham.

40N   1     2     Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat  Juda and his brethren;

40N   1     3     and Juda begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat  Esrom, and Esrom begat Aram,

40N   1     4     and Aram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Naasson, and  Naasson begat Salmon,

40N   1     5     and Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of  Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse,

40N   1     6     and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat Solomon, of  her [that had been the wife] of Urias;

40N   1     7     and Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begat Abia, and Abia  begat Asa,

40N   1     8     and Asa begat Josaphat, and Josaphat begat Joram, and Joram  begat Ozias,

40N   1     9     and Ozias begat Joatham, and Joatham begat Achaz, and Achaz  begat Ezekias,

40N   1     10    and Ezekias begat Manasses, and Manasses begat Amon, and  Amon begat Josias,

40N   1     11    and Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, at the time of  the carrying away of Babylon.

40N   1     12    And after the carrying away of Babylon, Jechonias begat  Salathiel, and Salathiel begat Zorobabel,

40N   1     13    and Zorobabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Eliakim, and  Eliakim begat Azor,

40N   1     14    and Azor begat Sadoc, and Sadoc begat Achim, and Achim  begat Eliud,

40N   1     15    and Eliud begat Eliazar, and Eliazar begat Matthan, and  Matthan begat Jacob,

40N   1     16    and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was  born Jesus, who is called Christ.

40N   1     17    All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David  [were] fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying  away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying  away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.

40N   1     18    Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary,  that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came  together, she was found to be with child of [the] Holy Spirit.

40N   1     19    But Joseph, her husband, being [a] righteous [man], and  unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away  secretly;

40N   1     20    but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of  [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of  David, fear not to take to [thee] Mary, thy wife, for that  which is begotten in her is of [the] Holy Spirit.

40N   1     21    And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his  name Jesus, for *he* shall save his people from their sins.

40N   1     22    Now all this came to pass that that might be fulfilled  which was spoken by [the] Lord, through the prophet, saying,

40N   1     23    Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring  forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is,  being interpreted, 'God with us.'

40N   1     24    But Joseph, having awoke up from his sleep, did as the  angel of [the] Lord had enjoined him, and took to [him] his  wife,

40N   1     25    and knew her not until she had brought forth her firstborn  son: and he called his name Jesus.

40N   2     1     Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the  days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at  Jerusalem, saying,

40N   2     2     Where is the king of the Jews that has been born? for we  have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage.

40N   2     3     But Herod the king having heard [of it], was troubled, and  all Jerusalem with him;

40N   2     4     and, assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the  people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

40N   2     5     And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea; for thus it is  written through the prophet:

40N   2     6     And *thou* Bethlehem, land of Juda, art in no wise the least  among the governors of Juda; for out of thee shall go forth a  leader who shall shepherd my people Israel.

40N   2     7     Then Herod, having secretly called the magi, inquired of  them accurately the time of the star that was appearing;

40N   2     8     and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out  accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found  [him] bring me back word, so that *I* also may come and do him  homage.

40N   2     9     And they having heard the king went their way; and lo, the  star, which they had seen in the east, went before them until  it came and stood over the place where the little child was.

40N   2     10    And when they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding  great joy.

40N   2     11    And having come into the house they saw the little child  with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And  having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold,  and frankincense, and myrrh.

 

40N   2     12    And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to  Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

40N   2     13    Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of [the] Lord  appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to [thee] the  little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there  until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child  to destroy it.

40N   2     14    And, having arisen, he took to [him] the little child and  his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.

40N   2     15    And he was there until the death of Herod, that that might  be fulfilled which was spoken by [the] Lord through the  prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

40N   2     16    Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was  greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in  Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under,  according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the  magi.

40N   2     17    Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias  the prophet, saying,

40N   2     18    A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great  lamentation: Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not  be comforted, because they are not.

40N   2     19    But Herod having died, behold, an angel of [the] Lord  appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

40N   2     20    Arise, take to [thee] the little child and its mother, and  go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the  little child are dead.

40N   2     21    And he arose and took to [him] the little child and its  mother, and came into the land of Israel;

40N   2     22    but having heard that 'Archelaus reigns over Judaea,  instead of Herod his father,' he was afraid to go there; and  having been divinely instructed in a dream, he went away into  the parts of Galilee,

40N   2     23    and came and dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that that  should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He  shall be called a Nazaraean.

40N   3     1     Now in those days comes John the baptist, preaching in the  wilderness of Judaea,

40N   3     2     and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn  nigh.

40N   3     3     For this is he who has been spoken of through Esaias the  prophet, saying, Voice of him that crieth in the wilderness:  prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.

40N   3     4     And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a  leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was  locusts and wild honey.

40N   3     5     Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the  country round the Jordan,

40N   3     6     and were baptised by him in the Jordan, confessing their  sins.

40N   3     7     But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his  baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has  forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

40N   3     8     Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

40N   3     9     And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham  for [our] father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these  stones to raise up children to Abraham.

40N   3     10    And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees;  every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and  cast into the fire.

40N   3     11    *I* indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he  that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not  fit to bear; *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit and  fire;

40N   3     12    whose winnowing fan [is] in his hand, and he shall  thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his  wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire  unquenchable.

40N   3     13    Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be  baptised of him;

40N   3     14    but John urgently forbad him, saying, *I* have need to be  baptised of thee; and comest *thou* to me?

40N   3     15    But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer [it] now; for thus  it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers  him.

40N   3     16    And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from  the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw  the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him:

40N   3     17    and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my  beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight.

40N   4     1     Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit  to be tempted of the devil:

40N   4     2     and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he  hungered.

40N   4     3     And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of  God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

40N   4     4     But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by  bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's  mouth.

40N   4     5     Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon  the edge of the temple,

40N   4     6     and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down;  for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels  concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee,  lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

40N   4     7     Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt  [the] Lord thy God.

40N   4     8     Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews  him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

40N   4     9     and says to him, All these things will I give thee if,  falling down, thou wilt do me homage.

40N   4     10    Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is  written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him  alone shalt thou serve.

40N   4     11    Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and  ministered to him.

40N   4     12    But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed  into Galilee:

40N   4     13    and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum,  which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and  Nepthalim,

40N   4     14    that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through  Esaias the prophet, saying,

40N   4     15    Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of [the] sea  beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

40N   4     16    -- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light,  and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to  them has light sprung up.

 

40N   4     17    From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent,  for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.

40N   4     18    And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers,  Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into  the sea, for they were fishers;

40N   4     19    and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you  fishers of men.

40N   4     20    And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately  followed him.

40N   4     21    And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the  [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee  their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

40N   4     22    and they, having left the ship and their father,  immediately followed him.

40N   4     23    And [Jesus] went round the whole [of] Galilee, teaching in  their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the  kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness  among the people.

40N   4     24    And his fame went out into the whole [of] Syria, and they  brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various  diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and  lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

40N   4     25    And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis,  and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.

40N   5     1     But seeing the crowds, he went up into the mountain, and  having sat down, his disciples came to him;

40N   5     2     and, having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,

40N   5     3     Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, for *theirs* is the  kingdom of the heavens.

 

40N   5     4     Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted.

40N   5     5     Blessed the meek, for *they* shall inherit the earth.

40N   5     6     Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for  *they* shall be filled.

40N   5     7     Blessed the merciful, for *they* shall find mercy.

40N   5     8     Blessed the pure in heart, for *they* shall see God.

40N   5     9     Blessed the peace-makers, for *they* shall be called sons of  God.

40N   5     10    Blessed they who are persecuted on account of  righteousness, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.

40N   5     11    Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you,  and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.

40N   5     12    Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens;  for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

40N   5     13    *Ye* are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become  insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for  anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by  men.

40N   5     14    *Ye* are the light of the world: a city situated on the top  of a mountain cannot be hid.

40N   5     15    Nor do [men] light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but  upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the  house.

40N   5     16    Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see  your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the  heavens.

40N   5     17    Think not that I am come to make void the law or the  prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

40N   5     18    For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth  pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from  the law till all come to pass.

40N   5     19    Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least  commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in  the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and  teach [them], *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the  heavens.

40N   5     20    For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass  [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter  into the kingdom of the heavens.

40N   5     21    Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt  not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the  judgment.

40N   5     22    But *I* say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry  with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but  whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to  [be called before] the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say,  Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.

40N   5     23    If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar,  and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something  against thee,

40N   5     24    leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be  reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

40N   5     25    Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou  art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party  deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the  officer, and thou be cast into prison.

40N   5     26    Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence  till thou hast paid the last farthing.

40N   5     27    Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit  adultery.

40N   5     28    But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman  to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in  his heart.

40N   5     29    But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and  cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of  thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

40N   5     30    And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and  cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of  thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

40N   5     31    It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife,  let him give her a letter of divorce.

40N   5     32    But *I* say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his  wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit  adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits  adultery.

40N   5     33    Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients,  Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord  what thou hast sworn.

40N   5     34    But *I* say unto you, Do not swear at all; neither by the  heaven, because it is [the] throne of God;

40N   5     35    nor by the earth, because it is [the] footstool of his  feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is [the] city of the great  King.

40N   5     36    Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst  not make one hair white or black.

40N   5     37    But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more  than these is from evil.

40N   5     38    Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth  for tooth.

40N   5     39    But *I* say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall  strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

 

40N   5     40    and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body  coat, leave him thy cloak also.

40N   5     41    And whoever will compel thee to go one mile, go with him  two.

40N   5     42    To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to  borrow of thee turn not away.

40N   5     43    Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy  neighbour and hate thine enemy.

40N   5     44    But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, [bless those who  curse you,] do good to those who hate you, and pray for those  who [insult you and] persecute you,

40N   5     45    that ye may be [the] sons of your Father who is in [the]  heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends  rain on just and unjust.

40N   5     46    For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have  ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

40N   5     47    And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye  extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?

40N   5     48    Be *ye* therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is  perfect.

40N   6     1     Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them,  otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the  heavens.

40N   6     2     When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before  thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the  streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say  unto you, They have their reward.

40N   6     3     But thou, when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know  what thy right hand does;

40N   6     4     so that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who sees  in secret will render [it] to thee.

40N   6     5     And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites;  for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the  corners of the streets so that they should appear to men.  Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

40N   6     6     But *thou*, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and  having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and  thy Father who sees in secret will render [it] to thee.

40N   6     7     But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are  of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through  their much speaking.

40N   6     8     Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what  things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.

40N   6     9     Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens,  let thy name be sanctified,

40N   6     10    let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done as in heaven so  upon the earth;

40N   6     11    give us to-day our needed bread,

40N   6     12    and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors,

40N   6     13    and lead us not into temptation, but save us from evil.

40N   6     14    For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father  also will forgive you [yours],

40N   6     15    but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will  your Father forgive your offences.

40N   6     16    And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in  countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may  appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their  reward.

40N   6     17    But *thou*, [when] fasting, anoint thy head and wash thy  face,

40N   6     18    so that thou mayest not appear fasting unto men, but to thy  Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret  shall render [it] to thee.

40N   6     19    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where  moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;

40N   6     20    but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where  neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig  through nor steal;

40N   6     21    for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.

40N   6     22    The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be  single, thy whole body will be light:

40N   6     23    but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If  therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the  darkness!

40N   6     24    No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the  one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and  despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

40N   6     25    For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your  life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your  body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and  the body than raiment?

40N   6     26    Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor  reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father  nourishes them. Are *ye* not much more excellent than they?

40N   6     27    But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one  cubit?

40N   6     28    And why are ye careful about clothing? Observe with  attention the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil  not, neither do they spin;

40N   6     29    but I say unto you, that not even Solomon in all his glory  was clothed as one of these.

40N   6     30    But if God so clothe the herbage of the field, which is  to-day, and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, will he not much  rather you, O [ye] of little faith?

40N   6     31    Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or  What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?

40N   6     32    for all these things the nations seek after; for your  heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

40N   6     33    But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,  and all these things shall be added unto you.

40N   6     34    Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow  shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day [is] its  own evil.

40N   7     1     Judge not, that ye may not be judged;

40N   7     2     for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and  with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

40N   7     3     But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy  brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

40N   7     4     Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow [me], I will cast  out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine  eye?

40N   7     5     Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and  then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye  of thy brother.

40N   7     6     Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your  pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their  feet, and turning round rend you.

40N   7     7     Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find.  Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

40N   7     8     For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds;  and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

40N   7     9     Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him  a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;

40N   7     10    and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?

40N   7     11    If therefore *ye*, being wicked, know [how] to give good  gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who  is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

40N   7     12    Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do  to you, thus do *ye* also do to them; for this is the law and  the prophets.

40N   7     13    Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and  broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who  enter in through it.

40N   7     14    For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to  life, and they are few who find it.

40N   7     15    But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's  clothing, but within are ravening wolves.

40N   7     16    By their fruits ye shall know them. Do [men] gather a bunch  of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?

40N   7     17    So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless  tree produces bad fruits.

40N   7     18    A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree  produce good fruits.

40N   7     19    Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast  into the fire.

40N   7     20    By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.

40N   7     21    Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into  the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my  Father who is in the heavens.

40N   7     22    Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not  prophesied through *thy* name, and through *thy* name cast out  demons, and through *thy* name done many works of power?

40N   7     23    and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart  from me, workers of lawlessness.

40N   7     24    Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I  will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the  rock;

40N   7     25    and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds  blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had  been founded upon the rock.

40N   7     26    And every one who hears these my words and does not do  them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house  upon the sand;

40N   7     27    and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds  blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was  great.

40N   7     28    And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words,  the crowds were astonished at his doctrine,

40N   7     29    for he taught them as having authority, and not as their  scribes.

40N   8     1     And when he had come down from the mountain, great crowds  followed him.

40N   8     2     And behold, a leper came up to [him] and did him homage,  saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.

40N   8     3     And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I  will; be cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

40N   8     4     And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no man, but go, shew  thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses ordained,  for a testimony to them.

40N   8     5     And when he had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to  him, beseeching him,

40N   8     6     and saying, Lord, my servant lies paralytic in the house,  suffering grievously.

40N   8     7     And Jesus says to him, *I* will come and heal him.

40N   8     8     And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not fit that  thou shouldest enter under my roof; but only speak a word, and  my servant shall be healed.

40N   8     9     For *I* also am a man under authority, having under me  soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes; and to  another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he  does it.

40N   8     10    And when Jesus heard it, he wondered, and said to those who  followed, Verily I say unto you, Not even in Israel have I  found so great faith.

40N   8     11    But I say unto you, that many shall come from [the] rising  and setting [sun], and shall lie down at table with Abraham,  and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;

40N   8     12    but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the  outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of  teeth.

40N   8     13    And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as thou hast  believed, be it to thee. And his servant was healed in that  hour.

40N   8     14    And when Jesus had come to Peter's house, he saw his  mother-in-law laid down and in a fever;

40N   8     15    and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she  arose and served him.

40N   8     16    And when the evening was come, they brought to him many  possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word,  and healed all that were ill;

40N   8     17    so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through  Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and  bore our diseases.

40N   8     18    And Jesus, seeing great crowds around him, commanded to  depart to the other side.

40N   8     19    And a scribe came up and said to him, Teacher, I will  follow thee whithersoever thou mayest go.

40N   8     20    And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds  of the heaven roosting-places; but the Son of man has not where  he may lay his head.

40N   8     21    But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me  first to go away and bury my father.

40N   8     22    But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to  bury their own dead.

40N   8     23    And he went on board ship and his disciples followed him;

40N   8     24    and behold, [the water] became very agitated on the sea, so  that the ship was covered by the waves; but *he* slept.

40N   8     25    And the disciples came and awoke him, saying, Lord save: we  perish.

40N   8     26    And he says to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little  faith? Then, having arisen, he rebuked the winds and the sea,  and there was a great calm.

40N   8     27    But the men were astonished, saying, What sort [of man] is  this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

40N   8     28    And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the  country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out  of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to  pass by that way.

40N   8     29    And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with  thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to  torment us?

40N   8     30    Now there was, a great way off from them, a herd of many  swine feeding;

40N   8     31    and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out,  send us away into the herd of swine.

40N   8     32    And he said to them, Go. And they, going out, departed into  the herd of swine; and lo, the whole herd [of swine] rushed  down the steep slope into the sea, and died in the waters.

40N   8     33    But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city  and related everything, and what had happened as to those  possessed by demons.

40N   8     34    And behold, the whole city went out to meet Jesus; and when  they saw him, they begged [him] to go away out of their coasts.

40N   9     1     And going on board the ship, he passed over and came to his  own city.

40N   9     2     And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, laid upon a  bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Be  of good courage, child; thy sins are forgiven.

40N   9     3     And behold, certain of the scribes said to themselves, This  [man] blasphemes.

40N   9     4     And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do *ye* think  evil things in your hearts?

40N   9     5     For which is easier: to say, Thy sins are forgiven; or to  say, Rise up and walk?

40N   9     6     But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth  to forgive sins, (then he says to the paralytic,) Rise up, take  up thy bed and go to thy house.

40N   9     7     And he rose up and went to his house.

40N   9     8     But the crowds seeing [it], were in fear, and glorified God  who gave such power to men.

40N   9     9     And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man sitting at the  tax-office, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow me. And he  rose up and followed him.

40N   9     10    And it came to pass, as he lay at table in the house, that  behold, many tax-gatherers and sinners came and lay at table  with Jesus and his disciples.

40N   9     11    And the Pharisees seeing [it], said to his disciples, Why  does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

40N   9     12    But [Jesus] hearing it, said, They that are strong have not  need of a physician, but those that are ill.

40N   9     13    But go and learn what [that] is -- I will have mercy and  not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous [men] but  sinners.

40N   9     14    Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we  and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

40N   9     15    And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber  mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will  come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them,  and then they will fast.

40N   9     16    But no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, for  its filling up takes from the garment and a worse rent takes  place.

40N   9     17    Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins  burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be  destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are  preserved together.

40N   9     18    As he spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler coming in  did homage to him, saying, My daughter has by this died; but  come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live.

40N   9     19    And Jesus rose up and followed him, and [so did] his  disciples.

40N   9     20    And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux [for] twelve  years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment;

40N   9     21    for she said within herself, If I should only touch his  garment I shall be healed.

40N   9     22    But Jesus turning and seeing her, said, Be of good courage,  daughter; thy faith has healed thee. And the woman was healed  from that hour.

40N   9     23    And when Jesus was come to the house of the ruler, and saw  the flute-players and the crowd making a tumult,

40N   9     24    he said, Withdraw, for the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.  And they derided him.

40N   9     25    But when the crowd had been put out, he went in and took  her hand; and the damsel rose up.

40N   9     26    And the fame of it went out into all that land.

40N   9     27    And as Jesus passed on thence, two blind [men] followed  him, crying and saying, Have mercy on us, Son of David.

40N   9     28    And when he was come to the house, the blind [men] came to  him. And Jesus says to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do  this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.

40N   9     29    Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your  faith, be it unto you.

40N   9     30    And their eyes were opened; and Jesus charged them sharply,  saying, See, let no man know it.

40N   9     31    But they, when they were gone out, spread his name abroad  in all that land.

40N   9     32    But as these were going out, behold, they brought to him a  dumb man possessed by a demon.

40N   9     33    And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the  crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in  Israel.

40N   9     34    But the Pharisees said, He casts out the demons through the  prince of the demons.

40N   9     35    And Jesus went round all the cities and the villages,  teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of  the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily  weakness.

40N   9     36    But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for  them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not  having a shepherd.

40N   9     37    Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest [is] great and  the workmen [are] few;

40N   9     38    supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send  forth workmen unto his harvest.

40N   10    1     And having called to [him] his twelve disciples, he gave  them power over unclean spirits, so that they should cast them  out, and heal every disease and every bodily weakness.

40N   10    2     Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first,  Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the  [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;

40N   10    3     Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the  tax-gatherer; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who  was surnamed Thaddaeus;

40N   10    4     Simon the Cananaean, and Judas the Iscariote, who also  delivered him up.

40N   10    5     These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them,  saying, Go not off into [the] way of [the] nations, and into a  city of Samaritans enter ye not;

40N   10    6     but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

40N   10    7     And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of the heavens  has drawn nigh.

40N   10    8     Heal [the] infirm, [raise the dead], cleanse lepers, cast  out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.

40N   10    9     Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass,  for your belts,

40N   10    10    nor scrip for the way, nor two body coats, nor sandals,  nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.

40N   10    11    But into whatsoever city or village ye enter, inquire who  in it is worthy, and there remain till ye go forth.

40N   10    12    And as ye enter into a house salute it.

40N   10    13    And if the house indeed be worthy, let your peace come  upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

40N   10    14    And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words,  as ye go forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust of  your feet.

40N   10    15    Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the  land of Sodom and Gomorrha in judgment-day than for that city.

40N   10    16    Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be  therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.

40N   10    17    But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to  sanhedrims, and scourge you in their synagogues;

40N   10    18    and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my  sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

40N   10    19    But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what  ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what  ye shall speak.

40N   10    20    For *ye* are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your  Father which speaks in you.

40N   10    21    But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father  child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put  them to death;

40N   10    22    and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he  that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.

40N   10    23    But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the  other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the  cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.

40N   10    24    The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman  above his lord.

40N   10    25    [It is] sufficient for the disciple that he should become  as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have  called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those  of his household?

40N   10    26    Fear them not therefore; for there is nothing covered  which shall not be revealed, and secret which shall not be  known.

40N   10    27    What I say to you in darkness speak in the light, and what  ye hear in the ear preach upon the houses.

40N   10    28    And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot  kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both  soul and body in hell.

40N   10    29    Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them  shall not fall to the ground without your Father;

40N   10    30    but of you even the hairs of the head are all numbered.

40N   10    31    Fear not therefore; *ye* are better than many sparrows.

40N   10    32    Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, *I*  also will confess him before my Father who is in [the] heavens.

40N   10    33    But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will *I* also  deny before my Father who is in [the] heavens.

40N   10    34    Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the  earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.

40N   10    35    For I have come to set a man at variance with his father,  and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with  her mother-in-law;

40N   10    36    and they of his household [shall be] a man's enemies.

40N   10    37    He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of  me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of  me.

40N   10    38    And he who does not take up his cross and follow after me  is not worthy of me.

40N   10    39    He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost  his life for my sake shall find it.

40N   10    40    He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me  receives him that sent me.

40N   10    41    He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall  receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous  man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous  man's reward.

40N   10    42    And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little  ones a cup of cold [water] only, in the name of a disciple,  verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

40N   11    1     And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding his  twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in  their cities.

40N   11    2     But John, having heard in the prison the works of the  Christ, sent by his disciples,

40N   11    3     and said to him, Art *thou* the coming [one]? or are we to  wait for another?

40N   11    4     And Jesus answering said to them, Go, report to John what  ye hear and see.

40N   11    5     Blind [men] see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and  deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings  preached to them:

40N   11    6     and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.

40N   11    7     But as they went [away], Jesus began to say to the crowds  concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a  reed moved about by the wind?

40N   11    8     But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate  raiment? behold, those who wear delicate things are in the  houses of kings.

40N   11    9     But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you,  and more than a prophet:

40N   11    10    this is he of whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my  messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before  thee.

40N   11    11    Verily I say to you, that there is not arisen among [the]  born of women a greater than John the baptist. But he who is a  little one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

40N   11    12    But from the days of John the baptist until now, the  kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence, and [the] violent  seize on it.

40N   11    13    For all the prophets and the law have prophesied unto  John.

40N   11    14    And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, who is to come.

40N   11    15    He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

40N   11    16    But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like  children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their  companions,

40N   11    17    say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have  mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

40N   11    18    For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and they  say, He has a demon.

40N   11    19    The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say,  Behold, a man [that is] eating and wine-drinking, a friend of  tax-gatherers, and of sinners: -- and wisdom has been justified  by her children.

40N   11    20    Then began he to reproach the cities in which most of his  works of power had taken place, because they had not repented.

40N   11    21    Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the  works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place  in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and  ashes.

40N   11    22    But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for Tyre  and Sidon in judgment-day than for you.

40N   11    23    And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven,  shalt be brought down even to hades. For if the works of power  which have taken place in thee, had taken place in Sodom, it  had remained until this day.

40N   11    24    But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for  [the] land of Sodom in judgment-day than for thee.

40N   11    25    At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father,  Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these  things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to  babes.

40N   11    26    Yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy  sight.

40N   11    27    All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no  one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the  Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to  reveal [him].

40N   11    28    Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I*  will give you rest.

40N   11    29    Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek  and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;

40N   11    30    for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

40N   12    1     At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the  cornfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck  the ears and to eat.

40N   12    2     But the Pharisees, seeing [it], said to him, Behold, thy  disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on sabbath.

40N   12    3     But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when  he was hungry, and they that were with him?

40N   12    4     How he entered into the house of God, and ate the  shewbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for  those with him, but for the priests only?

40N   12    5     Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the  priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

40N   12    6     But I say unto you, that there is here what is greater than  the temple.

40N   12    7     But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not  sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

40N   12    8     For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.

40N   12    9     And, going away from thence, he came into their synagogue.

40N   12    10    And behold, there was a man having his hand withered. And  they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?  that they might accuse him.

40N   12    11    But he said to them, What man shall there be of you who  has one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will  not lay hold of it and raise [it] up?

40N   12    12    How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is  lawful to do well on the sabbath.

40N   12    13    Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he  stretched [it] out, and it was restored sound as the other.

40N   12    14    But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against  him, how they might destroy him.

40N   12    15    But Jesus knowing [it], withdrew thence, and great crowds  followed him; and he healed them all:

40N   12    16    and charged them strictly that they should not make him  publicly known:

40N   12    17    that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through  Esaias the prophet, saying,

40N   12    18    Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom  my soul has found its delight. I will put my Spirit upon him,  and he shall shew forth judgment to the nations.

40N   12    19    He shall not strive or cry out, nor shall any one hear his  voice in the streets;

40N   12    20    a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall  he not quench, until he bring forth judgment unto victory;

40N   12    21    and on his name shall [the] nations hope.

40N   12    22    Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind  and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb [man] spake and  saw.

40N   12    23    And all the crowds were amazed and said, Is this [man] the  Son of David?

40N   12    24    But the Pharisees, having heard [it], said, This [man]  does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub, prince of demons.

40N   12    25    But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every  kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and  every city or house divided against itself will not subsist.

40N   12    26    And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against  himself; how then shall his kingdom subsist?

40N   12    27    And if *I* cast out demons by Beelzebub, your sons, by  whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be  your judges.

40N   12    28    But if *I* by [the] Spirit of God cast out demons, then  indeed the kingdom of God is come upon you.

40N   12    29    Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong  [man] and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong  [man]? and then he will plunder his house.

40N   12    30    He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers  not with me scatters.

40N   12    31    For this reason I say unto you, Every sin and injurious  speaking shall be forgiven to men, but speaking injuriously of  the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

40N   12    32    And whosoever shall have spoken a word against the Son of  man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak  against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither  in this age nor in the coming [one].

40N   12    33    Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the  tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the  tree is known.

40N   12    34    Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being  wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

40N   12    35    The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good  things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings  forth wicked things.

40N   12    36    But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall  say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:

40N   12    37    for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words  thou shalt be condemned.

40N   12    38    Then answered him some of the scribes and Pharisees,  saying, Teacher, we desire to see a sign from thee.

40N   12    39    But he, answering, said to them, A wicked and adulterous  generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to  it save the sign of Jonas the prophet.

40N   12    40    For even as Jonas was in the belly of the great fish three  days and three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the  heart of the earth three days and three nights.

40N   12    41    Ninevites shall stand up in the judgment with this  generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the  preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas [is] here.

40N   12    42    A queen of [the] south shall rise up in the judgment with  this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the  ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold,  more than Solomon [is] here.

40N   12    43    But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he  goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it].

40N   12    44    Then he says, I will return to my house whence I came out;  and having come, he finds [it] unoccupied, swept, and adorned.

40N   12    45    Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits  worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the  last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus  shall it be to this wicked generation also.

40N   12    46    But while he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his  mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

40N   12    47    Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy  brethren are standing without, seeking to speak to thee.

40N   12    48    But he answering said to him that spoke to him, Who is my  mother, and who are my brethren?

40N   12    49    And, stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said,  Behold my mother and my brethren;

40N   12    50    for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in  [the] heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

40N   13    1     And that [same] day Jesus went out from the house and sat  down by the sea.

40N   13    2     And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that  going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole crowd  stood on the shore.

40N   13    3     And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying,  Behold, the sower went out to sow:

40N   13    4     and as he sowed, some [grains] fell along the way, and the  birds came and devoured them;

40N   13    5     and others fell upon the rocky places where they had not  much earth, and immediately they sprang up out of [the ground]  because of not having [any] depth of earth,

40N   13    6     but when the sun rose they were burned up, and because of  not having [any] root were dried up;

40N   13    7     and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and  choked them;

40N   13    8     and others fell upon the good ground, and produced fruit,  one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.

40N   13    9     He that has ears, let him hear.

40N   13    10    And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest  thou to them in parables?

40N   13    11    And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given  to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to  them it is not given;

40N   13    12    for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be  caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has  shall be taken away from him.

40N   13    13    For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing  they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;

 

40N   13    14    and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which  says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and  beholding ye shall behold and not see;

40N   13    15    for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have  heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes  as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with  the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be  converted, and I should heal them.

40N   13    16    But blessed are *your* eyes because they see, and your  ears because they hear;

40N   13    17    for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and  righteous [men] have desired to see the things which ye behold  and did not see [them], and to hear the things which ye hear  and did not hear [them].

40N   13    18    *Ye*, therefore, hear the parable of the sower.

40N   13    19    From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does  not understand [it], the wicked one comes and catches away what  was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.

40N   13    20    But he that is sown on the rocky places -- this is he who  hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

40N   13    21    but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and  when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word,  he is immediately offended.

40N   13    22    And he that is sown among the thorns -- this is he who  hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the  deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

40N   13    23    But he that is sown upon the good ground -- this is he who  hears and understands the word, who bears fruit also, and  produces, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.

40N   13    24    Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of  the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his  field;

40N   13    25    but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel  amongst the wheat, and went away.

40N   13    26    But when the blade shot up and produced fruit, then  appeared the darnel also.

40N   13    27    And the bondmen of the householder came up and said to  him, Sir, hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whence  then has it darnel?

40N   13    28    And he said to them, A man [that is] an enemy has done  this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we  should go and gather it [up]?

40N   13    29    But he said, No; lest [in] gathering the darnel ye should  root up the wheat with it.

40N   13    30    Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time  of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the  darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat  bring together into my granary.

40N   13    31    Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of  the heavens is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took  and sowed in his field;

40N   13    32    which is less indeed than all seeds, but when it is grown  is greater than herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of  heaven come and roost in its branches.

40N   13    33    He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the  heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three  measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

40N   13    34    All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables,  and without a parable he did not speak to them,

40N   13    35    so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through  the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will  utter things hidden from [the] world's foundation.

40N   13    36    Then, having dismissed the crowds, he went into the house;  and his disciples came to him, saying, Expound to us the  parable of the darnel of the field.

40N   13    37    But he answering said, He that sows the good seed is the  Son of man,

40N   13    38    and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are  the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the  evil [one];

40N   13    39    and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the  harvest is [the] completion of [the] age, and the harvestmen  are angels.

40N   13    40    As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire,  thus it shall be in the completion of the age.

40N   13    41    The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall  gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise  lawlessness;

40N   13    42    and they shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there  shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

40N   13    43    Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the  kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.

40N   13    44    The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hid in the  field, which a man having found has hid, and for the joy of it  goes and sells all whatever he has, and buys that field.

40N   13    45    Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant  seeking beautiful pearls;

40N   13    46    and having found one pearl of great value, he went and  sold all whatever he had and bought it.

40N   13    47    Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which  has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of  every kind,

40N   13    48    which, when it has been filled, having drawn up on the  shore and sat down, they gathered the good into vessels and  cast the worthless out.

40N   13    49    Thus shall it be in the completion of the age: the angels  shall go forth and sever the wicked from the midst of the just,

40N   13    50    and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall  be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

40N   13    51    Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these things?  They say to him, Yea, [Lord].

40N   13    52    And he said to them, For this reason every scribe  discipled to the kingdom of the heavens is like a man [that is]  a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and  old.

40N   13    53    And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these parables  he withdrew thence.

40N   13    54    And having come into his own country, he taught them in  their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence  has this [man] this wisdom and these works of power?

40N   13    55    Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother  called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and  Judas?

40N   13    56    And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then has  this [man] all these things?

40N   13    57    And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A  prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his  house.

40N   13    58    And he did not there many works of power, because of their  unbelief.

40N   14    1     At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

40N   14    2     and said to his servants, This is John the baptist: *he* is  risen from the dead, and because of this these works of power  display their force in him.

40N   14    3     For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in  prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.

40N   14    4     For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have  her.

40N   14    5     And [while] desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd,  because they held him for a prophet.

40N   14    6     But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of  Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod;

40N   14    7     whereupon he promised with oath to give her whatsoever she  should ask.

40N   14    8     But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here  upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

40N   14    9     And the king was grieved; but on account of the oaths, and  those lying at table with [him], he commanded [it] to be given.

40N   14    10    And he sent and beheaded John in the prison;

40N   14    11    and his head was brought upon a dish, and was given to the  damsel, and she carried [it] to her mother.

40N   14    12    And his disciples came and took the body and buried it,  and came and brought word to Jesus.

40N   14    13    And Jesus, having heard it, went away thence by ship to a  desert place apart. And the crowds having heard [of it]  followed him on foot from the cities.

40N   14    14    And going out he saw a great crowd, and was moved with  compassion about them, and healed their infirm.

40N   14    15    But when even was come, his disciples came to him saying,  The place is desert, and [much of] the [day] time already gone  by; dismiss the crowds, that they may go into the villages and  buy food for themselves.

40N   14    16    But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give *ye*  them to eat.

40N   14    17    But they say to him, We have not here save five loaves and  two fishes.

40N   14    18    And he said, Bring them here to me.

40N   14    19    And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass,  having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up  to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave  [them] to the disciples, and the disciples [gave them] to the  crowds.

40N   14    20    And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was  over and above of fragments twelve hand-baskets full.

40N   14    21    But those that had eaten were about five thousand men,  besides women and children.

40N   14    22    And immediately he compelled the disciples to go on board  ship, and to go on before him to the other side, until he  should have dismissed the crowds.

40N   14    23    And having dismissed the crowds, he went up into the  mountain apart to pray. And when even was come, he was alone  there,

40N   14    24    but the ship was already in the middle of the sea tossed  by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

40N   14    25    But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them,  walking on the sea.

40N   14    26    And the disciples, seeing him walking on the sea, were  troubled, saying, It is an apparition. And they cried out  through fear.

40N   14    27    But Jesus immediately spoke to them, saying, Take courage;  it is *I*: be not afraid.

40N   14    28    And Peter answering him said, Lord, if it be *thou*,  command me to come to thee upon the waters.

40N   14    29    And he said, Come. And Peter, having descended from the  ship, walked upon the waters to go to Jesus.

40N   14    30    But seeing the wind strong he was afraid; and beginning to  sink he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.

40N   14    31    And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught  hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, why didst  thou doubt?

40N   14    32    And when they had gone up into the ship, the wind fell.

40N   14    33    But those in the ship came and did homage to him, saying,  Truly thou art God's Son.

40N   14    34    And having crossed over they came to the land of  Gennesaret.

40N   14    35    And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent  to that whole country around, and they brought to him all that  were ill,

40N   14    36    and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his  garment; and as many as touched were made thoroughly well.

40N   15    1     Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to  Jesus, saying,

40N   15    2     Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by  the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat  bread.

40N   15    3     But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress  the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

40N   15    4     For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He  that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

40N   15    5     But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother,  It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me  thou wouldest be profited:

40N   15    6     and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother;  and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your  traditional teaching.

40N   15    7     Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

40N   15    8     This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far  away from me;

40N   15    9     but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings  commandments of men.

40N   15    10    And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them,  Hear and understand:

40N   15    11    Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what  goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

40N   15    12    Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know  that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

40N   15    13    But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly  Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

40N   15    14    Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if  blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.

40N   15    15    And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this  parable.

40N   15    16    But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?

40N   15    17    Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into  the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into  the draught?

40N   15    18    but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of  the heart, and those defile man.

40N   15    19    For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders,  adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings,  blasphemies;

40N   15    20    these are the things which defile man; but the eating with  unwashen hands does not defile man.

40N   15    21    And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the  parts of Tyre and Sidon;

40N   15    22    and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those  borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of  David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.

40N   15    23    But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came  to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries  after us.

40N   15    24    But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the  lost sheep of Israel's house.

40N   15    25    But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

40N   15    26    But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of  the children and cast it to the dogs.

40N   15    27    But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the  crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

40N   15    28    Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is]  great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was  healed from *that* hour.

40N   15    29    And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of  Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;

40N   15    30    and great crowds came to him, having with them lame,  blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at  his feet, and he healed them:

40N   15    31    so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking,  crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they  glorified the God of Israel.

40N   15    32    But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I  have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me  already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and  I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on  the way.

40N   15    33    And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so  many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

40N   15    34    And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they  said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

40N   15    35    And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

40N   15    36    and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having  given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples,  and the disciples to the crowd.

40N   15    37    And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was  over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;

40N   15    38    but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women  and children.

40N   15    39    And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship  and came to the borders of Magadan.

40N   16    1     And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked  him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.

40N   16    2     But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye  say, Fine weather, for the sky is red;

40N   16    3     and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red  [and] lowering; ye know [how] to discern the face of the sky,  but ye cannot the signs of the times.

40N   16    4     A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and  a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas. And he  left them and went away.

40N   16    5     And when his disciples were come to the other side, they  had forgotten to take bread.

40N   16    6     And Jesus said to them, See and beware of the leaven of the  Pharisees and Sadducees.

40N   16    7     And they reasoned among themselves, saying, Because we have  taken no bread.

40N   16    8     And Jesus knowing [it], said, Why reason ye among  yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no  bread?

40N   16    9     Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of  the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took [up]?

40N   16    10    nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many  baskets ye took [up]?

40N   16    11    How do ye not understand that [it was] not concerning  bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and  Sadducees?

40N   16    12    Then they comprehended that he did not speak of being  beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the  Pharisees and Sadducees.

40N   16    13    But when Jesus was come into the parts of  Caesarea-Philippi, he demanded of his disciples, saying, Who do  men say that I the Son of man am?

40N   16    14    And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias;  and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets.

40N   16    15    He says to them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am?

40N   16    16    And Simon Peter answering said, *Thou* art the Christ, the  Son of the living God.

40N   16    17    And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon  Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] to thee,  but my Father who is in the heavens.

40N   16    18    And *I* also, I say unto thee that *thou* art Peter, and  on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall  not prevail against it.

40N   16    19    And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the  heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall  be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest loose on  the earth shall be loosed in the heavens.

40N   16    20    Then he enjoined on his disciples that they should say to  no man that he was the Christ.

40N   16    21    From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that  he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the  elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the  third day be raised.

40N   16    22    And Peter taking him to [him] began to rebuke him, saying,  [God] be favourable to thee, Lord; this shall in no wise be  unto thee.

40N   16    23    But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me,  Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the  things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

40N   16    24    Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to  come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and  follow me.

40N   16    25    For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it;  but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

40N   16    26    For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole  world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give  in exchange for his soul?

40N   16    27    For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his  Father with his angels, and then he will render to each  according to his doings.

40N   16    28    Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing  here that shall not taste of death at all until they shall have  seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

40N   17    1     And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter, and James,  and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain  apart.

40N   17    2     And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as  the sun, and his garments became white as the light;

40N   17    3     and lo, Moses and Elias appeared to them talking with him.

40N   17    4     And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we  should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three  tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for  Elias.

40N   17    5     While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud  overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying,  *This* is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight: hear  him.

40N   17    6     And the disciples hearing [it] fell upon their faces, and  were greatly terrified.

40N   17    7     And Jesus coming to [them] touched them, and said, Rise up,  and be not terrified.

40N   17    8     And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone.

40N   17    9     And as they descended from the mountain, Jesus charged  them, saying, Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of man  be risen up from among [the] dead.

40N   17    10    And [his] disciples demanded of him saying, Why then say  the scribes that Elias must first have come?

40N   17    11    And he answering said to them, Elias indeed comes first  and will restore all things.

40N   17    12    But I say unto you that Elias has already come, and they  have not known him, but have done unto him whatever they would.  Thus also the Son of man is about to suffer from them.

40N   17    13    Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of  John the baptist.

40N   17    14    And when they came to the crowd, a man came to him,  falling on his knees before him, and saying,

40N   17    15    Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic, and suffers  sorely; for often he falls into the fire and often into the  water.

40N   17    16    And I brought him to thy disciples, and they were not able  to heal him.

40N   17    17    And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted  generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear  with you? Bring him here to me.

40N   17    18    And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out from him,  and the boy was healed from that hour.

40N   17    19    Then the disciples, coming to Jesus apart, said [to him],  Why were not *we* able to cast him out?

40N   17    20    And he says to them, Because of your unbelief; for verily  I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed],  ye shall say to this mountain, Be transported hence there, and  it shall transport itself; and nothing shall be impossible to  you.

40N   17    21    But this kind does not go out but by prayer and fasting.

40N   17    22    And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The  Son of man is about to be delivered up into [the] hands of men,

40N   17    23    and they shall kill him; and the third day he shall be  raised up. And they were greatly grieved.

40N   17    24    And when they came to Capernaum, those who received the  didrachmas came to Peter and said, Does your teacher not pay  the didrachmas?

40N   17    25    He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus  anticipated him, saying, What dost thou think, Simon? the kings  of the earth, from whom do they receive custom or tribute? from  their own sons or from strangers?

40N   17    26    Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then  are the sons free.

40N   17    27    But that we may not be an offence to them, go to the sea  and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and  when thou hast opened its mouth thou wilt find a stater; take  that and give it to them for me and thee.

40N   18    1     In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying, Who then  is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?

40N   18    2     And Jesus having called a little child to [him], set it in  their midst,

40N   18    3     and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and  become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the  kingdom of the heavens.

40N   18    4     Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little  child, *he* is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens;

40N   18    5     and whosoever shall receive one such little child in my  name, receives me.

40N   18    6     But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who  believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great  millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the  depths of the sea.

40N   18    7     Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be  that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence  comes!

40N   18    8     And if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off and  cast [it] from thee; it is good for thee to enter into life  lame or maimed, [rather] than having two hands or two feet to  be cast into eternal fire.

40N   18    9     And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast [it]  from thee; it is good for thee to enter into life one-eyed,  [rather] than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.

40N   18    10    See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I  say unto you that their angels in [the] heavens continually  behold the face of my Father who is in [the] heavens.

40N   18    11    For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost.

40N   18    12    What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred  sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the  ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has  gone astray?

40N   18    13    And if it should come to pass that he find it, verily I  say unto you, he rejoices more because of it than because of  the ninety and nine not gone astray.

40N   18    14    So it is not the will of your Father who is in [the]  heavens that one of these little ones should perish.

40N   18    15    But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him  between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained  thy brother.

40N   18    16    But if he do not hear [thee], take with thee one or two  besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two  witnesses or of three.

40N   18    17    But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the  assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let  him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

40N   18    18    Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth  shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the  earth shall be loosed in heaven.

40N   18    19    Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the  earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they  shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in [the]  heavens.

40N   18    20    For where two or three are gathered together unto my name,  there am I in the midst of them.

40N   18    21    Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my  brother sin against me and I forgive him? until seven times?

40N   18    22    Jesus says to him, I say not to thee until seven times,  but until seventy times seven.

40N   18    23    For this cause the kingdom of the heavens has become like  a king who would reckon with his bondmen.

40N   18    24    And having begun to reckon, one debtor of ten thousand  talents was brought to him.

40N   18    25    But he not having anything to pay, [his] lord commanded  him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and everything  that he had, and that payment should be made.

40N   18    26    The bondman therefore falling down did him homage, saying,  Lord, have patience with me and I will pay thee all.

40N   18    27    And the lord of that bondman, being moved with compassion,  loosed him and forgave him the loan.

40N   18    28    But that bondman having gone out, found one of his  fellow-bondmen who owed him a hundred denarii. And having  seized him, he throttled him, saying, Pay [me] if thou owest  anything.

40N   18    29    His fellow-bondman therefore, having fallen down [at his  feet], besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will  pay thee.

40N   18    30    But he would not, but went away and cast him into prison,  until he should pay what was owing.

40N   18    31    But his fellow-bondmen, having seen what had taken place,  were greatly grieved, and went and recounted to their lord all  that had taken place.

40N   18    32    Then his lord, having called him to [him], says to him,  Wicked bondman! I forgave thee all that debt because thou  besoughtest me;

40N   18    33    shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy  fellow-bondman, as *I* also had compassion on thee?

40N   18    34    And his lord being angry delivered him to the tormentors  till he paid all that was owing to him.

40N   18    35    Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive  not from your hearts every one his brother.

40N   19    1     And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words,  he withdrew from Galilee, and came to the coasts of Judaea  beyond the Jordan;

40N   19    2     and great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

40N   19    3     And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is  it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

40N   19    4     But he answering said [to them], Have ye not read that he  who made [them], from the beginning made them male and female,

40N   19    5     and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and  mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be  one flesh?

40N   19    6     so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What  therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

40N   19    7     They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a  letter of divorce and to send [her] away?

40N   19    8     He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness,  allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it  was not thus.

40N   19    9     But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife,  not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery;  and he who marries one put away commits adultery.

40N   19    10    His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so  with his wife, it is not good to marry.

40N   19    11    And he said to them, All cannot receive this word, but  those to whom it has been given;

40N   19    12    for there are eunuchs which have been born thus from  [their] mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who have been made  eunuchs of men; and there are eunuchs who have made eunuchs of  themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He that  is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].

40N   19    13    Then there were brought to him little children that he  might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked  them.

40N   19    14    But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and do not hinder  them from coming to me; for the kingdom of the heavens is of  such:

40N   19    15    and having laid his hands upon them, he departed thence.

40N   19    16    And lo, one coming up said to him, Teacher, what good  thing shall I do that I may have life eternal?

40N   19    17    And he said to him, What askest thou me concerning  goodness? one is good. But if thou wouldest enter into life,  keep the commandments.

40N   19    18    He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not  kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal,  Thou shalt not bear false witness,

40N   19    19    Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy  neighbour as thyself.

40N   19    20    The young man says to him, All these have I kept; what  lack I yet?

40N   19    21    Jesus said to him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell  what thou hast and give to [the] poor, and thou shalt have  treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

40N   19    22    But the young man, having heard the word, went away  grieved, for he had large possessions.

40N   19    23    And Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say unto you, A  rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of the  heavens;

40N   19    24    and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to  enter a needle's eye than a rich man into the kingdom of God.

40N   19    25    And when the disciples heard [it] they were exceedingly  astonished, saying, Who then can be saved?

 

40N   19    26    But Jesus, looking on [them], said to them, With men this  is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

40N   19    27    Then Peter answering said to him, Behold, *we* have left  all things and have followed thee; what then shall happen to  us?

40N   19    28    And Jesus said to them, Verily I say unto you, That *ye*  who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man  shall sit down upon his throne of glory, *ye* also shall sit on  twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

40N   19    29    And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or  sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,  for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall  inherit life eternal.

40N   19    30    But many first shall be last, and last first.

40N   20    1     For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who  went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

40N   20    2     And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day,  he sent them into his vineyard.

40N   20    3     And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others  standing in the market-place idle;

40N   20    4     and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and  whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their  way.

40N   20    5     Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he  did likewise.

40N   20    6     But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found  others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the  day idle?

40N   20    7     They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to  them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just  ye shall receive].

40N   20    8     But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard  says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their  wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

40N   20    9     And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour  came, they received each a denarius.

40N   20    10    And when the first came, they supposed that they would  receive more, and they received also themselves each a  denarius.

40N   20    11    And on receiving it they murmured against the master of  the house,

40N   20    12    saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast  made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and  the heat.

40N   20    13    But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do  not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?

40N   20    14    Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to  this last even as to thee:

40N   20    15    is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own  affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good?

40N   20    16    Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many  are called ones, but few chosen ones.

40N   20    17    And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve  disciples with [him] apart in the way, and said to them,

40N   20    18    Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be  delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will  condemn him to death;

40N   20    19    and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to  scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

40N   20    20    Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with  her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

40N   20    21    And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak  [the word] that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right  hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.

40N   20    22    And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye  drink the cup which *I* am about to drink? They say to him, We  are able.

40N   20    23    [And] he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but  to sit on my right hand and on [my] left, is not mine to give,  but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.

40N   20    24    And the ten, having heard [of it], were indignant about  the two brothers.

40N   20    25    But Jesus having called them to [him], said, Ye know that  the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the  great exercise authority over them.

40N   20    26    It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be  great among you, shall be your servant;

40N   20    27    and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your  bondman;

40N   20    28    as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to  serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

40N   20    29    And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed  him.

40N   20    30    And lo, two blind men, sitting by the wayside, having  heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out saying, Have mercy  on us, Lord, Son of David.

40N   20    31    But the crowd rebuked them, that they might be silent. But  they cried out the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of  David.

40N   20    32    And Jesus, having stopped, called them and said, What will  ye that I shall do to you?

40N   20    33    They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

40N   20    34    And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and  immediately their eyes had sight restored to them, and they  followed him.

40N   21    1     And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage,  at the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

40N   21    2     saying to them, Go into the village over against you, and  immediately ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with it; loose  [them] and lead [them] to me.

40N   21    3     And if any one say anything to you, ye shall say, The Lord  has need of them, and straightway he will send them.

40N   21    4     But all this came to pass, that that might be fulfilled  which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

40N   21    5     Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh to  thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal  of an ass.

40N   21    6     But the disciples, having gone and done as Jesus had  ordered them,

40N   21    7     brought the ass and the colt and put their garments upon  them, and he sat on them.

40N   21    8     But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the  way, and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and  strewing them on the way.

40N   21    9     And the crowds who went before him and who followed cried,  saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed [be] he who comes  in the name of [the] Lord; hosanna in the highest.

 

40N   21    10    And as he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was  moved, saying, Who is this?

40N   21    11    And the crowds said, This is Jesus the prophet who is from  Nazareth of Galilee.

40N   21    12    And Jesus entered into the temple [of God], and cast out  all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the  tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold  the doves.

40N   21    13    And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be  called a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of  robbers.

40N   21    14    And blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he  healed them.

40N   21    15    And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders  which he wrought, and the children crying in the temple and  saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were indignant,

40N   21    16    and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus  says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of  babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

40N   21    17    And leaving them he went forth out of the city to Bethany,  and there he passed the night.

40N   21    18    But early in the morning, as he came back into the city,  he hungered.

40N   21    19    And seeing one fig-tree in the way, he came to it and  found on it nothing but leaves only. And he says to it, Let  there be never more fruit of thee for ever. And the fig-tree  was immediately dried up.

40N   21    20    And when the disciples saw [it], they wondered, saying,  How immediately is the fig-tree dried up!

40N   21    21    And Jesus answering said to them, Verily I say unto you,  If ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only shall ye do what  [is done] to the fig-tree, but even if ye should say to this  mountain, Be thou taken away and be thou cast into the sea, it  shall come to pass.

40N   21    22    And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,  believing, ye shall receive.

40N   21    23    And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and  the elders of the people came to him [as he was] teaching,  saying, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave  thee this authority?

40N   21    24    And Jesus answering said to them, *I* also will ask you  one thing, which if ye tell me, *I* also will tell you by what  authority I do these things:

40N   21    25    The baptism of John, whence was it? of heaven or of men?  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say,  Of heaven, he will say to us, Why then have ye not believed  him?

40N   21    26    but if we should say, Of men, we fear the crowd, for all  hold John for a prophet.

40N   21    27    And answering Jesus they said, We do not know. *He* also  said to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what authority I do  these things.

40N   21    28    But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to  the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in [my] vineyard.

40N   21    29    And he answering said, I will not; but afterwards  repenting himself he went.

40N   21    30    And coming to the second he said likewise; and he  answering said, *I* [go], sir, and went not.

40N   21    31    Which of the two did the will of the father? They say [to  him], The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that  the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God  before you.

40N   21    32    For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye  believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots  believed him; but *ye* when ye saw [it] repented not yourselves  afterwards to believe him.

40N   21    33    Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted  a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in  it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left  the country.

40N   21    34    But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen  to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.

40N   21    35    And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed  another, and stoned another.

40N   21    36    Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they  did to them in like manner.

40N   21    37    And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will  have respect for my son.

40N   21    38    But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves,  This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his  inheritance.

40N   21    39    And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard,  and killed him.

40N   21    40    When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall  he do to those husbandmen?

40N   21    41    They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil  [men], and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall  render him the fruits in their seasons.

40N   21    42    Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures,  The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the  corner-stone: this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our  eyes?

40N   21    43    Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be  taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the  fruits of it.

40N   21    44    And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on  whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

40N   21    45    And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his  parables, knew that he spoke about them.

40N   21    46    And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the  crowds, because they held him for a prophet.

40N   22    1     And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables,  saying,

40N   22    2     The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made  a wedding feast for his son,

40N   22    3     and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the  wedding feast, and they would not come.

40N   22    4     Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons  invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my  fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the  wedding feast.

40N   22    5     But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land,  and another to his commerce.

40N   22    6     And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and  slew [them].

40N   22    7     And [when] the king [heard of it he] was wroth, and having  sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their  city.

40N   22    8     Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready,  but those invited were not worthy;

40N   22    9     go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as  many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.

40N   22    10    And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought  together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the  wedding feast was furnished with guests.

40N   22    11    And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld  there a man not clothed with a wedding garment.

40N   22    12    And he says to him, [My] friend, how camest thou in here  not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless.

40N   22    13    Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and  hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer  darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

40N   22    14    For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

40N   22    15    Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might  ensnare him in speaking.

40N   22    16    And they send out to him their disciples with the  Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and  teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one,  for thou regardest not men's person;

40N   22    17    tell us therefore what thou thinkest: Is it lawful to give  tribute to Caesar, or not?

40N   22    18    But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, Why tempt ye  me, hypocrites?

40N   22    19    Shew me the money of the tribute. And they presented to  him a denarius.

40N   22    20    And he says to them, Whose [is] this image and  superscription?

40N   22    21    They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Pay then  what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.

40N   22    22    And when they heard [him], they wondered, and left him,  and went away.

40N   22    23    On that day came to him Sadducees, who say there is no  resurrection; and they demanded of him,

40N   22    24    saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having  children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up  seed to his brother.

40N   22    25    Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first  having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his  brother.

40N   22    26    In like manner also the second and the third, unto the  seven.

40N   22    27    And last of all the woman also died.

40N   22    28    In the resurrection therefore of which of the seven shall  she be wife, for all had her?

40N   22    29    And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the  scriptures nor the power of God.

40N   22    30    For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given  in marriage, but are as angels of God in heaven.

40N   22    31    But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not  read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

40N   22    32    *I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the  God of Jacob? God is not God of [the] dead, but of [the]  living.

40N   22    33    And when the crowds heard [it] they were astonished at his  doctrine.

40N   22    34    But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the  Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.

40N   22    35    And one of them, a lawyer, demanded, tempting him, and  saying,

40N   22    36    Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

40N   22    37    And he said to him, Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God  with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy  understanding.

40N   22    38    This is [the] great and first commandment.

40N   22    39    And [the] second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour  as thyself.

40N   22    40    On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets  hang.

40N   22    41    And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus demanded  of them,

40N   22    42    saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? whose son is  he? They say to him, David's.

40N   22    43    He says to them, How then does David in Spirit call him  Lord, saying,

40N   22    44    The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put  thine enemies under thy feet?

40N   22    45    If therefore David call him Lord, how is he his son?

40N   22    46    And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did any one  dare from that day to question him any more.

40N   23    1     Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

40N   23    2     saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves  down in Moses' seat:

40N   23    3     all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and  keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

40N   23    4     but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on  the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.

40N   23    5     And all their works they do to be seen of men: for they  make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders [of their  garments],

40N   23    6     and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in  the synagogues,

40N   23    7     and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of  men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

40N   23    8     But *ye*, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your  instructor, and all *ye* are brethren.

40N   23    9     And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one  is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

40N   23    10    Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor,  the Christ.

40N   23    11    But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

40N   23    12    And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and  whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

40N   23    13    But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for  ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do  not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

40N   23    14   

40N   23    15    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye  compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and  when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of  hell than yourselves.

40N   23    16    Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear  by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the  gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

40N   23    17    Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the  temple which sanctifies the gold?

40N   23    18    And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing;  but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a  debtor.

40N   23    19    [Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or  the altar which sanctifies the gift?

40N   23    20    He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by  all things that are upon it.

40N   23    21    And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him  that dwells in it.

40N   23    22    And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God  and by him that sits upon it.

40N   23    23    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay  tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the  weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith:  these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

40N   23    24    Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the  camel.

40N   23    25    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make  clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they  are full of rapine and intemperance.

40N   23    26    Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and  of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.

40N   23    27    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are  like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but  within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

40N   23    28    Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but  within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

40N   23    29    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye  build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the  just,

40N   23    30    and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we  would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the  prophets.

40N   23    31    So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of  those who slew the prophets:

40N   23    32    and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

40N   23    33    Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the  judgment of hell?

40N   23    34    Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise  men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify,  and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will  persecute from city to city;

40N   23    35    so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should  come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood  of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple  and the altar.

40N   23    36    Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon  this generation.

40N   23    37    Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets  and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have  gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her  wings, and ye would not!

40N   23    38    Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

40N   23    39    for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth  until ye say, Blessed [be] he that comes in the name of [the]  Lord.

40N   24    1     And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his  disciples came to [him] to point out to him the buildings of  the temple.

40N   24    2     And he answering said to them, Do ye not see all these  things? Verily I say to you, Not a stone shall be left here  upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.

40N   24    3     And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the  disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall  these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and [the]  completion of the age?

40N   24    4     And Jesus answering said to them, See that no one mislead  you.

40N   24    5     For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ,  and they shall mislead many.

40N   24    6     But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye  be not disturbed; for all [these things] must take place, but  it is not yet the end.

40N   24    7     For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom  against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences,  and earthquakes in divers places.

40N   24    8     But all these [are the] beginning of throes.

40N   24    9     Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall  kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's  sake.

40N   24    10    And then will many be offended, and will deliver one  another up, and hate one another;

40N   24    11    and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead  many;

40N   24    12    and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the  most shall grow cold;

40N   24    13    but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

40N   24    14    And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in  the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations,  and then shall come the end.

40N   24    15    When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation,  which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in  [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)

40N   24    16    then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;

40N   24    17    let not him that is on the house come down to take the  things out of his house;

40N   24    18    and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his  garment.

40N   24    19    But woe to those that are with child, and those that give  suck in those days.

40N   24    20    But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on  sabbath:

40N   24    21    for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not  been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever  shall be;

40N   24    22    and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had  been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut  short.

40N   24    23    Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or  here, believe [it] not.

40N   24    24    For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,  and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if  possible, even the elect.

40N   24    25    Behold, I have told you beforehand.

40N   24    26    If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert,  go not forth; behold, [he is] in the inner chambers, do not  believe [it].

40N   24    27    For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines  to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

40N   24    28    [For] wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the  eagles.

40N   24    29    But immediately after the tribulation of those days the  sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the  stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens  shall be shaken.

40N   24    30    And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in  heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and  they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven  with power and great glory.

40N   24    31    And he shall send his angels with a great sound of  trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four  winds, from [the one] extremity of [the] heavens to [the other]  extremity of them.

40N   24    32    But learn the parable from the fig-tree: When already its  branch becomes tender and produces leaves, ye know that the  summer is near.

40N   24    33    Thus also *ye*, when ye see all these things, know that it  is near, at the doors.

40N   24    34    Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed  away until all these things shall have taken place.

40N   24    35    The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words  shall in no wise pass away.

40N   24    36    But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels  of the heavens, but [my] Father alone.

40N   24    37    But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the  Son of man.

40N   24    38    For as they were in the days which were before the flood,  eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the  day on which Noe entered into the ark,

40N   24    39    and they knew not till the flood came and took all away;  thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

40N   24    40    Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is  left;

40N   24    41    two [women] grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is  left.

40N   24    42    Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord  comes.

40N   24    43    But know this, that if the master of the house had known  in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and  not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].

40N   24    44    Wherefore *ye* also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye  think not the Son of man comes.

40N   24    45    Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord  has set over his household, to give them food in season?

40N   24    46    Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find  doing thus.

40N   24    47    Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all his  substance.

40N   24    48    But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord  delays to come,

40N   24    49    and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink  with the drunken;

40N   24    50    the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does  not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,

40N   24    51    and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the  hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of  teeth.

40N   25    1     Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten  virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the  bridegroom.

40N   25    2     And five of them were prudent and five foolish.

40N   25    3     They that were foolish took their torches and did not take  oil with them;

40N   25    4     but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their  torches.

40N   25    5     Now the bridegroom tarrying, they all grew heavy and slept.

40N   25    6     But in [the] middle of [the] night there was a cry, Behold,  the bridegroom; go forth to meet him.

40N   25    7     Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their torches.

40N   25    8     And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil,  for our torches are going out.

40N   25    9     But the prudent answered saying, [We cannot,] lest it might  not suffice for us and for you. Go rather to those that sell,  and buy for yourselves.

40N   25    10    But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the  [ones that were] ready went in with him to the wedding feast,  and the door was shut.

40N   25    11    Afterwards come also the rest of the virgins, saying,  Lord, Lord, open to us;

40N   25    12    but he answering said, Verily I say unto you, I do not  know you.

40N   25    13    Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

40N   25    14    For [it is] as [if] a man going away out of a country  called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.

40N   25    15    And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to  another one; to each according to his particular ability, and  immediately went away out of the country.

40N   25    16    And he that had received the five talents went and  trafficked with them, and made five other talents.

40N   25    17    In like manner also he that [had received] the two, [he  also] gained two others.

40N   25    18    But he that had received the one went and dug in the  earth, and hid the money of his lord.

40N   25    19    And after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes and  reckons with them.

40N   25    20    And he that had received the five talents came to [him]  and brought five other talents, saying, [My] lord, thou  deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other  talents besides them.

40N   25    21    His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman,  thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many  things: enter into the joy of thy lord.

40N   25    22    And he also that had received the two talents came to  [him] and said, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me two talents;  behold, I have gained two other talents besides them.

40N   25    23    His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman,  thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many  things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

40N   25    24    And he also that had received the one talent coming to  [him] said, [My] lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man,  reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where  thou hadst not scattered,

40N   25    25    and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the  earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine.

40N   25    26    And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful  bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and  gather from where I had not scattered;

40N   25    27    thou oughtest then to have put my money to the  money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine  with interest.

40N   25    28    Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him  that has the ten talents:

40N   25    29    for to every one that has shall be given, and he shall be  in abundance; but from him that has not, that even which he has  shall be taken from him.

40N   25    30    And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness;  there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

40N   25    31    But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the  angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of  glory,

40N   25    32    and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he  shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates  the sheep from the goats;

40N   25    33    and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats  on [his] left.

40N   25    34    Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come,  blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from  [the] world's foundation:

40N   25    35    for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye  gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

40N   25    36    naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I  was in prison, and ye came to me.

40N   25    37    Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw  we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave  thee to drink?

40N   25    38    and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or  naked, and clothed thee?

40N   25    39    and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee?

40N   25    40    And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to  you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these  my brethren, ye have done it to me.

40N   25    41    Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me,  cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his  angels:

40N   25    42    for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and  ye gave me not to drink;

40N   25    43    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did  not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me.

40N   25    44    Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we  thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill,  or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?

40N   25    45    Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you,  Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither  have ye done it to me.

40N   25    46    And these shall go away into eternal punishment, and the  righteous into life eternal.

40N   26    1     And it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these  sayings, he said to his disciples,

40N   26    2     Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and  the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

40N   26    3     Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were  gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was  called Caiaphas,

40N   26    4     and took counsel together in order that they might seize  Jesus by subtlety and kill him;

40N   26    5     but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult  among the people.

40N   26    6     But Jesus being in Bethany, in Simon the leper's house,

40N   26    7     a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious  ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay  at table.

40N   26    8     But the disciples seeing it became indignant, saying, To  what end [was] this waste?

40N   26    9     for this might have been sold for much and been given to  the poor.

40N   26    10    But Jesus knowing [it] said to them, Why do ye trouble the  woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.

40N   26    11    For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not  always.

40N   26    12    For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done  it for my burying.

40N   26    13    Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be  preached in the whole world, that also which this [woman] has  done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

40N   26    14    Then one of the twelve, he who was called Judas Iscariote,  went to the chief priests

40N   26    15    and said, What are ye willing to give me, and *I* will  deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces  of silver.

40N   26    16    And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he  might deliver him up.

40N   26    17    Now on the first [day] of [the feast of] unleavened bread,  the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we  prepare for thee to eat the passover?

40N   26    18    And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to  him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the  passover in thy house with my disciples.

40N   26    19    And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they  prepared the passover.

40N   26    20    And when the evening was come he lay down at table with  the twelve.

40N   26    21    And as they were eating he said, Verily I say to you, that  one of you shall deliver me up.

40N   26    22    And being exceedingly grieved they began to say to him,  each of them, Is it *I*, Lord?

40N   26    23    But he answering said, He that dips his hand with me in  the dish, *he* it is who shall deliver me up.

40N   26    24    The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written  concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is  delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been  born.

40N   26    25    And Judas, who delivered him up, answering said, Is it  *I*, Rabbi? He says to him, *Thou* hast said.

40N   26    26    And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken [the] bread  and blessed, broke [it] and gave [it] to the disciples, and  said, Take, eat: this is my body.

40N   26    27    And having taken [the] cup and given thanks, he gave [it]  to them, saying, Drink ye all of it.

40N   26    28    For this is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that  shed for many for remission of sins.

40N   26    29    But I say to you, that I will not at all drink henceforth  of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new  with you in the kingdom of my Father.

40N   26    30    And having sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of  Olives.

40N   26    31    Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offended in me  during this night. For it is written, I will smite the  shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

40N   26    32    But after that I shall be risen, I will go before you to  Galilee.

40N   26    33    And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended  in thee, *I* will never be offended.

40N   26    34    Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, that during this  night, before [the] cock shall crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

40N   26    35    Peter says to him, If I should needs die with thee, I will  in no wise deny thee. Likewise said all the disciples also.

40N   26    36    Then Jesus comes with them to a place called Gethsemane,  and says to the disciples, Sit here until I go away and pray  yonder.

40N   26    37    And taking with [him] Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,  he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.

40N   26    38    Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto  death; remain here and watch with me.

40N   26    39    And going forward a little he fell upon his face, praying  and saying, My Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from  me; but not as *I* will, but as *thou* [wilt].

40N   26    40    And he comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and  says to Peter, Thus ye have not been able to watch one hour  with me?

40N   26    41    Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the  spirit indeed [is] ready, but the flesh weak.

40N   26    42    Again going away a second time he prayed saying, My  Father, if this cannot pass [from me] unless I drink it, thy  will be done.

40N   26    43    And coming he found them again sleeping, for their eyes  were heavy.

40N   26    44    And leaving them, he went away again and prayed the third  time, saying the same thing.

40N   26    45    Then he comes to the disciples and says to them, Sleep on  now and take your rest; behold, the hour has drawn nigh, and  the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.

40N   26    46    Arise, let us go; behold, he that delivers me up has drawn  nigh.

40N   26    47    And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the  twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks  from the chief priests and elders of the people.

40N   26    48    Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign,  saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is: seize him.

40N   26    49    And immediately coming up to Jesus he said, Hail, Rabbi,  and covered him with kisses.

40N   26    50    But Jesus said to him, [My] friend, for what purpose art  thou come? Then coming up they laid hands upon Jesus and seized  him.

40N   26    51    And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand  and drew his sword, and smiting the bondman of the high priest  took off his ear.

40N   26    52    Then saith Jesus to him, Return thy sword to its place;  for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword.

40N   26    53    Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father,  and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

40N   26    54    How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it  must be?

40N   26    55    In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Are ye come out as  against a robber with swords and sticks to take me? I sat daily  [with you] teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.

40N   26    56    But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the  prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and  fled.

40N   26    57    Now they that had seized Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas  the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were  assembled.

40N   26    58    And Peter followed him at a distance, even to the palace  of the high priest, and entering in sat with the officers to  see the end.

40N   26    59    And the chief priests and the elders and the whole  sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they  might put him to death.

40N   26    60    And they found none, though many false witnesses came  forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward

40N   26    61    and said, *He* said, I am able to destroy the temple of  God, and in three days build it.

40N   26    62    And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest  thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?

40N   26    63    But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said  to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if  *thou* art the Christ the Son of God.

40N   26    64    Jesus says to him, *Thou* hast said. Moreover, I say to  you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the  right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

40N   26    65    Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has  blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold,  now ye have heard the blasphemy.

40N   26    66    What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to  the penalty of death.

40N   26    67    Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some  struck him with the palms of their hand,

40N   26    68    saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, Who is it who struck thee?

40N   26    69    But Peter sat without in the palace-court; and a maid came  to him, saying, And *thou* wast with Jesus the Galilaean.

40N   26    70    But he denied before all, saying, I do not know what thou  sayest.

40N   26    71    And when he had gone out into the entrance, another [maid]  saw him, and says to those there, This [man] also was with  Jesus the Nazaraean.

40N   26    72    And again he denied with an oath: I do not know the man.

40N   26    73    And after a little, those who stood [there], coming to  [him], said to Peter, Truly *thou* too art of them, for also  thy speech makes thee manifest.

40N   26    74    Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not the man.  And immediately [the] cock crew.

40N   26    75    And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said [to  him], Before [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he  went forth without, and wept bitterly.

40N   27    1     And when it was morning all the chief priests and the  elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they  might put him to death.

40N   27    2     And having bound him they led him away, and delivered him  up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

40N   27    3     Then Judas, who delivered him up, seeing that he had been  condemned, filled with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of  silver to the chief priests and the elders,

40N   27    4     saying, I have sinned [in] having delivered up guiltless  blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* [to that].

40N   27    5     And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he  left the place, and went away and hanged himself.

40N   27    6     And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said,  It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is  [the] price of blood.

40N   27    7     And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field  of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.

40N   27    8     Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this  day.

40N   27    9     Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias  the prophet, saying, And I took the thirty pieces of silver,  the price of him that was set a price on, whom [they who were]  of the sons of Israel had set a price on,

40N   27    10    and they gave them for the field of the potter, according  as [the] Lord commanded me.

40N   27    11    But Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor  questioned him, saying, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And  Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.

40N   27    12    And when he was accused of the chief priests and the  elders, he answered nothing.

40N   27    13    Then says Pilate to him, Hearest thou not how many things  they witness against thee?

40N   27    14    And he answered him not so much as one word, so that the  governor wondered exceedingly.

40N   27    15    Now at [the] feast the governor was accustomed to release  one prisoner to the crowd, whom they would.

40N   27    16    And they had then a notable prisoner, named Barabbas.

40N   27    17    They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to  them, Whom will ye that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus  who is called Christ?

40N   27    18    For he knew that they had delivered him up through envy.

40N   27    19    But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent  to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous  [man]; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream  because of him.

40N   27    20    But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds  that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

40N   27    21    And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two  will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.

40N   27    22    Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who  is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.

40N   27    23    And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But  they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.

40N   27    24    And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that  rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his  hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of  this righteous one: see *ye* [to it].

40N   27    25    And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us  and on our children.

40N   27    26    Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having  scourged [him], he delivered up that he might be crucified.

40N   27    27    Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with  [them] to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band,

40N   27    28    and having taken off his garment, put on him a scarlet  cloak;

40N   27    29    and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his  head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before  him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

40N   27    30    And having spit upon him, they took the reed and beat  [him] on his head.

40N   27    31    And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him,  and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.

40N   27    32    And as they went forth they found a man of Cyrene, Simon  by name; him they compelled to go [with them] that he might  bear his cross.

40N   27    33    And having come to a place called Golgotha, which means  Place of a skull,

40N   27    34    they gave to him to drink vinegar mingled with gall; and  having tasted [it], he would not drink.

40N   27    35    And having crucified him, they parted his clothes amongst  [themselves], casting lots.

40N   27    36    And sitting down, they kept guard over him there.

40N   27    37    And they set up over his head his accusation written: This  is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

40N   27    38    Then are crucified with him two robbers, one on the right  hand and one on the left.

40N   27    39    But the passers-by reviled him, shaking their heads

40N   27    40    and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest  it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend  from the cross.

40N   27    41    [And] in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with  the scribes and elders, said,

40N   27    42    He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of  Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe  on him.

40N   27    43    He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will  [have] him. For he said, I am Son of God.

40N   27    44    And the robbers also who had been crucified with him cast  the same reproaches on him.

40N   27    45    Now from [the] sixth hour there was darkness over the  whole land until [the] ninth hour;

40N   27    46    but about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud  voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my  God, why hast thou forsaken me?

40N   27    47    And some of those who stood there, when they heard [it],  said, This [man] calls for Elias.

40N   27    48    And immediately one of them running and getting a sponge,  having filled [it] with vinegar and fixed [it] on a reed, gave  him to drink.

40N   27    49    But the rest said, Let be; let us see if Elias comes to  save him.

40N   27    50    And Jesus, having again cried with a loud voice, gave up  the ghost.

40N   27    51    And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the  top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were  rent,

40N   27    52    and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints  fallen asleep arose,

40N   27    53    and going out of the tombs after his arising, entered into  the holy city and appeared unto many.

40N   27    54    But the centurion, and they who were with him on guard  over Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that took  place, feared greatly, saying, Truly this [man] was Son of God.

40N   27    55    And there were there many women beholding from afar off,  who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him,

40N   27    56    among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of  James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

40N   27    57    Now when even was come there came a rich man of  Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to  Jesus.

40N   27    58    *He*, going to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus. Then  Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

40N   27    59    And Joseph having got the body, wrapped it in a clean  linen cloth,

40N   27    60    and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn in the rock;  and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went  away.

40N   27    61    But Mary of Magdala was there, and the other Mary, sitting  opposite the sepulchre.

40N   27    62    Now on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the  chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

40N   27    63    saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver  said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.

40N   27    64    Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the  third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away,  and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last  error shall be worse than the first.

40N   27    65    And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as  well as ye know how.

40N   27    66    And they went and secured the sepulchre, having sealed the  stone, with the watch [besides].

40N   28    1     Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day  after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look  at the sepulchre.

40N   28    2     And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of  [the] Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the  stone and sat upon it.

40N   28    3     And his look was as lightning, and his clothing white as  snow.

40N   28    4     And for fear of him the guards trembled and became as dead  men.

40N   28    5     And the angel answering said to the women, Fear not *ye*,  for I know that ye seek Jesus the crucified one.

40N   28    6     He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the  place where the Lord lay.

40N   28    7     And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen  from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee,  there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.

40N   28    8     And going out quickly from the tomb with fear and great  joy, they ran to bring his disciples word.

40N   28    9     And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also,  Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by  the feet, and did him homage.

40N   28    10    Then Jesus says to them, Fear not; go, bring word to my  brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see  me.

40N   28    11    And as they went, behold, some of the watch went into the  city, and brought word to the chief priests of all that had  taken place.

40N   28    12    And having assembled with the elders, and having taken  counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

40N   28    13    saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him  [while] we [were] sleeping.

40N   28    14    And if this should come to the hearing of the governor,  *we* will persuade him, and save *you* from all anxiety.

40N   28    15    And they took the money and did as they had been taught.  And this report is current among the Jews until this day.

40N   28    16    But the eleven disciples went into Galilee to the mountain  which Jesus had appointed them.

40N   28    17    And when they saw him, they did homage to him: but some  doubted.

40N   28    18    And Jesus coming up spoke to them, saying, All power has  been given me in heaven and upon earth.

40N   28    19    Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations,  baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and  of the Holy Spirit;

40N   28    20    teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have  enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until  the completion of the age.

 

Luke (A. D. 60-61)

 

42N   1     1     Forasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a relation  concerning the matters fully believed among us,

42N   1     2     as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and  attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,

42N   1     3     it has seemed good to *me* also, accurately acquainted from  the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most  excellent Theophilus,

42N   1     4     that thou mightest know the certainty of those things in  which thou hast been instructed.

42N   1     5     There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a  certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and  his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

42N   1     6     And they were both just before God, walking in all the  commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

42N   1     7     And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and  they were both advanced in years.

42N   1     8     And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service  before God in the order of his course,

42N   1     9     it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the  priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn  incense.

42N   1     10    And all the multitude of the people were praying without at  the hour of incense.

42N   1     11    And an angel of [the] Lord appeared to him, standing on the  right of the altar of incense.

42N   1     12    And Zacharias was troubled, seeing [him], and fear fell  upon him.

42N   1     13    But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy  supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear  thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

42N   1     14    And he shall be to thee joy and rejoicing, and many shall  rejoice at his birth.

42N   1     15    For he shall be great before [the] Lord, and he shall drink  no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with [the]  Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

42N   1     16    And many of the sons of Israel shall he turn to [the] Lord  their God.

42N   1     17    And *he* shall go before him in [the] spirit and power of  Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient  ones to [the] thoughts of just [men], to make ready for [the]  Lord a prepared people.

42N   1     18    And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for  *I* am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?

42N   1     19    And the angel answering, said to him, *I* am Gabriel, who  stand before God, and I have been sent to speak to thee, and to  bring these glad tidings to thee;

42N   1     20    and behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak,  till the day in which these things shall take place, because  thou hast not believed my words, the which shall be fulfilled  in their time.

42N   1     21    And the people were awaiting Zacharias, and they wondered  at his delaying in the temple.

42N   1     22    But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they  recognised that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was  making signs to them, and continued dumb.

42N   1     23    And it came to pass, when the days of his service were  completed, he departed to his house.

42N   1     24    Now after these days, Elizabeth his wife conceived, and hid  herself five months, saying,

42N   1     25    Thus has [the] Lord done to me in [these] days in which he  looked upon [me] to take away my reproach among men.

42N   1     26    But in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent of God  to a city of Galilee, of which [the] name [was] Nazareth,

42N   1     27    to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name [was] Joseph, of  the house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary.

42N   1     28    And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, [thou]  favoured one! the Lord [is] with thee: [blessed art *thou*  amongst women].

42N   1     29    But she, [seeing] [the angel], was troubled at his word,  and reasoned in her mind what this salutation might be.

42N   1     30    And the angel said to her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast  found favour with God;

42N   1     31    and behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son,  and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

42N   1     32    *He* shall be great, and shall be called Son of [the]  Highest; and [the] Lord God shall give him the throne of David  his father;

42N   1     33    and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for the ages,  and of his kingdom there shall not be an end.

42N   1     34    But Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know  not a man?

42N   1     35    And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit  shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow  thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall  be called Son of God.

42N   1     36    And behold, Elizabeth, thy kinswoman, she also has  conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to  her that was called barren:

42N   1     37    for nothing shall be impossible with God.

42N   1     38    And Mary said, Behold the bondmaid of [the] Lord; be it to  me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

42N   1     39    And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill  country with haste, to a city of Judah,

42N   1     40    and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted  Elizabeth.

42N   1     41    And it came to pass, as Elizabeth heard the salutation of  Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled  with [the] Holy Spirit,

42N   1     42    and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed [art]  *thou* amongst women, and blessed the fruit of thy womb.

42N   1     43    And whence [is] this to me, that the mother of my Lord  should come to me?

42N   1     44    For behold, as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my  ears, the babe leaped with joy in my womb.

42N   1     45    And blessed [is] she that has believed, for there shall be  a fulfilment of the things spoken to her from [the] Lord.

42N   1     46    And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,

42N   1     47    and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour.

42N   1     48    For he has looked upon the low estate of his bondmaid; for  behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

42N   1     49    For the Mighty One has done to me great things, and holy  [is] his name;

42N   1     50    and his mercy [is] to generations and generations to them  that fear him.

42N   1     51    He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered  haughty [ones] in the thought of their heart.

42N   1     52    He has put down rulers from thrones, and exalted the lowly.

42N   1     53    He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent away  the rich empty.

42N   1     54    He has helped Israel his servant, in order to remember  mercy,

42N   1     55    (as he spoke to our fathers,) to Abraham and to his seed  for ever.

42N   1     56    And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to  her house.

42N   1     57    But the time was fulfilled for Elizabeth that she should  bring forth, and she gave birth to a son.

42N   1     58    And her neighbours and kinsfolk heard that [the] Lord had  magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

42N   1     59    And it came to pass on the eighth day they came to  circumcise the child, and they called it after the name of his  father, Zacharias.

42N   1     60    And his mother answering said, No; but he shall be called  John.

42N   1     61    And they said to her, There is no one among thy kinsfolk  who is called by this name.

42N   1     62    And they made signs to his father as to what he might wish  it to be called.

42N   1     63    And having asked for a writing-table, he wrote saying, John  is his name. And they all wondered.

42N   1     64    And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and  he spake, blessing God.

42N   1     65    And fear came upon all who dwelt round about them; and in  the whole hill-country of Judaea all these things were the  subject of conversation.

42N   1     66    And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying,  What then will this child be? And [the] Lord's hand was with  him.

42N   1     67    And Zacharias his father was filled with [the] Holy Spirit,  and prophesied, saying,

42N   1     68    Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel, because he has  visited and wrought redemption for his people,

42N   1     69    and raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of  David his servant;

42N   1     70    as he spoke by [the] mouth of his holy prophets, who have  been since the world began;

42N   1     71    deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who  hate us;

42N   1     72    to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy  covenant,

42N   1     73    [the] oath which he swore to Abraham our father,

42N   1     74    to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we  should serve him without fear

42N   1     75    in piety and righteousness before him all our days.

42N   1     76    And *thou*, child, shalt be called [the] prophet of [the]  Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of [the] Lord to  make ready his ways;

42N   1     77    to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by [the]  remission of their sins

42N   1     78    on account of [the] bowels of mercy of our God; wherein  [the] dayspring from on high has visited us,

42N   1     79    to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in  [the] shadow of death, to guide our feet into [the] way of  peace.

42N   1     80    -- And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit; and  he was in the deserts until the day of his shewing to Israel.

42N   2     1     But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out  from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the  habitable world.

42N   2     2     The census itself first took place when Cyrenius had the  government of Syria.

42N   2     3     And all went to be inscribed in the census roll, each to his  own city:

42N   2     4     and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city  Nazareth to Judaea, to David's city, the which is called  Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

42N   2     5     to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was  betrothed to him [as his] wife, she being great with child.

42N   2     6     And it came to pass, while they were there, the days of her  giving birth [to her child] were fulfilled,

42N   2     7     and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up  in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there  was no room for them in the inn.

42N   2     8     And there were shepherds in that country abiding without,  and keeping watch by night over their flock.

42N   2     9     And lo, an angel of [the] Lord was there by them, and [the]  glory of [the] Lord shone around them, and they feared [with]  great fear.

42N   2     10    And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I  announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to  all the people;

42N   2     11    for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city,  who is Christ [the] Lord.

42N   2     12    And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped  in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.

42N   2     13    And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the  heavenly host, praising God and saying,

42N   2     14    Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good  pleasure in men.

42N   2     15    And it came to pass, as the angels departed from them into  heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, Let us make our  way then now as far as Bethlehem, and let us see this thing  that is come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.

42N   2     16    And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph,  and the babe lying in the manger;

42N   2     17    and having seen [it] they made known about the country the  thing which had been said to them concerning this child.

42N   2     18    And all who heard [it] wondered at the things said to them  by the shepherds.

42N   2     19    But Mary kept all these things [in her mind], pondering  [them] in her heart.

42N   2     20    And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for  all things which they had heard and seen, as it had been said  to them.

42N   2     21    And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him,  his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the  angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

42N   2     22    And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying  according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to  present [him] to the Lord

42N   2     23    (as it is written in the law of [the] Lord: Every male that  opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

42N   2     24    and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the  law of [the] Lord: A pair of turtle doves, or two young  pigeons.

42N   2     25    And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was  Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the  consolation of Israel, and [the] Holy Spirit was upon him.

42N   2     26    And it was divinely communicated to him by the Holy Spirit,  that he should not see death before he should see [the] Lord's  Christ.

42N   2     27    And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and as the  parents brought in the child Jesus that they might do for him  according to the custom of the law,

42N   2     28    *he* received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

42N   2     29    Lord, now thou lettest thy bondman go, according to thy  word, in peace;

42N   2     30    for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

42N   2     31    which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples;

42N   2     32    a light for revelation of [the] Gentiles and [the] glory of  thy people Israel.

42N   2     33    And his father and mother wondered at the things which were  said concerning him.

42N   2     34    And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo,  this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in  Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

42N   2     35    (and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that  [the] thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.

42N   2     36    And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of  [the] tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having  lived with [her] husband seven years from her virginity,

42N   2     37    and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not  depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and  prayers;

42N   2     38    and she coming up the same hour gave praise to the Lord,  and spoke of him to all those who waited for redemption in  Jerusalem.

42N   2     39    And when they had completed all things according to the law  of [the] Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city  Nazareth.

42N   2     40    And the child grew and waxed strong [in spirit], filled  with wisdom, and God's grace was upon him.

42N   2     41    And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of  the passover.

42N   2     42    And when he was twelve years old, and they went up [to  Jerusalem] according to the custom of the feast

42N   2     43    and had completed the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus  remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents knew not [of it];

42N   2     44    but, supposing him to be in the company that journeyed  together, they went a day's journey, and sought him among their  relations and acquaintances:

42N   2     45    and not having found him they returned to Jerusalem seeking  him.

42N   2     46    And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the  temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them  and asking them questions.

42N   2     47    And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding  and answers.

42N   2     48    And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said  to him, Child, why hast thou dealt thus with us? behold, thy  father and I have sought thee distressed.

42N   2     49    And he said to them, Why [is it] that ye have sought me?  did ye not know that I ought to be [occupied] in my Father's  business?

42N   2     50    And they understood not the thing that he said to them.

42N   2     51    And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was  in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in  her heart.

42N   2     52    And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour  with God and men.

42N   3     1     Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius  Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod  tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea  and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of  Abilene,

42N   3     2     in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, [the] word of  God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

42N   3     3     And he came into all the district round the Jordan,  preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of  sins,

42N   3     4     as it is written in [the] book of [the] words of Esaias the  prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the  way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.

42N   3     5     Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill  shall be brought low, and the crooked [places] shall become a  straight [path], and the rough places smooth ways,

42N   3     6     and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

42N   3     7     He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be  baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to  flee from the coming wrath?

42N   3     8     Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not  to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father, for I  say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up  children to Abraham.

42N   3     9     And already also the axe is applied to the root of the  trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut  down and cast into [the] fire.

42N   3     10    And the crowds asked him saying, What should we do then?

42N   3     11    And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats,  let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let  him do likewise.

42N   3     12    And tax-gatherers came also to be baptised, and they said  to him, Teacher, what should we do?

42N   3     13    And he said to them, Take no more [money] than what is  appointed to you.

42N   3     14    And persons engaged in military service also asked him  saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress  no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.

42N   3     15    But as the people were in expectation, and all were  reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether *he* might be  the Christ,

42N   3     16    John answered all, saying, *I* indeed baptise you with  water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose  sandals I am not fit to unloose; *he* shall baptise you with  [the] Holy Spirit and fire;

42N   3     17    whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly  purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his  garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

42N   3     18    Exhorting then many other things also he announced [his]  glad tidings to the people.

42N   3     19    But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to  Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked  things which Herod had done,

42N   3     20    added this also to all [the rest], that he shut up John in  prison.

42N   3     21    And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised,  and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was  opened,

42N   3     22    and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove  upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, *Thou* art my beloved  Son, in thee I have found my delight.

42N   3     23    And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years  old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,

42N   3     24    of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,

42N   3     25    of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naoum, of Esli, of Naggai,

42N   3     26    of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,

42N   3     27    of Joannes, of Resa, of Zorobabel, of Salathiel, of Neri,

42N   3     28    of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er,

42N   3     29    of Joses, of Eliezer, of Joreim, of Matthat, of Levi,

42N   3     30    of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, of Jonan, of Eliakim,

42N   3     31    of Meleas, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David,

42N   3     32    of Jesse, of Obed, of Booz, of Salmon, of Naasson,

42N   3     33    of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,

42N   3     34    of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nachor,

42N   3     35    of Seruch, of Ragau, of Phalek, of Eber, of Sala,

42N   3     36    of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem, of Noe, of Lamech,

42N   3     37    of Methusala, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan,

42N   3     38    of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of God.

42N   4     1     But Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from the  Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

42N   4     2     forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did  not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

42N   4     3     And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to  this stone, that it become bread.

42N   4     4     And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall  not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

42N   4     5     And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed  him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of  time.

42N   4     6     And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power,  and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I  will I give it.

42N   4     7     If therefore *thou* wilt do homage before me, all [of it]  shall be thine.

42N   4     8     And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do  homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

42N   4     9     And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the  temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself  down hence;

42N   4     10    for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels  concerning thee to keep thee;

42N   4     11    and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise  thou strike thy foot against a stone.

42N   4     12    And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not  tempt [the] Lord thy God.

42N   4     13    And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed  from him for a time.

42N   4     14    And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee;  and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about  him;

42N   4     15    and *he* taught in their synagogues, being glorified of  all.

42N   4     16    And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he  entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the  sabbath day, and stood up to read.

42N   4     17    And [the] book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and  having unrolled the book he found the place where it was  written,

42N   4     18    [The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has  anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent  me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight,  to send forth [the] crushed delivered,

42N   4     19    to preach [the] acceptable year of [the] Lord.

42N   4     20    And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up  to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the  synagogue were fixed upon him.

42N   4     21    And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is  fulfilled in your ears.

42N   4     22    And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of  grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not  this the son of Joseph?

42N   4     23    And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable,  Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken  place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

42N   4     24    And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is  acceptable in his [own] country.

42N   4     25    But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in  Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for  three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon  all the land,

42N   4     26    and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of  Sidonia, to a woman [that was] a widow.

42N   4     27    And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha  the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the  Syrian.

42N   4     28    And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue,  hearing these things;

42N   4     29    and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led  him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was  built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;

42N   4     30    but *he*, passing through the midst of them, went his way,

42N   4     31    and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught  them on the sabbaths.

42N   4     32    And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was  with authority.

42N   4     33    And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an  unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,

42N   4     34    saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene?  hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the  Holy [One] of God.

42N   4     35    And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out  from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst,  came out from him without doing him any injury.

42N   4     36    And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one  another, saying, What word [is] this? for with authority and  power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

42N   4     37    And a rumour went out into every place of the country round  concerning him.

42N   4     38    And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the  house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a  bad fever; and they asked him for her.

42N   4     39    And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left  her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

42N   4     40    And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons  sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid  his hands on every one of them, he healed them;

42N   4     41    and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying,  *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them  not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

42N   4     42    And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert  place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and  [would have] kept him back that he should not go from them.

42N   4     43    But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings  of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I  have been sent forth.

42N   4     44    And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

42N   5     1     And it came to pass, as the crowd pressed on him to hear the  word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret:

42N   5     2     and he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the  fishermen, having come down from them, were washing their nets.

42N   5     3     And getting into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he  asked him to draw out a little from the land; and he sat down  and taught the crowds out of the ship.

42N   5     4     But when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Draw out into  the deep [water] and let down your nets for a haul.

42N   5     5     And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured  through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word  I will let down the net.

42N   5     6     And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of  fishes. And their net broke.

42N   5     7     And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other  ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the  ships, so that they were sinking.

42N   5     8     But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying,  Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

42N   5     9     For astonishment had laid hold on him, and on all those who  were with him, at the haul of fishes which they had taken;

42N   5     10    and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee,  who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear  not; henceforth thou shalt be catching men.

42N   5     11    And having run the ships on shore, leaving all they  followed him.

42N   5     12    And it came to pass as he was in one of the cities, that  behold, there was a man full of leprosy, and seeing Jesus,  falling upon his face, he besought him saying, Lord, if thou  wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.

42N   5     13    And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I  will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed  from him.

42N   5     14    And he enjoined him to tell no one; but go, shew thyself to  the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses ordained, for  a testimony to them.

42N   5     15    But the report concerning him was spread abroad still more,  and great crowds came together to hear, and to be healed from  their infirmities.

42N   5     16    And *he* withdrew himself, and was about in the desert  [places] and praying.

42N   5     17    And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* was  teaching, and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law  sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and  Judaea and [out of] Jerusalem; and [the] Lord's power was  [there] to heal them.

42N   5     18    And lo, men bringing upon a couch a man who was paralysed;  and they sought to bring him in, and put [him] before him.

42N   5     19    And not finding what way to bring him in, on account of the  crowd, going up on the housetop they let him down through the  tiles, with his little couch, into the midst before Jesus.

42N   5     20    And seeing their faith, he said, Man, thy sins are forgiven  thee.

42N   5     21    And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason [in their  minds], saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able  to forgive sins but God alone?

42N   5     22    But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to  them, Why reason ye in your hearts?

42N   5     23    which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to  say, Rise up and walk?

42N   5     24    But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth  to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee,  Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.

42N   5     25    And immediately standing up before them, having taken up  that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying  God.

42N   5     26    And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and  were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things  to-day.

42N   5     27    And after these things he went forth and saw a  tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes,  and said to him, Follow me.

42N   5     28    And having left all, rising up, he followed him.

42N   5     29    And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house,  and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who  were at table with them.

42N   5     30    And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his  disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers  and sinners?

42N   5     31    And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound  health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

42N   5     32    I am not come to call righteous [persons], but sinful  [ones] to repentance.

42N   5     33    And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast  often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the  Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?

42N   5     34    And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the  bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?

42N   5     35    But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been  taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.

42N   5     36    And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of  a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend  the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with  the old.

42N   5     37    And no one puts new wine into old skins, otherwise the new  wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the  skins will be destroyed;

42N   5     38    but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are  preserved.

42N   5     39    And no one having drunk old wine [straightway] wishes for  new, for he says, The old is better.

42N   6     1     And it came to pass on [the] second-first sabbath, that he  went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the  ears and eating [them], rubbing [them] in their hands.

42N   6     2     But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is  not lawful to do on the sabbath?

42N   6     3     And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much  as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were  with him,

42N   6     4     how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread  and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is  not lawful that [any] eat, unless the priests alone?

42N   6     5     And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath  also.

42N   6     6     And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered  into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and  his right hand was withered.

42N   6     7     And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would  heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to  accuse him.

42N   6     8     But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had  the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having  risen up he stood [there].

42N   6     9     Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful  on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to  destroy [it]?

42N   6     10    And having looked around on them all, he said to him,  Stretch out thy hand. And he did [so] and his hand was restored  as the other.

42N   6     11    But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke  together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.

42N   6     12    And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the  mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

42N   6     13    And when it was day he called his disciples, and having  chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:

42N   6     14    Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew  his brother, [and] James and John, [and] Philip and  Bartholomew,

42N   6     15    [and] Matthew and Thomas, James the [son] of Alphaeus and  Simon who was called Zealot,

42N   6     16    [and] Judas [brother] of James, and Judas Iscariote, who  was also [his] betrayer;

42N   6     17    and having descended with them, he stood on a level place,  and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the  people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre  and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their  diseases;

42N   6     18    and those that were beset by unclean spirits were healed.

42N   6     19    And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power went out  from him and healed all.

42N   6     20    And *he*, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said,  Blessed [are] ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

42N   6     21    Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed  ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

42N   6     22    Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall  separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast  out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:

42N   6     23    rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your  reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their  fathers act toward the prophets.

42N   6     24    But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.

42N   6     25    Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you  who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

42N   6     26    Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner  did their fathers to the false prophets.

42N   6     27    But to you that hear I say, Love your enemies; do good to  those that hate you;

42N   6     28    bless those that curse you; pray for those who use you  despitefully.

42N   6     29    To him that smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other;  and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy  body-coat also.

42N   6     30    To every one that asks of thee, give; and from him that  takes away what is thine, ask it not back.

42N   6     31    And as ye wish that men should do to you, do *ye* also to  them in like manner.

42N   6     32    And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to  you? for even sinners love those that love them.

42N   6     33    And if ye do good to those that do good to you, what thank  is it to you? for even sinners do the same.

42N   6     34    And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what  thank is it to you? [for] even sinners lend to sinners that  they may receive the like.

42N   6     35    But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for  nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall  be sons of [the] Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful  and wicked.

42N   6     36    Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is  merciful.

42N   6     37    And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and  ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to  you.

42N   6     38    Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed  down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given  into your bosom: for with the same measure with which ye mete  it shall be measured to you again.

42N   6     39    And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind [man] lead  a blind [man]? shall not both fall into [the] ditch?

42N   6     40    The disciple is not above his teacher, but every one that  is perfected shall be as his teacher.

42N   6     41    But why lookest thou on the mote which is in the eye of thy  brother, but perceivest not the beam which is in thine own eye?

42N   6     42    or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow [me],  I will cast out the mote that is in thine eye, thyself not  seeing the beam that is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first  the beam out of thine eye, and then thou shalt see clear to  cast out the mote which is in the eye of thy brother.

42N   6     43    For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor  a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;

42N   6     44    for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not  gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.

42N   6     45    The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings  forth good; and the wicked [man] out of the wicked, brings  forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his  mouth speaks.

42N   6     46    And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that  I say?

42N   6     47    Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does  them, I will shew you to whom he is like.

42N   6     48    He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep,  and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the  stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it  had been founded on the rock.

42N   6     49    And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has  built a house on the ground without [a] foundation, on which  the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of  that house was great.

42N   7     1     And when he had completed all his words in the hearing of  the people, he entered into Capernaum.

42N   7     2     And a certain centurion's bondman who was dear to him was  ill and about to die;

42N   7     3     and having heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the  Jews, begging him that he might come and save his bondman.

42N   7     4     But they, being come to Jesus, besought him diligently,  saying, He is worthy to whom thou shouldest grant this,

42N   7     5     for he loves our nation, and himself has built the synagogue  for us.

42N   7     6     And Jesus went with them. But already, when he was not far  from the house, the centurion sent to him friends, saying to  him, Lord, do not trouble thyself, for I am not worthy that  thou shouldest enter under my roof.

42N   7     7     Wherefore neither did I count myself worthy to come to thee.  But say by a word and my servant shall be healed.

42N   7     8     For *I* also am a man placed under authority, having under  myself soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes; and  to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and  he does [it].

42N   7     9     And Jesus hearing this wondered at him, and turning to the  crowd following him said, I say to you, Not even in Israel have  I found so great faith.

42N   7     10    And they who had been sent returning to the house found the  bondman, who was ill, in good health.

42N   7     11    And it came to pass afterwards he went into a city called  Nain, and many of his disciples and a great crowd went with  him.

42N   7     12    And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead  man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a  widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city [was] with  her.

42N   7     13    And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for  her, and said to her, Weep not;

42N   7     14    and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped.  And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.

42N   7     15    And the dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to  his mother.

42N   7     16    And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A  great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has  visited his people.

42N   7     17    And this report went out in all Judaea concerning him, and  in all the surrounding country.

42N   7     18    And the disciples of John brought him word concerning all  these things:

42N   7     19    and John, having called two of his disciples, sent to  Jesus, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait  for another?

42N   7     20    But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has  sent us to thee, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are  we to wait for another?

42N   7     21    In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and  evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.

42N   7     22    And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to  John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk,  lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are  evangelized;

42N   7     23    and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.

42N   7     24    And the messengers of John having departed, he began to  speak to the crowds concerning John: What went ye out into the  wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?

42N   7     25    But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate  garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live  luxuriously are in the courts of kings.

42N   7     26    But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you,  and [what is] more excellent than a prophet.

42N   7     27    This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send  my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before  thee;

42N   7     28    for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a  greater [prophet] is no one than John [the baptist]; but he who  is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

42N   7     29    (And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers,  justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

42N   7     30    but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to  themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by  him.)

42N   7     31    To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation,  and to whom are they like?

42N   7     32    They are like children sitting in the market-place, and  calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye  have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

42N   7     33    For John the baptist has come neither eating bread nor  drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.

42N   7     34    The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say,  Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and  sinners;

42N   7     35    and wisdom has been justified of all her children.

42N   7     36    But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with  him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his  place at table;

42N   7     37    and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, and knew  that he was sitting at meat in the house of the Pharisee,  having taken an alabaster box of myrrh,

42N   7     38    and standing at his feet behind [him] weeping, began to  wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of  her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the  myrrh.

42N   7     39    And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with  himself saying, This [person] if he were a prophet would have  known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a  sinner.

42N   7     40    And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to  say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say [it].

42N   7     41    There were two debtors of a certain creditor: one owed five  hundred denarii and the other fifty;

42N   7     42    but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them  [their debt]: [say,] which of them therefore will love him  most?

42N   7     43    And Simon answering said, I suppose he to whom he forgave  the most. And he said to him, Thou hast rightly judged.

42N   7     44    And turning to the woman he said to Simon, Seest thou this  woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me not water on my  feet, but *she* has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them  with her hair.

42N   7     45    Thou gavest me not a kiss, but *she* from the time I came  in has not ceased kissing my feet.

42N   7     46    My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but *she* has  anointed my feet with myrrh.

42N   7     47    For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven;  for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves  little.

42N   7     48    And he said to her, Thy sins are forgiven.

42N   7     49    And they that were with [them] at table began to say within  themselves, Who is this who forgives also sins?

 

42N   7     50    And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee; go in  peace.

42N   8     1     And it came to pass afterwards that *he* went through [the  country] city by city, and village by village, preaching and  announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the  twelve [were] with him,

42N   8     2     and certain women who had been healed of wicked spirits and  infirmities, Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven  demons had gone out,

42N   8     3     and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and  many others, who ministered to him of their substance.

42N   8     4     And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming  to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:

42N   8     5     The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some  fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the  birds of the heaven devoured it up;

42N   8     6     and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was  dried up because it had not moisture;

42N   8     7     and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns  having sprung up with [it] choked it;

42N   8     8     and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up  bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He  that has ears to hear, let him hear.

42N   8     9     And his disciples asked him [saying], What may this parable  be?

42N   8     10    And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of  the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that  seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

42N   8     11    But the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

42N   8     12    But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the  devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may  not believe and be saved.

42N   8     13    But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive  the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a  time, and in time of trial fall away.

42N   8     14    But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they  who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches  and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

42N   8     15    But that in the good ground, these are they who in an  honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring  forth fruit with patience.

42N   8     16    And no one having lighted a lamp covers it with a vessel or  puts it under a couch, but sets it on a lamp-stand, that they  who enter in may see the light.

42N   8     17    For there is nothing hid which shall not become manifest,  nor secret which shall not be known and come to light.

42N   8     18    Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whosoever has, to him  shall be given, and whosoever has not, even what he seems to  have shall be taken from him.

42N   8     19    And his mother and his brethren came to him, and could not  get to him because of the crowd.

42N   8     20    And it was told him [saying], Thy mother and thy brethren  stand without, wishing to see thee.

42N   8     21    But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren  are those who hear the word of God and do [it].

42N   8     22    And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* entered  into a ship, himself and his disciples; and he said to them,  Let us pass over to the other side of the lake; and they set  off from shore.

42N   8     23    And as they sailed, he fell asleep; and a sudden squall of  wind came down on the lake, and they were filled [with water],  and were in danger;

42N   8     24    and coming to [him] they woke him up, saying, Master,  master, we perish. But he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the  raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.

42N   8     25    And he said to them, Where is your faith? And, being  afraid, they were astonished, saying to one another, Who then  is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and  they obey him?

42N   8     26    And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is  over against Galilee.

42N   8     27    And as he got out [of the ship] on the land, a certain man  out of the city met him, who had demons a long time, and put on  no clothes, and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs.

42N   8     28    But seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him,  and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus  Son of the Most High God? I beseech thee torment me not.

42N   8     29    For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the  man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound,  kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was  driven by the demon into the deserts.

42N   8     30    And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said,  Legion: for many demons had entered into him.

42N   8     31    And they besought him that he would not command them to go  away into the bottomless pit.

42N   8     32    And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the  mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to  enter into those; and he suffered them.

42N   8     33    And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the  swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake,  and were choked.

42N   8     34    But they that fed [them], seeing what had happened, fled,  and told [it] to the city and to the country.

42N   8     35    And they went out to see what had happened, and came to  Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out,  sitting, clothed and sensible, at the feet of Jesus. And they  were afraid.

42N   8     36    And they also who had seen it told them how the possessed  man had been healed.

42N   8     37    And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the  Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were  possessed with great fear; and *he*, entering into the ship,  returned.

42N   8     38    But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him  that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,

42N   8     39    Return to thine house and relate how great things God has  done for thee. And he went away through the whole city,  publishing how great things Jesus had done for him.

42N   8     40    And it came to pass when Jesus returned, the crowd received  him gladly, for they were all expecting him.

42N   8     41    And behold, a man came, whose name was Jairus, and he was  [a] ruler of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus  besought him to come to his house,

42N   8     42    because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old,  and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.

42N   8     43    And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years,  who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be  cured by any one,

42N   8     44    coming up behind, touched the hem of his garment, and  immediately her flux of blood stopped.

42N   8     45    And Jesus said, Who has touched me? But all denying, Peter  and those with him said, Master, the crowds close thee in and  press upon thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me?

42N   8     46    And Jesus said, Some one has touched me, for *I* have known  that power has gone out from me.

42N   8     47    And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling,  and falling down before him declared before all the people for  what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately  healed.

42N   8     48    And he said to her, [Be of good courage,] daughter; thy  faith has healed thee; go in peace.

42N   8     49    While he was yet speaking, comes some one from the ruler of  the synagogue, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; do not  trouble the teacher.

42N   8     50    But Jesus, hearing it, answered him saying, Fear not: only  believe, and she shall be made well.

42N   8     51    And when he came to the house he suffered no one to go in  but Peter and John and James and the father of the child and  the mother.

42N   8     52    And all were weeping and lamenting her. But he said, Do not  weep, for she has not died, but sleeps.

42N   8     53    And they derided him, knowing that she had died.

42N   8     54    But *he*, having turned them all out and taking hold of her  hand, cried saying, Child, arise.

42N   8     55    And her spirit returned, and immediately she rose up; and  he commanded [something] to eat to be given to her.

42N   8     56    And her parents were amazed; but he enjoined them to tell  no one what had happened.

42N   9     1     And having called together the twelve, he gave them power  and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases,

42N   9     2     and sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the  sick.

42N   9     3     And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither  staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; nor to have two  body-coats apiece.

42N   9     4     And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide and thence  go forth.

42N   9     5     And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that  city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness  against them.

42N   9     6     And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing  the glad tidings and healing everywhere.

42N   9     7     And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were  done [by him], and was in perplexity, because it was said by  some that John was risen from among [the] dead,

42N   9     8     and by some that Elias had appeared, and by others that one  of the old prophets had risen again.

42N   9     9     And Herod said, John *I* have beheaded, but who is this of  whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.

42N   9     10    And the apostles having returned related to him whatever  they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into [a  desert place of] a city called Bethsaida.

42N   9     11    But the crowds knowing [it] followed him; and he received  them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those  that had need of healing.

42N   9     12    But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said  to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages  around, and [into] the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for  here we are in a desert place.

42N   9     13    And he said to them, Give *ye them to eat. And they said,  We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless *we*  should go and buy food for all this people;

42N   9     14    for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his  disciples, Make them sit down in companies by fifties.

42N   9     15    And they did so, and made them all sit down.

42N   9     16    And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up  to heaven he blessed them, and broke and gave to the disciples  to set before the crowd.

42N   9     17    And they all ate and were filled; and there was taken up of  what had remained over and above to them in fragments twelve  hand-baskets.

42N   9     18    And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples  were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say  that I am?

42N   9     19    But they answering said, John the baptist; but others,  Elias; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen  again.

42N   9     20    And he said to them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And  Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

 

42N   9     21    But, earnestly charging them, he enjoined [them] to say  this to no man,

42N   9     22    saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be  rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be  killed, and the third day be raised up.

42N   9     23    And he said to [them] all, If any one will come after me,  let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;

42N   9     24    for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it,  but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, *he* shall save  it.

42N   9     25    For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the  whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of  the loss of himself?

42N   9     26    For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my  words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come  in his glory, and [in that] of the Father, and of the holy  angels.

42N   9     27    But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of those  standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have  seen the kingdom of God.

42N   9     28    And it came to pass after these words, about eight days,  that taking Peter and John and James he went up into a mountain  to pray.

42N   9     29    And as he prayed the fashion of his countenance became  different and his raiment white [and] effulgent.

42N   9     30    And lo, two men talked with him, who were Moses and Elias,

42N   9     31    who, appearing in glory, spoke of his departure which he  was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

42N   9     32    But Peter and those with him were oppressed with sleep: but  having fully awoke up they saw his glory, and the two men who  stood with him.

42N   9     33    And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said  to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make  three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for  Elias: not knowing what he said.

42N   9     34    But as he was saying these things, there came a cloud and  overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the  cloud:

42N   9     35    and there was a voice out of the cloud saying, *This* is my  beloved Son: hear him.

42N   9     36    And as the voice was [heard] Jesus was found alone: and  *they* kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the  things they had seen.

42N   9     37    And it came to pass on the following day, when they came  down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.

42N   9     38    And lo, a man from the crowd cried out saying, Teacher, I  beseech thee look upon my son, for he is mine only child:

42N   9     39    and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out,  and it tears him with foaming, and with difficulty departs from  him after crushing him.

42N   9     40    And I besought thy disciples that they might cast him out,  and they could not.

42N   9     41    And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted  generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring  hither thy son.

42N   9     42    But as he was yet coming, the demon tore him and dragged  him all together. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and  healed the child and gave him back to his father.

42N   9     43    And all were astonished at the glorious greatness of God.  And as all wondered at all the things which [Jesus] did, he  said to his disciples,

42N   9     44    Do *ye* let these words sink into your ears. For the Son of  man is about to be delivered into men's hands.

42N   9     45    But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from  them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask  him concerning this saying.

42N   9     46    And a reasoning came in amongst them, who should be [the]  greatest of them.

42N   9     47    And Jesus, seeing the reasoning of their heart, having  taken a little child set it by him,

42N   9     48    and said to them, Whosoever shall receive this little child  in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives  him that sent me. For he who is the least among you all, *he*  is great.

42N   9     49    And John answering said, Master, we saw some one casting  out demons in thy name, and we forbad him, because he follows  not with us.

42N   9     50    And Jesus said to him, Forbid [him] not, for he that is not  against you is for you.

42N   9     51    And it came to pass when the days of his receiving up were  fulfilled, that *he* stedfastly set his face to go to  Jerusalem.

42N   9     52    And he sent messengers before his face. And having gone  they entered into a village of the Samaritans that they might  make ready for him.

42N   9     53    And they did not receive him, because his face was [turned  as] going to Jerusalem.

42N   9     54    And his disciples James and John seeing [it] said, Lord,  wilt thou that we speak [that] fire come down from heaven and  consume them, as also Elias did?

42N   9     55    But turning he rebuked them [and said, Ye know not of what  spirit ye are].

42N   9     56    And they went to another village.

42N   9     57    And it came to pass as they went in the way, one said to  him, I will follow thee wheresoever thou goest, Lord.

42N   9     58    And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes and the birds  of the heaven roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where  he may lay his head.

42N   9     59    And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow  me to go first and bury my father.

42N   9     60    But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own  dead, but do *thou* go and announce the kingdom of God.

42N   9     61    And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first  allow me to bid adieu to those at my house.

42N   9     62    But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on [the]  plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

42N   10    1     Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others  also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city  and place where he himself was about to come.

42N   10    2     And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the  workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that  he may send out workmen into his harvest.

42N   10    3     Go: behold *I* send you forth as lambs in the midst of  wolves.

42N   10    4     Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no  one on the way.

42N   10    5     And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace to  this house.

42N   10    6     And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon  it; but if not it shall turn to you again.

42N   10    7     And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such  things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire.  Remove not from house to house.

42N   10    8     And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you,  eat what is set before you,

42N   10    9     and heal the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of  God is come nigh to you.

42N   10    10    But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do  not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

42N   10    11    Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the  feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the  kingdom of God is come nigh.

42N   10    12    I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in  that day than for that city.

42N   10    13    Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the  works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in  Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in  sackcloth and ashes.

42N   10    14    But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the  judgment than for you.

42N   10    15    And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven,  shalt be brought down even to hades.

42N   10    16    He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you  rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

42N   10    17    And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the  demons are subject to us through thy name.

42N   10    18    And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling  out of heaven.

42N   10    19    Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and  scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing  shall in anywise injure you.

42N   10    20    Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to  you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

42N   10    21    In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I  praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that  thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast  revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been  well-pleasing in thy sight.

42N   10    22    All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no  one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is  but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal  [him].

42N   10    23    And having turned to the disciples privately he said,  Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.

42N   10    24    For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired  to see the things which ye behold, and did not see [them]; and  to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear [them].

42N   10    25    And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and  saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life  eternal?

42N   10    26    And he said to him, What is written in the law? how  readest thou?

42N   10    27    But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God  with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy  strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour  as thyself.

42N   10    28    And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and  thou shalt live.

42N   10    29    But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And  who is my neighbour?

42N   10    30    And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from  Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into [the hands of] robbers, who  also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away  leaving him in a half-dead state.

42N   10    31    And a certain priest happened to go down that way, and  seeing him, passed on on the opposite side;

42N   10    32    and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came  and looked [at him] and passed on on the opposite side.

42N   10    33    But a certain Samaritan journeying came to him, and seeing  [him], was moved with compassion,

42N   10    34    and came up [to him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in  oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to  [the] inn and took care of him.

42N   10    35    And on the morrow [as he left], taking out two denarii he  gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him,  and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, *I* will render to thee  on my coming back.

42N   10    36    Which [now] of these three seems to thee to have been  neighbour of him who fell into [the hands of] the robbers?

42N   10    37    And he said, He that shewed him mercy. And Jesus said to  him, Go, and do *thou* likewise.

42N   10    38    And it came to pass as they went that *he* entered into a  certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received  him into her house.

42N   10    39    And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat  down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.

42N   10    40    Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up  she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me  to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.

42N   10    41    But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art  careful and troubled about many things;

42N   10    42    but there is need of one, and Mary has chosen the good  part, the which shall not be taken from her.

42N   11    1     And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying,  when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach  us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.

42N   11    2     And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be  hallowed; thy kingdom come;

 

42N   11    3     give us our needed bread for each day;

42N   11    4     and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one  indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.

42N   11    5     And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and  shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have  three loaves,

42N   11    6     since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I  have nothing to set before him;

42N   11    7     and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the  door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I  cannot rise up to give [it] thee?

42N   11    8     -- I say to you, Although he will not get up and give  [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his  shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many  as he wants.

42N   11    9     And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you;  seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

42N   11    10    For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds;  and to him that knocks it will be opened.

42N   11    11    But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread,  and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and  instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

42N   11    12    or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?

42N   11    13    If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts  to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of  heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

42N   11    14    And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it  came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb [man] spoke.  And the crowds wondered.

42N   11    15    But some from among them said, By Beelzebub the prince of  the demons casts he out demons.

42N   11    16    And others tempting [him] sought from him a sign out of  heaven.

42N   11    17    But *he*, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every  kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a  house set against a house falls;

42N   11    18    and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall  his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by  Beelzebub.

42N   11    19    But if *I* by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons -- by  whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be  your judges.

42N   11    20    But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the  kingdom of God is come upon you.

42N   11    21    When the strong [man] armed keeps his own house, his goods  are in peace;

42N   11    22    but when the stronger than he coming upon [him] overcomes  him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will  divide the spoil [he has taken] from him.

42N   11    23    He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers  not with me scatters.

42N   11    24    When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes  through dry places seeking rest; and not finding [any] he says,  I will return to my house whence I came out.

42N   11    25    And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

42N   11    26    Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than  himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last  condition of that man becomes worse than the first.

42N   11    27    And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain  woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him,  Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which  thou hast sucked.

42N   11    28    But *he* said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the  word of God and keep [it].

42N   11    29    But as the crowds thronged together, he began to say, This  generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign, and a sign  shall not be given to it but the sign of Jonas.

42N   11    30    For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, thus shall also  the Son of man be to this generation.

42N   11    31    A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with  the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she  came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;  and behold, more than Solomon is here.

42N   11    32    Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this  generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the  preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.

42N   11    33    But no one having lit a lamp sets it in secret, nor under  the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, that they who enter in  may see the light.

42N   11    34    The lamp of the body is thine eye: when thine eye is  simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked,  thy body also is dark.

42N   11    35    See therefore that the light which is in thee be not  darkness.

42N   11    36    If therefore thy whole body [is] light, not having any  part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee  with its brightness.

42N   11    37    But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he  would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at  table.

42N   11    38    But the Pharisee seeing [it] wondered that he had not  first washed before dinner.

42N   11    39    But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the  outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward [parts] are  full of plunder and wickedness.

42N   11    40    Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside  also?

42N   11    41    But rather give alms of what ye have, and behold, all  things are clean to you.

42N   11    42    But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and  rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of  God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those  aside.

42N   11    43    Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the  synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

42N   11    44    Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear  not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].

42N   11    45    And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him,  Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.

42N   11    46    And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye  lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch  the burdens with one of your fingers.

42N   11    47    Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets,  but your fathers killed them.

42N   11    48    Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your  fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build [their  sepulchres].

42N   11    49    For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will  send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they  kill and drive out by persecution,

42N   11    50    that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured  out from the foundation of the world may be required of this  generation,

42N   11    51    from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who  perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it  shall be required of this generation.

42N   11    52    Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken  away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and  those who were entering in ye have hindered.

42N   11    53    And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the  Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of  many things;

42N   11    54    watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his  mouth, [that they might accuse him].

42N   12    1     In those [times], the myriads of the crowd being gathered  together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to  his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,  which is hypocrisy;

42N   12    2     but there is nothing covered up which shall not be  revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;

42N   12    3     therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be  heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in  chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

42N   12    4     But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the  body and after this have no more that they can do.

42N   12    5     But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after  he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to  you, Fear *him*.

42N   12    6     Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them  is not forgotten before God.

42N   12    7     But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not  therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.

42N   12    8     But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men,  the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;

42N   12    9     but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied  before the angels of God;

42N   12    10    and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it  shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously  against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

42N   12    11    But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers  and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall  answer, or what ye shall say;

42N   12    12    for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the hour itself  what should be said.

42N   12    13    And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak  to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

42N   12    14    But he said to him, Man, who established me [as] a judge  or a divider over you?

42N   12    15    And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from  all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance  [that] his life is in his possessions.

42N   12    16    And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a  certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

42N   12    17    And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do?  for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits.

42N   12    18    And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries  and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and  my good things;

42N   12    19    and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good  things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be  merry.

42N   12    20    But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be  required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

42N   12    21    Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not  rich toward God.

42N   12    22    And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto  you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the  body, what ye shall put on.

42N   12    23    The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

42N   12    24    Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which  have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How  much better are *ye* than the birds?

42N   12    25    But which of you by being careful can add to his stature  one cubit?

42N   12    26    If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye  careful about the rest?

42N   12    27    Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor  spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was  clothed as one of these.

42N   12    28    But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the  field and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather  you, O ye of little faith?

42N   12    29    And *ye*, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall  drink, and be not in anxiety;

42N   12    30    for all these things do the nations of the world seek  after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

42N   12    31    but seek his kingdom, and [all] these things shall be  added to you.

42N   12    32    Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure  of your Father to give you the kingdom.

42N   12    33    Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves  purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in  the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

42N   12    34    For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

42N   12    35    Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;

42N   12    36    and *ye* like men who wait their own lord whenever he may  leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open  to him immediately.

42N   12    37    Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall  find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself  and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

42N   12    38    And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third  watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].

42N   12    39    But this know, that if the master of the house had known  in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and  not have suffered his house to be dug through.

42N   12    40    And ye therefore, be *ye* ready, for in the hour in which  ye do not think [it], the Son of man comes.

42N   12    41    And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to  us, or also to all?

42N   12    42    And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent  steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the  measure of corn in season?

42N   12    43    Blessed is that bondman whom his lord [on] coming shall  find doing thus;

42N   12    44    verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that  he has.

42N   12    45    But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord  delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the  maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

42N   12    46    the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does  not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut  him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

42N   12    47    But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not  prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many  [stripes];

42N   12    48    but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of  stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom  much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to  whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the  more.

42N   12    49    I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I  if already it has been kindled?

42N   12    50    But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I  straitened until it shall have been accomplished!

42N   12    51    Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay,  I say to you, but rather division:

42N   12    52    for from henceforth there shall be five in one house  divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against  three:

42N   12    53    father against son, and son against father; mother against  daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against  her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her  mother-in-law.

42N   12    54    And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising  out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so  it happens.

42N   12    55    And when [ye see] the south wind blow, ye say, There will  be heat; and it happens.

42N   12    56    Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the  earth and of the heaven; how [is it then that] ye do not  discern this time?

42N   12    57    And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

42N   12    58    For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a  magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest  he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver  thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

42N   12    59    I say unto thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence  until thou hast paid the very last mite.

42N   13    1     Now at the same time there were present some who told him  of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of]  their sacrifices.

42N   13    2     And he answering said to them, Think ye that these  Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they  suffered such things?

42N   13    3     No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish  in the same manner.

42N   13    4     Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and  killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the  men who dwell in Jerusalem?

42N   13    5     No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish  in like manner.

42N   13    6     And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree  planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and  did not find [any].

42N   13    7     And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years  I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it  down; why does it also render the ground useless?

42N   13    8     But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this  year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

42N   13    9     and if it shall bear fruit -- but if not, after that thou  shalt cut it down.

42N   13    10    And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the  sabbath.

42N   13    11    And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity  eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to  lift her head up.

42N   13    12    And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her,  Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

42N   13    13    And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was  made straight, and glorified God.

42N   13    14    But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus  healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are  six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore  come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

42N   13    15    The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does  not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from  the manger and leading [it] away, water [it]?

42N   13    16    And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan  has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be  loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

42N   13    17    And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him  were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious  things which were being done by him.

42N   13    18    And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to  what shall I liken it?

42N   13    19    It is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and  cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and  the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.

42N   13    20    And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of  God?

42N   13    21    It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three  measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

42N   13    22    And he went through one city and village after another,  teaching, and journeying to Jerusalem.

42N   13    23    And one said to him, Sir, [are] such as are to be saved  few in number? But he said unto them,

42N   13    24    Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow  door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will  not be able.

42N   13    25    From the time that the master of the house shall have  risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to  stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to  us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye  are:

42N   13    26    then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence  and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

42N   13    27    and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye  are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.

42N   13    28    There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when  ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets  in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

42N   13    29    And they shall come from east and west, and from north and  south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

42N   13    30    And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there  are first who shall be last.

42N   13    31    The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him,  Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

42N   13    32    And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out  demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third  [day] I am perfected;

42N   13    33    but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the [day]  following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of  Jerusalem.

42N   13    34    Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that kills the prophets  and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have  gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her  wings, and ye would not.

42N   13    35    Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you,  that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed  [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.

42N   14    1     And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of  the rulers, [who was] of the Pharisees, to eat bread on [the]  sabbath, that *they* were watching him.

42N   14    2     And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.

42N   14    3     And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and  Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

42N   14    4     But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let  him go.

42N   14    5     And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass  or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him  up on the sabbath day?

42N   14    6     And they were not able to answer him to these things.

42N   14    7     And he spoke a parable to those that were invited,  remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

42N   14    8     When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay  thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more  honourable than thou be invited by him,

42N   14    9     and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give  place to this [man], and then thou begin with shame to take the  last place.

42N   14    10    But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down  in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he  may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have  honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

42N   14    11    for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he  that abases himself shall be exalted.

42N   14    12    And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou  makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy  brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be  they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be  made thee.

42N   14    13    But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame,  blind:

42N   14    14    and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not [the means]  to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the  resurrection of the just.

42N   14    15    And one of those that were lying at table with [them],  hearing these things, said to him, Blessed [is] he who shall  eat bread in the kingdom of God.

42N   14    16    And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and  invited many.

42N   14    17    And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to  those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

42N   14    18    And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves.  The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out  and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

42N   14    19    And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I  go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

42N   14    20    And another said, I have married a wife, and on this  account I cannot come.

42N   14    21    And the bondman came up and brought back word of these  things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger,  said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes  of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and  blind.

42N   14    22    And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast  commanded, and there is still room.

42N   14    23    And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and  fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

42N   14    24    for I say to you, that not one of those men who were  invited shall taste of my supper.

42N   14    25    And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he  said to them,

42N   14    26    If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father  and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters,  yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

42N   14    27    and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me  cannot be my disciple.

42N   14    28    For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not  first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed]  to complete it;

42N   14    29    in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not  being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at  him,

42N   14    30    saying, This man began to build and was not able to  finish?

42N   14    31    Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with  another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel  whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against  him with twenty thousand?

42N   14    32    and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an  embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

42N   14    33    Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is  his own cannot be my disciple.

42N   14    34    Salt [then] [is] good, but if the salt also has become  savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

42N   14    35    It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast  out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

42N   15    1     And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near  to him to hear him;

42N   15    2     and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This  [man] receives sinners and eats with them.

42N   15    3     And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

42N   15    4     What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one  of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness  and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

42N   15    5     and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders,  rejoicing;

42N   15    6     and being come to the house, calls together the friends and  the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have  found my lost sheep.

42N   15    7     I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for  one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous  who have no need of repentance.

42N   15    8     Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one  drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek  carefully till she find it?

42N   15    9     and having found it she calls together the friends and  neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the  drachma which I had lost.

42N   15    10    Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of  God for one repenting sinner.

42N   15    11    And he said, A certain man had two sons;

42N   15    12    and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give  to me the share of the property that falls [to me]. And he  divided to them what he was possessed of.

42N   15    13    And after not many days the younger son gathering all  together went away into a country a long way off, and there  dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

42N   15    14    But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine  throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

42N   15    15    And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of  that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

42N   15    16    And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the  swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

42N   15    17    And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of  my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by  famine.

42N   15    18    I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him,  Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

42N   15    19    I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one  of thy hired servants.

42N   15    20    And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he  was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with  compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him  with kisses.

42N   15    21    And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against  heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy  son.

42N   15    22    But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best  robe and clothe him in [it], and put a ring on his hand and  sandals on his feet;

42N   15    23    and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and  make merry:

42N   15    24    for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost  and has been found. And they began to make merry.

42N   15    25    And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming [up],  he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

42N   15    26    And having called one of the servants, he inquired what  these things might be.

42N   15    27    And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father  has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and  well.

42N   15    28    But he became angry and would not go in. And his father  went out and besought him.

42N   15    29    But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years  I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of  thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make  merry with my friends:

42N   15    30    but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with  harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

42N   15    31    But he said to him, Child, *thou* art ever with me, and  all that is mine is thine.

 

42N   15    32    But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this  thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost  and has been found.

42N   16    1     And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain  rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as  wasting his goods.

42N   16    2     And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that  I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou  canst be no longer steward.

42N   16    3     And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for  my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to  dig; I am ashamed to beg.

42N   16    4     I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed  from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

42N   16    5     And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his  own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

42N   16    6     And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him,  Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

42N   16    7     Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe?  And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take  thy writing and write eighty.

42N   16    8     And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had  done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own  generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

42N   16    9     And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the  mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be  received into the eternal tabernacles.

42N   16    10    He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much;  and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in  much.

42N   16    11    If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous  mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

42N   16    12    and if ye have not been faithful in that which is  another's, who shall give to you your own?

42N   16    13    No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate  the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one  and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

42N   16    14    And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these  things, and mocked him.

42N   16    15    And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves  before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is  highly thought of is an abomination before God.

42N   16    16    The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time  the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every  one forces his way into it.

42N   16    17    But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass  away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

42N   16    18    Every one who puts away his wife and marries another  commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from  a husband commits adultery.

42N   16    19    Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and  fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

42N   16    20    And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was  laid at his gateway full of sores,

42N   16    21    and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from  the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his  sores.

42N   16    22    And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he  was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And  the rich man also died and was buried.

42N   16    23    And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he  sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

42N   16    24    And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on  me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in  water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

42N   16    25    But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully  received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus  evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in  suffering.

42N   16    26    And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is  fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot,  nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

42N   16    27    And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou  wouldest send him to the house of my father,

42N   16    28    for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify  to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

42N   16    29    But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets:  let them hear them.

42N   16    30    But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead  should go to them, they will repent.

42N   16    31    And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the  prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they  be persuaded.

42N   17    1     And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that  offences come, but woe [to him] by whom they come!

42N   17    2     It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were  hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he  should be a snare to one of these little ones.

42N   17    3     Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke  him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

42N   17    4     And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day,  and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou  shalt forgive him.

42N   17    5     And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.

42N   17    6     But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard  [seed], ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up,  and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

42N   17    7     But which of you [is there] who, having a bondman ploughing  or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say,  Come and lie down immediately to table?

42N   17    8     But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on,  and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and  after that *thou* shalt eat and drink?

42N   17    9     Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was  ordered? I judge not.

42N   17    10    Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that  have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we  have done what it was our duty to do.

42N   17    11    And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that  he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

42N   17    12    And as he entered into a certain village ten leprous men  met him, who stood afar off.

42N   17    13    And they lifted up [their] voice saying, Jesus, Master,  have compassion on us.

42N   17    14    And seeing [them] he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to  the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were  cleansed.

42N   17    15    And one of them, seeing that he was cured, turned back,  glorifying God with a loud voice,

42N   17    16    and fell on [his] face at his feet giving him thanks: and  *he* was a Samaritan.

42N   17    17    And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed? but  the nine, where [are they]?

42N   17    18    There have not been found to return and give glory to God  save this stranger.

42N   17    19    And he said to him, Rise up and go thy way: thy faith has  made thee well.

42N   17    20    And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the  kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom  of God does not come with observation;

42N   17    21    nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the  kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

42N   17    22    And he said to the disciples, Days are coming, when ye  shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and  shall not see [it].

42N   17    23    And they will say to you, Lo here, or Lo there; go not,  nor follow [them].

42N   17    24    For as the lightning shines which lightens from [one end]  under heaven to [the other end] under heaven, thus shall the  Son of man be in his day.

42N   17    25    But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of  this generation.

42N   17    26    And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall  it be in the days of the Son of man:

42N   17    27    they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in  marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the  flood came and destroyed all [of them];

42N   17    28    and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they  ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they  builded;

42N   17    29    but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained  fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all [of them]:

42N   17    30    after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of  man is revealed.

42N   17    31    In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his  stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he  that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

42N   17    32    Remember the wife of Lot.

42N   17    33    Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and  whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

42N   17    34    I say to you, In that night there shall be two [men] upon  one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

42N   17    35    Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be  seized and the other shall be let go.

42N   17    36    [Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized  and the other let go.]

42N   17    37    And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to  them, Where the body [is], there the eagles will be gathered  together.

42N   18    1     And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that  they should always pray and not faint,

42N   18    2     saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God and  not respecting man:

42N   18    3     and there was a widow in that city, and she came to him,  saying, Avenge me of mine adverse party.

42N   18    4     And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within  himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

42N   18    5     at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her,  that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.

42N   18    6     And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

42N   18    7     And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him  day and night, and he bears long as to them?

42N   18    8     I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when  the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?

42N   18    9     And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that  they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of men],  this parable:

42N   18    10    Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a  Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.

42N   18    11    The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I  thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust,  adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

42N   18    12    I fast twice in the week, I tithe everything I gain.

42N   18    13    And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up  even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O  God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

42N   18    14    I say unto you, This [man] went down to his house  justified rather than that [other]. For every one who exalts  himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be  exalted.

42N   18    15    And they brought to him also infants that he might touch  them, but the disciples when they saw [it] rebuked them.

42N   18    16    But Jesus calling them to [him] said, Suffer little  children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is  the kingdom of God.

42N   18    17    Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the  kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter  therein.

42N   18    18    And a certain ruler asked him saying, Good teacher, having  done what, shall I inherit eternal life?

42N   18    19    But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is  none good but one, God.

42N   18    20    Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do  not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy  father and thy mother.

42N   18    21    And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth.

42N   18    22    And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing  is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute  to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and  come, follow me.

42N   18    23    But when he heard this he became very sorrowful, for he  was very rich.

42N   18    24    But when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, he said,  How difficultly shall those who have riches enter into the  kingdom of God;

42N   18    25    for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's  eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

42N   18    26    And those who heard it said, And who can be saved?

42N   18    27    But he said, The things that are impossible with men are  possible with God.

42N   18    28    And Peter said, Behold, *we* have left all things and have  followed thee.

42N   18    29    And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one  who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or  children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

42N   18    30    who shall not receive manifold more at this time, and in  the coming age life eternal.

42N   18    31    And he took the twelve to [him] and said to them, Behold,  we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the  Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;

42N   18    32    for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be  mocked, and insulted, and spit upon.

42N   18    33    And when they have scourged [him] they will kill him; and  on the third day he will rise again.

42N   18    34    And they understood nothing of these things. And this word  was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.

42N   18    35    And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of  Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.

42N   18    36    And when he heard the crowd passing, he inquired what this  might be.

42N   18    37    And they told him that Jesus the Nazaraean was passing by.

42N   18    38    And he called out saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy  on me.

42N   18    39    And those [who were] going before rebuked him that he  might be silent; but *he* cried out so much the more, Son of  David, have mercy on me.

42N   18    40    And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be led to him.  And when he drew nigh he asked him [saying],

42N   18    41    What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? And he said, Lord,  that I may see.

42N   18    42    And Jesus said to him, See: thy faith has healed thee.

 

42N   18    43    And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God.  And all the people when they saw [it] gave praise to God.

42N   19    1     And he entered and passed through Jericho.

42N   19    2     And behold, [there was] a man by name called Zacchaeus, and  he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.

42N   19    3     And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for  the crowd, because he was little in stature.

42N   19    4     And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he  might see him, for he was going to pass that [way].

42N   19    5     And when he came up to the place, Jesus looked up and saw  him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for  to-day I must remain in thy house.

42N   19    6     And he made haste and came down, and received him with joy.

42N   19    7     And all murmured when they saw [it], saying, He has turned  in to lodge with a sinful man.

42N   19    8     But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the  half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken  anything from any man by false accusation, I return [him]  fourfold.

42N   19    9     And Jesus said to him, To-day salvation is come to this  house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

42N   19    10    for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which  is lost.

42N   19    11    But as they were listening to these things, he added and  spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they  thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately  manifested.

42N   19    12    He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a  distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.

42N   19    13    And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten  minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.

42N   19    14    But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him,  saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us.

42N   19    15    And it came to pass on his arrival back again, having  received the kingdom, that he desired these bondmen to whom he  gave the money to be called to him, in order that he might know  what every one had gained by trading.

42N   19    16    And the first came up, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has  produced ten minas.

42N   19    17    And he said to him, Well [done], thou good bondman;  because thou hast been faithful in that which is least, be thou  in authority over ten cities.

42N   19    18    And the second came, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has made  five minas.

42N   19    19    And he said also to this one, And *thou*, be over five  cities.

42N   19    20    And another came, saying, [My] Lord, lo, [there is] thy  mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.

42N   19    21    For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou  takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what  thou hast not sowed.

42N   19    22    He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked  bondman: thou knewest that *I* am a harsh man, taking up what I  have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.

42N   19    23    And why didst thou not give my money to [the] bank; and  *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?

42N   19    24    And he said to those that stood by, Take from him the mina  and give [it] to him who has the ten minas.

42N   19    25    And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas.

42N   19    26    For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be  given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall  be taken from him.

42N   19    27    Moreover those mine enemies, who would not [have] me to  reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.

42N   19    28    And having said these things, he went on before, going up  to Jerusalem.

42N   19    29    And it came to pass as he drew near to Bethphage and  Bethany at the mountain called [the mount] of Olives, he sent  two of his disciples,

42N   19    30    saying, Go into the village over against [you], in which  ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no  [child] of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it  [here].

42N   19    31    And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose [it]? thus shall  ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.

42N   19    32    And they that were sent, having gone their way, found as  he had said to them.

42N   19    33    And as they were loosing the colt, its masters said to  them, Why loose ye the colt?

42N   19    34    And they said, Because the Lord has need of it.

42N   19    35    And they led it to Jesus; and having cast their own  garments on the colt, they put Jesus on [it].

42N   19    36    And as he went, they strewed their clothes in the way.

42N   19    37    And as he drew near, already at the descent of the mount  of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing,  to praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power  which they had seen,

42N   19    38    saying, Blessed the King that comes in the name of [the]  Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

42N   19    39    And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him,  Teacher, rebuke thy disciples.

42N   19    40    And he answering said to them, I say unto you, If these  shall be silent, the stones will cry out.

42N   19    41    And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,

42N   19    42    saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in  this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they  are hid from thine eyes;

42N   19    43    for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall  make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around,  and keep thee in on every side,

42N   19    44    and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children  in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone:  because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.

42N   19    45    And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those  that sold and bought in it,

42N   19    46    saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of  prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.

42N   19    47    And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the  chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people  sought to destroy him,

42N   19    48    and did not find what they could do, for all the people  hung on him to hear.

42N   20    1     And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching  the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the  chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,

42N   20    2     and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou  doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this  authority?

42N   20    3     And he answering said to them, *I* also will ask you [one]  thing, and tell me:

42N   20    4     The baptism of John, was it of heaven or of men?

42N   20    5     And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should  say, Of heaven, he will say, Why have ye not believed him?

42N   20    6     but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone  us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

42N   20    7     And they answered, they did not know whence.

42N   20    8     And Jesus said to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what  authority I do these things.

42N   20    9     And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man  planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the  country for a long time.

42N   20    10    And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman,  that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but  the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent [him] away empty.

42N   20    11    And again he sent another bondman; but they, having beaten  him also, and cast insult upon him, sent [him] away empty.

42N   20    12    And again he sent a third; and they, having wounded him  also, cast [him] out.

42N   20    13    And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will  send my beloved son: perhaps when they see him they will  respect [him].

42N   20    14    But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among  themselves, saying, This is the heir; [come,] let us kill him,  that the inheritance may become ours.

42N   20    15    And having cast him forth out of the vineyard, they killed  [him]. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to  them?

42N   20    16    He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give  the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May  it never be!

42N   20    17    But he looking at them said, What then is this that is  written, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has  become the corner-stone?

42N   20    18    Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on  whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

42N   20    19    And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour  to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew  that he had spoken this parable of them.

42N   20    20    And having watched [him], they sent out suborned persons,  pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in  [his] language, so that they might deliver him up to the power  and authority of the governor.

42N   20    21    And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that thou  sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest no [man's] person,  but teachest with truth the way of God:

42N   20    22    Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

42N   20    23    But perceiving their deceit he said to them, Why do ye  tempt me?

42N   20    24    Shew me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it?  And answering they said, Caesar's.

42N   20    25    And he said to them, Pay therefore what is Caesar's to  Caesar, and what is God's to God.

42N   20    26    And they were not able to take hold of him in [his]  expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer,  they were silent.

42N   20    27    And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any  resurrection, coming up [to him],

42N   20    28    demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any  one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his  brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.

42N   20    29    There were then seven brethren: and the first, having  taken a wife, died childless;

42N   20    30    and the second [took the woman, and *he* died childless];

42N   20    31    and the third took her: and in like manner also the seven  left no children and died;

42N   20    32    and last of all the woman also died.

42N   20    33    In the resurrection therefore of which of them does she  become wife, for the seven had her as wife?

42N   20    34    And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and  are given in marriage,

42N   20    35    but they who are counted worthy to have part in that  world, and the resurrection from among [the] dead, neither  marry nor are given in marriage;

42N   20    36    for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to  angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

42N   20    37    But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in [the section  of] the bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham and  the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;

42N   20    38    but he is not God of [the] dead but of [the] living; for  all live for him.

42N   20    39    And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast  well spoken.

42N   20    40    For they did not dare any more to ask him anything.

42N   20    41    And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is  David's son,

42N   20    42    and David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord  said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand

42N   20    43    until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet?

42N   20    44    David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?

42N   20    45    And, as all the people were listening, he said to his  disciples,

42N   20    46    Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long  robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first  seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

42N   20    47    who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make  long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

42N   21    1     And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into  the treasury;

42N   21    2     but he saw also a certain poor widow casting therein two  mites.

42N   21    3     And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow  has cast in more than all;

42N   21    4     for all these out of their abundance have cast into the  gifts [of God]; but she out of her need has cast in all the  living which she had.

42N   21    5     And as some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with  goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,

42N   21    6     [As to] these things which ye are beholding, days are  coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which  shall not be thrown down.

42N   21    7     And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these  things be; and what [is] the sign when these things are going  to take place?

42N   21    8     And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall  come in my name, saying, *I* am [he], and the time is drawn  nigh: go ye not [therefore] after them.

42N   21    9     And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not  terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end  is not immediately.

42N   21    10    Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation,  and kingdom against kingdom;

42N   21    11    there shall be both great earthquakes in different places,  and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights  and great signs from heaven.

42N   21    12    But before all these things they shall lay their hands  upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues  and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on  account of my name;

42N   21    13    but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

42N   21    14    Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand  [your] defence,

42N   21    15    for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your  opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.

42N   21    16    But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren  and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some]  from among you,

42N   21    17    and ye will be hated of all for my name's sake.

42N   21    18    And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.

42N   21    19    By your patient endurance gain your souls.

42N   21    20    But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then  know that its desolation is drawn nigh.

42N   21    21    Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains,  and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who  are in the country not enter into it;

42N   21    22    for these are days of avenging, that all the things that  are written may be accomplished.

42N   21    23    But woe to them that are with child and to them who give  suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the  land and wrath upon this people.

42N   21    24    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led  captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden  down of [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be  fulfilled.

42N   21    25    And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and  upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity [at] the roar  of the sea and rolling waves,

42N   21    26    men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is  coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens  shall be shaken.

42N   21    27    And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud  with power and great glory.

42N   21    28    But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and  lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh.

42N   21    29    And he spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig-tree and  all the trees;

42N   21    30    when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, [on]  looking [at them], that already the summer is near.

42N   21    31    So also *ye*, when ye see these things take place, know  that the kingdom of God is near.

42N   21    32    Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall in no  wise pass away until all come to pass.

42N   21    33    The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words  shall in no wise pass away.

42N   21    34    But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be  laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that  day come upon you suddenly unawares;

42N   21    35    for as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell upon  the face of the whole earth.

42N   21    36    Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be  accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to  come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

42N   21    37    And by day he was teaching in the temple, and by night,  going out, he remained abroad on the mountain called [the  mount] of Olives;

42N   21    38    and all the people came early in the morning to him in the  temple to hear him.

42N   22    1     Now the feast of unleavened bread, which [is] called the  passover, drew nigh,

42N   22    2     and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might  kill him; for they feared the people.

42N   22    3     And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariote,  being of the number of the twelve.

42N   22    4     And he went away and spoke with the chief priests and  captains as to how he should deliver him up to them.

42N   22    5     And they were rejoiced, and agreed to give him money.

42N   22    6     And he came to an agreement to do it, and sought an  opportunity to deliver him up to them away from the crowd.

42N   22    7     And the day of unleavened bread came, in which the passover  was to be killed.

42N   22    8     And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the  passover for us, that we may eat [it].

42N   22    9     But they said to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare [it]?

42N   22    10    And he said to them, Behold, as ye enter into the city a  man will meet you, carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow  him into the house where he goes in;

42N   22    11    and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher  says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the  passover with my disciples?

42N   22    12    And *he* will shew you a large upper room furnished: there  make ready.

42N   22    13    And having gone they found it as he had said to them; and  they prepared the passover.

42N   22    14    And when the hour was come, he placed himself at table,  and the [twelve] apostles with him.

42N   22    15    And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat  this passover with you before I suffer.

42N   22    16    For I say unto you, that I will not eat any more at all of  it until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

42N   22    17    And having received a cup, when he had given thanks he  said, Take this and divide it among yourselves.

42N   22    18    For I say unto you, that I will not drink at all of the  fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God come.

42N   22    19    And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he  broke [it], and gave [it] to them, saying, This is my body  which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

42N   22    20    In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying,  This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out  for you.

42N   22    21    Moreover, behold, the hand of him that delivers me up [is]  with me on the table;

42N   22    22    and the Son of man indeed goes as it is determined, but  woe unto that man by whom he is delivered up.

42N   22    23    And *they* began to question together among themselves who  then it could be of them who was about to do this.

42N   22    24    And there was also a strife among them which of them  should be held to be [the] greatest.

42N   22    25    And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over  them, and they that exercise authority over them are called  benefactors.

42N   22    26    But *ye* [shall] not [be] thus; but let the greater among  you be as the younger, and the leader as he that serves.

42N   22    27    For which [is] greater, he that is at table or he that  serves? [Is] not he that is at table? But *I* am in the midst  of you as the one that serves.

42N   22    28    But *ye* are they who have persevered with me in my  temptations.

42N   22    29    And *I* appoint unto you, as my Father has appointed unto  me, a kingdom,

42N   22    30    that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and  sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

42N   22    31    And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has  demanded to have you, to sift [you] as wheat;

42N   22    32    but *I* have besought for thee that thy faith fail not;  and *thou*, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy  brethren.

42N   22    33    And he said to him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go both  to prison and to death.

42N   22    34    And he said, I tell thee, Peter, [the] cock shall not crow  to-day before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.

42N   22    35    And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and  scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said,  Nothing.

42N   22    36    He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let  him take [it], in like manner also a scrip, and he that has  none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;

42N   22    37    for I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be  accomplished in me, And he was reckoned with [the] lawless: for  also the things concerning me have an end.

42N   22    38    And they said, Lord, behold here are two swords. And he  said to them, It is enough.

42N   22    39    And going forth he went according to his custom to the  mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.

42N   22    40    And when he was at the place he said to them, Pray that ye  enter not into temptation.

42N   22    41    And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and  having knelt down he prayed,

42N   22    42    saying, Father, if thou wilt remove this cup from me: --  but then, not my will, but thine be done.

42N   22    43    And an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening  him.

42N   22    44    And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his  sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the  earth.

42N   22    45    And rising up from his prayer, coming to the disciples, he  found them sleeping from grief.

 

42N   22    46    And he said to them, Why sleep ye? rise up and pray that  ye enter not into temptation.

42N   22    47    As he was yet speaking, behold, a crowd, and he that was  called Judas, one of the twelve, went on before them, and drew  near to Jesus to kiss him.

42N   22    48    And Jesus said to him, Judas, deliverest thou up the Son  of man with a kiss?

42N   22    49    And they who were around him, seeing what was going to  follow, said [to him], Lord, shall we smite with [the] sword?

42N   22    50    And a certain one from among them smote the bondman of the  high priest and took off his right ear.

42N   22    51    And Jesus answering said, Suffer thus far; and having  touched his ear, he healed him.

42N   22    52    And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the  temple and elders, who were come against him, Have ye come out  as against a robber with swords and sticks?

42N   22    53    When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not  stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and  the power of darkness.

42N   22    54    And having laid hold on him, they led him [away], and they  led [him] into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed  afar off.

42N   22    55    And they having lit a fire in the midst of the court and  sat down together, Peter sat among them.

42N   22    56    And a certain maid, having seen him sitting by the light,  and having fixed her eyes upon him, said, And this [man] was  with him.

42N   22    57    But he denied [him], saying, Woman, I do not know him.

42N   22    58    And after a short time another seeing him said, And *thou*  art of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.

42N   22    59    And after the lapse of about one hour another stoutly  maintained it, saying, In truth this [man] also was with him,  for also he is a Galilaean.

42N   22    60    And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And  immediately, while he was yet speaking, [the] cock crew.

42N   22    61    And the Lord, turning round, looked at Peter; and Peter  remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, Before  [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.

42N   22    62    And Peter, going forth without, wept bitterly.

42N   22    63    And the men who held him mocked him, beating [him];

42N   22    64    and covering him up, asked him saying, Prophesy, who is it  that struck thee?

42N   22    65    And they said many other injurious things to him.

42N   22    66    And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both  [the] chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and  led him into their council, saying,

42N   22    67    If *thou* art the Christ, tell us. And he said to them, If  I tell you, ye will not at all believe;

42N   22    68    and if I should ask [you], ye would not answer me at all,  nor let me go;

42N   22    69    but henceforth shall the Son of man be sitting on the  right hand of the power of God.

42N   22    70    And they all said, *Thou* then art the Son of God? And he  said to them, *Ye* say that I am.

42N   22    71    And they said, What need have we any more of witness, for  we have heard ourselves out of his mouth?

42N   23    1     And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to  Pilate.

42N   23    2     And they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this  [man] perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to  Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

42N   23    3     And Pilate demanded of him saying, Art *thou* the king of  the Jews? And he answering him said, Thou sayest.

42N   23    4     And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find  no guilt in this man.

42N   23    5     But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching  throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.

42N   23    6     But Pilate, having heard Galilee [named], demanded if the  man were a Galilaean;

42N   23    7     and having learned that he was of Herod's jurisdiction,  remitted him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in  those days.

42N   23    8     And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had  been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing  many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done  by him;

42N   23    9     and he questioned him in many words, but *he* answered him  nothing.

42N   23    10    And the chief priests and the scribes stood and accused  him violently.

42N   23    11    And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and  mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back  to Pilate.

42N   23    12    And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the  same day, for they had been at enmity before between  themselves.

42N   23    13    And Pilate, having called together the chief priests and  the rulers and the people,

42N   23    14    said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning  away the people [to rebellion], and behold, I, having examined  him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to  the things of which ye accuse him;

42N   23    15    nor Herod either, for I remitted you to him, and behold,  nothing worthy of death is done by him.

42N   23    16    Having chastised him therefore, I will release him.

42N   23    17    ( Now he was obliged to release one for them at the  feast.)

42N   23    18    But they cried out in a mass saying, Away with this [man]  and release Barabbas to us;

42N   23    19    who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken  place in the city, and [for] murder, had been cast into prison.

42N   23    20    Pilate therefore, desirous to release Jesus, again  addressed [them].

42N   23    21    But they cried out in reply saying, Crucify, crucify him.

42N   23    22    And he said the third time to them, What evil then has  this [man] done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will  chastise him therefore and release him.

42N   23    23    But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he  might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief  priests] prevailed.

42N   23    24    And Pilate adjudged that what they begged should take  place.

42N   23    25    And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been  cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered  up to their will.

42N   23    26    And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain  Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross  upon him to bear it behind Jesus.

42N   23    27    And a great multitude of the people, and of women who  wailed and lamented him, followed him.

42N   23    28    And Jesus turning round to them said, Daughters of  Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and  over your children;

42N   23    29    for behold, days are coming in which they will say,  Blessed [are] the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and  breasts that have not given suck.

42N   23    30    Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon  us; and to the hills, Cover us:

42N   23    31    for if these things are done in the green tree, what shall  take place in the dry?

42N   23    32    Now two others also, malefactors, were led with him to be  put to death.

42N   23    33    And when they came to the place which is called Skull,  there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right  hand, the other on the left.

42N   23    34    And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not  what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.

42N   23    35    And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also [with  them] sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save  himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

42N   23    36    And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering  him vinegar,

42N   23    37    and saying, If *thou* be the king of the Jews, save  thyself.

42N   23    38    And there was also an inscription [written] over him in  Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters: This is the King of the  Jews.

42N   23    39    Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke  insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save  thyself and us.

42N   23    40    But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou*  too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?

42N   23    41    and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense  of what we have done; but this [man] has done nothing amiss.

42N   23    42    And he said to Jesus, Remember me, [Lord,] when thou  comest in thy kingdom.

42N   23    43    And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt  thou be with me in paradise.

42N   23    44    And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there came darkness  over the whole land until [the] ninth hour.

42N   23    45    And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple rent  in the midst.

42N   23    46    And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father,  into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he  expired.

42N   23    47    Now the centurion, seeing what took place, glorified God,  saying, In very deed this man was just.

42N   23    48    And all the crowds who had come together to that sight,  having seen the things that took place, returned, beating  [their] breasts.

42N   23    49    And all those who knew him stood afar off, the women also  who had followed him from Galilee, beholding these things.

42N   23    50    And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a  good man and a just

42N   23    51    (this [man] had not assented to their counsel and deed),  of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who also waited, [himself  also,] for the kingdom of God

42N   23    52    -- he having gone to Pilate begged the body of Jesus;

42N   23    53    and having taken it down, wrapped it in fine linen and  placed him in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had ever  been laid.

42N   23    54    And it was preparation day, and [the] sabbath twilight was  coming on.

42N   23    55    And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee,  having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.

42N   23    56    And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and  ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the  commandment.

42N   24    1     But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the  morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices  which they had prepared.

42N   24    2     And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

42N   24    3     And when they had entered they found not the body of the  Lord Jesus.

42N   24    4     And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it,  that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.

42N   24    5     And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to  the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among  the dead?

42N   24    6     He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke to you,  being yet in Galilee,

42N   24    7     saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands  of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.

42N   24    8     And they remembered his words;

42N   24    9     and, returning from the sepulchre, related all these things  to the eleven and to all the rest.

42N   24    10    Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the  [mother] of James, and the others with them, who told these  things to the apostles.

42N   24    11    And their words appeared in their eyes as an idle tale,  and they disbelieved them.

42N   24    12    But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping  down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away  home, wondering at what had happened.

42N   24    13    And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a  village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

42N   24    14    and they conversed with one another about all these things  which had taken place.

42N   24    15    And it came to pass as they conversed and reasoned, that  Jesus himself drawing nigh, went with them;

42N   24    16    but their eyes were holden so as not to know him.

42N   24    17    And he said to them, What discourses are these which pass  between you as ye walk, and are downcast?

42N   24    18    And one [of them], named Cleopas, answering said to him,  Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has  taken place in it in these days?

42N   24    19    And he said to them, What things? And they said to him,  The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet  mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

42N   24    20    and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up  to [the] judgment of death and crucified him.

42N   24    21    But *we* had hoped that *he* was [the one] who is about to  redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now,  to-day, the third day since these things took place.

42N   24    22    And withal, certain women from amongst us astonished us,  having been very early at the sepulchre,

42N   24    23    and, not having found his body, came, saying that they  also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.

42N   24    24    And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found  it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.

42N   24    25    And *he* said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to  believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

42N   24    26    Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to  enter into his glory?

42N   24    27    And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he  interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning  himself.

42N   24    28    And they drew near to the village where they were going,  and *he* made as though he would go farther.

42N   24    29    And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is  toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to  stay with them.

42N   24    30    And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having  taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to  them.

42N   24    31    And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And  he disappeared from them.

42N   24    32    And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in  us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the  scriptures to us?

42N   24    33    And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem.  And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered  together,

42N   24    34    saying, The Lord is indeed risen and has appeared to  Simon.

42N   24    35    And they related what [had happened] on the way, and how  he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.

42N   24    36    And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in  their midst, and says to them, Peace [be] unto you.

42N   24    37    But they, being confounded and being frightened, supposed  they beheld a spirit.

42N   24    38    And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why are  thoughts rising in your hearts?

42N   24    39    behold my hands and my feet, that it is *I* myself. Handle  me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me  having.

42N   24    40    And having said this he shewed them his hands and his  feet.

42N   24    41    But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were  wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?

42N   24    42    And they gave him part of a broiled fish and of a  honeycomb;

42N   24    43    and he took it and ate before them.

42N   24    44    And he said to them, These [are] the words which I spoke  to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written  concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must  be fulfilled.

42N   24    45    Then he opened their understanding to understand the  scriptures,

42N   24    46    and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved  the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third  day;

42N   24    47    and that repentance and remission of sins should be  preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

42N   24    48    And *ye* are witnesses of these things.

42N   24    49    And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but  do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on  high.

42N   24    50    And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted  up his hands, he blessed them.

42N   24    51    And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was  separated from them and was carried up into heaven.

42N   24    52    And *they*, having done him homage, returned to Jerusalem  with great joy,

42N   24    53    and were continually in the temple praising and blessing  God.

 

Colossians (A. D. 61)

 

51N   1     1     Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus, by God's will, and Timotheus  the brother,

51N   1     2     to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which [are] in  Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father [and Lord  Jesus Christ].

51N   1     3     We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus  Christ continually [when] praying for you,

51N   1     4     having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love  which ye have towards all the saints,

51N   1     5     on account of the hope which [is] laid up for you in the  heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of  the glad tidings,

51N   1     6     which are come to you, as [they are] in all the world, [and]  are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the  day ye heard [them] and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

51N   1     7     even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman,  who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

51N   1     8     who has also manifested to us your love in [the] Spirit.

51N   1     9     For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your  faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to  the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his  will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

51N   1     10    [so as] to walk worthily of the Lord unto all  well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by  the true knowledge of God;

51N   1     11    strengthened with all power according to the might of his  glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

51N   1     12    giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for  sharing the portion of the saints in light,

51N   1     13    who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and  translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

51N   1     14    in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

51N   1     15    who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all  creation;

51N   1     16    because by him were created all things, the things in the  heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the  invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or  authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

51N   1     17    And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by  him.

51N   1     18    And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is  [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might  have the first place in all things:

51N   1     19    for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to  dwell,

51N   1     20    and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made  peace by the blood of his cross -- by him, whether the things  on the earth or the things in the heavens.

51N   1     21    And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by  wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

51N   1     22    in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy  and unblamable and irreproachable before it,

51N   1     23    if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not  moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have  heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which  [is] under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister.

51N   1     24    Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that  which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for  his body, which is the assembly;

51N   1     25    of which *I* became minister, according to the dispensation  of God which [is] given me towards you to complete the word of  God,

51N   1     26    the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from  generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

51N   1     27    to whom God would make known what are the riches of the  glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you  the hope of glory:

51N   1     28    whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching  every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every  man perfect in Christ.

51N   1     29    Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working,  which works in me in power.

51N   2     1     For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and  those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in  flesh;

51N   2     2     to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united  together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of  understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God;

51N   2     3     in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of  knowledge.

51N   2     4     And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by  persuasive speech.

51N   2     5     For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in  spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of  your faith in Christ.

51N   2     6     As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord,  walk in him,

51N   2     7     rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even  as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

51N   2     8     See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey  through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching  of men, according to the elements of the world, and not  according to Christ.

51N   2     9     For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;

51N   2     10    and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all  principality and authority,

51N   2     11    in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not  done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in  the circumcision of the Christ;

51N   2     12    buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also  raised with [him] through faith of the working of God who  raised him from among the dead.

51N   2     13    And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision  of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having  forgiven us all the offences;

51N   2     14    having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which [stood  out] against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also  out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

51N   2     15    having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a  show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.

51N   2     16    Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in  matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

51N   2     17    which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of  Christ.

51N   2     18    Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing  his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into  things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of  his flesh,

51N   2     19    and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body,  ministered to and united together by the joints and bands,  increases with the increase of God.

51N   2     20    If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world,  why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to  ordinances?

51N   2     21    Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

51N   2     22    (things which are all for destruction in the using [of  them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,

51N   2     23    (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary  worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in  a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.

51N   3     1     If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the  things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the]  right hand of God:

51N   3     2     have your mind on the things [that are] above, not on the  things [that are] on the earth;

51N   3     3     for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in  God.

51N   3     4     When the Christ is manifested who [is] our life, then shall  *ye* also be manifested with him in glory.

51N   3     5     Put to death therefore your members which [are] upon the  earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and  unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

51N   3     6     On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the  sons of disobedience.

51N   3     7     In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these  things.

51N   3     8     But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath,  anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

51N   3     9     Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with  his deeds,

51N   3     10    and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge  according to [the] image of him that has created him;

51N   3     11    wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and  uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but  Christ [is] everything, and in all.

51N   3     12    Put on therefore, as [the] elect of God, holy and beloved,  bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness,  longsuffering;

51N   3     13    forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any  should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has  forgiven you, so also [do] *ye*.

51N   3     14    And to all these [add] love, which is the bond of  perfectness.

51N   3     15    And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to  which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.

51N   3     16    Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly, in all  wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, in psalms, hymns,  spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

51N   3     17    And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, [do]  all things in [the] name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks to  God the Father by him.

51N   3     18    Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in  [the] Lord.

51N   3     19    Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

51N   3     20    Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is  well-pleasing in [the] Lord.

51N   3     21    Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be  not disheartened.

51N   3     22    Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to  flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in  simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

51N   3     23    Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as [doing it] to  the Lord, and not to men;

51N   3     24    knowing that of [the] Lord ye shall receive the recompense  of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ.

51N   3     25    For he that does a wrong shall receive the wrong he has  done, and there is no respect of persons.

51N   4     1     Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that  *ye* also have a Master in [the] heavens.

51N   4     2     Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving;

51N   4     3     praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to  us a door of the word to speak the mystery of Christ, on  account of which also I am bound,

51N   4     4     to the end that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

51N   4     5     Walk in wisdom towards those without, redeeming  opportunities.

51N   4     6     [Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt,  [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.

51N   4     7     Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and  fellow-bondman in [the] Lord, will make known to you all that  concerns me;

51N   4     8     whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he might  know your state, and that he might encourage your hearts:

51N   4     9     with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is  [one] of you. They shall make known to you everything here.

51N   4     10    Aristarchus my fellow-captive salutes you, and Mark,  Barnabas's cousin, concerning whom ye have received orders, (if  he come to you, receive him,)

51N   4     11    and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These  [are the] only fellow-workers for the kingdom of God who have  been a consolation to me.

51N   4     12    Epaphras, who is [one] of you, [the] bondman of Christ  Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in  prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in  all [the] will of God.

51N   4     13    For I bear him witness that he labours much for you, and  them in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

51N   4     14    Luke, the beloved physician, salutes you, and Demas.

51N   4     15    Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the  assembly which [is] in his house.

51N   4     16    And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it  be read also in the assembly of Laodiceans, and that *ye* also  read that from Laodicea.

51N   4     17    And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou  hast received in [the] Lord, to the end that thou fulfil it.

51N   4     18    The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds.  Grace [be] with you.

 

Philemon (A. D. 61)

 

57N   1     1     Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother,  to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,

57N   1     2     and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our  fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which [is] in thine house.

57N   1     3     Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

57N   1     4     I thank my God, always making mention of thee at my prayers,

57N   1     5     hearing of thy love and the faith which thou hast towards  the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints,

57N   1     6     in such sort that thy participation in the faith should  become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing  which is in us towards Christ [Jesus].

57N   1     7     For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy  love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee,  brother.

57N   1     8     Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what  is fitting,

57N   1     9     for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul  the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

57N   1     10    I exhort thee for *my* child, whom I have begotten in [my]  bonds, Onesimus,

57N   1     11    once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and  to me:

57N   1     12    whom I have sent back to thee: [but do *thou* receive] him,  that is, *my* bowels:

57N   1     13    whom *I* was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee  he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

57N   1     14    but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy  good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

57N   1     15    for perhaps for this reason he has been separated [from  thee] for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for  ever;

57N   1     16    not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved  brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in  [the] flesh and in [the] Lord?

57N   1     17    If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner [with thee],  receive him as me;

57N   1     18    but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything [to  thee], put this to my account.

57N   1     19    *I* Paul have written [it] with mine own hand; *I* will  repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine  own self also to me.

57N   1     20    Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in [the]  Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.

57N   1     21    Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee,  knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.

57N   1     22    But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I  shall be granted to you through your prayers.

57N   1     23    Epaphras salutes thee, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;

57N   1     24    Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen.

57N   1     25    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.

 

Ephesians (A. D. 61)

49N   1     1     Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints  and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.

49N   1     2     Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

49N   1     3     Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the  heavenlies in Christ;

49N   1     4     according as he has chosen us in him before [the] world's  foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in  love;

49N   1     5     having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus  Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

49N   1     6     to [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he has  taken us into favour in the Beloved:

49N   1     7     in whom we have redemption through his blood, the  forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

49N   1     8     which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and  intelligence,

49N   1     9     having made known to us the mystery of his will, according  to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

49N   1     10    for [the] administration of the fulness of times; to head  up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the  things upon the earth; in him,

49N   1     11    in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked  out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all  things according to the counsel of his own will,

49N   1     12    that we should be to [the] praise of his glory who have  pre-trusted in the Christ:

49N   1     13    in whom *ye* also [have trusted], having heard the word of  the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also,  having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of  promise,

49N   1     14    who is [the] earnest of our inheritance to the redemption  of the acquired possession to [the] praise of his glory.

49N   1     15    Wherefore *I* also, having heard of the faith in the Lord  Jesus which [is] in you, and the love which [ye have] towards  all the saints,

49N   1     16    do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention [of you]  at my prayers,

49N   1     17    that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,  would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in the  full knowledge of him,

49N   1     18    being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye  should know what is the hope of his calling, [and] what the  riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

49N   1     19    and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us  who believe, according to the working of the might of his  strength,

49N   1     20    [in] which he wrought in the Christ [in] raising him from  among [the] dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the  heavenlies,

49N   1     21    above every principality, and authority, and power, and  dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also  in that to come;

49N   1     22    and has put all things under his feet, and gave him [to be]  head over all things to the assembly,

49N   1     23    which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:

49N   2     1     and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --

49N   2     2     in which ye once walked according to the age of this world,  according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit  who now works in the sons of disobedience:

49N   2     3     among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the  lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts  willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as  the rest:

49N   2     4     but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love  wherewith he loved us,

49N   2     5     (we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the  Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

49N   2     6     and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down  together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

49N   2     7     that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing  riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

49N   2     8     For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of  yourselves; it is God's gift:

49N   2     9     not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

49N   2     10    For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ  Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we  should walk in them.

49N   2     11    Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh,  who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in  [the] flesh done with the hand;

49N   2     12    that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the  commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of  promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

49N   2     13    but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are  become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

49N   2     14    For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has  broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

49N   2     15    having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of  commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in  himself into one new man, making peace;

49N   2     16    and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross,  having by it slain the enmity;

49N   2     17    and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to  you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to  those [who were] nigh.

49N   2     18    For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the  Father.

49N   2     19    So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye  are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

49N   2     20    being built upon the foundation of the apostles and  prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,

49N   2     21    in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a  holy temple in the Lord;

49N   2     22    in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of  God in [the] Spirit.

49N   3     1     For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for  you nations,

49N   3     2     (if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace  of God which has been given to me towards you,

49N   3     3     that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me,  (according as I have written before briefly,

49N   3     4     by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence  in the mystery of the Christ,)

49N   3     5     which in other generations has not been made known to the  sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles  and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,

49N   3     6     that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs,  and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in  Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;

49N   3     7     of which I am become minister according to the gift of the  grace of God given to me, according to the working of his  power.

49N   3     8     To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace  been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of  the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

49N   3     9     and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the  administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in  God, who has created all things,

49N   3     10    in order that now to the principalities and authorities in  the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the  all-various wisdom of God,

49N   3     11    according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed  in Christ Jesus our Lord,

49N   3     12    in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the  faith of him.

 

49N   3     13    Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my  tribulations for you, which is your glory.

49N   3     14    For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord  Jesus Christ],

49N   3     15    of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is  named,

49N   3     16    in order that he may give you according to the riches of  his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the  inner man;

49N   3     17    that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts,  being rooted and founded in love,

49N   3     18    in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all  the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and  height;

49N   3     19    and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses  knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of  God.

49N   3     20    But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all  which we ask or think, according to the power which works in  us,

49N   3     21    to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all  generations of the age of ages. Amen).

49N   4     1     *I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to  walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

49N   4     2     with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,  bearing with one another in love;

49N   4     3     using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the  uniting bond of peace.

49N   4     4     [There is] one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also  called in one hope of your calling;

49N   4     5     one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

49N   4     6     one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all,  and in us all.

49N   4     7     But to each one of us has been given grace according to the  measure of the gift of the Christ.

49N   4     8     Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led  captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.

49N   4     9     But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended  into the lower parts of the earth?

49N   4     10    He that descended is the same who has also ascended up  above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

49N   4     11    and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and  some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

49N   4     12    for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work  of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of  Christ;

49N   4     13    until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the  knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the]  measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

49N   4     14    in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried  about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the  sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to  systematized error;

49N   4     15    but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in  all things, who is the head, the Christ:

49N   4     16    from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by  every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its]  measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the  body to its self-building up in love.

49N   4     17    This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye  should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in  [the] vanity of their mind,

49N   4     18    being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of  God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of  the hardness of their hearts,

49N   4     19    who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up  to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy  unsatisfied lust.

49N   4     20    But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

49N   4     21    if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according  as [the] truth is in Jesus;

49N   4     22    [namely] your having put off according to the former  conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the  deceitful lusts;

49N   4     23    and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

49N   4     24    and [your] having put on the new man, which according to  God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

49N   4     25    Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one  with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

49N   4     26    Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your  wrath,

49N   4     27    neither give room for the devil.

49N   4     28    Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil,  working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to  distribute to him that has need.

49N   4     29    Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be]  any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to  those that hear [it].

49N   4     30    And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye  have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

49N   4     31    Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and  clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all  malice;

49N   4     32    and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one  another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

49N   5     1     Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

49N   5     2     and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered  himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a  sweet-smelling savour.

49N   5     3     But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let  it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

49N   5     4     and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are  not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

49N   5     5     For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no  fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who  is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ  and God.

49N   5     6     Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of  these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of  disobedience.

49N   5     7     Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

49N   5     8     for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk  as children of light,

49N   5     9     (for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and  righteousness and truth,)

 

49N   5     10    proving what is agreeable to the Lord;

49N   5     11    and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of  darkness, but rather also reprove [them],

49N   5     12    for the things that are done by them in secret it is  shameful even to say.

49N   5     13    But all things having their true character exposed by the  light are made manifest; for that which makes everything  manifest is light.

49N   5     14    Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise  up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

49N   5     15    See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as  wise,

49N   5     16    redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

49N   5     17    For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is]  the will of the Lord.

49N   5     18    And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be  filled with the Spirit,

49N   5     19    speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual  songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;

49N   5     20    giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is]  God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

49N   5     21    submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of  Christ.

49N   5     22    Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the  Lord,

49N   5     23    for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is]  head of the assembly. *He* [is] Saviour of the body.

49N   5     24    But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so  also wives to their own husbands in everything.

49N   5     25    Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also  loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

49N   5     26    in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the  washing of water by [the] word,

49N   5     27    that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious,  having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it  might be holy and blameless.

49N   5     28    So ought men also to love their own wives as their own  bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

49N   5     29    For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and  cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

49N   5     30    for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and  of his bones.]

49N   5     31    Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother,  and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one  flesh.

49N   5     32    This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as  to the assembly.

49N   5     33    But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own  wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear  the husband.

49N   6     1     Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.

49N   6     2     Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first  commandment with a promise,

49N   6     3     that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be  long-lived on the earth.

49N   6     4     And [ye] fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but  bring them up in [the] discipline and admonition of [the] Lord.

49N   6     5     Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and  trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

49N   6     6     not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of  Christ, doing the will of God from [the] soul,

49N   6     7     serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

49N   6     8     knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall  receive of [the] Lord, whether bond or free.

49N   6     9     And, masters, do the same things towards them, giving up  threatening, knowing that both their and your Master is in  heaven, and there is no acceptance of persons with him.

49N   6     10    For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the  might of his strength.

49N   6     11    Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand  against the artifices of the devil:

49N   6     12    because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but  against principalities, against authorities, against the  universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of  wickedness in the heavenlies.

49N   6     13    For this reason take [to you] the panoply of God, that ye  may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having  accomplished all things, to stand.

49N   6     14    Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth,  and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

49N   6     15    and shod your feet with [the] preparation of the glad  tidings of peace:

49N   6     16    besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with  which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the  wicked one.

49N   6     17    Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the  Spirit, which is God's word;

49N   6     18    praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in  [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all  perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

49N   6     19    and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in  [the] opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the  mystery of the glad tidings,

49N   6     20    for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I  may be bold in it as I ought to speak.

49N   6     21    But in order that *ye* also may know what concerns me, how  I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful  minister in [the] Lord, shall make all things known to you;

49N   6     22    whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that ye may  know of our affairs and that he may encourage your hearts.

49N   6     23    Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God [the]  Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

49N   6     24    Grace with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in  incorruption.

Philippians (A. D. 62)

 

50N   1     1     Paul and Timotheus, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the  saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with [the]  overseers and ministers;

50N   1     2     grace to you, and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord  Jesus Christ.

50N   1     3     I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

50N   1     4     constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication  for you all with joy,

50N   1     5     because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first  day until now;

50N   1     6     having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun  in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

50N   1     7     as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all,  because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds  and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are  all participators in my grace.

50N   1     8     For God is my witness how I long after you all in [the]  bowels of Christ Jesus.

50N   1     9     And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more  in full knowledge and all intelligence,

50N   1     10    that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more  excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for  Christ's day,

50N   1     11    being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which  [is] by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

50N   1     12    But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances  in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the  glad tidings,

50N   1     13    so that my bonds have become manifest [as being] in Christ  in all the praetorium and to all others;

50N   1     14    and that the most of the brethren, trusting in [the] Lord  through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God  fearlessly.

50N   1     15    Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for  good will, preach the Christ.

50N   1     16    These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the  defence of the glad tidings;

50N   1     17    but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not  purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

50N   1     18    What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in  pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I  rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;

50N   1     19    for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation,  through your supplication and [the] supply of the Spirit of  Jesus Christ;

50N   1     20    according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in  nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now  also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by  death.

50N   1     21    For for me to live [is] Christ, and to die gain;

50N   1     22    but if to live in flesh [is my lot], this is for me worth  the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

 

50N   1     23    But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure  and being with Christ, [for] [it is] very much better,

50N   1     24    but remaining in the flesh [is] more necessary for your  sakes;

50N   1     25    and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain  and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in  faith;

50N   1     26    that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus through me by  my presence again with you.

50N   1     27    Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the  Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent,  I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one  spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict  with the faith of the glad tidings;

50N   1     28    and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to  them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and  that from God;

50N   1     29    because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only  the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

50N   1     30    having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now  hear of in me.

50N   2     1     If then [there be] any comfort in Christ, if any consolation  of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any bowels and  compassions,

50N   2     2     fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the  same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

50N   2     3     [let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory,  but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more  excellent than themselves;

50N   2     4     regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of  others also.

50N   2     5     For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ  Jesus;

50N   2     6     who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an  object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

50N   2     7     but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his  place in [the] likeness of men;

50N   2     8     and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself,  becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of  [the] cross.

50N   2     9     Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a  name, that which is above every name,

50N   2     10    that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of  heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings],

50N   2     11    and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord to God  [the] Father's glory.

50N   2     12    So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as  in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work  out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

50N   2     13    for it is God who works in you both the willing and the  working according to [his] good pleasure.

50N   2     14    Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

50N   2     15    that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children  of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation;  among whom ye appear as lights in [the] world,

50N   2     16    holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for  me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in  vain.

50N   2     17    But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice  and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in  common with you all.

50N   2     18    In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

50N   2     19    But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you  shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

50N   2     20    For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine  feeling how ye get on.

50N   2     21    For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus  Christ.

50N   2     22    But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he  has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

50N   2     23    Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I  shall see how it goes with me:

50N   2     24    but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon  come;

50N   2     25    but I have thought it necessary to send to you  Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier,  but your messenger and minister to my need,

50N   2     26    since he had a longing desire after you all, and was  distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

50N   2     27    for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on  him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might  not have sorrow upon sorrow.

50N   2     28    I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing  him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less  sorrowful.

50N   2     29    Receive him therefore in [the] Lord with all joy, and hold  such in honour;

50N   2     30    because for the sake of the work he drew near even to  death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in  your ministration toward me.

50N   3     1     For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write  the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you  safe.

50N   3     2     See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

50N   3     3     For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit  of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

50N   3     4     Though *I* have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think  to trust in flesh, *I* rather:

50N   3     5     as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the]  race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews;  as to [the] law, a Pharisee;

50N   3     6     as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness  which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;

50N   3     7     but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account  of Christ, loss.

50N   3     8     But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of  the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on  account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them  to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

50N   3     9     and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness,  which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by  faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through  faith,

50N   3     10    to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the  fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

50N   3     11    if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the]  dead.

50N   3     12    Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already  perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it],  seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ  [Jesus].

50N   3     13    Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself;  but one thing -- forgetting the things behind, and stretching  out to the things before,

50N   3     14    I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of  the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

50N   3     15    As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded;  and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal  to you.

50N   3     16    But whereto we have attained, [let us] walk in the same  steps.

50N   3     17    Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your  eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

50N   3     18    (for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell  you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of  Christ:

50N   3     19    whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and  [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)

50N   3     20    for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens,  from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,

50N   3     21    who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity  to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power  which he has even to subdue all things to himself.

50N   4     1     So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and  crown, thus stand fast in [the] Lord, beloved.

50N   4     2     I exhort Euodia, and exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind  in [the] Lord;

50N   4     3     yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have  contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also,  and my other fellow-labourers, whose names [are] in [the] book  of life.

50N   4     4     Rejoice in [the] Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

50N   4     5     Let your gentleness be known of all men. The Lord [is] near.

50N   4     6     Be careful about nothing; but in everything, by prayer and  supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known  to God;

50N   4     7     and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding,  shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.

50N   4     8     For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things [are] true,  whatsoever things [are] noble, whatsoever things [are] just,  whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] amiable,  whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any  virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

50N   4     9     What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen  in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

50N   4     10    But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now however at  length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye  did also think [of me], but lacked opportunity.

50N   4     11    Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me *I*  have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be  satisfied in myself.

50N   4     12    I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In  everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and  to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.

50N   4     13    I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

50N   4     14    But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.

50N   4     15    And know also *ye*, O Philippians, that in [the] beginning  of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly  communicated [anything] to me in [the] way of giving and  receiving save *ye* alone;

50N   4     16    for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me  for my need.

50N   4     17    Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your  account.

50N   4     18    But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full,  having received of Epaphroditus the things [sent] from you, an  odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to  God.

50N   4     19    But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according  to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

50N   4     20    But to our God and Father [be] glory to the ages of ages.  Amen.

50N   4     21    Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who [are]  with me salute you.

50N   4     22    All the saints salute you, and specially those of the  household of Caesar.

50N   4     23    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.  Amen.

I Timothy (A. D. 63)

54N   1     1     Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to [the] command of  God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,

54N   1     2     to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace,  from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

54N   1     3     Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, [when I was]  going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach  other doctrines,

54N   1     4     nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable  genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further]  God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.

54N   1     5     But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart  and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

54N   1     6     which [things] some having missed, have turned aside to vain  discourse,

54N   1     7     desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what  they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.

54N   1     8     Now we know that the law [is] good if any one uses it  lawfully,

54N   1     9     knowing this, that law has not its application to a  righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to  [the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to  smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

54N   1     10    fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and  if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

54N   1     11    according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed  God, with which *I* have been entrusted.

54N   1     12    [And] I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me  power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry  him

54N   1     13    who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent  overbearing [man]: but mercy was shewn me because I did it  ignorantly, in unbelief.

54N   1     14    But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with  faith and love, which [is] in Christ Jesus.

54N   1     15    Faithful [is] the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I*  am [the] first.

54N   1     16    But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, [the]  first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for  a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

54N   1     17    Now to the King of the ages, [the] incorruptible,  invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages.  Amen.

54N   1     18    This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee,  according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that  thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

54N   1     19    maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some,  having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

54N   1     20    of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered  to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to  blaspheme.

54N   2     1     I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications,  prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;

54N   2     2     for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a  quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

54N   2     3     for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

54N   2     4     who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the]  knowledge of [the] truth.

54N   2     5     For God is one, and [the] mediator of God and men one, [the]  man Christ Jesus,

54N   2     6     who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be  rendered] in its own times;

54N   2     7     to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I  speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in  faith and truth.

54N   2     8     I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting  up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

54N   2     9     In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and  dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with  plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

54N   2     10    but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of  God, by good works.

54N   2     11    Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;

54N   2     12    but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise  authority over man, but to be in quietness;

54N   2     13    for Adam was formed first, then Eve:

54N   2     14    and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been  deceived, was in transgression.

54N   2     15    But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they  continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

54N   3     1     The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise  oversight, he desires a good work.

54N   3     2     The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one  wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

54N   3     3     not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild,  not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

54N   3     4     conducting his own house well, having [his] children in  subjection with all gravity;

54N   3     5     (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how  shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

54N   3     6     not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into  [the] fault of the devil.

54N   3     7     But it is necessary that he should have also a good  testimony from those without, that he may fall not into  reproach and [the] snare of the devil.

54N   3     8     Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not  given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

54N   3     9     holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

54N   3     10    And let these be first proved, then let them minister,  being without charge [against them].

54N   3     11    [The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober,  faithful in all things.

54N   3     12    Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting  [their] children and their own houses well:

54N   3     13    for those who shall have ministered well obtain for  themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is]  in Christ Jesus.

54N   3     14    These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more  quickly;

54N   3     15    but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one  ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is [the]  assembly of [the] living God, [the] pillar and base of the  truth.

54N   3     16    And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been  manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has  appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has  been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.

54N   4     1     But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some  shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving  spirits and teachings of demons

54N   4     2     speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own  conscience,

54N   4     3     forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, which  God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who  are faithful and know the truth.

54N   4     4     For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be  rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

54N   4     5     for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing  [him].

54N   4     6     Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good  minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith  and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.

54N   4     7     But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise  thyself unto piety;

54N   4     8     for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is  profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the  present one, and of that to come.

54N   4     9     The word [is] faithful and worthy of all acceptation;

54N   4     10    for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we  hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of  those that believe.

54N   4     11    Enjoin and teach these things.

54N   4     12    Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the  believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

54N   4     13    Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to  teaching.

54N   4     14    Be not negligent of the gift [that is] in thee, which has  been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the  hands of the elderhood.

54N   4     15    Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that  thy progress may be manifest to all.

54N   4     16    Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them;  for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that  hear thee.

54N   5     1     Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort [him] as a father,  younger [men] as brethren,

54N   5     2     elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all  purity.

54N   5     3     Honour widows who are really widows;

54N   5     4     but if any widow have children or descendants, let them  learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to  render a return on their side to [their] parents; for this is  acceptable in the sight of God.

54N   5     5     Now she who [is] a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put  [her] hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers  night and day.

54N   5     6     But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead  [while] living.

54N   5     7     And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

54N   5     8     But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially  for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse  than the unbeliever.

54N   5     9     Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than  sixty years, [having been] wife of one man,

54N   5     10    borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up  children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed  saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if  she have diligently followed every good work.

54N   5     11    But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton  against Christ, they desire to marry,

54N   5     12    being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

54N   5     13    And, at the same time, they learn also [to be] idle, going  about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers  and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

54N   5     14    I will therefore that the younger marry, bear children,  rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary in respect of  reproach.

54N   5     15    For already some have turned aside after Satan.

54N   5     16    If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart  relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it  may impart relief to those [that are] widows indeed.

54N   5     17    Let the elders who take the lead [among the saints] well be  esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in  word and teaching;

54N   5     18    for the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox that  treadeth out corn, and, The workman [is] worthy of his hire.

54N   5     19    Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where  there are two or three witnesses.

54N   5     20    Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may  have fear.

54N   5     21    I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels,  that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing by  favour.

54N   5     22    Lay hands quickly on no man, nor partake in others' sins.  Keep thyself pure.

54N   5     23    Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on  account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

54N   5     24    Of some men the sins are manifest beforehand, going before  to judgment, and some also they follow after.

54N   5     25    In like manner good works also are manifest beforehand, and  those that are otherwise cannot be hid.

54N   6     1     Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own  masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the  teaching be not blasphemed.

54N   6     2     And they that have believing masters, let them not despise  [them] because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve  them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved,  who profit by the good and ready service [rendered]. These  things teach and exhort.

54N   6     3     If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound  words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which  [is] according to piety,

54N   6     4     he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions  and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife,  injurious words, evil suspicions,

54N   6     5     constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute  of the truth, holding gain to be [the end of] piety.

54N   6     6     But piety with contentment *is* great gain.

54N   6     7     For we have brought nothing into the world: [it is]  [manifest] that neither can we carry anything out.

54N   6     8     But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with  these.

54N   6     9     But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a  snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into  destruction and ruin.

54N   6     10    For the love of money is [the] root of every evil; which  some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and  pierced themselves with many sorrows.

54N   6     11    But *thou*, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue  righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of  spirit.

54N   6     12    Strive earnestly [in] the good conflict of faith. Lay hold  of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast  confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

54N   6     13    I enjoin thee before God who preserves all things in life,  and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good  confession,

54N   6     14    that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable,  until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

54N   6     15    which in its own time the blessed and only Ruler shall  shew, the King of those that reign, and Lord of those that  exercise lordship;

54N   6     16    who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light;  whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom [be] honour  and eternal might. Amen.

54N   6     17    Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be  high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in  the God who affords us all things richly for [our] enjoyment;

54N   6     18    to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in  distributing, disposed to communicate [of their substance],

54N   6     19    laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future,  that they may lay hold of [what is] really life.

54N   6     20    O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane,  vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

54N   6     21    of which some having made profession, have missed the  faith. Grace [be] with thee.

Acts (A. D. 63)

44N   1     1     I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all  things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

44N   1     2     until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged  the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

44N   1     3     to whom also he presented himself living, after he had  suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty  days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of  God;

44N   1     4     and, being assembled with [them], commanded them not to  depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father,  which [said he] ye have heard of me.

44N   1     5     For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be  baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.

44N   1     6     They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord,  is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?

44N   1     7     And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or  seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

44N   1     8     but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon  you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all  Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

44N   1     9     And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding  [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.

44N   1     10    And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going,  behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

44N   1     11    who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into  heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven,  shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going  into heaven.

44N   1     12    Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called [the  mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's  journey off.

44N   1     13    And when they were come into [the city], they went up to  the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and  James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew,  James [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude [the  brother] of James.

44N   1     14    These gave themselves all with one accord to continual  prayer, with [several] women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and  with his brethren.

44N   1     15    And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the  brethren, said, (the crowd of names [who were] together [was]  about a hundred and twenty,)

44N   1     16    Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have  been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the  mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who  took Jesus;

44N   1     17    for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in  this service.

44N   1     18    (This [man] then indeed got a field with [the] reward of  iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst,  and all his bowels gushed out.

44N   1     19    And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so  that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that  is, field of blood.)

44N   1     20    For it is written in [the] book of Psalms, Let his  homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it;  and, Let another take his overseership.

44N   1     21    It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have  assembled with us all [the] time in which the Lord Jesus came  in and went out among us,

44N   1     22    beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which  he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with  us of his resurrection.

44N   1     23    And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas,  who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

44N   1     24    And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts  of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,

44N   1     25    to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from  which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.

44N   1     26    And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias,  and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

44N   2     1     And when the day of Pentecost was now accomplishing, they  were all together in one place.

44N   2     2     And there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a  violent impetuous blowing, and filled all the house where they  were sitting.

44N   2     3     And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and  it sat upon each one of them.

44N   2     4     And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and began  to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak  forth.

44N   2     5     Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, pious men, from  every nation of those under heaven.

44N   2     6     But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came  together and were confounded, because each one heard them  speaking in his own dialect.

44N   2     7     And all were amazed and wondered, saying, Behold, are not  all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

44N   2     8     and how do *we* hear [them] each in our own dialect in which  we have been born,

44N   2     9     Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those who inhabit  Mesopotamia, and Judaea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

44N   2     10    both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya  which adjoin Cyrene, and the Romans sojourning [here], both  Jews and proselytes,

44N   2     11    Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own  tongues the great things of God?

44N   2     12    And they were all amazed and in perplexity, saying one to  another, What would this mean?

44N   2     13    But others mocking said, They are full of new wine.

44N   2     14    But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice  and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants  of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my  words:

44N   2     15    for these are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is  the third hour of the day;

44N   2     16    but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel,

44N   2     17    And it shall be in the last days, saith God, [that] I will  pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your  daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,  and your elders shall dream with dreams;

44N   2     18    yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those  days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

44N   2     19    And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on  the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

 

44N   2     20    the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood,  before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord  come.

44N   2     21    And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of  [the] Lord shall be saved.

44N   2     22    Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man  borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders  and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as  yourselves know

44N   2     23    -- him, given up by the determinate counsel and  foreknowledge of God, ye, by [the] hand of lawless [men], have  crucified and slain.

44N   2     24    Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death,  inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its  power;

44N   2     25    for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually  before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be  moved.

44N   2     26    Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea  more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,

44N   2     27    for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou  give thy gracious one to see corruption.

44N   2     28    Thou hast made known to me [the] paths of life, thou wilt  fill me with joy with thy countenance.

44N   2     29    Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you  concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been  buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.

44N   2     30    Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn  to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his  throne;

44N   2     31    he, seeing [it] before, spoke concerning the resurrection  of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his  flesh seen corruption.

44N   2     32    This Jesus has God raised up, whereof all *we* are  witnesses.

44N   2     33    Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and  having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,  he has poured out this which *ye* behold and hear.

44N   2     34    For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says  himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand

44N   2     35    until I have put thine enemies [to be] the footstool of thy  feet.

44N   2     36    Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that  God has made him, this Jesus whom *ye* have crucified, both  Lord and Christ.

44N   2     37    And having heard [it] they were pricked in heart, and said  to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?

44N   2     38    And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one  of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and  ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

44N   2     39    For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all  who [are] afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God may call.

44N   2     40    And with many other words he testified and exhorted them,  saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

44N   2     41    Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and  there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

44N   2     42    And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the  apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.

44N   2     43    And fear was upon every soul, and many wonders and signs  took place through the apostles' means.

44N   2     44    And all that believed were together, and had all things  common,

44N   2     45    and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed  them to all, according as any one might have need.

44N   2     46    And every day, being constantly in the temple with one  accord, and breaking bread in [the] house, they received their  food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

44N   2     47    praising God, and having favour with all the people; and  the Lord added [to the assembly] daily those that were to be  saved.

44N   3     1     And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the  hour of prayer, [which is] the ninth [hour];

44N   3     2     and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was  being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the  temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going  into the temple;

44N   3     3     who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple,  asked to receive alms.

44N   3     4     And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look  on us.

44N   3     5     And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something  from them.

44N   3     6     But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have,  this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean  rise up and walk.

44N   3     7     And having taken hold of him [by] the right hand he raised  him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made  strong.

44N   3     8     And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them  into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

44N   3     9     And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

44N   3     10    and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms  at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with  wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

44N   3     11    And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together  to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly  wondering.

44N   3     12    And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel,  why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we  had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

44N   3     13    The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our  fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered  up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had  judged that he should be let go.

44N   3     14    But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that  a man [that was] a murderer should be granted to you;

44N   3     15    but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from  among [the] dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.

44N   3     16    And, by faith in his name, his name has made this [man]  strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him  has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you  all.

44N   3     17    And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as  also your rulers;

44N   3     18    but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand  by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should  suffer.

44N   3     19    Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of  your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from [the]  presence of the Lord,

44N   3     20    and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,

44N   3     21    whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the]  restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth  of his holy prophets since time began.

44N   3     22    Moses indeed said, A prophet shall [the] Lord your God  raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear  in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.

44N   3     23    And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that  prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

44N   3     24    And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in  succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced  also these days.

44N   3     25    *Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which  God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy  seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

44N   3     26    To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent  him, blessing you in turning each one [of you] from your  wickedness.

44N   4     1     And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and  captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

44N   4     2     being distressed on account of their teaching the people and  preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;

44N   4     3     and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the  morrow; for it was already evening.

44N   4     4     But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the  number of the men had become [about] five thousand.

44N   4     5     And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and  elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,

44N   4     6     and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and  Alexander, and as many as were of [the] high priestly family;

44N   4     7     and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what  power or in what name have *ye* done this?

44N   4     8     Then Peter, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, said to them,  Rulers of the people and elders [of Israel],

44N   4     9     if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good  deed [done] to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,

44N   4     10    be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel,  that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have  crucified, whom God has raised from among [the] dead, by *him*  this [man] stands here before you sound [in body].

44N   4     11    *He* is the stone which has been set at nought by you the  builders, which is become the corner stone.

44N   4     12    And salvation is in none other, for neither is there  another name under heaven which is given among men by which we  must be saved.

44N   4     13    But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving  that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered;  and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.

44N   4     14    And beholding the man who had been healed standing with  them, they had nothing to reply;

44N   4     15    but having commanded them to go out of the council they  conferred with one another,

44N   4     16    saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an  evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest  to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

44N   4     17    But that it be not further spread among the people, let us  threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this  name.

44N   4     18    And having called them, they charged [them] not to speak at  all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

44N   4     19    But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be  righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge  ye;

44N   4     20    for as for us *we* cannot refrain from speaking of the  things which we have seen and heard.

44N   4     21    But they, having further threatened them, let them go,  finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the  people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

44N   4     22    for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place  was above forty years old.

44N   4     23    And having been let go, they came to their own [company],  and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to  them.

44N   4     24    And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with  one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made  the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

44N   4     25    who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have  [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain  things?

44N   4     26    The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were  gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

44N   4     27    For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou  hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with [the]  nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in  this city

44N   4     28    to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined  before should come to pass.

44N   4     29    And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to  thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,

44N   4     30    in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that  signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy  servant Jesus.

44N   4     31    And when they had prayed, the place in which they were  assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,  and spoke the word of God with boldness.

44N   4     32    And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had  believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he  possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

44N   4     33    and with great power did the apostles give witness of the  resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them  all.

44N   4     34    For neither was there any one in want among them; for as  many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought  the price of what was sold

44N   4     35    and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution  was made to each according as any one might have need.

44N   4     36    And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles  (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite,  Cyprian by birth,

44N   4     37    being possessed of land, having sold [it], brought the  money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

44N   5     1     But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife,  sold a possession,

44N   5     2     and put aside for himself part of the price, [his] wife also  being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it  at the feet of the apostles.

44N   5     3     But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that  thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for  thyself a part of the price of the estate?

44N   5     4     While it remained did it not remain to *thee*? and sold, was  [it not] in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed  this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to  God.

44N   5     5     And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And  great fear came upon all who heard [it].

44N   5     6     And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and  having carried him out, buried him.

44N   5     7     And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his  wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

44N   5     8     And Peter answered her, Tell me if ye gave the estate for so  much? And she said, Yes, for so much.

44N   5     9     And Peter said to her, Why [is it] that ye have agreed  together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Lo, the feet of  those that have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and they  shall carry thee out.

44N   5     10    And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And  when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having  carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

44N   5     11    And great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who  heard these things.

44N   5     12    And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and  wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one  accord in Solomon's porch,

44N   5     13    but of the rest durst no man join them, but the people  magnified them;

44N   5     14    and believers were more than ever added to the Lord,  multitudes both of men and women;)

44N   5     15    so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put  [them] on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter,  when he came, might overshadow some one of them.

44N   5     16    And the multitude also of the cities round about came  together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset  by unclean spirits, who were all healed.

44N   5     17    And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with  him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with  wrath,

44N   5     18    and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public  prison.

44N   5     19    But an angel of [the] Lord during the night opened the  doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,

44N   5     20    Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all  the words of this life.

44N   5     21    And when they heard it, they entered very early into the  temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they  that were with him, they called together the council and all  the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to  have them brought.

44N   5     22    And when the officers were come, they did not find them in  the prison; and returned and reported

44N   5     23    saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the  keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened [them],  within we found no one.

44N   5     24    And when they heard these words, both the priest and the  captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity  as to them, what this would come to.

44N   5     25    And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye  put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the  people.

44N   5     26    Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought  them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they  should be stoned.

44N   5     27    And they bring them and set them in the council. And the  high priest asked them,

44N   5     28    saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name:  and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and  purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.

44N   5     29    But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be  obeyed rather than men.

44N   5     30    The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom *ye* have  slain, having hanged on a cross.

44N   5     31    Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and  saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

44N   5     32    And *we* are [his] witnesses of these things, and the Holy  Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.

44N   5     33    But they, when they heard [these things], were cut to the  heart, and took counsel to kill them.

44N   5     34    But a certain [man], a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher  of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the  council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

44N   5     35    and said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves as  regards these men what ye are going to do;

44N   5     36    for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to  be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were  joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were  dispersed and came to nothing.

44N   5     37    After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the  census, and drew away [a number of] people after him; and *he*  perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered  abroad.

44N   5     38    And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them  alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from  men, it will be destroyed;

44N   5     39    but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them  down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.

44N   5     40    And they listened to his advice; and having called the  apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the  name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

44N   5     41    They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the  council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be  dishonoured for the name.

44N   5     42    And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased  not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus [was]  the Christ.

44N   6     1     But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number,  there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews  because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.

44N   6     2     And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples  to [them], said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of  God, should serve tables.

44N   6     3     Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven  men, well reported of, full of [the] [Holy] Spirit and wisdom,  whom we will establish over this business:

44N   6     4     but *we* will give ourselves up to prayer and the ministry  of the word.

44N   6     5     And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose  Stephen, a man full of faith and [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip,  and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and  Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch,

44N   6     6     whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they  laid their hands on them.

44N   6     7     And the word of God increased; and the number of the  disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great  crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.

44N   6     8     And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and  great signs among the people.

44N   6     9     And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called  of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of  those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

44N   6     10    And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit  with which he spoke.

44N   6     11    Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking  blasphemous words against Moses and God.

44N   6     12    And they roused the people, and the elders, and the  scribes. And coming upon [him] they seized him and brought  [him] to the council.

44N   6     13    And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not  cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;

44N   6     14    for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean  shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses  taught us.

44N   6     15    And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw  his face as [the] face of an angel.

44N   7     1     And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

44N   7     2     And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory  appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,  before he dwelt in Charran,

44N   7     3     and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred,  and come into the land which I will shew thee.

44N   7     4     Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in  Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into  this land in which *ye* now dwell.

44N   7     5     And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what  his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a  possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

44N   7     6     And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a  strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat  [them] four hundred years;

44N   7     7     and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I*  judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth  and serve me in this place.

44N   7     8     And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus  he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac  Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

44N   7     9     And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into  Egypt. And God was with him,

44N   7     10    and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him  favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he  appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

44N   7     11    But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan,  and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

44N   7     12    But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent  out our fathers first;

44N   7     13    and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren,  and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

44N   7     14    And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and  all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.

44N   7     15    And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our  fathers,

44N   7     16    and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre  which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor  the [father] of Sychem.

44N   7     17    But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised  to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

44N   7     18    until another king over Egypt arose who did not know  Joseph.

44N   7     19    *He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the  fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

44N   7     20    In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely,  who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

44N   7     21    And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him  up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.

44N   7     22    And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the  Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

44N   7     23    And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it  came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of  Israel;

44N   7     24    and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and  avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

44N   7     25    For he thought that his brethren would understand that God  by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood  not.

44N   7     26    And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were  contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are  brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

44N   7     27    But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away,  saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

44N   7     28    Dost *thou* wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian  yesterday?

44N   7     29    And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in  the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

44N   7     30    And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to  him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a  bush.

44N   7     31    And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went  up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,

44N   7     32    *I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of  Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider  [it].

44N   7     33    And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for  the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

44N   7     34    I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is  in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to  take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

44N   7     35    This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler  and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with  the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

44N   7     36    *He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the  land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty  years.

44N   7     37    This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet  shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him  shall ye hear].

44N   7     38    This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with  the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our  fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

44N   7     39    to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him]  from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

44N   7     40    saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for  this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know  not what has happened to him.

44N   7     41    And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice  to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

44N   7     42    But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of  heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye  offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the  wilderness, O house of Israel?

44N   7     43    Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your]  god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and  I will transport you beyond Babylon.

44N   7     44    Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the  wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it  according to the model which he had seen;

44N   7     45    which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors,  brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of  [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face  of our fathers, until the days of David;

44N   7     46    who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle  for the God of Jacob;

44N   7     47    but Solomon built him a house.

44N   7     48    But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands;  as says the prophet,

44N   7     49    The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my  feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where  [is the] place of my rest?

44N   7     50    has not my hand made all these things?

44N   7     51    O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do  always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.

44N   7     52    Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and  they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the  coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers  up and murderers!

44N   7     53    who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of  angels, and have not kept [it].

44N   7     54    And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and  gnashed their teeth against him.

44N   7     55    But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes  on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the  right hand of God,

44N   7     56    and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of  man standing at the right hand of God.

44N   7     57    And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears,  and rushed upon him with one accord;

44N   7     58    and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him].  And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a  young man called Saul.

44N   7     59    And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus,  receive my spirit.

44N   7     60    And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay  not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell  asleep.

44N   8     1     And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day  there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was  in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of  Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.

44N   8     2     And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over  him.

44N   8     3     But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one  after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered  them up to prison.

44N   8     4     Those then that had been scattered went through [the  countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.

44N   8     5     And Philip, going down to a city of Samaria, preached the  Christ to them;

44N   8     6     and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things  spoken by Philip, when they heard [him] and saw the signs which  he wrought.

44N   8     7     For from many who had unclean spirits they went out, crying  with a loud voice; and many that were paralysed and lame were  healed.

44N   8     8     And there was great joy in that city.

44N   8     9     But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the  city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria,  saying that himself was some great one.

44N   8     10    To whom they had all given heed, from small to great,  saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

44N   8     11    And they gave heed to him, because that for a long time he  had astonished them by his magic arts.

44N   8     12    But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings  concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,  they were baptised, both men and women.

44N   8     13    And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised,  continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and  great works of power which took place, was astonished.

44N   8     14    And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that  Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and  John;

44N   8     15    who, having come down, prayed for them that they might  receive [the] Holy Spirit;

44N   8     16    for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were  baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.

44N   8     17    Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received  [the] Holy Spirit.

44N   8     18    But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands  of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them  money,

44N   8     19    saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on  whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive [the] Holy Spirit.

44N   8     20    And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to  destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can  be obtained by money.

44N   8     21    Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy  heart is not upright before God.

44N   8     22    Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the  Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;

44N   8     23    for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of  unrighteousness.

44N   8     24    And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the  Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which  ye have spoken.

44N   8     25    They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the  Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to  many villages of the Samaritans.

44N   8     26    But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise  up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem  to Gaza: the same is desert.

44N   8     27    And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a  man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was  over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

44N   8     28    was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was  reading the prophet Esaias.

44N   8     29    And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this  chariot.

44N   8     30    And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet  Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?

44N   8     31    And he said, How should I then be able unless some one  guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

44N   8     32    And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He  was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in  presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

44N   8     33    In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and  who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from  the earth.

44N   8     34    And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee,  concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of  some other?

44N   8     35    And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that  scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.

44N   8     36    And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain  water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being  baptised?

44N   8     37   

44N   8     38    And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down  both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised  him.

44N   8     39    But when they came up out of the water [the] Spirit of  [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no  longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.

44N   8     40    And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he  announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to  Caesarea.

44N   9     1     But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter  against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

44N   9     2     and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so  that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women,  he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.

44N   9     3     But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near  to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light  out of heaven,

44N   9     4     and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him,  Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?

44N   9     5     And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], *I* am  Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.

44N   9     6     But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told  thee what thou must do.

44N   9     7     But the men who were travelling with him stood speechless,  hearing the voice but beholding no one.

44N   9     8     And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened  he saw no one. But leading [him] by the hand they brought him  into Damascus.

44N   9     9     And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor  drank.

44N   9     10    And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name  Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he  said, Behold, [here am] I, Lord.

44N   9     11    And the Lord [said] to him, Rise up and go into the street  which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by  name Saul, [he is] of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

44N   9     12    and has seen [in a vision] a man by name Ananias coming in  and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.

44N   9     13    And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many  concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at  Jerusalem;

44N   9     14    and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind  all who call upon thy name.

44N   9     15    And the Lord said to him, Go, for this [man] is an elect  vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and  [the] sons of Israel:

44N   9     16    for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my  name.

44N   9     17    And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his  hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me,  Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest,  that thou mightest see, and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit.

44N   9     18    And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales,  and he saw, and rising up was baptised;

44N   9     19    and, having received food, got strength. And he was with  the disciples who [were] in Damascus certain days.

44N   9     20    And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that  *he* is the Son of God.

44N   9     21    And all who heard were astonished and said, Is not this  *he* who destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name,  and here was come for this purpose, that he might bring them  bound to the chief priests?

44N   9     22    But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the  Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

44N   9     23    Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted  together to kill him.

44N   9     24    But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also  the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;

44N   9     25    but the disciples took him by night and let him down  through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

44N   9     26    And having arrived at Jerusalem he essayed to join himself  to the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing  that he was a disciple.

44N   9     27    But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and  related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that  he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly  in the name of Jesus.

44N   9     28    And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem,

44N   9     29    and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke  and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.

44N   9     30    And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea  and sent him away to Tarsus.

44N   9     31    The assemblies then throughout the whole of Judaea and  Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified and walking in the  fear of the Lord, and were increased through the comfort of the  Holy Spirit.

44N   9     32    Now it came to pass that Peter, passing through all  [quarters], descended also to the saints who inhabited Lydda.

44N   9     33    And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had  been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.

44N   9     34    And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals  thee: rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway  he rose up.

44N   9     35    And all who inhabited Lydda and the Saron saw him, who  turned to the Lord.

44N   9     36    And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name  Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of  good works and alms-deeds which she did.

44N   9     37    And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and  died; and, having washed her, they put her in [the] upper room.

44N   9     38    But Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard  that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching him, Thou  must not delay coming to us.

44N   9     39    And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived,  they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows  stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and  garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

44N   9     40    But Peter, putting them all out, and kneeling down, prayed.  And, turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she  opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.

44N   9     41    And having given her [his] hand, he raised her up, and  having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.

44N   9     42    And it became known throughout the whole of Joppa, and many  believed on the Lord.

44N   9     43    And it came to pass that he remained many days in Joppa  with a certain Simon, a tanner.

44N   10    1     But a certain man in Caesarea, -- by name Cornelius, a  centurion of the band called Italic,

44N   10    2     pious, and fearing God with all his house, [both] giving  much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

44N   10    3     -- saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the  day, an angel of God coming unto him, and saying to him,  Cornelius.

44N   10    4     But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of  fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers  and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

44N   10    5     And now send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed  Peter.

44N   10    6     He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by  the sea.

44N   10    7     And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed,  having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those  who were constantly with him,

44N   10    8     and related all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

44N   10    9     And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing  near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the  sixth hour.

44N   10    10    And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were  making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

44N   10    11    and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel  descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners  [and] let down to the earth;

44N   10    12    in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of  the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.

44N   10    13    And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

44N   10    14    And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten  anything common or unclean.

44N   10    15    And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What  God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.

44N   10    16    And this took place thrice, and the vessel was straightway  taken up into heaven.

44N   10    17    And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he  had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by  Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the  gate,

44N   10    18    and having called [some one], they inquired if Simon who  was surnamed Peter was lodged there.

44N   10    19    But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the  Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

44N   10    20    but rise up, go down, and go with them, nothing doubting,  because *I* have sent them.

44N   10    21    And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, *I* am he  whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye come?

44N   10    22    And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man,  and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of  the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send  for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

44N   10    23    Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on  the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of  the brethren from Joppa went with him.

44N   10    24    And on the morrow they came to Caesarea. But Cornelius was  looking for them, having called together his kinsmen and [his]  intimate friends.

44N   10    25    And when Peter was now coming in, Cornelius met him, and  falling down did [him] homage.

44N   10    26    But Peter made him rise, saying, Rise up: *I* myself also  am a man.

44N   10    27    And he went in, talking with him, and found many gathered  together.

44N   10    28    And he said to them, *Ye* know how it is unlawful for a  Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to *me*  God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.

44N   10    29    Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without  saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason  ye have sent for me.

44N   10    30    And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been [fasting]  unto this hour, and the ninth [I was] praying in my house, and  lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

44N   10    31    and said, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thy  alms have come in remembrance before God.

44N   10    32    Send therefore to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed  Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea  [who when he is come will speak to thee].

44N   10    33    Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and *thou* hast well  done in coming. Now therefore *we* are all present before God  to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

44N   10    34    And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive  that God is no respecter of persons,

44N   10    35    but in every nation he that fears him and works  righteousness is acceptable to him.

44N   10    36    The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching  peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,)

44N   10    37    *ye* know; the testimony which has spread through the  whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which  John preached --

44N   10    38    Jesus who [was] of Nazareth: how God anointed him with  [the] Holy Spirit and with power; who went through [all  quarters] doing good, and healing all that were under the power  of the devil, because God was with him.

44N   10    39    *We* also [are] witnesses of all things which he did both  in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also  slew, having hanged him on a cross.

44N   10    40    This [man] God raised up the third day and gave him to be  openly seen,

44N   10    41    not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen  before of God, *us* who have eaten and drunk with him after he  arose from among [the] dead.

44N   10    42    And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to  testify that *he* it is who was determinately appointed of God  [to be] judge of living and dead.

44N   10    43    To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that  believes on him will receive through his name remission of  sins.

44N   10    44    While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit  fell upon all those who were hearing the word.

44N   10    45    And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as  many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of  the Holy Spirit was poured out:

44N   10    46    for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying  God. Then Peter answered,

44N   10    47    Can any one forbid water that these should not be  baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also [did]?

44N   10    48    And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the  Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.

44N   11    1     And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard  that the nations also had received the word of God;

44N   11    2     and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the  circumcision contended with him,

44N   11    3     saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten  with them.

44N   11    4     But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in  order, saying,

44N   11    5     I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw  a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let  down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:

44N   11    6     on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the  quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping  things, and the fowls of the heaven.

44N   11    7     And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay  and eat.

44N   11    8     And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has  never entered into my mouth.

44N   11    9     And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What  God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.

44N   11    10    And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up  into heaven;

44N   11    11    and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I  was, sent to me from Caesarea.

44N   11    12    And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing  doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and  we entered into the house of the man,

44N   11    13    and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his  house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and  fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

44N   11    14    who shall speak words to thee whereby *thou* shalt be  saved, thou and all thy house.

44N   11    15    And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them  even as upon us also at the beginning.

44N   11    16    And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John  baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with [the] Holy  Spirit.

44N   11    17    If then God has given them the same gift as also to us  when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was  *I* to be able to forbid God?

44N   11    18    And when they heard these things they held their peace,  and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations  also granted repentance to life.

44N   11    19    They then who had been scattered abroad through the  tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed  through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch,  speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.

44N   11    20    But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians,  who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing  the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.

44N   11    21    And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number  believed and turned to the Lord.

44N   11    22    And the report concerning them reached the ears of the  assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to  go through as far as Antioch:

44N   11    23    who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced,  and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

44N   11    24    for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of  faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.

44N   11    25    And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul.

44N   11    26    And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so  it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered  together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the  disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

44N   11    27    Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to  Antioch;

44N   11    28    and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and  signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great  famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass  under Claudius.

44N   11    29    And they determined, according as any one of the disciples  was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in  Judaea, to minister [to them];

44N   11    30    which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand  of Barnabas and Saul.

44N   12    1     At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those  of the assembly to do them hurt,

44N   12    2     and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.

44N   12    3     And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to  take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)

44N   12    4     whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him  to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the  passover to bring him out to the people.

44N   12    5     Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing  prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.

44N   12    6     And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night  Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,  and guards before the door kept the prison.

44N   12    7     And lo, an angel of [the] Lord came there, and a light  shone in the prison: and having smitten the side of Peter, he  roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off  his hands.

44N   12    8     And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy  sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast thine upper  garment about thee and follow me.

44N   12    9     And going forth he followed [him] and did not know that  what was happening by means of the angel was real, but supposed  he saw a vision.

44N   12    10    And having passed through a first and second guard, they  came to the iron gate which leads into the city, which opened  to them of itself; and going forth they went down one street,  and immediately the angel left him.

44N   12    11    And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know  certainly that [the] Lord has sent forth his angel and has  taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of  the people of the Jews.

44N   12    12    And having become clearly conscious [in himself], he came  to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark,  where were many gathered together and praying.

44N   12    13    And when he had knocked at the door of the entry, a maid  came to listen, by name Rhoda;

44N   12    14    and having recognised the voice of Peter, through joy did  not open the entry, but running in, reported that Peter was  standing before the entry.

44N   12    15    And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained  that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

44N   12    16    But Peter continued knocking: and having opened, they saw  him and were astonished.

44N   12    17    And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent,  he related [to them] how the Lord had brought him out of  prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the  brethren. And he went out and went to another place.

44N   12    18    And when it was day there was no small disturbance among  the soldiers, what then was become of Peter.

44N   12    19    And Herod having sought him and not found him, having  examined the guards, commanded [them] to be executed. And he  went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed [there].

44N   12    20    And he was in bitter hostility with [the] Tyrians and  Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having  gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because  their country was nourished by the king's.

44N   12    21    And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on  the elevated seat [of honour], Herod made a public oration to  them.

44N   12    22    And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

44N   12    23    And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because  he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of  worms.

44N   12    24    But the word of God grew and spread itself.

44N   12    25    And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having  fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with  them John, surnamed Mark.

44N   13    1     Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was  [there], prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was  called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen,  foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

44N   13    2     And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the  Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the  work to which I have called them.

44N   13    3     Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid [their]  hands on them, they let [them] go.

44N   13    4     They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit,  went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.

44N   13    5     And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the  synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as [their]  attendant.

44N   13    6     And having passed through the whole island as far as  Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a  Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,

44N   13    7     who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent  man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to [him], desired to  hear the word of God.

44N   13    8     But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by  interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the  proconsul from the faith.

44N   13    9     But Saul, who also [is] Paul, filled with [the] Holy  Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,

44N   13    10    said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of [the]  devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease  perverting the right paths of [the] Lord?

44N   13    11    And now behold, [the] Lord's hand [is] upon thee, and thou  shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And  immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going  about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.

44N   13    12    Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed,  being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

44N   13    13    And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came  to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and  returned to Jerusalem.

44N   13    14    But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of  Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day  they sat down.

44N   13    15    And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the  rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye  have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

44N   13    16    And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said,  Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.

44N   13    17    The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and  exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and  with a high arm brought them out of it,

44N   13    18    and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the  desert.

44N   13    19    And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan,  he gave them their land as an inheritance.

44N   13    20    And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel  the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty  years.

44N   13    21    And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul,  son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

44N   13    22    And having removed him he raised up to them David for  king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David,  the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my  will.

44N   13    23    Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to  Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

44N   13    24    John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among  the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of  Israel.

44N   13    25    And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye  suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one  after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

44N   13    26    Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you  fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:

44N   13    27    for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not  having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the  prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].

44N   13    28    And having found no cause of death [in him], they begged  of Pilate that he might be slain.

44N   13    29    And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning  him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a  sepulchre;

44N   13    30    but God raised him from among [the] dead,

44N   13    31    who appeared for many days to those who had come up with  him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the  people.

44N   13    32    And *we* declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise  made to the fathers,

44N   13    33    that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having  raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm,  *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee.

44N   13    34    But that he raised him from among [the] dead, no more to  return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the  faithful mercies of David.

44N   13    35    Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer  thy gracious one to see corruption.

44N   13    36    For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered  to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers  and saw corruption.

44N   13    37    But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

44N   13    38    Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through  this man remission of sins is preached to you,

44N   13    39    and from all things from which ye could not be justified  in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is  justified.

44N   13    40    See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do  not come upon [you],

44N   13    41    Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work  a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if  one declare it to you.

44N   13    42    And as they went out they begged that these words might be  spoken to them the ensuing sabbath.

44N   13    43    And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up,  many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed  Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to  continue in the grace of God.

44N   13    44    And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered  together to hear the word of God.

44N   13    45    But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy,  and contradicted the things said by Paul, [contradicting and]  speaking injuriously.

44N   13    46    And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was  necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you;  but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy  of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

44N   13    47    for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a  light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to  the end of the earth.

44N   13    48    And [those of] the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and  glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were  ordained to eternal life.

44N   13    49    And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole  country.

44N   13    50    But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who  were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised  a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of  their coasts.

44N   13    51    But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against  them, came to Iconium.

44N   13    52    And the disciples were filled with joy and [the] Holy  Spirit.

44N   14    1     And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together  into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great  multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.

44N   14    2     But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of  [those of] the nations and made [them] evil-affected against  the brethren.

44N   14    3     They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly,  [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his  grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

44N   14    4     And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were  with the Jews and some with the apostles.

44N   14    5     And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the  nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and  stone them,

44N   14    6     they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia,  Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,

44N   14    7     and there they were announcing the glad tidings.

44N   14    8     And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat,  [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

44N   14    9     This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on  him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

44N   14    10    said with a loud voice, Rise up straight upon thy feet:  and he sprang up and walked.

44N   14    11    But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up  their voices in Lycaonian, saying, The gods, having made  themselves like men, are come down to us.

44N   14    12    And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercury,  because he took the lead in speaking.

44N   14    13    And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having  brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done  sacrifice along with the crowds.

44N   14    14    But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard [it],  rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying

44N   14    15    and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men  of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these  vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth,  and the sea, and all things in them;

44N   14    16    who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go  in their own ways,

44N   14    17    though indeed he did not leave himself without witness,  doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful  seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

44N   14    18    And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the  crowds from sacrificing to them.

44N   14    19    But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having  persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city,  supposing him to have died.

44N   14    20    But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and  entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with  Barnabas to Derbe.

44N   14    21    And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and  having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and  Iconium, and Antioch,

44N   14    22    establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to  abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must  enter into the kingdom of God.

44N   14    23    And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having  prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom  they had believed.

44N   14    24    And having passed through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,

44N   14    25    and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to  Attalia;

44N   14    26    and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had  been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had  fulfilled.

44N   14    27    And having arrived, and having brought together the  assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them,  and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

44N   14    28    And they stayed no little time with the disciples.

44N   15    1     And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught  the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according  to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

44N   15    2     A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small  discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they  arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from  amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and  elders about this question.

44N   15    3     They therefore, having been set on their way by the  assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the  conversion of [those of] the nations. And they caused great joy  to all the brethren.

44N   15    4     And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the  assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all  that God had wrought with them.

44N   15    5     And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees,  who believed, rose up from among [them], saying that they ought  to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

44N   15    6     And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to  see about this matter.

44N   15    7     And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up,  said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days  God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear  the word of the glad tidings and believe.

44N   15    8     And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving [them]  the Holy Spirit as to us also,

44N   15    9     and put no difference between us and them, having purified  their hearts by faith.

44N   15    10    Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the  neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have  been able to bear?

44N   15    11    But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the  Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also.

44N   15    12    And all the multitude kept silence and listened to  Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God  had wrought among the nations by them.

44N   15    13    And after they had held their peace, James answered,  saying, Brethren, listen to me:

44N   15    14    Simon has related how God first visited to take out of  [the] nations a people for his name.

44N   15    15    And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is  written:

44N   15    16    After these things I will return, and will rebuild the  tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its  ruins, and will set it up,

44N   15    17    so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all  the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who  does these things

44N   15    18    known from eternity.

44N   15    19    Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the  nations turn to God;

44N   15    20    but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols,  and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from  blood.

44N   15    21    For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city  those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every  sabbath.

44N   15    22    Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders,  with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them  with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and  Silas, leading men among the brethren,

44N   15    23    having by their hand written [thus]: The apostles, and the  elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among  [the] nations at Antioch, and [in] Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

44N   15    24    Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from  amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls,  [saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law]; to whom  we gave no commandment;

44N   15    25    it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment,  to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

44N   15    26    men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord  Jesus Christ.

44N   15    27    We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves  also will tell you by word [of mouth] the same things.

44N   15    28    For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay  upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

44N   15    29    to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from  blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication;  keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

44N   15    30    They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having  gathered the multitude delivered to [them] the epistle.

44N   15    31    And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.

44N   15    32    And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets,  exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened  them.

44N   15    33    And having passed some time [there], they were let go in  peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

44N   15    34   

44N   15    35    And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and  announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word  of the Lord.

44N   15    36    But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us  return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have  announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting  on.

44N   15    37    And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also,  called Mark;

44N   15    38    but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had  abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone  with them to the work.

44N   15    39    There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they  separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed  away to Cyprus;

44N   15    40    but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the  brethren to the grace of God.

44N   15    41    And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the  assemblies.

44N   16    1     And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain  disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish  believing woman, but [the] father a Greek,

44N   16    2     who had a [good] testimony of the brethren in Lystra and  Iconium.

44N   16    3     Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took [him and]  circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those  places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

44N   16    4     And as they passed through the cities they instructed them  to observe the decrees determined on by the apostles and elders  who were in Jerusalem.

44N   16    5     The assemblies therefore were confirmed in the faith, and  increased in number every day.

44N   16    6     And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country,  having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in  Asia,

44N   16    7     having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to  Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;

44N   16    8     and having passed by Mysia they descended to Troas.

44N   16    9     And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a  certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and  saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.

44N   16    10    And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to  go forth to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us  to announce to them the glad tidings.

44N   16    11    Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a  straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,

44N   16    12    and thence to Philippi, which is [the] first city of that  part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city  certain days.

44N   16    13    And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the  river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat  down and spoke to the women who had assembled.

44N   16    14    And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of  the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart  the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

44N   16    15    And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought  [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,  come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.

44N   16    16    And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a  certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who  brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.

44N   16    17    She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men  are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you [the] way  of salvation.

44N   16    18    And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed,  turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of  Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

44N   16    19    And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was  gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged [them] into the  market before the magistrates;

44N   16    20    and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These  men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,

44N   16    21    and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to  receive nor practise, being Romans.

44N   16    22    And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors,  having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].

44N   16    23    And having laid many stripes upon them they cast [them]  into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;

44N   16    24    who, having received such a charge, cast them into the  inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.

44N   16    25    And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising  God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.

44N   16    26    And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the  foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were  immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.

44N   16    27    And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing  the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going  to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.

44N   16    28    But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself  no harm, for we are all here.

44N   16    29    And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and, trembling,  fell down before Paul and Silas.

44N   16    30    And leading them out said, Sirs, what must I do that I may  be saved?

44N   16    31    And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be  saved, thou and thy house.

44N   16    32    And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, with all that  were in his house.

44N   16    33    And he took them the same hour of the night and washed  [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his  straightway.

44N   16    34    And having brought them into his house he laid the table  [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in  God.

44N   16    35    And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors,  saying, Let those men go.

44N   16    36    And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The praetors  have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and  depart in peace.

44N   16    37    But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly  uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison,  and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them  come themselves and bring us out.

44N   16    38    And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And  they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.

44N   16    39    And they came and besought them, and having brought them  out, asked them to go out of the city.

44N   16    40    And having gone out of the prison, they came to Lydia; and  having seen the brethren, they exhorted them and went away.

44N   17    1     And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they  came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.

44N   17    2     And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and  on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

44N   17    3     opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered  and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ,  Jesus whom *I* announce to you.

44N   17    4     And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul  and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude,  and of the chief women not a few.

44N   17    5     But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken  to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and  having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and  having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the  people;

44N   17    6     and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain  brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These [men] that  have set the world in tumult, are come here also,

44N   17    7     whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the  decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.

44N   17    8     And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they  heard these things.

44N   17    9     And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let  them go.

44N   17    10    But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul  and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the  synagogue of the Jews.

44N   17    11    And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica,  receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching  the scriptures if these things were so.

44N   17    12    Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian  women of the upper classes and men not a few.

44N   17    13    But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of  God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also,  stirring up the crowds.

44N   17    14    And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as  to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.

44N   17    15    But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens;  and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that  they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

44N   17    16    But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit  was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to  idolatry.

44N   17    17    He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and  those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with  those he met with.

44N   17    18    But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers  attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and  some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he  announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to  them].

44N   17    19    And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to  Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which  is spoken by thee [is]?

44N   17    20    For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We  wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

44N   17    21    Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there  spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the  news.

44N   17    22    And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said,  Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

44N   17    23    for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found  also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom  therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to  you.

44N   17    24    The God who has made the world and all things which are in  it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in  temples made with hands,

44N   17    25    nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself  giving to all life and breath and all things;

44N   17    26    and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell  upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained  times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

44N   17    27    that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after  him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

44N   17    28    for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the  poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

44N   17    29    Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to  think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone,  [the] graven form of man's art and imagination.

44N   17    30    God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance,  now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

44N   17    31    because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the  habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has  appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised  him from among [the] dead.

44N   17    32    And when they heard [of the] resurrection of the dead,  some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also  concerning this.

44N   17    33    Thus Paul went out of their midst.

44N   17    34    But some men joining themselves to him believed; among  whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name  Damaris, and others with them.

44N   18    1     And after these things, having left Athens, he came to  Corinth;

44N   18    2     and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by  race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because  Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,

44N   18    3     and because they were of the same trade abode with them,  and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.

44N   18    4     And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and  persuaded Jews and Greeks.

44N   18    5     And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia,  Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews  that Jesus was the Christ.

44N   18    6     But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his  clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head:  *I* [am] pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

44N   18    7     And departing thence he came to the house of a certain  [man], by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined  the synagogue.

44N   18    8     But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord  with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing,  believed, and were baptised.

44N   18    9     And the Lord said by vision in [the] night to Paul, Fear  not, but speak and be not silent;

44N   18    10    because *I* am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee  to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.

44N   18    11    And he remained [there] a year and six months, teaching  among them the word of God.

44N   18    12    But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one  consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,

44N   18    13    saying, This [man] persuades men to worship God contrary  to the law.

44N   18    14    But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to  the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O  Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;

44N   18    15    but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law  that ye have, see to it yourselves; [for] *I* do not intend to  be judge of these things.

44N   18    16    And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

44N   18    17    And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the  synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio  troubled himself about none of these things.

44N   18    18    And Paul, having yet stayed [there] many days, took leave  of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him  Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he  had a vow;

44N   18    19    and he arrived at Ephesus, and left them there. But  entering himself into the synagogue he reasoned with the Jews.

44N   18    20    And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer  time [with them] he did not accede,

44N   18    21    but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep  the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, if  God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

44N   18    22    And landing at Caesarea, and having gone up and saluted  the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

44N   18    23    And having stayed [there] some time, he went forth,  passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia,  establishing all the disciples.

44N   18    24    But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by  race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures,  arrived at Ephesus.

44N   18    25    He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being  fervent in his spirit, he spoke and taught exactly the things  concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.

44N   18    26    And *he* began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And  Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to [them] and  unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.

44N   18    27    And when he purposed to go into Achaia, the brethren wrote  to the disciples engaging them to receive him, who, being come,  contributed much to those who believed through grace.

44N   18    28    For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly,  shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

44N   19    1     And it came to pass, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul,  having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus, and  finding certain disciples,

44N   19    2     he said to them, Did ye receive [the] Holy Spirit when ye  had believed? And they [said] to him, We did not even hear if  [the] Holy Spirit was [come].

44N   19    3     And he said, To what then were ye baptised? And they said,  To the baptism of John.

44N   19    4     And Paul said, John indeed baptised [with] the baptism of  repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on  him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.

44N   19    5     And when they heard that, they were baptised to the name of  the Lord Jesus.

44N   19    6     And Paul having laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit  came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

44N   19    7     And all the men were about twelve.

44N   19    8     And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during  three months, reasoning and persuading [the things] concerning  the kingdom of God.

44N   19    9     But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil  of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the  disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

44N   19    10    And this took place for two years, so that all that  inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and  Greeks.

44N   19    11    And God wrought no ordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

44N   19    12    so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body  [and put] upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the  wicked spirits went out.

44N   19    13    And certain of the Jewish exorcists also, who went about,  took in hand to call upon those who had wicked spirits the name  of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul  preaches.

44N   19    14    And there were certain [men], seven sons of Sceva, Jewish  high priest, who were doing this.

44N   19    15    But the wicked spirit answering said to them, Jesus I  know, and Paul I am acquainted with; but *ye*, who are ye?

44N   19    16    And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon  them, and having mastered both, prevailed against them, so that  they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

44N   19    17    And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who  inhabited Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name  of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

44N   19    18    And many of those that believed came confessing and  declaring their deeds.

44N   19    19    And many of those that practised curious arts brought  their books [of charms] and burnt them before all. And they  reckoned up the prices of them, and found it fifty thousand  pieces of silver.

44N   19    20    Thus with might the word of the Lord increased and  prevailed.

44N   19    21    And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his  spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and  Achaia, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome also.

44N   19    22    And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to  him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia.

44N   19    23    And there took place at that time no small disturbance  about the way.

44N   19    24    For a certain [man] by name Demetrius, a silver-beater,  making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the  artisans;

44N   19    25    whom having brought together, and those who wrought in  such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises  from this work,

44N   19    26    and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and  turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of  all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with  hands.

44N   19    27    Now not only there is danger for us that our business come  into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess  Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should  be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.

44N   19    28    And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they  cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.

44N   19    29    And the [whole] city was filled with confusion, and they  rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and  carried off with [them] Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians,  fellow-travellers of Paul.

44N   19    30    But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples  suffered him not;

44N   19    31    and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent  to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.

44N   19    32    Different persons therefore cried out some different  thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not  know for what cause they had come together.

44N   19    33    But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the  Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his  hand, would have made a defence to the people.

44N   19    34    But, recognising that he was a Jew, there was one cry from  all, shouting for about two hours, Great [is] Artemis of the  Ephesians.

44N   19    35    And the townclerk, having quieted the crowd, said,  Ephesians, what man is there then who does not know that the  city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of Artemis the great,  and of the [image] which fell down from heaven?

44N   19    36    These things therefore being undeniable, it is necessary  that ye should be calm and do nothing headlong.

44N   19    37    For ye have brought these men, [who are] neither  temple-plunderers, nor speak injuriously of your goddess.

44N   19    38    If therefore Demetrius and the artisans who [are] with him  have a matter against any one, the courts are being held, and  there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.

44N   19    39    But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters, it  will be settled in the regular assembly.

44N   19    40    For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for  sedition for this [affair] of to-day, no cause existing in  reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this  concourse.

44N   19    41    And having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.

44N   20    1     But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the  disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to  Macedonia.

44N   20    2     And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted  them with much discourse, he came to Greece.

44N   20    3     And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot  against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was  going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of  returning through Macedonia.

44N   20    4     And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of  Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and  Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia,  Tychicus and Trophimus.

44N   20    5     These going before waited for us in Troas;

44N   20    6     but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of  unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days,  where we spent seven days.

44N   20    7     And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break  bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow.  And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.

44N   20    8     And there were many lights in the upper room where we were  assembled.

44N   20    9     And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the  window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul  discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the  sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was  taken up dead.

44N   20    10    But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in  his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.

44N   20    11    And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and  eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.

44N   20    12    And they brought [away] the boy alive, and were no little  comforted.

44N   20    13    And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to  Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he  himself being about to go on foot.

44N   20    14    And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him on  board, we came to Mitylene;

44N   20    15    and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite  Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at  Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:

44N   20    16    for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that  he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if  it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at  Jerusalem.

44N   20    17    But from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he called over  [to him] the elders of the assembly.

44N   20    18    And when they were come to him, he said to them, *Ye* know  how I was with you all the time from the first day that I  arrived in Asia,

44N   20    19    serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and  temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the  Jews;

44N   20    20    how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not  to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every  house,

44N   20    21    testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God,  and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

44N   20    22    And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem,  not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;

44N   20    23    only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city,  saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

44N   20    24    But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so  that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received  of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of  God.

44N   20    25    And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have  gone about preaching the kingdom [of God], shall see my face no  more.

44N   20    26    Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from  the blood of all,

44N   20    27    for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the  counsel of God.

44N   20    28    Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock,  wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd  the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of  his own.

44N   20    29    [For] *I* know [this,] that there will come in amongst you  after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;

44N   20    30    and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking  perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

44N   20    31    Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night  and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.

44N   20    32    And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace,  which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an  inheritance among all the sanctified.

44N   20    33    I have coveted [the] silver or gold or clothing of no one.

44N   20    34    Yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my  wants, and to those who were with me.

44N   20    35    I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we]  ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of  the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to  give than to receive.

44N   20    36    And having said these things, he knelt down and prayed  with them all.

44N   20    37    And they all wept sore; and falling upon the neck of Paul  they ardently kissed him,

44N   20    38    specially pained by the word which he had said, that they  would no more see his face. And they went down with him to the  ship.

44N   21    1     And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed  away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to  Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

44N   21    2     And having found a ship passing over into Phoenicia, we  went on board and sailed;

44N   21    3     and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we  sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship  was to discharge her cargo.

44N   21    4     And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven  days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

44N   21    5     But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our  journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children,  till [we were] out of the city. And kneeling down upon the  shore we prayed.

44N   21    6     And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and  they returned home.

44N   21    7     And we, having completed the voyage, arrived from Tyre at  Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day  with them.

44N   21    8     And leaving on the morrow, we came to Caesarea; and  entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of  the seven, we abode with him.

44N   21    9     Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

44N   21    10    And as we stayed there many days, a certain man, by name  Agabus, a prophet, came down from Judaea,

44N   21    11    and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having  bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit,  The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in  Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of [the] Gentiles.

44N   21    12    And when we heard these things, both we and those of the  place besought [him] not to go up to Jerusalem.

44N   21    13    But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my  heart? for *I* am ready not only to be bound, but also to die  at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

44N   21    14    And when he would not be persuaded, we were silent,  saying, The will of the Lord be done.

44N   21    15    And after these days, having got our effects ready, we  went up to Jerusalem.

44N   21    16    And [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us,  bringing [with them] a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old  disciple, with whom we were to lodge.

44N   21    17    And when we arrived at Jerusalem the brethren gladly  received us.

44N   21    18    And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all  the elders came there.

44N   21    19    And having saluted them, he related one by one the things  which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

44N   21    20    And they having heard [it] glorified God, and said to him,  Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who  have believed, and all are zealous of the law.

44N   21    21    And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou  teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses,  saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk  in the customs.

44N   21    22    What is it then? a multitude must necessarily come  together, for they will hear that thou art come.

44N   21    23    This do therefore that we say to thee: We have four men  who have a vow on them;

44N   21    24    take these and be purified with them, and pay their  expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will  know that [of those things] of which they have been informed  about thee nothing is [true]; but that thou thyself also  walkest orderly, keeping the law.

44N   21    25    But concerning [those of] the nations who have believed,  we have written, deciding that they should [observe no such  thing, only to] keep themselves both from things offered to  idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from  fornication.

44N   21    26    Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been  purified, entered with them into the temple, signifying the  time the days of the purification would be fulfilled, until the  offering was offered for every one of them.

44N   21    27    And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews  from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in  a tumult, and laid hands upon him,

44N   21    28    crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all  everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and  has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy  place.

44N   21    29    For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him  in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the  temple.

44N   21    30    And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of  the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of  the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

44N   21    31    And as they were seeking to kill him, a representation  came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem  was in a tumult;

44N   21    32    who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions,  ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the  soldiers, ceased beating Paul.

44N   21    33    Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and  commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and inquired who  he might be, and what he had done.

44N   21    34    And different persons cried some different thing in the  crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account  of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

44N   21    35    But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was  borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.

44N   21    36    For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away  with him.

44N   21    37    But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says  to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee?  And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

44N   21    38    Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days  raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four  thousand men of the assassins?

44N   21    39    But Paul said, *I* am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no  insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me  to speak to the people.

44N   21    40    And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs,  beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence  having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue,  saying,

44N   22    1     Brethren and fathers, hear my defence which I now make to  you.

44N   22    2     And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue,  they kept the more quiet; and he says,

44N   22    3     *I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in  this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the]  exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous for God,  as *ye* are all this day;

44N   22    4     who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and  delivering up to prisons both men and women;

44N   22    5     as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the  elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the  brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were  there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.

44N   22    6     And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near  to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of  heaven a great light round about me.

44N   22    7     And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me,  Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

44N   22    8     And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me,  *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.

44N   22    9     But they that were with me beheld the light, [and were  filled with fear], but heard not the voice of him that was  speaking to me.

44N   22    10    And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to  me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told  thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.

44N   22    11    And as I could not see, through the glory of that light,  being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to  Damascus.

44N   22    12    And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law,  borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt [there],

44N   22    13    coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul,  receive thy sight. And *I*, in the same hour, received my sight  and saw him.

44N   22    14    And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee  beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to  hear a voice out of his mouth;

44N   22    15    for thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what  thou hast seen and heard.

44N   22    16    And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and  have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

44N   22    17    And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and  as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,

44N   22    18    and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of  Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning  me.

44N   22    19    And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was  imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe  on thee;

44N   22    20    and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also  myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of  them who killed him.

44N   22    21    And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the  nations afar off.

44N   22    22    And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their  voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for  it was not fit he should live.

44N   22    23    And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes,  and casting dust into the air,

44N   22    24    the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the  fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that  he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.

44N   22    25    But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul  said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to  scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?

44N   22    26    And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it  to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this  man is a Roman.

44N   22    27    And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art  *thou* a Roman? And he said, Yes.

44N   22    28    And the chiliarch answered, *I*, for a great sum, bought  this citizenship. And Paul said, But *I* was also [free] born.

44N   22    29    Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him  left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained  that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

44N   22    30    And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty [of the  matter] why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and  commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and  having brought Paul down set him before them.

44N   23    1     And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I  have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.

44N   23    2     But the high priest Ananias ordered those standing by him  to smite his mouth.

44N   23    3     Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall.  And *thou*, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and  breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?

44N   23    4     And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the  high priest of God?

44N   23    5     And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was  high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of  the ruler of thy people.

44N   23    6     But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the  Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the  council, Brethren, *I* am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: *I* am  judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.

44N   23    7     And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the  Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.

44N   23    8     For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor  spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.

44N   23    9     And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the  Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing  evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an  angel ...

44N   23    10    And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing  lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded  the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of  them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.

44N   23    11    But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said,  Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things  concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome  also.

44N   23    12    And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put  themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat  nor drink till they should kill Paul.

44N   23    13    And they were more than forty who had joined together in  this oath;

44N   23    14    and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said,  We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we  kill Paul.

44N   23    15    Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation  to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about  to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before  he draws near, are ready to kill him.

44N   23    16    But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in  wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported [it] to  Paul.

44N   23    17    And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take  this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to  him.

44N   23    18    He therefore, having taken him with [him], led him to the  chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to [him] and  asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say  to thee.

44N   23    19    And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having  gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to  report to me?

44N   23    20    And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a  request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow  into the council, as about to inquire something more precise  concerning him.

44N   23    21    Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in  wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put  themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they  kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.

44N   23    22    The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him],  Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.

44N   23    23    And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions,  he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far  as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed  footmen, for the third hour of the night.

44N   23    24    And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might  set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the  governor,

44N   23    25    having written a letter, couched in this form:

44N   23    26    Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix,  greeting.

44N   23    27    This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about  to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out  [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.

44N   23    28    And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him,  I brought him down to their council;

44N   23    29    whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but  to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death  or of bonds.

44N   23    30    But having received information of a plot about to be put  in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately  sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before  thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]

44N   23    31    The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered  them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,

44N   23    32    and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with  him, returned to the fortress.

44N   23    33    And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the  letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.

44N   23    34    And having read [it], and asked of what eparchy he was,  and learned that [he was] of Cilicia,

44N   23    35    he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also  are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's  praetorium.

44N   24    1     And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with  the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid  their informations against Paul before the governor.

44N   24    2     And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse,  saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that  excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy  forethought,

44N   24    3     we receive [it] always and everywhere, most excellent  Felix, with all thankfulness.

44N   24    4     But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech  thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness.

44N   24    5     For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all  the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the  Nazaraeans;

44N   24    6     who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had  seized, [and would have judged according to our law;

44N   24    7     but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with  great force out of our hands,

44N   24    8     having commanded his accusers to come to thee;] of whom  thou canst thyself, in examining [him], know the certainty of  all these things of which we accuse him.

44N   24    9     And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against  [Paul], saying that these things were so.

44N   24    10    But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak,  answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to  this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern  myself.

44N   24    11    As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve  days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

44N   24    12    and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to  any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the  crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

44N   24    13    neither can they make good the things of which they now  accuse me.

44N   24    14    But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call  sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which  are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;

44N   24    15    having hope towards God, which they themselves also  receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and  unjust.

44N   24    16    For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in  everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

44N   24    17    And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms  to my nation, and offerings.

44N   24    18    Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with  neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,

44N   24    19    who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have  anything against me;

44N   24    20    or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me  when I stood before the council,

44N   24    21    [other] than concerning this one voice which I cried  standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching  [the] resurrection of [the] dead.

44N   24    22    And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the  way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come  down I will determine your affair;

44N   24    23    ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should  have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to  him.

44N   24    24    And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla  his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him  concerning the faith in Christ.

44N   24    25    And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and  temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled  with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an  opportunity I will send for thee;

44N   24    26    hoping at the same time that money would be given him by  Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed  with him.

44N   24    27    But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by  Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige  the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.

44N   25    1     Festus therefore, being come into the eparchy, after three  days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

44N   25    2     And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid  informations before him against Paul, and besought him,

44N   25    3     asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to  Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

44N   25    4     Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at  Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.

44N   25    5     Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he,  going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.

44N   25    6     And having remained among them not more than eight or ten  days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat  down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.

44N   25    7     And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from  Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which  they were not able to prove:

44N   25    8     Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the  Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I  offended [in] anything.

44N   25    9     But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their  favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to  Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these  things?

44N   25    10    But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of  Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no  wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.

44N   25    11    If then I have done any wrong and committed anything  worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is  nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can  give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

44N   25    12    Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered,  Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.

 

44N   25    13    And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and  Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.

44N   25    14    And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid  before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is  a certain man left prisoner by Felix,

44N   25    15    concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief  priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring  judgment against him:

44N   25    16    to whom I answered, It is not [the] custom of the Romans  to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers  face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching  the charge.

44N   25    17    When therefore they had come together here, without  putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and  commanded the man to be brought:

44N   25    18    concerning whom the accusers, standing up, brought no such  accusation of guilt as *I* supposed;

44N   25    19    but had against him certain questions of their own system  of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom  Paul affirmed to be living.

44N   25    20    And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these  things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to  be judged concerning these things?

44N   25    21    But Paul having appealed to be kept for the cognisance of  Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to  Caesar.

44N   25    22    And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I myself also would desire  to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

44N   25    23    On the morrow therefore, Agrippa being come, and Bernice,  with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience,  with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and  Festus having given command, Paul was brought.

44N   25    24    And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here  present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the  multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here,  crying out against [him] that he ought not to live any longer.

44N   25    25    But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of  death, and this [man] himself having appealed to Augustus, I  have decided to send him;

44N   25    26    concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my  lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially  before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been  gone into I may have something to write:

44N   25    27    for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also  to signify the charges against him.

44N   26    1     And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for  thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his  defence:

44N   26    2     I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer  to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the  Jews,

44N   26    3     especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs  and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech  thee to hear me patiently.

44N   26    4     My manner of life then from my youth, which from its  commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all  the Jews,

44N   26    5     who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they  would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our  religion I lived a Pharisee.

44N   26    6     And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the  promise made by God to our fathers,

44N   26    7     to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day  and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am  accused of [the] Jews.

44N   26    8     Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if  God raises the dead?

44N   26    9     *I* indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against  the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.

44N   26    10    Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in  prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from  the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my  vote.

44N   26    11    And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I  compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious  against them, I persecuted them even to cities out [of our own  land].

44N   26    12    And when, [engaged] in this, I was journeying to Damascus,  with authority and power from the chief priests,

44N   26    13    at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the  brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and  those who were journeying with me.

44N   26    14    And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a  voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why  persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against  goads.

44N   26    15    And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, *I* am  Jesus whom *thou* persecutest:

44N   26    16    but rise up and stand on thy feet; for, for this purpose  have I appeared to thee, to appoint thee to be a servant and a  witness both of what thou hast seen, and of what I shall appear  to thee in,

44N   26    17    taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to  whom *I* send thee,

44N   26    18    to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to  light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may  receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are  sanctified by faith in me.

44N   26    19    Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the  heavenly vision;

44N   26    20    but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem,  and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced  that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of  repentance.

44N   26    21    On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in  the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

44N   26    22    Having therefore met with [the] help which is from God, I  have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and  great, saying nothing else than those things which both the  prophets and Moses have said should happen,

44N   26    23    [namely,] whether Christ should suffer; whether he first,  through resurrection of [the] dead, should announce light both  to the people and to the nations.

44N   26    24    And as he answered for his defence with these things,  Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much  learning turns thee to madness.

44N   26    25    But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but  utter words of truth and soberness;

44N   26    26    for the king is informed about these things, to whom also  I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these  things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a  corner.

44N   26    27    King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that  thou believest.

44N   26    28    And Agrippa [said] to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me  to become a Christian.

44N   26    29    And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in  much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day,  should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.

44N   26    30    And the king stood up, and the governor and Bernice, and  those who sat with them,

44N   26    31    and having gone apart, they spoke to one another saying,  This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

44N   26    32    And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been let  go if he had not appealed to Caesar.

44N   27    1     But when it had been determined that we should sail to  Italy, they delivered up Paul and certain other prisoners to a  centurion, by name Julius, of Augustus' company.

44N   27    2     And going on board a ship of Adramyttium about to navigate  by the places along Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus, a  Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

44N   27    3     And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated  Paul kindly and suffered him to go to his friends and refresh  himself.

44N   27    4     And setting sail thence we sailed under the lee of Cyprus,  because the winds were contrary.

44N   27    5     And having sailed over the waters of Cilicia and Pamphylia  we came to Myra in Lycia:

44N   27    6     and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria  sailing to Italy, he made us go on board her.

44N   27    7     And sailing slowly for many days, and having with  difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we  sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;

44N   27    8     and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place  called Fair Havens, near to which was [the] city of Lasaea.

44N   27    9     And much time having now been spent, and navigation being  already dangerous, because the fast also was already past, Paul  counselled them,

44N   27    10    saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with  disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but  also of our lives.

44N   27    11    But the centurion believed rather the helmsman and the  shipowner than what was said by Paul.

44N   27    12    And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in, the most  counselled to set sail thence, if perhaps they might reach  Phoenice to winter in, a port of Crete looking north-east and  south-east.

44N   27    13    And [the] south wind blowing gently, supposing that they  had gained their object, having weighed anchor they sailed  close in shore along Crete.

44N   27    14    But not long after there came down it a hurricane called  Euroclydon.

44N   27    15    And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to  bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven  [before it].

44N   27    16    But running under the lee of a certain island called  Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters  of the boat;

44N   27    17    which having hoisted up, they used helps, frapping the  ship; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run  aground, and having lowered the gear they were so driven.

44N   27    18    But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next  day they threw cargo overboard,

44N   27    19    and on the third day with their own hands they cast away  the ship furniture.

44N   27    20    And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no  small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved  was taken away.

44N   27    21    And when they had been a long while without taking food,  Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O  men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete  and have gained this disaster and loss.

44N   27    22    And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there  shall be no loss at all of life of [any] of you, only of the  ship.

44N   27    23    For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve,  stood by me this night,

44N   27    24    saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and  behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.

44N   27    25    Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that  thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.

44N   27    26    But we must be cast ashore on a certain island.

44N   27    27    And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven  about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors  supposed that some land neared them,

44N   27    28    and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a  little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen  fathoms;

44N   27    29    and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places,  casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day  were come.

44N   27    30    But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and  having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being  about to carry out anchors from the prow,

44N   27    31    Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these  abide in the ship *ye* cannot be saved.

44N   27    32    Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let  her fall.

44N   27    33    And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted  them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the  fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.

44N   27    34    Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to  do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of  you shall perish.

44N   27    35    And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave  thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.

44N   27    36    And all taking courage, themselves also took food.

44N   27    37    And we were in the ship, all the souls, two hundred and  seventy-six.

44N   27    38    And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened  the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.

44N   27    39    And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but  they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they  were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;

44N   27    40    and, having cast off the anchors, they left [them] in the  sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders,  and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the  strand.

44N   27    41    And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the  ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained  unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.

44N   27    42    And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should  kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.

44N   27    43    But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them  of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim,  casting themselves first [into the sea], to get out on land;

44N   27    44    and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things  [that came] from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all  got safe to land.

44N   28    1     And when we got safe [to land] we then knew that the island  was called Melita.

44N   28    2     But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for,  having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain  that was falling and because of the cold.

44N   28    3     And Paul having gathered a [certain] quantity of sticks  together in a bundle and laid [it] on the fire, a viper coming  out from the heat seized his hand.

44N   28    4     And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his  hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a  murderer, whom, [though] saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not  allowed to live.

44N   28    5     *He* however, having shaken off the beast into the fire,  felt no harm.

44N   28    6     But *they* expected that he would have swollen or fallen  down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and  saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they  said he was a god.

44N   28    7     Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands  belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who  received us and gave [us] hospitality three days in a very  friendly way.

44N   28    8     And it happened that the father of Publius lay ill of fever  and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed and  laid his hands on him cured him.

44N   28    9     But this having taken place, the rest also who had  sicknesses in the island came and were healed:

44N   28    10    who also honoured us with many honours, and on our leaving  they made presents to us of what should minister to our wants.

44N   28    11    And after three months we sailed in a ship which had  wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with [the] Dioscuri for  its ensign.

44N   28    12    And having come to Syracuse we remained three days.

44N   28    13    Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at  Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south,  on the second day we came to Puteoli,

44N   28    14    where, having found brethren, we were begged to stay with  them seven days. And thus we went to Rome.

44N   28    15    And thence the brethren, having heard about us, came to  meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, whom when Paul  saw, he thanked God and took courage.

44N   28    16    And when we came to Rome, [the centurion delivered up the  prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but] Paul was allowed to  remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.

44N   28    17    And it came to pass after three days, that he called  together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they  had come together he said to them, Brethren, *I* having done  nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers,  have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of  the Romans,

44N   28    18    who having examined me were minded to let me go, because  there was nothing worthy of death in me.

44N   28    19    But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to  appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation  of.

44N   28    20    For this cause therefore I have called you to [me] to see  and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I  have this chain about me.

44N   28    21    And they said to him, For our part, we have neither  received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one  of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil  concerning thee.

44N   28    22    But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as  concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere  spoken against.

44N   28    23    And having appointed him a day many came to him to the  lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of  God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of  Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.

44N   28    24    And some were persuaded of the things which were said, but  some disbelieved.

44N   28    25    And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul  having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through  Esaias the prophet to our fathers,

44N   28    26    saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear  and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.

44N   28    27    For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear  heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest  they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and  understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should  heal them.

44N   28    28    Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God  has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear [it].

44N   28    29    [And he having said this, the Jews went away, having great  reasoning among themselves.]

44N   28    30    And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging,  and received all who came to him,

44N   28    31    preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things  concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom  unhinderedly.

Hebrews (A. D. 64)

58N   1     1     God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to  the fathers in the prophets,

58N   1     2     at the end of these days has spoken to us in [the person of  the] Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom  also he made the worlds;

58N   1     3     who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression  of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his  power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set  himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

58N   1     4     taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he  inherits a name more excellent than they.

58N   1     5     For to which of the angels said he ever, *Thou* art my Son:  this day have *I* begotten thee? and again, *I* will be to him  for father, and *he* shall be to me for son?

58N   1     6     and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the  habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.

58N   1     7     And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits  and his ministers a flame of fire;

58N   1     8     but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the  age, and a sceptre of uprightness [is] the sceptre of thy  kingdom.

58N   1     9     Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness;  therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness  above thy companions.

58N   1     10    And, *Thou* in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth,  and works of thy hands are the heavens.

58N   1     11    They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they  all shall grow old as a garment,

58N   1     12    and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall  be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not  fail.

58N   1     13    But as to which of the angels said he ever, Sit at my right  hand until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet?

58N   1     14    Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service  on account of those who shall inherit salvation?

58N   2     1     For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the  things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

58N   2     2     For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and  every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

58N   2     3     how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great  salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken  [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have  heard;

58N   2     4     God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by  signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions  of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?

58N   2     5     For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which  is to come, of which we speak;

58N   2     6     but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that  thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?

58N   2     7     Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou  hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over  the works of thy hands;]

58N   2     8     thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in  subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to  him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to *him*,

58N   2     9     but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to  angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory  and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death  for every thing.

58N   2     10    For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom  [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make  perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings.

58N   2     11    For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified [are] all  of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them  brethren,

58N   2     12    saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in [the]  midst of [the] assembly will I sing thy praises.

58N   2     13    And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and  the children which God has given me.

58N   2     14    Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he  also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death  he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the  devil;

58N   2     15    and might set free all those who through fear of death  through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.

58N   2     16    For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand],  but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

58N   2     17    Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to  [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high  priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the  sins of the people;

58N   2     18    for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is  able to help those that are being tempted.

58N   3     1     Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly  calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our  confession, Jesus,

58N   3     2     who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses  also in all his house.

58N   3     3     For *he* has been counted worthy of greater glory than  Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than  the house.

58N   3     4     For every house is built by some one; but he who has built  all things [is] God.

58N   3     5     And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a  ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken  after;

58N   3     6     but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if  indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to  the end.

58N   3     7     Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will  hear his voice,

58N   3     8     harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of  temptation in the wilderness;

58N   3     9     where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my  works forty years.

58N   3     10    Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They  always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;

 

58N   3     11    so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

58N   3     12    See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked  heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.

58N   3     13    But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called  To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of  sin.

58N   3     14    For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we  hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

58N   3     15    in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do  not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

58N   3     16    (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it]  not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

58N   3     17    And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with  those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

58N   3     18    And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his  rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

58N   3     19    And we see that they could not enter in on account of  unbelief;)

58N   4     1     Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of  entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have  failed [of it].

58N   4     2     For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as  they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*,  not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

58N   4     3     For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As  I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest;  although the works had been completed from [the] foundation of  [the] world.

58N   4     4     For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God  rested on the seventh day from all his works:

58N   4     5     and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

58N   4     6     Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and  those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on  account of not hearkening to the word,

58N   4     7     again he determines a certain day, saying, in David,  'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said  before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your  hearts.

58N   4     8     For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have  spoken afterwards about another day.

58N   4     9     There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

58N   4     10    For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested  from his works, as God did from his own.

58N   4     11    Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest,  that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening  to the word.

58N   4     12    For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper  than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of  soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of  the thoughts and intents of [the] heart.

58N   4     13    And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all  things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have  to do.

58N   4     14    Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through  the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the  confession.

58N   4     15    For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with  our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin  apart.

58N   4     16    Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of  grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable  help.

58N   5     1     For every high priest taken from amongst men is established  for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts  and sacrifices for sins;

58N   5     2     being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and  erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

58N   5     3     and, on account of this [infirmity], he ought, even as for  the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

58N   5     4     And no one takes the honour to himself but [as] called by  God, even as Aaron also.

58N   5     5     Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a  high priest; but he who had said to him, *Thou* art my Son, *I*  have to-day begotten thee.

58N   5     6     Even as also in another [place] he says, *Thou* [art] a  priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

58N   5     7     Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both  supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him  out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been  heard because of his piety;)

58N   5     8     though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things  which he suffered;

58N   5     9     and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him,  author of eternal salvation;

58N   5     10    addressed by God [as] high priest according to the order of  Melchisedec.

58N   5     11    Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be  interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in  hearing.

58N   5     12    For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have  again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements  of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as  have need of milk, [and] not of solid food.

58N   5     13    For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the  word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

58N   5     14    but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account  of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both  good and evil.

58N   6     1     Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ,  let us go on [to what belongs] to full growth, not laying again  a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

58N   6     2     of [the] doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands,  and of resurrection of [the] dead, and of eternal judgment;

58N   6     3     and this will we do if God permit.

58N   6     4     For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once  enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have  been made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit,

58N   6     5     and have tasted the good word of God, and [the] works of  power of [the] age to come,

58N   6     6     and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves [as they do]  the Son of God, and making a show of [him].

58N   6     7     For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it,  and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is  tilled, partakes of blessing from God;

58N   6     8     but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless  and nigh to a curse, whose end [is] to be burned.

58N   6     9     But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things,  and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

58N   6     10    For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the  love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the  saints, and [still] ministering.

58N   6     11    But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same  diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;

58N   6     12    that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through  faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

58N   6     13    For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no  greater to swear by, swore by himself,

58N   6     14    saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying  I will multiply thee;

58N   6     15    and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

58N   6     16    For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath  is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

58N   6     17    Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs  of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened  by an oath,

58N   6     18    that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was]  impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong  encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope  set before us,

58N   6     19    which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm,  and entering into that within the veil,

58N   6     20    where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for  ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

58N   7     1     For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high  God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and  blessed him;

58N   7     2     to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first  being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of  Salem, which is King of peace;

58N   7     3     without father, without mother, without genealogy; having  neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to  the Son of God, abides a priest continually.

58N   7     4     Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even]  the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

58N   7     5     And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the  priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people  according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these  are come out of the loins of Abraham:

58N   7     6     but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham,  and blessed him who had the promises.

58N   7     7     But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the  better.

58N   7     8     And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom  the witness is that he lives;

58N   7     9     and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received  tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

58N   7     10    For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec  met him.

58N   7     11    If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood,  for the people had their law given to them in connexion with  *it*, what need [was there] still that a different priest  should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be  named after the order of Aaron?

58N   7     12    For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of  necessity a change of law also.

58N   7     13    For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a  different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been attached to  the service of the altar.

58N   7     14    For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to  which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.

58N   7     15    And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different  priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec,

58N   7     16    who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly  commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

58N   7     17    For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever  according to the order of Melchisedec.

58N   7     18    For there is a setting aside of the commandment going  before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

58N   7     19    (for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a  better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

58N   7     20    And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an  oath;

58N   7     21    (for they are become priests without the swearing of an  oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as  to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou*  [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];)

58N   7     22    by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

58N   7     23    And they have been many priests, on account of being  hindered from continuing by death;

58N   7     24    but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the  priesthood unchangeable.

58N   7     25    Whence also he is able to save completely those who  approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.

58N   7     26    For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless,  undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the  heavens:

58N   7     27    who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to  offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the  people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up  himself.

58N   7     28    For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity;  but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the  law, a Son perfected for ever.

58N   8     1     Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is],  We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right  hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

58N   8     2     minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle,  which the Lord has pitched, [and] not man.

58N   8     3     For every high priest is constituted for the offering both  of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one  also should have something which he may offer.

58N   8     4     If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a  priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the  law,

58N   8     5     (who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things,  according as Moses was oracularly told [when] about to make the  tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things  according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the  mountain.)

58N   8     6     But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as  he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on  the footing of better promises.

58N   8     7     For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought  for a second.

58N   8     8     For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith  the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the  house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;

58N   8     9     not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers  in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the  land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant,  and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord.

58N   8     10    Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the  house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my  laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts;  and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for  people.

58N   8     11    And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each  his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me  in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the]  great among them.

58N   8     12    Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and  their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any  more.

58N   8     13    In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that  which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.

58N   9     1     The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service,  and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

58N   9     2     For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which [were] both  the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves,  which is called Holy;

58N   9     3     but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy  of holies,

58N   9     4     having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered  round in every part with gold, in which [were] the golden pot  that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and  the tables of the covenant;

58N   9     5     and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the  mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now [the time] to speak  in detail.

58N   9     6     Now these things being thus ordered, into the first  tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the  services;

58N   9     7     but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not  without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors  of the people:

58N   9     8     the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the [holy of]  holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first  tabernacle has [its] standing;

58N   9     9     the which [is] an image for the present time, according to  which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to  conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

 

58N   9     10    [consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings,  ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things  right.

58N   9     11    But Christ being come high priest of the good things to  come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with  hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

58N   9     12    nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has  entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found  an eternal redemption.

58N   9     13    For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes  sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,

58N   9     14    how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the  eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your  conscience from dead works to worship [the] living God?

58N   9     15    And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so  that, death having taken place for redemption of the  transgressions under the first covenant, the called might  receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

58N   9     16    (For where [there is] a testament, the death of the  testator must needs come in.

58N   9     17    For a testament [is] of force when men are dead, since it  is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)

58N   9     18    Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

58N   9     19    For every commandment having been spoken according to [the]  law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of  calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he  sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

58N   9     20    saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has  enjoined to you.

58N   9     21    And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he  sprinkled in like manner with blood;

58N   9     22    and almost all things are purified with blood according to  the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.

58N   9     23    [It was] necessary then that the figurative representations  of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but  the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than  these.

58N   9     24    For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with  hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to  appear before the face of God for us:

58N   9     25    nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the  high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood  not his own;

58N   9     26    since he had [then] been obliged often to suffer from the  foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of  the ages he has been manifested for [the] putting away of sin  by his sacrifice.

58N   9     27    And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and  after this judgment;

58N   9     28    thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the  sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the  second time without sin for salvation.

58N   10    1     For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not  the image itself of the things, can never, by the same  sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those  who approach.

58N   10    2     Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on  account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any  conscience of sins?

58N   10    3     But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

58N   10    4     For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away  sins.

58N   10    5     Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and  offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

58N   10    6     Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices  for sin.

58N   10    7     Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is  written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

58N   10    8     Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings  and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest  pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

58N   10    9     then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the  first that he may establish the second;

58N   10    10    by which will we have been sanctified through the offering  of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

58N   10    11    And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering  often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

58N   10    12    But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down  in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,

58N   10    13    waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the]  footstool of his feet.

58N   10    14    For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the  sanctified.

58N   10    15    And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for  after what was said:

58N   10    16    This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them  after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their  hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

58N   10    17    and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never  remember any more.

58N   10    18    But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no  longer a sacrifice for sin.

58N   10    19    Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the  [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,

58N   10    20    the new and living way which he has dedicated for us  through the veil, that is, his flesh,

58N   10    21    and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

58N   10    22    let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of  faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and  washed as to our body with pure water.

58N   10    23    Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering,  (for he [is] faithful who has promised;)

58N   10    24    and let us consider one another for provoking to love and  good works;

58N   10    25    not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the  custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so  much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

58N   10    26    For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of  the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

58N   10    27    but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of  fire about to devour the adversaries.

58N   10    28    Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy  on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

58N   10    29    of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged  worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed  the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified,  common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

58N   10    30    For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I*  will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall  judge his people.

58N   10    31    [It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the]  living God.

58N   10    32    But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been  enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

58N   10    33    on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in  reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became  partakers with those who were passing through them.

58N   10    34    For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with  joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for  yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

58N   10    35    Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great  recompense.

58N   10    36    For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done  the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

58N   10    37    For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and  will not delay.

58N   10    38    But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my  soul does not take pleasure in him.

58N   10    39    But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith  to saving [the] soul.

58N   11    1     Now faith is [the] substantiating of things hoped for,  [the] conviction of things not seen.

58N   11    2     For in [the power of] this the elders have obtained  testimony.

58N   11    3     By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by [the]  word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its  origin from things which appear.

58N   11    4     By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice  than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous,  God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he  yet speaks.

58N   11    5     By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death;  and was not found, because God had translated him; for before  [his] translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

58N   11    6     But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]. For  he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and [that]  he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.

58N   11    7     By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet  seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his  house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the  righteousness which [is] according to faith.

58N   11    8     By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the  place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out,  not knowing where he was going.

58N   11    9     By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise  as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and  Jacob, the heirs with [him] of the same promise;

58N   11    10    for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which  God is [the] artificer and constructor.

58N   11    11    By faith also Sarah herself received strength for [the]  conception of seed, and [that] beyond a seasonable age; since  she counted him faithful who promised.

58N   11    12    Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of  one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and  as the countless sand which [is] by the sea shore.

58N   11    13    All these died in faith, not having received the promises,  but having seen them from afar off and embraced [them], and  confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

58N   11    14    For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek  [their] country.

58N   11    15    And if they had called to mind that from whence they went  out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

58N   11    16    but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore  God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has  prepared for them a city.

58N   11    17    By faith Abraham, [when] tried, offered up Isaac, and he  who had received to himself the promises offered up his only  begotten [son],

58N   11    18    as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be  called:

58N   11    19    counting that God [was] able to raise [him] even from  among [the] dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

58N   11    20    By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to  come.

58N   11    21    By faith Jacob [when] dying blessed each of the sons of  Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff.

58N   11    22    By faith Joseph [when] dying called to mind the going  forth of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment concerning  his bones.

58N   11    23    By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his  parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not  fear the injunction of the king.

58N   11    24    By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be  called son of Pharaoh's daughter;

58N   11    25    choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people  of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;

58N   11    26    esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than  the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense.

58N   11    27    By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king;  for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.

58N   11    28    By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of  the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch  them.

58N   11    29    By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry  land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed  up.

58N   11    30    By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled  for seven days.

58N   11    31    By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with the  unbelieving, having received the spies in peace.

58N   11    32    And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling  of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and  Samuel, and of the prophets:

 

58N   11    33    who by faith overcame kingdoms, wrought righteousness,  obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths,

58N   11    34    quenched [the] power of fire, escaped [the] edge of the  sword, became strong out of weakness, became mighty in war,  made [the] armies of strangers give way.

58N   11    35    Women received their dead again by resurrection; and  others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that  they might get a better resurrection;

58N   11    36    and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings,  yea, and of bonds and imprisonment.

58N   11    37    They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by  the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in  goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

58N   11    38    (of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts  and mountains, and [in] dens and caverns of the earth.

58N   11    39    And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did  not receive the promise,

58N   11    40    God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they  should not be made perfect without us.

58N   12    1     Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of  witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin  which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that  lies before us,

58N   12    2     looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of  faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the]  cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the  right hand of the throne of God.

58N   12    3     For consider well him who endured so great contradiction  from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in  your minds.

58N   12    4     Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

58N   12    5     And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to  you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the]  Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him;

58N   12    6     for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every  son whom he receives.

58N   12    7     Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you  as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens  not?

58N   12    8     But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been  made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

58N   12    9     Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as  chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather  be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

58N   12    10    For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good  to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his  holiness.

58N   12    11    But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter] of joy,  but of grief; but afterwards yields [the] peaceful fruit of  righteousness to those exercised by it.

58N   12    12    Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the  failing knees;

58N   12    13    and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is  lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

58N   12    14    Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one  shall see the Lord:

58N   12    15    watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of  God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you],  and many be defiled by it;

58N   12    16    lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as  Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

58N   12    17    for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the  blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for  repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.

58N   12    18    For ye have not come to [the mount] that might be touched  and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and  tempest,

58N   12    19    and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that  heard, excusing themselves, declined [the] word being addressed  to them any more:

58N   12    20    (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if  a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

58N   12    21    and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am  exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)

58N   12    22    but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the]  living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,

58N   12    23    the universal gathering; and to [the] assembly of the  firstborn [who are] registered in heaven; and to God, judge of  all; and to [the] spirits of just [men] made perfect;

58N   12    24    and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the]  blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

58N   12    25    See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did  not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on  earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from  heaven:

58N   12    26    whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised,  saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also  the heaven.

58N   12    27    But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is  shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

58N   12    28    Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken,  have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence  and fear.

58N   12    29    For also our God [is] a consuming fire.

58N   13    1     Let brotherly love abide.

58N   13    2     Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have  unawares entertained angels.

58N   13    3     Remember prisoners, as bound with [them]; those that are  evil-treated, as being yourselves also in [the] body.

58N   13    4     [Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed  [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

58N   13    5     [Let your] conversation [be] without love of money,  satisfied with [your] present circumstances; for *he* has said,  I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

58N   13    6     So that, taking courage, we may say, The Lord [is] my  helper, and I will not be afraid: what will man do unto me?

58N   13    7     Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of  God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate  their faith.

58N   13    8     Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and to-day, and to  the ages [to come].

58N   13    9     Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for  [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats;  those who have walked in which have not been profited by  [them].

58N   13    10    We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who  serve the tabernacle;

58N   13    11    for of those beasts whose blood is carried [as sacrifices  for sin] into the [holy of] holies by the high priest, of these  the bodies are burned outside the camp.

58N   13    12    Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by  his own blood, suffered without the gate:

58N   13    13    therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing  his reproach:

58N   13    14    for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the  coming one.

58N   13    15    By him therefore let us offer [the] sacrifice of praise  continually to God, that is, [the] fruit of [the] lips  confessing his name.

58N   13    16    But of doing good and communicating [of your substance] be  not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

58N   13    17    Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for *they* watch  over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may  do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [would be]  unprofitable for you.

58N   13    18    Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good  conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly.

58N   13    19    But I much more beseech [you] to do this, that I may the  more quickly be restored to you.

58N   13    20    But the God of peace, who brought again from among [the]  dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in [the  power of the] blood of [the] eternal covenant,

58N   13    21    perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will,  doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ;  to whom [be] glory for the ages of ages. Amen.

58N   13    22    But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation,  for it is but in few words that I have written to you.

58N   13    23    Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with  whom, if he should come soon, I will see you.

58N   13    24    Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from  Italy salute you.

58N   13    25    Grace [be] with you all. Amen.

Titus (A. D. 65)

56N   1     1     Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according  to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth  which [is] according to piety;

56N   1     2     in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie,  promised before the ages of time,

56N   1     3     but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the]  proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to  [the] commandment of our Saviour God;

56N   1     4     to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to  us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus  our Saviour.

56N   1     5     For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go  on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders  in each city, as *I* had ordered thee:

56N   1     6     if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of  one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or  unruly.

56N   1     7     For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him]  as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not  disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by  base means;

56N   1     8     but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious,  temperate,

56N   1     9     clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine  taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound  teaching and refute gainsayers.

56N   1     10    For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and  deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the]  circumcision,

56N   1     11    who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole  houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the  sake of base gain.

56N   1     12    One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said,  Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

56N   1     13    This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them  severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

56N   1     14    not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments  of men turning away from the truth.

56N   1     15    All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and  unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their  conscience are defiled.

56N   1     16    They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being  abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every  good work.

56N   2     1     But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;

56N   2     2     that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in  faith, in love, in patience;

56N   2     3     that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as  becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not  slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is  right;

56N   2     4     that they may admonish the young women to be attached to  [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,

56N   2     5     discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to  their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken  of.

56N   2     6     The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:

56N   2     7     in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works;  in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,

56N   2     8     a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed  may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

56N   2     9     bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make  themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

56N   2     10    not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity,  that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our Saviour God  in all things.

 

56N   2     11    For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for  all men has appeared,

56N   2     12    teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts,  we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present  course of things,

56N   2     13    awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our  great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

56N   2     14    who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all  lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous  for good works.

56N   2     15    These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all  authority. Let no one despise thee.

56N   3     1     Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to  be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work,

56N   3     2     to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, [to be]  mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

56N   3     3     For we were once ourselves also without intelligence,  disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and  pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one  another.

56N   3     4     But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God  appeared,

56N   3     5     not on the principle of works which [have been done] in  righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own  mercy he saved us through [the] washing of regeneration and  renewal of [the] Holy Spirit,

56N   3     6     which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our  Saviour;

56N   3     7     that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become  heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life.

56N   3     8     The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist  strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God  may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These  things are good and profitable to men.

56N   3     9     But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and  contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and  vain.

56N   3     10    An heretical man after a first and second admonition have  done with,

56N   3     11    knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being  self-condemned.

56N   3     12    When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use  diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have decided to  winter there.

56N   3     13    Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on  their way, that nothing may be lacking to them;

56N   3     14    and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works  for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.

56N   3     15    All with me salute thee. Salute those who love us in [the]  faith. Grace [be] with you all.

 

John (A. D. 65)

 

43N   1     1     In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,  and the Word was God.

43N   1     2     *He* was in the beginning with God.

43N   1     3     All things received being through him, and without him not  one [thing] received being which has received being.

43N   1     4     In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

43N   1     5     And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness  apprehended it not.

43N   1     6     There was a man sent from God, his name John.

43N   1     7     He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the  light, that all might believe through him.

43N   1     8     *He* was not the light, but that he might witness concerning  the light.

43N   1     9     The true light was that which, coming into the world,  lightens every man.

43N   1     10    He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through  him, and the world knew him not.

43N   1     11    He came to his own, and his own received him not;

43N   1     12    but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to  be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

43N   1     13    who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor  of man's will, but of God.

43N   1     14    And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have  contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a  father), full of grace and truth;

43N   1     15    (John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This  was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred  before me, for he was before me;)

43N   1     16    for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon  grace.

43N   1     17    For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists  through Jesus Christ.

43N   1     18    No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who  is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared [him].

43N   1     19    And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from  Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou,  who art thou?

43N   1     20    And he acknowledged and denied not, and acknowledged, I am  not the Christ.

43N   1     21    And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says,  I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

43N   1     22    They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give  an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

43N   1     23    He said, I [am] [the] voice of one crying in the  wilderness, Make straight the path of [the] Lord, as said  Esaias the prophet.

43N   1     24    And they were sent from among the Pharisees.

43N   1     25    And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou  then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

43N   1     26    John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the  midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,

43N   1     27    he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not  worthy to unloose.

43N   1     28    These things took place in Bethany, across the Jordan,  where John was baptising.

43N   1     29    On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold  the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

43N   1     30    He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a  place before me, because he *was* before me;

43N   1     31    and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to  Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.

43N   1     32    And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit  descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.

43N   1     33    And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptise with  water, *he* said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit  descending and abiding on him, he it is who baptises with [the]  Holy Spirit.

43N   1     34    And I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of  God.

43N   1     35    Again, on the morrow, there stood John and two of his  disciples.

43N   1     36    And, looking at Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the  Lamb of God.

43N   1     37    And the two disciples heard him speaking, and followed  Jesus.

43N   1     38    But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to  them, What seek ye? And *they* said to him, Rabbi (which, being  interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?

43N   1     39    He says to them, Come and see. They went therefore, and saw  where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about  the tenth hour.

43N   1     40    Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who  heard [this] from John and followed him.

43N   1     41    He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We  have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).

43N   1     42    And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou  art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which  interpreted is stone).

43N   1     43    On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee, and Jesus  finds Philip, and says to him, Follow me.

43N   1     44    And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and  Peter.

43N   1     45    Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him  of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the  son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.

43N   1     46    And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of  Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

43N   1     47    Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold  [one] truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

43N   1     48    Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus  answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when  thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

43N   1     49    Nathanael answered and said to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son  of God, thou art the King of Israel.

43N   1     50    Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I  saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see  greater things than these.

43N   1     51    And he says to him, Verily, verily, I say to you,  Henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of  God ascending and descending on the Son of man.

43N   2     1     And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of  Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

43N   2     2     And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the  marriage.

43N   2     3     And wine being deficient, the mother of Jesus says to him,  They have no wine.

43N   2     4     Jesus says to her, What have I to do with thee, woman? mine  hour has not yet come.

43N   2     5     His mother says to the servants, Whatever he may say to you,  do.

43N   2     6     Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels,  according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three  measures each.

43N   2     7     Jesus says to them, Fill the water-vessels with water. And  they filled them up to the brim.

43N   2     8     And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry [it] to the  feast-master. And they carried [it].

43N   2     9     But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had  been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants  knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the  bridegroom,

 

43N   2     10    and says to him, Every man sets on first the good wine, and  when [men] have well drunk, then the inferior; thou hast kept  the good wine till now.

43N   2     11    This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and  manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

43N   2     12    After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and  his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many  days.

43N   2     13    And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to  Jerusalem.

43N   2     14    And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep  and doves, and the money-changers sitting;

43N   2     15    and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast [them] all out  of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out  the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,

43N   2     16    and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence;  make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

43N   2     17    [And] his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal  of thy house devours me.

43N   2     18    The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign  shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?

43N   2     19    Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and  in three days I will raise it up.

43N   2     20    The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this  temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?

43N   2     21    But *he* spoke of the temple of his body.

43N   2     22    When therefore he was raised from among [the] dead, his  disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the  scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

43N   2     23    And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the  feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he  wrought.

43N   2     24    But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he  knew all [men],

43N   2     25    and that he had not need that any should testify of man,  for himself knew what was in man.

43N   3     1     But there was a man from among the Pharisees, his name  Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

43N   3     2     he came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know  that thou art come a teacher from God, for none can do these  signs that thou doest unless God be with him.

43N   3     3     Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto  thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of  God.

43N   3     4     Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can  he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?

43N   3     5     Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any  one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the  kingdom of God.

43N   3     6     That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is  born of the Spirit is spirit.

43N   3     7     Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye*  should be born anew.

43N   3     8     The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice,  but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is  every one that is born of the Spirit.

43N   3     9     Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?

43N   3     10    Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of  Israel and knowest not these things!

43N   3     11    Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we  know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye  receive not our witness.

43N   3     12    If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe  not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?

43N   3     13    And no one has gone up into heaven, save he who came down  out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

43N   3     14    And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus  must the Son of man be lifted up,

43N   3     15    that every one who believes on him may [not perish, but]  have life eternal.

43N   3     16    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten  Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have  life eternal.

43N   3     17    For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may  judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

43N   3     18    He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes  not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the  name of the only-begotten Son of God.

43N   3     19    And this is the judgment, that light is come into the  world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their  works were evil.

43N   3     20    For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not  come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

43N   3     21    but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that  his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.

43N   3     22    After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the  land of Judaea; and there he abode with them and baptised.

43N   3     23    And John also was baptising in Aenon, near Salim, because  there was a great deal of water there; and they came to [him]  and were baptised:

43N   3     24    for John was not yet cast into prison.

43N   3     25    There was therefore a reasoning of the disciples of John  with a Jew about purification.

43N   3     26    And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was  with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,  behold, he baptises, and all come to him.

43N   3     27    John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it  be given him out of heaven.

43N   3     28    Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the  Christ, but, that I am sent before him.

43N   3     29    He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of  the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart  because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is  fulfilled.

43N   3     30    He must increase, but I must decrease.

43N   3     31    He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin  in the earth is of the earth, and speaks [as] of the earth. He  who comes out of heaven is above all,

43N   3     32    [and] what he has seen and has heard, this he testifies;  and no one receives his testimony.

43N   3     33    He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that  God is true;

43N   3     34    for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God  gives not the Spirit by measure.

43N   3     35    The Father loves the Son, and has given all things [to be]  in his hand.

43N   3     36    He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that  is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of  God abides upon him.

43N   4     1     When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard  that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John

43N   4     2     (however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),

43N   4     3     he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.

43N   4     4     And he must needs pass through Samaria.

43N   4     5     He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near  to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

43N   4     6     Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being  wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the  fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

43N   4     7     A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to  her, Give me to drink

43N   4     8     (for his disciples had gone away into the city that they  might buy provisions).

43N   4     9     The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou,  being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for  Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

43N   4     10    Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of  God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou  wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living  water.

43N   4     11    The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,  and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

43N   4     12    Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the  well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

43N   4     13    Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of  this water shall thirst again;

43N   4     14    but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him  shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give  him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into  eternal life.

43N   4     15    The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may  not thirst nor come here to draw.

43N   4     16    Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

43N   4     17    The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus  says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

43N   4     18    for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast  is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.

43N   4     19    The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

43N   4     20    Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in  Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.

43N   4     21    Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, [the] hour is coming  when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship  the Father.

43N   4     22    Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for  salvation is of the Jews.

43N   4     23    But [the] hour is coming and now is, when the true  worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for  also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

43N   4     24    God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship  [him] in spirit and truth.

43N   4     25    The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who  is called Christ; when *he* comes he will tell us all things.

43N   4     26    Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am [he].

43N   4     27    And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he  spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why  speakest thou with her?

43N   4     28    The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the  city, and says to the men,

43N   4     29    Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is  not he the Christ?

43N   4     30    They went out of the city and came to him.

43N   4     31    But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

43N   4     32    But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not  know.

43N   4     33    The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one  brought him [anything] to eat?

43N   4     34    Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of  him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

43N   4     35    Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the  harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and  behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

43N   4     36    He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life  eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice  together.

43N   4     37    For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who  sows and another who reaps.

43N   4     38    I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured;  others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

43N   4     39    But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him  because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me  all things that I had ever done.

43N   4     40    When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to  abide with them, and he abode there two days.

43N   4     41    And more a great deal believed on account of his word;

43N   4     42    and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of  thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves,  and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

43N   4     43    But after the two days he went forth thence and went away  into Galilee,

43N   4     44    for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour  in his own country.

43N   4     45    When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received  him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the  feast, for they also went to the feast.

43N   4     46    He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made  the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum  whose son was sick.

43N   4     47    He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into  Galilee, went to him and asked [him] that he would come down  and heal his son, for he was about to die.

43N   4     48    Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and  wonders ye will not believe.

43N   4     49    The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

43N   4     50    Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed  the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

43N   4     51    But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and  brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.

43N   4     52    He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got  better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the  fever left him.

43N   4     53    The father therefore knew that [it was] in that hour in  which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed,  himself and his whole house.

43N   4     54    This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea  into Galilee.

43N   5     1     After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went  up to Jerusalem.

43N   5     2     Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which  is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

43N   5     3     In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered,  [awaiting the moving of the water.

43N   5     4     For an angel descended at a certain season in the pool and  troubled the water. Whoever therefore first went in after the  troubling of the water became well, whatever disease he  laboured under.]

43N   5     5     But there was a certain man there who had been suffering  under his infirmity thirty and eight years.

43N   5     6     Jesus seeing this [man] lying [there], and knowing that he  was [in that state] now a great length of time, says to him,  Wouldest thou become well?

43N   5     7     The infirm [man] answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in  order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the  pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.

43N   5     8     Jesus says to him, Arise, take up thy couch and walk.

43N   5     9     And immediately the man became well, and took up his couch  and walked: and on that day was sabbath.

43N   5     10    The Jews therefore said to the healed [man], It is sabbath,  it is not permitted thee to take up thy couch.

43N   5     11    He answered them, He that made me well, *he* said to me,  Take up thy couch and walk.

43N   5     12    They asked him [therefore], Who is the man who said to  thee, Take up thy couch and walk?

43N   5     13    But he that had been healed knew not who it was, for Jesus  had slidden away, there being a crowd in the place.

43N   5     14    After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said  to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that  something worse do not happen to thee.

43N   5     15    The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who  had made him well.

43N   5     16    And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus [and sought to kill  him], because he had done these things on sabbath.

43N   5     17    But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I  work.

43N   5     18    For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him,  because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said  that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.

43N   5     19    Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Verily, verily,  I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself save whatever  he sees the Father doing: for whatever things *he* does, these  things also the Son does in like manner.

43N   5     20    For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which  he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these,  that ye may wonder.

43N   5     21    For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens [them],  thus the Son also quickens whom he will:

43N   5     22    for neither does the Father judge any one, but has given  all judgment to the Son;

43N   5     23    that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the  Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who  has sent him.

43N   5     24    Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word,  and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does  not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.

43N   5     25    Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and  now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God,  and they that have heard shall live.

43N   5     26    For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given  to the Son also to have life in himself,

43N   5     27    and has given him authority to execute judgment [also],  because he is Son of man.

43N   5     28    Wonder not at this, for an hour is coming in which all who  are in the tombs shall hear his voice,

43N   5     29    and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to  resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to  resurrection of judgment.

43N   5     30    I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my  judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the  will of him that has sent me.

43N   5     31    If I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is not  true.

43N   5     32    It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know  that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.

43N   5     33    Ye have sent unto John, and he has borne witness to the  truth.

43N   5     34    But I do not receive witness from man, but I say this that  *ye* might be saved.

43N   5     35    *He* was the burning and shining lamp, and ye were willing  for a season to rejoice in his light.

43N   5     36    But I have the witness [that is] greater than [that] of  John; for the works which the Father has given me that I should  complete them, the works themselves which I do, bear witness  concerning me that the Father has sent me.

43N   5     37    And the Father who has sent me himself has borne witness  concerning me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor  have seen his shape,

43N   5     38    and ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom *he* hath  sent, him ye do not believe.

43N   5     39    Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have  life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

43N   5     40    and ye will not come to me that ye might have life.

43N   5     41    I do not receive glory from men,

43N   5     42    but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

43N   5     43    I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if  another come in his own name, him ye will receive.

43N   5     44    How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and  seek not the glory which [comes] from God alone?

43N   5     45    Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is  [one] who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;

43N   5     46    for if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me,  for he wrote of me.

43N   5     47    But if ye do not believe his writings, how shall ye believe  my words?

43N   6     1     After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of  Galilee, [or] of Tiberias,

43N   6     2     and a great crowd followed him, because they saw the signs  which he wrought upon the sick.

43N   6     3     And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there sat with his  disciples:

43N   6     4     but the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

43N   6     5     Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great  crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy  loaves that these may eat?

43N   6     6     But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going  to do.

43N   6     7     Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not  sufficient for them, that each may have some little [portion].

43N   6     8     One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to  him,

43N   6     9     There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and  two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?

43N   6     10    [And] Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much  grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about  five thousand.

43N   6     11    And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks,  distributed [them] to those that were set down; and in like  manner of the small fishes as much as they would.

43N   6     12    And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples,  Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that  nothing may be lost.

43N   6     13    They gathered [them] therefore together, and filled twelve  hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which  were over and above to those that had eaten.

43N   6     14    The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had  done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the  world.

43N   6     15    Jesus therefore knowing that they were going to come and  seize him, that they might make [him] king, departed again to  the mountain himself alone.

43N   6     16    But when evening was come, his disciples went down to the  sea,

43N   6     17    and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to  Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not  come to them,

43N   6     18    and the sea was agitated by a strong wind blowing.

43N   6     19    Having rowed then about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they  see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the ship; and they  were frightened.

43N   6     20    But he says to them, It is I: be not afraid.

43N   6     21    They were willing therefore to receive him into the ship;  and immediately the ship was at the land to which they went.

43N   6     22    On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of  the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there  except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus  had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but [that] his  disciples had gone away alone;

43N   6     23    (but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the  place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)

43N   6     24    when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor  his disciples, *they* got into the ships, and came to  Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

43N   6     25    And having found him the other side of the sea, they said  to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here?

43N   6     26    Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you,  Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have  eaten of the loaves and been filled.

43N   6     27    Work not [for] the food which perishes, but [for] the food  which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give  to you; for him has the Father sealed, [even] God.

43N   6     28    They said therefore to him, What should we do that we may  work the works of God?

43N   6     29    Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God,  that ye believe on him whom *he* has sent.

43N   6     30    They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that  we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?

43N   6     31    Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is  written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

43N   6     32    Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you,  [It is] not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven;  but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

43N   6     33    For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven and  gives life to the world.

43N   6     34    They said therefore to him, Lord, ever give to us this  bread.

43N   6     35    [And] Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that  comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me  shall never thirst at any time.

43N   6     36    But I have said to you, that ye have also seen me and do  not believe.

43N   6     37    All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and him that  comes to me I will not at all cast out.

43N   6     38    For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my*  will, but the will of him that has sent me.

43N   6     39    And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all  that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it  up in the last day.

43N   6     40    For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees  the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I  will raise him up at the last day.

43N   6     41    The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I  am the bread which has come down out of heaven.

43N   6     42    And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose  father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am  come down out of heaven?

43N   6     43    Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among  yourselves.

43N   6     44    No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me  draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

43N   6     45    It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught  of God. Every one that has heard from the Father [himself], and  has learned [of him], comes to me;

43N   6     46    not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of  God, he has seen the Father.

43N   6     47    Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes [on me] has  life eternal.

43N   6     48    I am the bread of life.

43N   6     49    Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

43N   6     50    This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one  may eat of it and not die.

43N   6     51    I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if  any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever;  but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I  will give for the life of the world.

43N   6     52    The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How  can he give us this flesh to eat?

43N   6     53    Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto  you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man,  and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

43N   6     54    He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal,  and I will raise him up at the last day:

43N   6     55    for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.

43N   6     56    He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and  I in him.

43N   6     57    As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of  the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of  me.

43N   6     58    This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as  the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live  for ever.

43N   6     59    These things he said in [the] synagogue, teaching in  Capernaum.

43N   6     60    Many therefore of his disciples having heard [it] said,  This word is hard; who can hear it?

43N   6     61    But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur  concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you?

43N   6     62    If then ye see the Son of man ascending up where he was  before?

43N   6     63    It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing:  the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

43N   6     64    But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus  knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and  who would deliver him up.

43N   6     65    And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can  come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.

43N   6     66    From that [time] many of his disciples went away back and  walked no more with him.

43N   6     67    Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Will ye also go away?

43N   6     68    Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou  hast words of life eternal;

43N   6     69    and we have believed and known that thou art the holy one  of God.

43N   6     70    Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you the twelve? and  of you one is a devil.

43N   6     71    Now he spoke of Judas [the son] of Simon, Iscariote, for he  [it was who] should deliver him up, being one of the twelve.

43N   7     1     And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would  not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

43N   7     2     Now the tabernacles, the feast of the Jews, was near.

43N   7     3     His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into  Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou  doest;

43N   7     4     for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be  [known] in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself  to the world:

43N   7     5     for neither did his brethren believe on him.

43N   7     6     Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but  your time is always ready.

43N   7     7     The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear  witness concerning it that its works are evil.

43N   7     8     Ye, go ye up to this feast. I go not up to this feast, for  *my* time is not yet fulfilled.

43N   7     9     Having said these things to them he abode in Galilee.

43N   7     10    But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also  went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.

43N   7     11    The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where  is he?

43N   7     12    And there was much murmuring concerning him among the  crowds. Some said, He is [a] good [man]; others said, No; but  he deceives the crowd.

43N   7     13    However, no one spoke openly concerning him on account of  [their] fear of the Jews.

43N   7     14    But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up  into the temple and taught.

43N   7     15    The Jews therefore wondered, saying, How knows this [man]  letters, having never learned?

43N   7     16    Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not  mine, but [that] of him that has sent me.

43N   7     17    If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know  concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or [that] I  speak from myself.

43N   7     18    He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he  that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and  unrighteousness is not in him.

43N   7     19    Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you  practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

43N   7     20    The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks  to kill thee?

43N   7     21    Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and  ye all wonder.

43N   7     22    Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of  Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

43N   7     23    If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of  Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have  made a man entirely sound on sabbath?

43N   7     24    Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

43N   7     25    Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he  whom they seek to kill?

43N   7     26    and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him.  Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

43N   7     27    But [as to] this [man] we know whence he is. Now [as to]  the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

43N   7     28    Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and  saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not  come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not  know.

43N   7     29    I know him, because I am from him, and *he* has sent me.

43N   7     30    They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand  upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

43N   7     31    But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the  Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this  [man] has done?

43N   7     32    The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things  concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent  officers that they might take him.

43N   7     33    Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and  I go to him that has sent me.

43N   7     34    Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me], and where I am ye  cannot come.

43N   7     35    The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about  to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the  dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

43N   7     36    What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall  not find [me]; and where I am ye cannot come?

43N   7     37    In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and  cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

43N   7     38    He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of  his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

43N   7     39    But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that  believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not  yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

43N   7     40    [Some] out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word,  said, This is truly the prophet.

43N   7     41    Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the  Christ come out of Galilee?

43N   7     42    Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the  seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David  was?

43N   7     43    There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of  him.

43N   7     44    But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands  upon him.

43N   7     45    The officers therefore came to the chief priests and  Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

43N   7     46    The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man  [speaks].

43N   7     47    The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also  deceived?

43N   7     48    Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the  Pharisees?

43N   7     49    But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.

43N   7     50    Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves),

43N   7     51    Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from  himself, and know what he does?

43N   7     52    They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee?  Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.

43N   7     53    And every one went to his home.

43N   8     1     But Jesus went to the mount of Olives.

43N   8     2     And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and  all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.

43N   8     3     And the scribes and the Pharisees bring [to him] a woman  taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

43N   8     4     they say to him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in the  very act, committing adultery.

43N   8     5     Now in the law Moses has commanded us to stone such; thou  therefore, what sayest thou?

43N   8     6     But this they said proving him, that they might have  [something] to accuse him [of]. But Jesus, having stooped down,  wrote with his finger on the ground.

43N   8     7     But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and  said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast  the stone at her.

43N   8     8     And again stooping down he wrote on the ground.

43N   8     9     But they, having heard [that], went out one by one beginning  from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone  and the woman standing there.

43N   8     10    And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the  woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has  no one condemned thee?

43N   8     11    And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither  do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

43N   8     12    Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light  of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness,  but shall have the light of life.

43N   8     13    The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness  concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.

43N   8     14    Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness  concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I  came and whither I go: but ye know not whence I come and  whither I go.

43N   8     15    Ye judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.

43N   8     16    And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not  alone, but I and the Father who has sent me.

43N   8     17    And in your law too it is written that the testimony of two  men is true:

43N   8     18    I am [one] who bear witness concerning myself, and the  Father who has sent me bears witness concerning me.

43N   8     19    They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus  answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me,  ye would have known also my Father.

43N   8     20    These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the  temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.

43N   8     21    He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall  seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.

43N   8     22    The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he  says, Where I go ye cannot come?

43N   8     23    And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above.  Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

43N   8     24    I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins;  for unless ye shall believe that I am [he], ye shall die in  your sins.

43N   8     25    They said therefore to him, Who art thou? [And] Jesus said  to them, Altogether that which I also say to you.

43N   8     26    I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but  he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him,  these things I say to the world.

43N   8     27    They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father.

43N   8     28    Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up  the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am [he], and [that] I  do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak  these things.

43N   8     29    And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me  alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

43N   8     30    As he spoke these things many believed on him.

43N   8     31    Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye  abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

43N   8     32    and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you  free.

43N   8     33    They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never  been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become  free?

43N   8     34    Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every  one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.

43N   8     35    Now the bondman abides not in the house for ever: the son  abides for ever.

43N   8     36    If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really  free.

43N   8     37    I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me,  because my word has no entrance in you.

43N   8     38    I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do  what ye have seen with your father.

43N   8     39    They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus  says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the  works of Abraham;

43N   8     40    but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth  to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

43N   8     41    Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to  him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

43N   8     42    Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have  loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for  neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.

43N   8     43    Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my  word.

 

43N   8     44    Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do  the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning,  and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in  him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own;  for he is a liar and its father:

43N   8     45    and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

43N   8     46    Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do  ye not believe me?

43N   8     47    He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear  [them] not, because ye are not of God.

43N   8     48    The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that  thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?

43N   8     49    Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honour my Father,  and ye dishonour me.

43N   8     50    But I do not seek my own glory: there is he that seeks and  judges.

43N   8     51    Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my  word, he shall never see death.

43N   8     52    The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast  a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest,  If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.

43N   8     53    Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and  the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself?

43N   8     54    Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing:  it is my Father who glorifies me, [of] whom ye say, He is our  God.

43N   8     55    And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know  him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I  keep his word.

43N   8     56    Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day,  and he saw and rejoiced.

43N   8     57    The Jews therefore said to him, Thou hast not yet fifty  years, and hast thou seen Abraham?

43N   8     58    Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before  Abraham was, I am.

43N   8     59    They took up therefore stones that they might cast [them]  at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple,  [going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.]

43N   9     1     And as he passed on, he saw a man blind from birth.

43N   9     2     And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this  [man] or his parents, that he should be born blind?

43N   9     3     Jesus answered, Neither has this [man] sinned nor his  parents, but that the works of God should be manifested in him.

43N   9     4     I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is  day. [The] night is coming, when no one can work.

43N   9     5     As long as I am in the world, I am [the] light of the world.

43N   9     6     Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud  of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.

43N   9     7     And he said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is  interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed, and came  seeing.

43N   9     8     The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him  before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was  sitting and begging?

43N   9     9     Some said, It is he; others said, No, but he is like him:  *he* said, It is I.

43N   9     10    They said therefore to him, How have thine eyes been  opened?

43N   9     11    He answered [and said], A man called Jesus made mud and  anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash: and  having gone and washed, I saw.

43N   9     12    They said therefore to him, Where is he? He says, I do not  know.

43N   9     13    They bring him who was before blind to the Pharisees.

43N   9     14    Now it was sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his  eyes.

43N   9     15    The Pharisees therefore also again asked him how he  received his sight. And he said to them, He put mud upon mine  eyes, and I washed, and I see.

43N   9     16    Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of  God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a  sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among  them.

43N   9     17    They say therefore again to the blind [man], What dost thou  say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a  prophet.

43N   9     18    The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he  was blind and had received sight, until they had called the  parents of him that had received sight.

43N   9     19    And they asked them saying, This is your son, of whom ye  say that he was born blind: how then does he now see?

43N   9     20    His parents answered [them] and said, We know that this is  our son, and that he was born blind;

43N   9     21    but how he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his  eyes we do not know. *He* is of age: ask *him*; *he* will speak  concerning himself.

43N   9     22    His parents said these things because they feared the Jews,  for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him  [to be the] Christ, he should be excommunicated from the  synagogue.

43N   9     23    On this account his parents said, He is of age: ask *him*.

43N   9     24    They called therefore a second time the man who had been  blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this  man is sinful.

43N   9     25    He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One  thing I know, that, being blind [before], now I see.

43N   9     26    And they said to him again, What did he do to thee? how  opened he thine eyes?

43N   9     27    He answered them, I told you already and ye did not hear:  why do ye desire to hear again? do ye also wish to become his  disciples?

43N   9     28    They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we  are disciples of Moses.

43N   9     29    We know that God spoke to Moses; but [as to] this [man], we  know not whence he is.

43N   9     30    The man answered and said to them, Now in this is a  wonderful thing, that *ye* do not know whence he is, and he has  opened mine eyes.

43N   9     31    [But] we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any  one be God-fearing and do his will, him he hears.

43N   9     32    Since time was, it has not been heard that any one opened  the eyes of one born blind.

43N   9     33    If this [man] were not of God he would be able to do  nothing.

 

43N   9     34    They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born  in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.

43N   9     35    Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found  him, he said to him, Thou, dost thou believe on the Son of God?

43N   9     36    He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may  believe on him?

43N   9     37    And Jesus said to him, Thou hast both seen him, and he that  speaks with thee is he.

43N   9     38    And he said, I believe, Lord: and he did him homage.

43N   9     39    And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world,  that they which see not may see, and they which see may become  blind.

43N   9     40    And [some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these  things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?

43N   9     41    Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin;  but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.

43N   10    1     Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the  door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is  a thief and a robber;

43N   10    2     but he that enters in by the door is [the] shepherd of the  sheep.

43N   10    3     To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and  he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

43N   10    4     When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and  the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

43N   10    5     But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from  him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

43N   10    6     This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know  what it was [of] which he spoke to them.

43N   10    7     Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say  to you, I am the door of the sheep.

43N   10    8     All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the  sheep did not hear them.

43N   10    9     I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be  saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.

43N   10    10    The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and  destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have  [it] abundantly.

43N   10    11    I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his  life for the sheep:

43N   10    12    but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd,  whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves  the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the  sheep.

43N   10    13    Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for  wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

43N   10    14    I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine,  and am known of those that are mine,

43N   10    15    as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay  down my life for the sheep.

43N   10    16    And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those  also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there  shall be one flock, one shepherd.

43N   10    17    On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my  life that I may take it again.

43N   10    18    No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I  have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it  again. I have received this commandment of my Father.

43N   10    19    There was a division again among the Jews on account of  these words;

43N   10    20    but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye  hear him?

43N   10    21    Others said, These sayings are not [those] of one that is  possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?

43N   10    22    Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at  Jerusalem, and it was winter.

43N   10    23    And Jesus walked in the temple in the porch of Solomon.

43N   10    24    The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until  when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the  Christ, say [so] to us openly.

43N   10    25    Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe.  The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness  concerning me:

43N   10    26    but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I  told you.

43N   10    27    My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow  me;

43N   10    28    and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish,  and no one shall seize them out of my hand.

43N   10    29    My Father who has given [them] to me is greater than all,  and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.

43N   10    30    I and the Father are one.

43N   10    31    The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone  him.

43N   10    32    Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of  my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?

43N   10    33    The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not,  but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest  thyself God.

43N   10    34    Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I  said, Ye are gods?

43N   10    35    If he called *them* gods to whom the word of God came (and  the scripture cannot be broken),

43N   10    36    do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent  into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of  God?

43N   10    37    If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;

43N   10    38    but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works,  that ye may know [and believe] that the Father is in me and I  in him.

43N   10    39    They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away  from out of their hand

43N   10    40    and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where  John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.

43N   10    41    And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all  things which John said of this [man] were true.

43N   10    42    And many believed on him there.

43N   11    1     Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of  the village of Mary and Martha her sister.

43N   11    2     It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and  wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

43N   11    3     The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he  whom thou lovest is sick.

43N   11    4     But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not  unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may  be glorified by it.

43N   11    5     Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

43N   11    6     When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days  then in the place where he was.

43N   11    7     Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into  Judaea again.

43N   11    8     The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews  sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?

43N   11    9     Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If  any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees  the light of this world;

43N   11    10    but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the  light is not in him.

43N   11    11    These things said he; and after this he says to them,  Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may  awake him out of sleep.

43N   11    12    The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen  asleep, he will get well.

43N   11    13    But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he  spoke of the rest of sleep.

43N   11    14    Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has  died.

43N   11    15    And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in  order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

43N   11    16    Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow  disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.

43N   11    17    Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four  days already in the tomb.

43N   11    18    Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,

43N   11    19    and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they  might console them concerning their brother.

43N   11    20    Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet  him; but Mary sat in the house.

43N   11    21    Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been  here, my brother had not died;

43N   11    22    but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of  God, God will give thee.

43N   11    23    Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.

43N   11    24    Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the  resurrection in the last day.

43N   11    25    Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he  that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;

43N   11    26    and every one who lives and believes on me shall never  die. Believest thou this?

43N   11    27    She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the  Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

43N   11    28    And having said this, she went away and called her sister  Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.

43N   11    29    She, when she heard [that], rises up quickly and comes to  him.

43N   11    30    Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in  the place where Martha came to meet him.

43N   11    31    The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and  consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went  out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may  weep there.

43N   11    32    Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him,  fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here,  my brother had not died.

43N   11    33    Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who  came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was  troubled,

43N   11    34    and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord,  come and see.

43N   11    35    Jesus wept.

43N   11    36    The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

43N   11    37    And some of them said, Could not this [man], who has  opened the eyes of the blind [man], have caused that this [man]  also should not have died?

43N   11    38    Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to  the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

43N   11    39    Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the  dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days  [there].

43N   11    40    Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou  shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

43N   11    41    They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up  his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast  heard me;

43N   11    42    but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of  the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may  believe that thou hast sent me.

43N   11    43    And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus,  come forth.

43N   11    44    And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with  graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief.  Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

43N   11    45    Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what  he had done, believed on him;

43N   11    46    but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what  Jesus had done.

43N   11    47    The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a  council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

43N   11    48    If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the  Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

43N   11    49    But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest  that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

43N   11    50    nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man  die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

43N   11    51    But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest  that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the  nation;

43N   11    52    and not for the nation only, but that he should also  gather together into one the children of God who were scattered  abroad.

43N   11    53    From that day therefore they took counsel that they might  kill him.

43N   11    54    Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews,  but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a  city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

43N   11    55    But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to  Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they  might purify themselves.

43N   11    56    They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves,  standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come  to the feast?

43N   11    57    Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given  commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make  it known, that they might take him.

43N   12    1     Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to  Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised  from among [the] dead.

43N   12    2     There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served,  but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

43N   12    3     Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure  nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his  feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of  the ointment.

43N   12    4     One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon,  Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

43N   12    5     Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii  and given to the poor?

43N   12    6     But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but  because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was  put into [it].

43N   12    7     Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the  day of my preparation for burial;

43N   12    8     for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not  always.

43N   12    9     A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there;  and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they  might see Lazarus whom he raised from among [the] dead.

43N   12    10    But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill  Lazarus also,

43N   12    11    because many of the Jews went away on his account and  believed on Jesus.

43N   12    12    On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having  heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,

43N   12    13    took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and  cried, Hosanna, blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the]  Lord, the King of Israel.

43N   12    14    And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it; as it is  written,

43N   12    15    Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh,  sitting on an ass's colt.

43N   12    16    [Now] his disciples knew not these things at the first;  but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these  things were written of him, and that they had done these things  to him.

43N   12    17    The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because  he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from  among [the] dead.

43N   12    18    Therefore also the crowd met him because they had heard  that he had done this sign.

43N   12    19    The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that  ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

43N   12    20    And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that  they might worship in the feast;

43N   12    21    these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of  Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see  Jesus.

43N   12    22    Philip comes and tells Andrew, [and again] Andrew comes  and Philip, and they tell Jesus.

43N   12    23    But Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come that the  Son of man should be glorified.

43N   12    24    Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat  falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it  bears much fruit.

43N   12    25    He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates  his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

43N   12    26    If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am,  there also shall be *my* servant. [And] if any one serve me,  him shall the Father honour.

43N   12    27    Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father,  save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to  this hour.

43N   12    28    Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out  of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify [it] again.

43N   12    29    The crowd therefore, which stood [there] and heard [it],  said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to  him.

43N   12    30    Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice  come, but on yours.

43N   12    31    Now is [the] judgment of this world; now shall the prince  of this world be cast out:

43N   12    32    and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all  to me.

43N   12    33    But this he said signifying by what death he was about to  die.

43N   12    34    The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that  the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of  man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?

43N   12    35    Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the  light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness  may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not  know where he goes.

43N   12    36    While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may  become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away  hid himself from them.

43N   12    37    But though he had done so many signs before them, they  believed not on him,

43N   12    38    that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be  fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has  the arm of the Lord been revealed?

43N   12    39    On this account they could not believe, because Esaias  said again,

43N   12    40    He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that  they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their  heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

43N   12    41    These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and  spoke of him.

43N   12    42    Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed  on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess [him],  that they might not be put out of the synagogue:

43N   12    43    for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

43N   12    44    But Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes  not on me, but on him that sent me;

43N   12    45    and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me.

43N   12    46    I am come into the world [as] light, that every one that  believes on me may not abide in darkness;

43N   12    47    and if any one hear my words and do not keep [them], I  judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world,  but that I might save the world.

43N   12    48    He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him  who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge  him in the last day.

43N   12    49    For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent  me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what  I should speak;

43N   12    50    and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What  therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

43N   13    1     Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that  his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to  the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved  them to the end.

43N   13    2     And during supper, the devil having already put it into the  heart of Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, that he should  deliver him up,

43N   13    3     [Jesus,] knowing that the Father had given him all things  into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to  God,

43N   13    4     rises from supper and lays aside his garments, and having  taken a linen towel he girded himself:

43N   13    5     then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to  wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen  towel with which he was girded.

43N   13    6     He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and *he* says to him,  Lord, dost thou wash *my* feet?

43N   13    7     Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou dost not  know now, but thou shalt know hereafter.

43N   13    8     Peter says to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus  answered him, Unless I wash thee, thou hast not part with me.

43N   13    9     Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also  my hands and my head.

43N   13    10    Jesus says to him, He that is washed all over needs not to  wash save his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but  not all.

43N   13    11    For he knew him that delivered him up: on account of this  he said, Ye are not all clean.

43N   13    12    When therefore he had washed their feet, and taken his  garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye know  what I have done to you?

43N   13    13    Ye call me the Teacher and the Lord, and ye say well, for  I am [so].

43N   13    14    If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your  feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;

43N   13    15    for I have given you an example that, as I have done to  you, ye should do also.

43N   13    16    Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater  than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.

43N   13    17    If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

43N   13    18    I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen;  but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread  with me has lifted up his heel against me.

43N   13    19    I tell you [it] now before it happens, that when it  happens, ye may believe that I am [he].

43N   13    20    Verily, verily, I say to you, He who receives whomsoever I  shall send receives me; and he that receives me receives him  who has sent me.

43N   13    21    Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit,  and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, that one  of you shall deliver me up.

43N   13    22    The disciples therefore looked one on another, doubting of  whom he spoke.

43N   13    23    Now there was at table one of his disciples in the bosom  of Jesus, whom Jesus loved.

43N   13    24    Simon Peter makes a sign therefore to him to ask who it  might be of whom he spoke.

43N   13    25    But he, leaning on the breast of Jesus, says to him, Lord,  who is it?

43N   13    26    Jesus answers, He it is to whom I, after I have dipped the  morsel, give it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to  Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote.

43N   13    27    And, after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus  therefore says to him, What thou doest, do quickly.

43N   13    28    But none of those at table knew why he said this to him;

43N   13    29    for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus  was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the  feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

43N   13    30    Having therefore received the morsel, he went out  immediately; and it was night.

43N   13    31    When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son  of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

43N   13    32    If God be glorified in him, God also shall glorify him in  himself, and shall glorify him immediately.

43N   13    33    Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek  me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I  say to you also now.

43N   13    34    A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another;  as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

43N   13    35    By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if  ye have love amongst yourselves.

43N   13    36    Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus  answered him, Where I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou  shalt follow me after.

43N   13    37    Peter says to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I  will lay down my life for thee.

43N   13    38    Jesus answers, Thou wilt lay down thy life for me! Verily,  verily, I say to thee, The cock shall not crow till thou hast  denied me thrice.

43N   14    1     Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe  also on me.

43N   14    2     In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so,  I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;

43N   14    3     and if I go and shall prepare you a place, I am coming  again and shall receive you to myself, that where I am ye also  may be.

43N   14    4     And ye know where I go, and ye know the way.

43N   14    5     Thomas says to him, Lord, we know not where thou goest, and  how can we know the way?

43N   14    6     Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the  life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.

43N   14    7     If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and  henceforth ye know him and have seen him.

43N   14    8     Philip says to him, Lord, shew us the Father and it  suffices us.

43N   14    9     Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou  hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the  Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

43N   14    10    Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and that the  Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak  from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the  works.

43N   14    11    Believe *me* that I [am] in the Father and the Father in  me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.

43N   14    12    Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me, the  works which I do shall he do also, and he shall do greater than  these, because I go to the Father.

43N   14    13    And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, this will I do,  that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

43N   14    14    If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.

43N   14    15    If ye love me, keep my commandments.

43N   14    16    And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another  Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

43N   14    17    the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,  because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for  he abides with you, and shall be in you.

43N   14    18    I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you.

43N   14    19    Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see  me; because I live ye also shall live.

43N   14    20    In that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye  in me, and I in you.

43N   14    21    He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that  loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and  I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

43N   14    22    Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it  that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?

43N   14    23    Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he  will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will  come to him and make our abode with him.

43N   14    24    He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word  which ye hear is not mine, but [that] of the Father who has  sent me.

43N   14    25    These things I have said to you, abiding with you;

43N   14    26    but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will  send in my name, *he* shall teach you all things, and will  bring to your remembrance all the things which I have said to  you.

43N   14    27    I leave peace with you; I give *my* peace to you: not as  the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be  troubled, neither let it fear.

43N   14    28    Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I  am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to  the Father, for [my] Father is greater than I.

43N   14    29    And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when  it shall have come to pass ye may believe.

43N   14    30    I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the  world comes, and in me he has nothing;

43N   14    31    but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as  the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go  hence.

43N   15    1     I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

43N   15    2     [As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it  away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it  may bring forth more fruit.

43N   15    3     Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have  spoken to you.

43N   15    4     Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit  of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye  unless ye abide in me.

43N   15    5     I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me  and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do  nothing.

43N   15    6     Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch,  and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the  fire, and they are burned.

43N   15    7     If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask  what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.

43N   15    8     In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit,  and ye shall become disciples of mine.

43N   15    9     As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in  my love.

43N   15    10    If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my  love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his  love.

43N   15    11    I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in  you, and your joy be full.

43N   15    12    This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I  have loved you.

43N   15    13    No one has greater love than this, that one should lay  down his life for his friends.

43N   15    14    Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

43N   15    15    I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not  know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,  for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made  known to you.

43N   15    16    Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set  you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and  [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask  the Father in my name he may give you.

 

43N   15    17    These things I command you, that ye love one another.

43N   15    18    If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before  you.

43N   15    19    If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but  because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of  the world, on account of this the world hates you.

43N   15    20    Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is  not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they  will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will  keep also yours.

43N   15    21    But they will do all these things to you on account of my  name, because they have not known him that sent me.

43N   15    22    If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had  sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

43N   15    23    He that hates me hates also my Father.

43N   15    24    If I had not done among them the works which no other one  has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and  hated both me and my Father.

43N   15    25    But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled,  They hated me without a cause.

43N   15    26    But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you  from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with  the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;

43N   15    27    and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the]  beginning.

43N   16    1     These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be  offended.

43N   16    2     They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is  coming that every one who kills you will think to render  service to God;

43N   16    3     and these things they will do because they have not known  the Father nor me.

43N   16    4     But I have spoken these things to you, that when their hour  shall have come, ye may remember them, that I have said [them]  unto you. But I did not say these things unto you from [the]  beginning, because I was with you.

43N   16    5     But now I go to him that has sent me, and none of you  demands of me, Where goest thou?

43N   16    6     But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has  filled your heart.

43N   16    7     But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I  go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come  to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

43N   16    8     And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world,  of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

43N   16    9     of sin, because they do not believe on me;

43N   16    10    of righteousness, because I go away to [my] Father, and ye  behold me no longer;

43N   16    11    of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

43N   16    12    I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear  them now.

43N   16    13    But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide  you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself;  but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will  announce to you what is coming.

43N   16    14    He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and  shall announce [it] to you.

43N   16    15    All things that the Father has are mine; on account of  this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce  [it] to you.

43N   16    16    A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little  while and ye shall see me, [because I go away to the Father].

43N   16    17    [Some] of his disciples therefore said to one another,  What is this he says to us, A little while and ye do not behold  me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, and, Because  I go away to the Father?

43N   16    18    They said therefore, What is this which he says [of] the  little while? We do not know [of] what he speaks.

43N   16    19    Jesus knew therefore that they desired to demand of him,  and said to them, Do ye inquire of this among yourselves that I  said, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a  little while and ye shall see me?

43N   16    20    Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and  lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be  grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.

43N   16    21    A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief  because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no  longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man  has been born into the world.

43N   16    22    And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again,  and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from  you.

43N   16    23    And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily,  verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my  name, he will give you.

43N   16    24    Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye  shall receive, that your joy may be full.

43N   16    25    These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour  is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but  will declare to you openly concerning the Father.

43N   16    26    In that day ye shall ask in my name; and I say not to you  that I will demand of the Father for you,

43N   16    27    for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye  have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out  from God.

43N   16    28    I came out from the Father and have come into the world;  again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

43N   16    29    His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and  utterest no allegory.

43N   16    30    Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast not  need that any one should demand of thee. By this we believe  that thou art come from God.

43N   16    31    Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

43N   16    32    Behold, [the] hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall  be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and  [yet] I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

43N   16    33    These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have  peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good  courage: I have overcome the world.

43N   17    1     These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven  and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy  Son may glorify thee;

43N   17    2     as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that [as  to] all that thou hast given to him, he should give them life  eternal.

43N   17    3     And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee,  the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

43N   17    4     I have glorified *thee* on the earth, I have completed the  work which thou gavest me that I should do it;

43N   17    5     and now glorify *me*, *thou* Father, along with thyself,  with the glory which I had along with thee before the world  was.

43N   17    6     I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me  out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and  they have kept thy word.

43N   17    7     Now they have known that all things that thou hast given me  are of thee;

43N   17    8     for the words which thou hast given me I have given them,  and they have received [them], and have known truly that I came  out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest me.

43N   17    9     I demand concerning them; I do not demand concerning the  world, but concerning those whom thou hast given me, for they  are thine,

43N   17    10    (and all that is mine is thine, and [all] that is thine  mine,) and I am glorified in them.

43N   17    11    And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the  world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name  which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.

43N   17    12    When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou  hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished,  but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be  fulfilled.

43N   17    13    And now I come to thee. And these things I speak in the  world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

43N   17    14    I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them,  because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

43N   17    15    I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the  world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

43N   17    16    They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

43N   17    17    Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

43N   17    18    As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them  into the world;

43N   17    19    and I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be  sanctified by truth.

43N   17    20    And I do not demand for these only, but also for those who  believe on me through their word;

43N   17    21    that they may be all one, as thou, Father, [art] in me,  and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world  may believe that thou hast sent me.

43N   17    22    And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them,  that they may be one, as we are one;

43N   17    23    I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into  one [and] that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and  [that] thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

43N   17    24    Father, [as to] those whom thou hast given me, I desire  that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold  my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before  [the] foundation of [the] world.

43N   17    25    Righteous Father, -- and the world has not known thee, but  I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

43N   17    26    And I have made known to them thy name, and will make [it]  known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in  them and I in them.

43N   18    1     Jesus, having said these things, went out with his  disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into  which he entered, he and his disciples.

43N   18    2     And Judas also, who delivered him up, knew the place,  because Jesus was often there, in company with his disciples.

43N   18    3     Judas therefore, having got the band, and officers of the  chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and  torches and weapons.

43N   18    4     Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon  him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?

43N   18    5     They answered him, Jesus the Nazaraean. Jesus says to them,  I am [he]. And Judas also, who delivered him up, stood with  them.

43N   18    6     When therefore he said to them, I am [he], they went away  backward and fell to the ground.

43N   18    7     He demanded of them therefore again, Whom seek ye? And they  said, Jesus the Nazaraean.

43N   18    8     Jesus answered, I told you that I am [he]: if therefore ye  seek me, let these go away;

43N   18    9     that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, [As to]  those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.

43N   18    10    Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and smote  the bondman of the high priest and cut off his right ear; and  the bondman's name was Malchus.

43N   18    11    Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the sword into the  sheath; the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not  drink it?

43N   18    12    The band therefore, and the chiliarch, and the officers of  the Jews, took Jesus and bound him:

43N   18    13    and they led him away to Annas first; for he was  father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

43N   18    14    But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was  better that one man should perish for the people.

43N   18    15    Now Simon Peter followed Jesus, and the other disciple.  But that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in  with Jesus into the palace of the high priest;

43N   18    16    but Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple  therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke  to the porteress and brought in Peter.

43N   18    17    The maid therefore, who was porteress, says to Peter, Art  thou also of the disciples of this man? He says, I am not.

43N   18    18    But the bondmen and officers, having made a fire of coals  (for it was cold), stood and warmed themselves; and Peter was  standing with them and warming himself.

43N   18    19    The high priest therefore demanded of Jesus concerning his  disciples and concerning his doctrine.

43N   18    20    Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I taught  always in [the] synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews  come together, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

43N   18    21    Why demandest thou of me? Demand of those who have heard,  what I have spoken to them; behold, they know what I have said.

43N   18    22    But as he said these things, one of the officers who stood  by gave a blow on the face to Jesus, saying, Answerest thou the  high priest thus?

43N   18    23    Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of  the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?

43N   18    24    Annas [then] had sent him bound to Caiaphas the high  priest.

43N   18    25    But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They  said therefore to him, Art thou also of his disciples? He  denied, and said, I am not.

43N   18    26    One of the bondmen of the high priest, who was kinsman of  him whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did not I see thee in the  garden with him?

43N   18    27    Peter denied therefore again, and immediately [the] cock  crew.

43N   18    28    They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium;  and it was early morn. And *they* entered not into the  praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the  passover.

43N   18    29    Pilate therefore went out to them and said, What  accusation do ye bring against this man?

43N   18    30    They answered and said to him, If this [man] were not an  evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee.

43N   18    31    Pilate therefore said to them, Take him, ye, and judge him  according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is  not permitted to us to put any one to death;

43N   18    32    that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spoke,  signifying what death he should die.

43N   18    33    Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and  called Jesus, and said to him, Thou art the king of the Jews?

43N   18    34    Jesus answered [him], Dost thou say this of thyself, or  have others said it to thee concerning me?

43N   18    35    Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy nation and the chief  priests have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?

43N   18    36    Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my  kingdom were of this world, my servants had fought that I might  not be delivered up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from  hence.

43N   18    37    Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus  answered, Thou sayest [it], that I am a king. I have been born  for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might  bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears  my voice.

43N   18    38    Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this he  went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault  whatever in him.

43N   18    39    But ye have a custom that I release [some] one to you at  the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the  king of the Jews?

43N   18    40    They cried therefore again all, saying, Not this [man],  but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

43N   19    1     Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged [him].

43N   19    2     And the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns put it on  his head, and put a purple robe on him,

43N   19    3     and came to him and said, Hail, king of the Jews! and gave  him blows on the face.

43N   19    4     And Pilate went out again and says to them, Lo, I bring him  out to you, that ye may know that I find in him no fault  whatever.

43N   19    5     (Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of  thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the  man!

43N   19    6     When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him  they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify [him]. Pilate says to  them, Take him ye and crucify [him], for I find no fault in  him.

43N   19    7     The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to  [our] law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God.

43N   19    8     When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather  afraid,

43N   19    9     and went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus,  Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

43N   19    10    Pilate therefore says to him, Speakest thou not to *me*?  Dost thou not know that I have authority to release thee and  have authority to crucify thee?

43N   19    11    Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against  me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he  that has delivered me up to thee has [the] greater sin.

43N   19    12    From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews  cried out saying, If thou releasest this [man], thou art not a  friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks  against Caesar.

43N   19    13    Pilate therefore, having heard these words, led Jesus out  and sat down upon [the] judgment-seat, at a place called  Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha;

43N   19    14    (now it was [the] preparation of the passover; it was  about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your  king!

43N   19    15    But they cried out, Take [him] away, take [him] away,  crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king?  The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

43N   19    16    Then therefore he delivered him up to them, that he might  be crucified; and they took Jesus and led him away.

43N   19    17    And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called  [place] of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha;

43N   19    18    where they crucified him, and with him two others, [one]  on this side, and [one] on that, and Jesus in the middle.

43N   19    19    And Pilate wrote a title also and put it on the cross. But  there was written: Jesus the Nazaraean, the King of the Jews.

43N   19    20    This title therefore many of the Jews read, for the place  of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was  written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.

43N   19    21    The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do  not write, The king of the Jews, but that *he* said, I am king  of the Jews.

43N   19    22    Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

43N   19    23    The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus,  took his clothes, and made four parts, to each soldier a part,  and the body-coat; but the body-coat was seamless, woven  through the whole from the top.

43N   19    24    They said therefore to one another, Let us not rend it,  but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the  scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my  garments among themselves, and on my vesture they cast lots.  The soldiers therefore did these things.

43N   19    25    And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister  of his mother, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

43N   19    26    Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple  standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold  thy son.

43N   19    27    Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And  from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

43N   19    28    After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now  finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I  thirst.

43N   19    29    There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and  having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round  it, they put it up to his mouth.

43N   19    30    When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It  is finished; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his  spirit.

43N   19    31    The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on  the cross on the sabbath, for it was [the] preparation, (for  the day of that sabbath was a great [day],) demanded of Pilate  that their legs might be broken and they taken away.

43N   19    32    The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the  first and of the other that had been crucified with him;

43N   19    33    but coming to Jesus, when they saw that he was already  dead they did not break his legs,

43N   19    34    but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and  immediately there came out blood and water.

43N   19    35    And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true,  and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe.

43N   19    36    For these things took place that the scripture might be  fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken.

43N   19    37    And again another scripture says, They shall look on him  whom they pierced.

43N   19    38    And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a  disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews,  demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus: and  Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of  Jesus.

43N   19    39    And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night,  came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred  pounds [weight].

43N   19    40    They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in  linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to  prepare for burial.

43N   19    41    But there was in the place where he had been crucified a  garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever  been laid.

43N   19    42    There therefore, on account of the preparation of the  Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.

43N   20    1     And on the first [day] of the week Mary of Magdala comes in  early morn to the tomb, while it was still dark, and sees the  stone taken away from the tomb.

43N   20    2     She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the  other disciple, to whom Jesus was attached, and says to them,  They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not  where they have laid him.

43N   20    3     Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and  came to the tomb.

43N   20    4     And the two ran together, and the other disciple ran  forward faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb,

43N   20    5     and stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; he did  not however go in.

43N   20    6     Simon Peter therefore comes, following him, and entered  into the tomb, and sees the linen cloths lying,

43N   20    7     and the handkerchief which was upon his head, not lying  with the linen cloths, but folded up in a distinct place by  itself.

43N   20    8     Then entered in therefore the other disciple also who came  first to the tomb, and he saw and believed;

43N   20    9     for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise  from among [the] dead.

43N   20    10    The disciples therefore went away again to their own home.

43N   20    11    But Mary stood at the tomb weeping without. As therefore  she wept, she stooped down into the tomb,

43N   20    12    and beholds two angels sitting in white [garments], one at  the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

43N   20    13    And they say to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? She says  to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not  where they have laid him.

43N   20    14    Having said these things she turned backward and beholds  Jesus standing [there], and knew not that it was Jesus.

43N   20    15    Jesus says to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? Whom seekest  thou? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him,  Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid  him, and I will take him away.

43N   20    16    Jesus says to her, Mary. She, turning round, says to him  in Hebrew, Rabboni, which means Teacher.

43N   20    17    Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet  ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I  ascend to my Father and your Father, and [to] my God and your  God.

43N   20    18    Mary of Magdala comes bringing word to the disciples that  she had seen the Lord, and [that] he had said these things to  her.

43N   20    19    When therefore it was evening on that day, which was the  first [day] of the week, and the doors shut where the disciples  were, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the  midst, and says to them, Peace [be] to you.

43N   20    20    And having said this, he shewed to them his hands and his  side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, having seen the Lord.

43N   20    21    [Jesus] said therefore again to them, Peace [be] to you:  as the Father sent me forth, I also send you.

43N   20    22    And having said this, he breathed into [them], and says to  them, Receive [the] Holy Spirit:

43N   20    23    whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them;  whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.

43N   20    24    But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not  with them when Jesus came.

43N   20    25    The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen  the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the  mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the  nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

43N   20    26    And eight days after, his disciples were again within, and  Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood  in the midst and said, Peace [be] to you.

43N   20    27    Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here and see my  hands; and bring thy hand and put it into my side; and be not  unbelieving, but believing.

43N   20    28    Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

43N   20    29    Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast  believed: blessed they who have not seen and have believed.

43N   20    30    Many other signs therefore also Jesus did before his  disciples, which are not written in this book;

43N   20    31    but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is  the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have  life in his name.

43N   21    1     After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the  disciples at the sea of Tiberias. And he manifested [himself]  thus.

43N   21    2     There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus,  and Nathanael who was of Cana of Galilee, and the [sons] of  Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

43N   21    3     Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We  also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and  that night took nothing.

43N   21    4     And early morn already breaking, Jesus stood on the shore;  the disciples however did not know that it was Jesus.

43N   21    5     Jesus therefore says to them, Children, have ye anything to  eat? They answered him, No.

43N   21    6     And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the  ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no  longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes.

43N   21    7     That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It  is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was  the Lord, girded his overcoat [on him] (for he was naked), and  cast himself into the sea;

43N   21    8     and the other disciples came in the small boat, for they  were not far from the land, but somewhere about two hundred  cubits, dragging the net of fishes.

 

43N   21    9     When therefore they went out on the land, they see a fire  of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.

43N   21    10    Jesus says to them, Bring of the fishes which ye have now  taken.

43N   21    11    Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of  great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were  so many, the net was not rent.

43N   21    12    Jesus says to them, Come [and] dine. But none of the  disciples dared inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it  was the Lord.

43N   21    13    Jesus comes and takes the bread and gives it to them, and  the fish in like manner.

43N   21    14    This is already the third time that Jesus had been  manifested to the disciples, being risen from among [the] dead.

43N   21    15    When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter,  Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says  to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He  says to him, Feed my lambs.

43N   21    16    He says to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas,  lovest thou me? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I  am attached to thee. He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.

43N   21    17    He says to him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, art  thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him  the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord,  thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to  thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

43N   21    18    Verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast young, thou  girdedst thyself, and walkedst where thou desiredst; but when  thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and  another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou dost not  desire.

43N   21    19    But he said this signifying by what death he should  glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.

43N   21    20    Peter, turning round, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved  following, who also leaned at supper on his breast, and said,  Lord, who is it that delivers thee up?

43N   21    21    Peter, seeing him, says to Jesus, Lord, and what [of] this  [man]?

43N   21    22    Jesus says to him, If I will that he abide until I come,  what [is that] to thee? Follow thou me.

43N   21    23    This word therefore went out among the brethren, That  disciple does not die. And Jesus did not say to him, He does  not die; but, If I will that he abide until I come, what [is  that] to thee?

43N   21    24    This is the disciple who bears witness concerning these  things, and who has written these things; and we know that his  witness is true.

43N   21    25    And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the  which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even  the world itself would contain the books written.

 

1 John (A. D. 65)

 

62N   1     1     That which was from [the] beginning, that which we have  heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we  contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of  life;

62N   1     2     (and the life has been manifested, and we have seen, and  bear witness, and report to you the eternal life, which was  with the Father, and has been manifested to us:)

62N   1     3     that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that  *ye* also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship [is]  indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

62N   1     4     And these things write we to you that your joy may be full.

62N   1     5     And this is the message which we have heard from him, and  declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at  all.

62N   1     6     If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in  darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.

62N   1     7     But if we walk in the light as *he* is in the light, we have  fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his  Son cleanses us from all sin.

62N   1     8     If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the  truth is not in us.

62N   1     9     If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to  forgive us [our] sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

62N   1     10    If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and  his word is not in us.

62N   2     1     My children, these things I write to you in order that ye  may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the  Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;

62N   2     2     and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours  alone, but also for the whole world.

62N   2     3     And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his  commandments.

62N   2     4     He that says, I know him, and does not keep his  commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

62N   2     5     but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is  perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

62N   2     6     He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked,  himself also [so] to walk.

62N   2     7     Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old  commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old  commandment is the word which ye heard.

62N   2     8     Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true  in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true  light already shines.

62N   2     9     He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in  the darkness until now.

62N   2     10    He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no  occasion of stumbling in him.

62N   2     11    But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks  in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the  darkness has blinded his eyes.

62N   2     12    I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven  you for his name's sake.

62N   2     13    I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him [that  is] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye  have overcome the wicked [one]. I write to you, little  children, because ye have known the Father.

62N   2     14    I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him  [that is] from the beginning. I have written to you, young men,  because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and  ye have overcome the wicked [one].

62N   2     15    Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one  love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

62N   2     16    because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh,  and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the  Father, but is of the world.

62N   2     17    And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does  the will of God abides for eternity.

62N   2     18    Little children, it is [the] last hour, and, according as  ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come  many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.

62N   2     19    They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for  if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with  us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

62N   2     20    And *ye* have [the] unction from the holy [one], and ye  know all things.

62N   2     21    I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth,  but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

62N   2     22    Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?  *He* is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

62N   2     23    Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who  confesses the Son has the Father also.

62N   2     24    As for *you* let that which ye have heard from the  beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the  beginning abides in you, *ye* also shall abide in the Son and  in the Father.

62N   2     25    And this is the promise which *he* has promised us, life  eternal.

62N   2     26    These things have I written to you concerning those who  lead you astray:

62N   2     27    and *yourselves*, the unction which ye have received from  him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should  teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all  things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught  you, ye shall abide in him.

62N   2     28    And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested  we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him  at his coming.

62N   2     29    If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who  practises righteousness is begotten of him.

62N   3     1     See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be  called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows  us not, because it knew him not.

62N   3     2     Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be  has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested  we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

62N   3     3     And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself,  even as *he* is pure.

62N   3     4     Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and  sin is lawlessness.

62N   3     5     And ye know that *he* has been manifested that he might take  away our sins; and in him sin is not.

62N   3     6     Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not  seen him or known him.

62N   3     7     Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises  righteousness is righteous, even as *he* is righteous.

62N   3     8     He that practises sin is of the devil; for from [the]  beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been  manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.

62N   3     9     Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin,  because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he  has been begotten of God.

62N   3     10    In this are manifest the children of God and the children  of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of  God, and he who does not love his brother.

62N   3     11    For this is the message which ye have heard from the  beginning, that we should love one another:

62N   3     12    not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother;  and on account of what slew he him? because his works were  wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

62N   3     13    Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

62N   3     14    *We* know that we have passed from death to life, because  we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides  in death.

62N   3     15    Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know  that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

62N   3     16    Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his  life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our]  lives.

62N   3     17    But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his  brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how  abides the love of God in him?

62N   3     18    Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but  in deed and in truth.

62N   3     19    And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and  shall persuade our hearts before him --

62N   3     20    that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart  and knows all things.

62N   3     21    Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness  towards God,

62N   3     22    and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep  his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in  his sight.

62N   3     23    And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of  his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he  has given us commandment.

62N   3     24    And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in  him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit  which he has given to us.

62N   4     1     Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if  they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into  the world.

62N   4     2     Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which  confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

62N   4     3     and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in  flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the  antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it  is already in the world.

62N   4     4     *Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because  greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

62N   4     5     *They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of  the world, and the world hears them.

62N   4     6     *We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not  of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth  and the spirit of error.

62N   4     7     Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God,  and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows  God.

62N   4     8     He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

62N   4     9     Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that  God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we  might live through him.

62N   4     10    Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved  us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

62N   4     11    Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one  another.

62N   4     12    No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another,  God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

62N   4     13    Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he  has given to us of his Spirit.

62N   4     14    And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent  the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

62N   4     15    Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God  abides in him, and he in God.

62N   4     16    And *we* have known and have believed the love which God  has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in  God, and God in him.

62N   4     17    Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have  boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we*  also are in this world.

62N   4     18    There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear;  for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made  perfect in love.

62N   4     19    *We* love because *he* has first loved us.

62N   4     20    If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a  liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how  can he love God whom he has not seen?

62N   4     21    And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves  God love also his brother.

62N   5     1     Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten  of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves  also him that is begotten of him.

62N   5     2     Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we  love God and keep his commandments.

62N   5     3     For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments;  and his commandments are not grievous.

62N   5     4     For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over  the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory  over the world, our faith.

62N   5     5     Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that  believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

62N   5     6     This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [the] Christ;  not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit  that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

62N   5     7     For they that bear witness are three:

62N   5     8     the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three  agree in one.

62N   5     9     If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is  greater. For this is the witness of God [which] he has  witnessed concerning his Son.

62N   5     10    He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in  himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar,  because he has not believed in the witness which God has  witnessed concerning his Son.

62N   5     11    And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal  life; and this life is in his Son.

62N   5     12    He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of  God has not life.

62N   5     13    These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye  have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.

62N   5     14    And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if  we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.

62N   5     15    And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know  that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

62N   5     16    If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he  shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not  sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that  that he should make a request.

 

62N   5     17    Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to  death.

62N   5     18    We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he  that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked  [one] does not touch him.

62N   5     19    We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the  wicked [one].

62N   5     20    And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us  an understanding that we should know him that [is] true; and we  are in him that [is] true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the  true God and eternal life.

62N   5     21    Children, keep yourselves from idols.

 

2 John (A. D. 65)

 

63N   1     1     The elder to [the] elect lady and her children, whom *I*  love in truth, and not *I* only but also all who have known the  truth,

63N   1     2     for the truth's sake which abides in us and shall be with us  to eternity.

63N   1     3     Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace from God [the] Father,  and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in  truth and love.

63N   1     4     I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking  in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

63N   1     5     And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new  commandment, but that which we have had from [the] beginning,  that we should love one another.

63N   1     6     And this is love, that we should walk according to his  commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have  heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.

63N   1     7     For many deceivers have gone out into the world, they who do  not confess Jesus Christ coming in flesh -- this is the  deceiver and the antichrist.

63N   1     8     See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have  wrought, but may receive full wages.

63N   1     9     Whosoever goes forward and abides not in the doctrine of the  Christ has not God. He that abides in the doctrine, *he* has  both the Father and the Son.

63N   1     10    If any one come to you and bring not this doctrine, do not  receive him into [the] house, and greet him not;

63N   1     11    for he who greets him partakes in his wicked works.

63N   1     12    Having many things to write to you, I would not with paper  and ink; but hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to mouth,  that our joy may be full.

63N   1     13    The children of thine elect sister greet thee.

 

3 John (A. D. 65)

 

64N   1     1     The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

64N   1     2     Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper  and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

64N   1     3     For I rejoiced exceedingly when [the] brethren came and bore  testimony to thy [holding fast the] truth, even as *thou*  walkest in truth.

64N   1     4     I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my  children walking in the truth.

64N   1     5     Beloved, thou doest faithfully [in] whatever thou mayest  have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,

64N   1     6     (who have witnessed of thy love before [the] assembly,) in  setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou  wilt do well;

64N   1     7     for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of  those of the nations.

64N   1     8     *We* therefore ought to receive such, that we may be  fellow-workers with the truth.

64N   1     9     I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves  to have the first place among them, receives us not.

64N   1     10    For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his  works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and  not content with these, neither does he himself receive the  brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts [them] out  of the assembly.

64N   1     11    Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He  that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.

64N   1     12    Demetrius has witness borne to him by all, and by the truth  itself; and *we* also bear witness, and thou knowest that our  witness is true.

64N   1     13    I had many things to write to thee, but I will not with ink  and pen write to thee;

64N   1     14    but I hope soon to see thee, and we will speak mouth to  mouth.

64N   1     15    Peace [be] to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the  friends by name.

 

 

1 Peter (A. D. 65)

60N   1     1     Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ, to [the] sojourners of [the]  dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

60N   1     2     elect according to [the] foreknowledge of God [the] Father,  by sanctification of [the] Spirit, unto [the] obedience and  sprinkling of [the] blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and  peace be multiplied.

60N   1     3     Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a  living hope through [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ from  among [the] dead,

60N   1     4     to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance,  reserved in [the] heavens for you,

60N   1     5     who are kept guarded by [the] power of God through faith for  salvation ready to be revealed in [the] last time.

60N   1     6     Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed,  put to grief by various trials,

60N   1     7     that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of  gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to  praise and glory and honour in [the] revelation of Jesus  Christ:

60N   1     8     whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom [though] not now  looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and  filled with [the] glory,

60N   1     9     receiving the end of your faith, [the] salvation of [your]  souls.

60N   1     10    Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of  the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

60N   1     11    searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of  Christ which [was] in them pointed out, testifying before of  the sufferings which [belonged] to Christ, and the glories  after these.

60N   1     12    To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you  they ministered those things, which have now been announced to  you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by [the]  Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look  into.

60N   1     13    Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, [be]  sober [and] hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace [which  will be] brought to you at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ;

60N   1     14    as children of obedience, not conformed to [your] former  lusts in your ignorance;

60N   1     15    but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in  all [your] conversation;

60N   1     16    because it is written, Be ye holy, for *I* am holy.

60N   1     17    And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of  persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time  of sojourn in fear,

60N   1     18    knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible  [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed  down from [your] fathers,

60N   1     19    but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and  without spot, [the blood] of Christ,

60N   1     20    foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world,  but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

60N   1     21    who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among  [the] dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should  be in God.

60N   1     22    Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to  unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart  fervently;

60N   1     23    being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of  incorruptible, by [the] living and abiding word of God.

60N   1     24    Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the]  flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has  fallen;

60N   1     25    but the word of [the] Lord abides for eternity. But this is  the word which in the glad tidings [is] preached to you.

60N   2     1     Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and  hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

60N   2     2     as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of  the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

60N   2     3     if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.

60N   2     4     To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as  worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,

60N   2     5     yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a  spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual  sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

60N   2     6     Because it is contained in the scripture: Behold, I lay in  Zion a corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on  him shall not be put to shame.

60N   2     7     To you therefore who believe [is] the preciousness; but to  the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as  worthless, this is become head of [the] corner,

60N   2     8     and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; [who] stumble  at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been  appointed.

60N   2     9     But *ye* [are] a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy  nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the  excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his  wonderful light;

60N   2     10    who once [were] not a people, but now God's people; who  were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.

60N   2     11    Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to  abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

60N   2     12    having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that  [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they  may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them],  glorify God in [the] day of visitation.

60N   2     13    Be in subjection [therefore] to every human institution for  the Lord's sake; whether to [the] king as supreme,

60N   2     14    or to rulers as sent by him, for vengeance on evildoers,  and praise to them that do well.

60N   2     15    Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to  silence the ignorance of senseless men;

60N   2     16    as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice,  but as God's bondmen.

60N   2     17    Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour  the king.

60N   2     18    Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not  only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.

60N   2     19    For this [is] acceptable, if one, for conscience sake  towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.

60N   2     20    For what glory [is it], if sinning and being buffeted ye  shall bear [it]? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall  bear [it], this is acceptable with God.

60N   2     21    For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has  suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in  his steps:

 

60N   2     22    who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;

60N   2     23    who, [when] reviled, reviled not again; [when] suffering,  threatened not; but gave [himself] over into the hands of him  who judges righteously;

60N   2     24    who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order  that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by  whose stripes ye have been healed.

60N   2     25    For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to  the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

60N   3     1     Likewise, wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that,  even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained  without [the] word by the conversation of the wives,

60N   3     2     having witnessed your pure conversation [carried out] in  fear;

60N   3     3     whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of  hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

60N   3     4     but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible  [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of  God is of great price.

60N   3     5     For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God  heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own  husbands;

60N   3     6     as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye  have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of  consternation.

60N   3     7     [Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to  knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving  [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life,  that your prayers be not hindered.

60N   3     8     Finally, [be] all of one mind, sympathising, full of  brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

60N   3     9     not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on  the contrary, blessing [others], because ye have been called to  this, that ye should inherit blessing.

60N   3     10    For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause  his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no  guile.

60N   3     11    And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and  pursue it;

60N   3     12    because [the] eyes of [the] Lord [are] on [the] righteous,  and his ears towards their supplications; but [the] face of  [the] Lord [is] against them that do evil.

60N   3     13    And who shall injure you if ye have become imitators of  that which [is] good?

60N   3     14    But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake,  blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be  troubled;

60N   3     15    but sanctify [the] Lord the Christ in your hearts, and [be]  always prepared to [give] an answer [to] every one that asks  you to give an account of the hope that [is] in you, but with  meekness and fear;

60N   3     16    having a good conscience, that [as to that] in which they  speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who  calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

60N   3     17    For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to  suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;

60N   3     18    for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just  for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to  death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,

60N   3     19    in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are]  in prison,

60N   3     20    heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God  waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into  which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

60N   3     21    which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a  putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as  before God of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus  Christ,

60N   3     22    who is at [the] right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels  and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

60N   4     1     Christ, then, having suffered for us in [the] flesh, do *ye*  also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has  suffered in [the] flesh has done with sin,

60N   4     2     no longer to live the rest of [his] time in [the] flesh to  men's lusts, but to God's will.

60N   4     3     For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought  the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts,  wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

60N   4     4     Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to  the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously [of you];

60N   4     5     who shall render account to him who is ready to judge [the]  living and [the] dead.

60N   4     6     For to this [end] were the glad tidings preached to [the]  dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after  [the] flesh, but live, as regards God, after [the] Spirit.

60N   4     7     But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore,  and be watchful unto prayers;

60N   4     8     but before all things having fervent love among yourselves,  because love covers a multitude of sins;

60N   4     9     hospitable one to another, without murmuring;

60N   4     10    each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to  one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace of God.

60N   4     11    If any one speak -- as oracles of God; if any one minister  -- as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things  may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and  the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

60N   4     12    Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution]  which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a  strange thing was happening to you;

60N   4     13    but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice,  that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with  exultation.

60N   4     14    If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are  ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon  you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is  glorified.]

60N   4     15    Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or  evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

60N   4     16    but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify  God in this name.

60N   4     17    For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of  God [is come]; but if first from us, what [shall be] the end of  those who obey not the glad tidings of God?

60N   4     18    And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the  impious and [the] sinner appear?

60N   4     19    Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of  God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.

60N   5     1     The elders which [are] among you I exhort, who [am their]  fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who  also [am] partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

60N   5     2     shepherd the flock of God which [is] among you, exercising  oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain,  but readily;

60N   5     3     not as lording it over your possessions, but being models  for the flock.

60N   5     4     And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive  the unfading crown of glory.

60N   5     5     Likewise [ye] younger, be subject to [the] elder, and all of  you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself  against [the] proud, but to [the] humble gives grace.

60N   5     6     Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,  that he may exalt you in [the due] time;

60N   5     7     having cast all your care upon him, for he cares about you.

60N   5     8     Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary [the] devil as a roaring  lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

60N   5     9     Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame  sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which [is] in  [the] world.

60N   5     10    But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal  glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little  while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen,  ground:

60N   5     11    to him [be] the glory and the might for the ages of the  ages. Amen.

60N   5     12    By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have  written to you briefly; exhorting and testifying that this is  [the] true grace of God in which ye stand.

60N   5     13    She that is elected with [you] in Babylon salutes you, and  Marcus my son.

60N   5     14    Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you  all who [are] in Christ.

 

2 Timothy (A. D. 67)

 

55N   1     1     Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to  promise of life, the [life] which [is] in Christ Jesus,

55N   1     2     to Timotheus, [my] beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from  God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

55N   1     3     I am thankful to God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers  with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of  thee in my supplications night and day,

55N   1     4     earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that  I may be filled with joy;

55N   1     5     calling to mind the unfeigned faith which [has been] in  thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy  mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

55N   1     6     For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of  God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

55N   1     7     For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of  power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

55N   1     8     Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor  of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad  tidings, according to the power of God;

55N   1     9     who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not  according to our works, but according to [his] own purpose and  grace, which [was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [the]  ages of time,

55N   1     10    but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our  Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to  light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;

55N   1     11    to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle and  teacher of [the] nations.

55N   1     12    For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not  ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that  he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to  him.

55N   1     13    Have an outline of sound words, which [words] thou hast  heard of me, in faith and love which [are] in Christ Jesus.

55N   1     14    Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good  deposit entrusted.

55N   1     15    Thou knowest this, that all who [are] in Asia, of whom is  Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.

55N   1     16    The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he  has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;

55N   1     17    but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found  [me] --

55N   1     18    the Lord grant to him to find mercy from [the] Lord in that  day -- and how much service he rendered in Ephesus *thou*  knowest best.

55N   2     1     Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace which [is]  in Christ Jesus.

55N   2     2     And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many  witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be  competent to instruct others also.

55N   2     3     Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus  Christ.

55N   2     4     No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs  of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a  soldier.

55N   2     5     And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not  crowned unless he contend lawfully.

55N   2     6     The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

55N   2     7     Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee  understanding in all things.

55N   2     8     Remember Jesus Christ raised from among [the] dead, of [the]  seed of David, according to my glad tidings,

55N   2     9     in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the  word of God is not bound.

55N   2     10    For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the  elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in  Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

55N   2     11    The word [is] faithful; for if we have died together with  [him], we shall also live together;

55N   2     12    if we endure, we shall also reign together; if we deny,  *he* also will deny us;

55N   2     13    if we are unfaithful, *he* abides faithful, for he cannot  deny himself.

55N   2     14    Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly  before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for  nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

55N   2     15    Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a  workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line  the word of truth.

55N   2     16    But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to  greater impiety,

55N   2     17    and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is  Hymenaeus and Philetus;

55N   2     18    [men] who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the  resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith  of some.

55N   2     19    Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal,  [The] Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who  names the name of [the] Lord withdraw from iniquity.

55N   2     20    But in a great house there are not only gold and silver  vessels, but also wooden and earthen; and some to honour, and  some to dishonour.

55N   2     21    If therefore one shall have purified himself from these,  [in separating himself from them], he shall be a vessel to  honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for  every good work.

55N   2     22    But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith,  love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure  heart.

55N   2     23    But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that  they beget contentions.

55N   2     24    And a bondman of [the] Lord ought not to contend, but be  gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

55N   2     25    in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps  may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of [the]  truth,

55N   2     26    and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil,  [who are] taken by him, for *his* will.

55N   3     1     But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall  be there;

55N   3     2     for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,  arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,  profane,

55N   3     3     without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of  unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

55N   3     4     traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure  rather than lovers of God;

55N   3     5     having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from  these turn away.

55N   3     6     For of these are they who are getting into houses, and  leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various  lusts,

55N   3     7     always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge  of [the] truth.

55N   3     8     Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood  Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in  mind, found worthless as regards the faith.

55N   3     9     But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be  completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

55N   3     10    But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my  teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love,  endurance,

55N   3     11    persecutions, sufferings: what [sufferings] happened to me  in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured;  and the Lord delivered me out of all.

55N   3     12    And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus  will be persecuted.

55N   3     13    But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in  evil, leading and being led astray.

55N   3     14    But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned,  and [of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom  thou hast learned [them];

55N   3     15    and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters,  which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith  which [is] in Christ Jesus.

55N   3     16    Every scripture [is] divinely inspired, and profitable for  teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in  righteousness;

55N   3     17    that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every  good work.

55N   4     1     I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge  living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

55N   4     2     proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season,  convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and  doctrine.

55N   4     3     For the time shall be when they will not bear sound  teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to  themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

55N   4     4     and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will  have turned aside to fables.

55N   4     5     But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the]  work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy  ministry.

55N   4     6     For *I* am already being poured out, and the time of my  release is come.

55N   4     7     I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I  have kept the faith.

55N   4     8     Henceforth the crown of righteousness is laid up for me,  which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will render to me in that  day; but not only to me, but also to all who love his  appearing.

55N   4     9     Use diligence to come to me quickly;

55N   4     10    for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age,  and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to  Dalmatia.

55N   4     11    Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring [him] with  thyself, for he is serviceable to me for ministry.

55N   4     12    But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

55N   4     13    The cloak which I left behind [me] in Troas at Carpus's,  bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the  parchments.

55N   4     14    Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The  Lord will render to him according to his works.

55N   4     15    Against whom be *thou* also on thy guard, for he has  greatly withstood our words.

55N   4     16    At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted  me. May it not be imputed to them.

55N   4     17    But the Lord stood with [me], and gave me power, that  through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all [those  of] the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the  lion's mouth.

55N   4     18    The Lord shall deliver me from every wicked work, and shall  preserve [me] for his heavenly kingdom; to whom [be] glory for  the ages of ages. Amen.

55N   4     19    Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

55N   4     20    Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in  Miletus sick.

55N   4     21    Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee,  and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all.

55N   4     22    The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Grace [be]  with you.

2 Peter (A. D. 67)

61N   1     1     Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them  that have received like precious faith with us through [the]  righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

61N   1     2     Grace and peace be multiplied to you in [the] knowledge of  God and of Jesus our Lord.

61N   1     3     As his divine power has given to us all things which relate  to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has  called us by glory and virtue,

61N   1     4     through which he has given to us the greatest and precious  promises, that through these ye may become partakers of [the]  divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the  world through lust.

61N   1     5     But for this very reason also, using therewith all  diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

61N   1     6     in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in  endurance godliness,

61N   1     7     in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:

61N   1     8     for these things existing and abounding in you make [you] to  be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our  Lord Jesus Christ;

61N   1     9     for he with whom these things are not present is blind,  short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former  sins.

61N   1     10    Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your  calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never  fall;

61N   1     11    for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of  our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.

61N   1     12    Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of  these things, although knowing [them] and established in the  present truth.

61N   1     13    But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle,  to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance,

61N   1     14    knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is speedily  [to take place], as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested  to me;

61N   1     15    but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should  have also, at any time, [in your power] to call to mind these  things.

61N   1     16    For we have not made known to you the power and coming of  our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but  having been eyewitnesses of *his* majesty.

61N   1     17    For he received from God [the] Father honour and glory,  such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This  is my beloved Son, in whom *I* have found my delight;

61N   1     18    and this voice *we* heard uttered from heaven, being with  him on the holy mountain.

61N   1     19    And we have the prophetic word [made] surer, to which ye do  well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place)  until [the] day dawn and [the] morning star arise in your  hearts;

61N   1     20    knowing this first, that [the scope of] no prophecy of  scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

61N   1     21    for prophecy was not ever uttered by [the] will of man, but  holy men of God spake under the power of [the] Holy Spirit.

61N   2     1     But there were false prophets also among the people, as  there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring  in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that  bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

61N   2     2     and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the  way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

61N   2     3     And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they  make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle,  and their destruction slumbers not.

61N   2     4     For if God spared not [the] angels who had sinned, but  having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered  them to chains of darkness [to be] kept for judgment;

61N   2     5     and spared not [the] old world, but preserved Noe, [the]  eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in [the]  flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly;

61N   2     6     and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to  ashes, condemned [them] with an overthrow, setting [them as] an  example to those that should [afterwards] live an ungodly life;

61N   2     7     and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned  conversation of the godless,

61N   2     8     (for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling  among them, tormented [his] righteous soul day after day with  [their] lawless works,)

61N   2     9     [the] Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of trial,  and to keep [the] unjust to [the] day of judgment [to be]  punished;

61N   2     10    and specially those who walk after the flesh in [the] lust  of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold [are they],  self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of  dignities:

61N   2     11    when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not  bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.

61N   2     12    But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be  caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are  ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

61N   2     13    receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting  ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in  their own deceits, feasting with you;

61N   2     14    having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin,  alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in  covetousness, children of curse;

61N   2     15    having left [the] straight way they have gone astray,  having followed in the path of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who  loved [the] reward of unrighteousness;

61N   2     16    but had reproof of his own wickedness -- [the] dumb ass  speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

61N   2     17    These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm,  to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].

61N   2     18    For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they  allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those  who have just fled those who walk in error,

61N   2     19    promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of  corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also  brought into slavery.

61N   2     20    For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world  through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,  again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is  worse than the first.

61N   2     21    For it were better for them not to have known the way of  righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the  holy commandment delivered to them.

61N   2     22    But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them:  [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed  sow to [her] rolling in mud.

61N   3     1     This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in  [both] which I stir up, in the way of putting you in  remembrance, your pure mind,

61N   3     2     to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy  prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by  your apostles;

61N   3     3     knowing this first, that there shall come at [the] close of  the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own  lusts,

61N   3     4     and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the  time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from [the]  beginning of [the] creation.

61N   3     5     For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness,  that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence  out of water and in water, by the word of God,

61N   3     6     through which [waters] the then world, deluged with water,  perished.

61N   3     7     But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid  up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and  destruction of ungodly men.

61N   3     8     But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that  one day with [the] Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a  thousand years as one day.

61N   3     9     [The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of  delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any  should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

61N   3     10    But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief, in which  the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and [the]  elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and [the]  earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

61N   3     11    All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye  to be in holy conversation and godliness,

61N   3     12    waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by  reason of which [the] heavens, being on fire, shall be  dissolved, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

61N   3     13    But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and  a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

61N   3     14    Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be  diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and  blameless;

61N   3     15    and account the longsuffering of our Lord [to be]  salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has  written to you according to the wisdom given to him,

61N   3     16    as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these  things; among which some things are hard to be understood,  which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other  scriptures, to their own destruction.

61N   3     17    *Ye* therefore, beloved, knowing [these] things before,  take care lest, being led away along with the error of the  wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:

61N   3     18    but grow in grace, and in [the] knowledge of our Lord and  Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and to [the]  day of eternity. Amen.

Jude (A. D. 68)

 

65N   1     1     Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the  called ones beloved in God [the] Father and preserved in Jesus  Christ:

65N   1     2     Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.

65N   1     3     Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common  salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you]  to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the  saints.

65N   1     4     For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were  marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons],  turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying  our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

65N   1     5     But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all  things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land  of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not  believed.

65N   1     6     And angels who had not kept their own original state, but  had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains  under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;

65N   1     7     as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them,  committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and  going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing  the judgment of eternal fire.

65N   1     8     Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh,  and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

65N   1     9     But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he  reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a  railing judgment against [him], but said, [The] Lord rebuke  thee.

65N   1     10    But these, whatever things they know not, they speak  railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals,  they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt  themselves.

65N   1     11    Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and  given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and  perished in the gainsaying of Core.

65N   1     12    These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together  [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without  water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without  fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

65N   1     13    raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames;  wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of  darkness for eternity.

65N   1     14    And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to  these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy  myriads,

65N   1     15    to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the  ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they  have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which  ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

65N   1     16    These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their  lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons  for the sake of profit.

65N   1     17    But *ye*, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the  apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

65N   1     18    that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there  should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of  ungodlinesses.

65N   1     19    These are they who set [themselves] apart, natural [men],  not having [the] Spirit.

65N   1     20    But *ye*, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy  faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

65N   1     21    keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of  our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

65N   1     22    And of some have compassion, making a difference,

65N   1     23    but others save with fear, snatching [them] out of the  fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

65N   1     24    But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and  to set [you] with exultation blameless before his glory,

65N   1     25    to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord,  [be] glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the  whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.

 

 

Revelation (A.D. 70)

 

 

66N   1     1     Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to shew  to his bondmen what must shortly take place; and he signified  [it], sending by his angel, to his bondman John,

66N   1     2     who testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus  Christ, all things that he saw.

66N   1     3     Blessed [is] he that reads, and they that hear the words of  the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time  [is] near.

66N   1     4     John to the seven assemblies which [are] in Asia: Grace to  you and peace from [him] who is, and who was, and who is to  come; and from the seven Spirits which [are] before his throne;

66N   1     5     and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn  from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him  who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

66N   1     6     and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him  [be] the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen.

66N   1     7     Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see  him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the  land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen.

66N   1     8     I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith [the] Lord God, he who  is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

66N   1     9     I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation  and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called  Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

66N   1     10    I became in [the] Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard  behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,

66N   1     11    saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the  seven assemblies: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos,  and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to  Laodicea.

66N   1     12    And I turned back to see the voice which spoke with me; and  having turned, I saw seven golden lamps,

66N   1     13    and in the midst of the [seven] lamps [one] like [the] Son  of man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girt  about at the breasts with a golden girdle:

66N   1     14    his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his  eyes as a flame of fire;

66N   1     15    and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and  his voice as the voice of many waters;

66N   1     16    and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his  mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance  as the sun shines in its power.

66N   1     17    And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid  his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; *I* am the first and  the last,

66N   1     18    and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am  living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of  hades.

66N   1     19    Write therefore what thou hast seen, and the things that  are, and the things that are about to be after these.

66N   1     20    The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my  right hand, and the seven golden lamps. -- The seven stars are  angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven  assemblies.

66N   2     1     To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things  says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks  in the midst of the seven golden lamps:

66N   2     2     I know thy works and [thy] labour, and thine endurance, and  that thou canst not bear evil [men]; and thou hast tried them  who say that themselves [are] apostles and are not, and hast  found them liars;

66N   2     3     and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast  not wearied:

66N   2     4     but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

66N   2     5     Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and  do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will  remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent.

66N   2     6     But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the  Nicolaitanes, which *I* also hate.

66N   2     7     He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the  assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of  the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.

66N   2     8     And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: These  things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

66N   2     9     I know thy tribulation and thy poverty; but thou art rich;  and the railing of those who say that they themselves are Jews,  and are not, but a synagogue of Satan.

66N   2     10    Fear nothing [of] what thou art about to suffer. Behold,  the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be  tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful  unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life.

66N   2     11    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to  the assemblies. He that overcomes shall in no wise be injured  of the second death.

66N   2     12    And to the angel of the assembly in Pergamos write: These  things says he that has the sharp two-edged sword:

66N   2     13    I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan [is];  and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith,  even in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness [was],  who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

66N   2     14    But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there  those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast  a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat [of] idol sacrifices  and commit fornication.

66N   2     15    So thou also hast those who hold the doctrine of  Nicolaitanes in like manner.

66N   2     16    Repent therefore: but if not, I come to thee quickly, and I  will make war with them with the sword of my mouth.

66N   2     17    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to  the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of  the hidden manna; and I will give to him a white stone, and on  the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that  receives [it].

66N   2     18    And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: These  things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes as a flame of  fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass:

66N   2     19    I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and  thine endurance, and thy last works [to be] more than the  first.

66N   2     20    But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman  Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and  leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol  sacrifices.

66N   2     21    And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will  not repent of her fornication.

66N   2     22    Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those that commit  adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of  her works,

66N   2     23    and her children will I kill with death; and all the  assemblies shall know that *I* am he that searches [the] reins  and [the] hearts; and I will give to you each according to your  works.

66N   2     24    But to you I say, the rest who [are] in Thyatira, as many  as have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of  Satan, as they say, I do not cast upon you any other burden;

66N   2     25    but what ye have hold fast till I shall come.

66N   2     26    And he that overcomes, and he that keeps unto the end my  works, to him will I give authority over the nations,

66N   2     27    and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; as vessels of  pottery are they broken in pieces, as I also have received from  my Father;

66N   2     28    and I will give to him the morning star.

66N   2     29    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to  the assemblies.

66N   3     1     And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These  things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the  seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou  livest, and art dead.

66N   3     2     Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which  are about to die, for I have not found thy works complete  before my God.

66N   3     3     Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and  keep [it] and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will  come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what  hour I shall come upon thee.

66N   3     4     But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled  their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because  they are worthy.

66N   3     5     He that overcomes, *he* shall be clothed in white garments,  and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will  confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

66N   3     6     He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the  assemblies.

66N   3     7     And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write:  These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of  David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one  shall open:

66N   3     8     I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened  door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power,  and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

66N   3     9     Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that  they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that  they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall  know that *I* have loved thee.

66N   3     10    Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, *I* also  will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come  upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the  earth.

66N   3     11    I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, that no one take  thy crown.

66N   3     12    He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple  of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write  upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my  God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my  God, and my new name.

66N   3     13    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to  the assemblies.

66N   3     14    And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: These  things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the  beginning of the creation of God:

66N   3     15    I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I  would thou wert cold or hot.

66N   3     16    Thus because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I  am about to spue thee out of my mouth.

66N   3     17    Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have  need of nothing, and knowest not that *thou* art the wretched  and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

66N   3     18    I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified by fire, that  thou mayest be rich; and white garments, that thou mayest be  clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be made  manifest; and eye-salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest  see.

66N   3     19    I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous  therefore and repent.

66N   3     20    Behold, I stand at the door and am knocking; if any one  hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto him and  sup with him, and he with me.

66N   3     21    He that overcomes, to him will I give to sit with me in my  throne; as *I* also have overcome, and have sat down with my  Father in his throne.

66N   3     22    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to  the assemblies.

66N   4     1     After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in  heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet  speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee  the things which must take place after these things.

66N   4     2     Immediately I became in [the] Spirit; and behold, a throne  stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting,

66N   4     3     and he [that was] sitting like in appearance to a stone [of]  jasper and a sardius, and a rainbow round the throne like in  appearance to an emerald.

66N   4     4     And round the throne twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones  twenty-four elders sitting, clothed with white garments; and on  their heads golden crowns.

66N   4     5     And out of the throne go forth lightnings, and voices, and  thunders; and seven lamps of fire, burning before the throne,  which are the seven Spirits of God;

66N   4     6     and before the throne, as a glass sea, like crystal. And in  the midst of the throne, and around the throne, four living  creatures, full of eyes, before and behind;

66N   4     7     and the first living creature like a lion, and the second  living creature like a calf, and the third living creature  having the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature  like a flying eagle.

66N   4     8     And the four living creatures, each one of them having  respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes;  and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord  God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

66N   4     9     And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour  and thanksgiving to him that sits upon the throne, who lives to  the ages of ages,

66N   4     10    the twenty-four elders shall fall before him that sits upon  the throne, and do homage to him that lives to the ages of  ages; and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

66N   4     11    Thou art worthy, O our Lord and [our] God, to receive glory  and honour and power; for *thou* hast created all things, and  for thy will they were, and they have been created.

66N   5     1     And I saw on the right hand of him that sat upon the throne  a book, written within and on the back, sealed with seven  seals.

66N   5     2     And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who  [is] worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?

66N   5     3     And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or  underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.

66N   5     4     And *I* wept much because no one had been found worthy to  open the book nor to regard it.

66N   5     5     And one of the elders says to me, Do not weep. Behold, the  lion which [is] of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, has  overcome [so as] to open the book, and its seven seals.

66N   5     6     And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living  creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as  slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven  Spirits of God [which are] sent into all the earth:

66N   5     7     and it came and took [it] out of the right hand of him that  sat upon the throne.

66N   5     8     And when it took the book, the four living creatures and the  twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each a harp and  golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the  saints.

66N   5     9     And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take  the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain,  and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and  tongue, and people, and nation,

66N   5     10    and made them to our God kings and priests; and they shall  reign over the earth.

66N   5     11    And I saw, and I heard [the] voice of many angels around  the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their  number was ten thousands of ten thousands and thousands of  thousands;

66N   5     12    saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been  slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength,  and honour, and glory, and blessing.

66N   5     13    And every creature which is in the heaven and upon the  earth and under the earth, and [those that are] upon the sea,  and all things in them, heard I saying, To him that sits upon  the throne, and to the Lamb, blessing, and honour, and glory,  and might, to the ages of ages.

66N   5     14    And the four living creatures said, Amen; and the elders  fell down and did homage.

66N   6     1     And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I  heard one of the four living creatures saying, as a voice of  thunder, Come [and see].

66N   6     2     And I saw: and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon  it having a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went  forth conquering and that he might conquer.

66N   6     3     And when it opened the second seal, I heard the second  living creature saying, Come [and see].

66N   6     4     And another, a red horse, went forth; and to him that sat  upon it, to him it was given to take peace from the earth, and  that they should slay one another; and there was given to him a  great sword.

66N   6     5     And when it opened the third seal, I heard the third living  creature saying, Come [and see]. And I saw: and behold, a black  horse, and he that sat upon it having a balance in his hand.

66N   6     6     And I heard as a voice in the midst of the four living  creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three  choenixes of barley for a denarius: and do not injure the oil  and the wine.

66N   6     7     And when it opened the fourth seal, I heard [the voice of]  the fourth living creature saying, Come [and see].

66N   6     8     And I saw: and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat upon  it, his name [was] Death, and hades followed with him; and  authority was given to him over the fourth of the earth to slay  with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts  of the earth.

66N   6     9     And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the  altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of  God, and for the testimony which they held;

66N   6     10    and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O  sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge  our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?

66N   6     11    And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and  it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while,  until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were  about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled.

66N   6     12    And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a  great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth,  and the whole moon became as blood,

66N   6     13    and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, as a fig tree,  shaken by a great wind, casts its unseasonable figs.

66N   6     14    And the heaven was removed as a book rolled up, and every  mountain and island were removed out of their places.

66N   6     15    And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the  chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and  freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the  mountains;

66N   6     16    and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us,  and have us hidden from [the] face of him that sits upon the  throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

66N   6     17    because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able  to stand?

66N   7     1     And after this I saw four angels standing upon the four  corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth,  that no wind might blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor  upon any tree.

66N   7     2     And I saw another angel ascending from [the] sunrising,  having [the] seal of [the] living God; and he cried with a loud  voice to the four angels to whom it had been given to hurt the  earth and the sea,

66N   7     3     saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees,  until we shall have sealed the bondmen of our God upon their  foreheads.

66N   7     4     And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred [and]  forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of [the] sons of  Israel:

66N   7     5     out of [the] tribe of Juda, twelve thousand sealed; out of  [the] tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; out of [the] tribe of  Gad, twelve thousand;

66N   7     6     out of [the] tribe of Aser, twelve thousand; out of [the]  tribe of Nepthalim, twelve thousand; out of [the] tribe of  Manasseh, twelve thousand;

66N   7     7     out of [the] tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand; out of [the]  tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; out of [the] tribe of Issachar,  twelve thousand;

66N   7     8     out of [the] tribe of Zabulun, twelve thousand; out of [the]  tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand; out of [the] tribe of  Benjamin, twelve thousand sealed.

66N   7     9     After these things I saw, and lo, a great crowd, which no  one could number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples  and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb,  clothed with white robes, and palm branches in their hands.

66N   7     10    And they cry with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our  God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

66N   7     11    And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders,  and the four living creatures, and fell before the throne upon  their faces, and worshipped God,

66N   7     12    saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and  thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and strength, to our God,  to the ages of ages. Amen.

66N   7     13    And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are  clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?

66N   7     14    And I said to him, My lord, *thou* knowest. And he said to  me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and  have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood  of the Lamb.

66N   7     15    Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him  day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne  shall spread his tabernacle over them.

66N   7     16    They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst  any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any  burning heat;

66N   7     17    because the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall  shepherd them, and shall lead them to fountains of waters of  life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.

66N   8     1     And when it opened the seventh seal, there was silence in  the heaven about half an hour.

66N   8     2     And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven  trumpets were given to them.

66N   8     3     And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a  golden censer; and much incense was given to him, that he might  give [efficacy] to the prayers of all saints at the golden  altar which [was] before the throne.

66N   8     4     And the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the  saints, out of the hand of the angel before God.

66N   8     5     And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire  of the altar, and cast [it] on the earth: and there were  voices, and thunders and lightnings, and an earthquake.

66N   8     6     And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared  themselves that they might sound with [their] trumpets.

66N   8     7     And the first sounded [his] trumpet: and there was hail and  fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth;  and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third  part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt  up.

66N   8     8     And the second angel sounded [his] trumpet: and as a great  mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third  part of the sea became blood;

66N   8     9     and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea  which had life died; and the third part of the ships were  destroyed.

66N   8     10    And the third angel sounded [his] trumpet: and there fell  out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell  upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of  waters.

66N   8     11    And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third  part of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died of  the waters because they were made bitter.

66N   8     12    And the fourth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and the third  part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon,  and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them  should be darkened, and that the day should not appear [for]  the third part of it, and the night the same.

66N   8     13    And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven,  saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to them that dwell  upon the earth, for the remaining voices of the trumpet of the  three angels who are about to sound.

66N   9     1     And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I saw a star  out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to  it the key of the pit of the abyss.

66N   9     2     And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke  out of the pit as [the] smoke of a great furnace; and the sun  and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

66N   9     3     And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and  power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have  power;

66N   9     4     and it was said to them, that they should not injure the  grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the  men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads:

66N   9     5     and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but  that they should be tormented five months; and their torment  [was] as [the] torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

66N   9     6     And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way  find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.

66N   9     7     And the likenesses of the locusts [were] like to horses  prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and  their faces as faces of men;

66N   9     8     and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as  of lions,

66N   9     9     and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the  sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many  horses running to war;

66N   9     10    and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their  power [was] in their tails to hurt men five months.

66N   9     11    They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his  name in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in Greek he has [for] name  Apollyon.

66N   9     12    The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes  after these things.

66N   9     13    And the sixth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I heard a  voice from the four horns of the golden altar which [is] before  God,

66N   9     14    saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the  four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates.

66N   9     15    And the four angels were loosed, who are prepared for the  hour and day and month and year, that they might slay the third  part of men;

66N   9     16    and the number of the hosts of horse [was] twice ten  thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

66N   9     17    And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat  upon them, having breastplates of fire and jacinth and  brimstone; and the heads of the horses [were] as heads of  lions, and out of their mouths goes out fire and smoke and  brimstone.

66N   9     18    By these three plagues were the third part of men killed,  by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of  their mouths.

66N   9     19    For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their  tails: for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and  with them they injure.

66N   9     20    And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues  repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not  worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone  and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

66N   9     21    And they repented not of their murders, nor of their  witchcrafts, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

66N   10    1     And I saw another strong angel coming down out of the  heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the rainbow upon his head,  and his countenance as the sun, and his feet as pillars of  fire,

66N   10    2     and having in his hand a little opened book. And he set his  right foot on the sea, and the left upon the earth,

66N   10    3     and cried with a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he  cried, the seven thunders uttered their own voices.

66N   10    4     And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write:  and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Seal the things  which the seven thunders have spoken, and write them not.

66N   10    5     And the angel whom I saw stand on the sea and on the earth  lifted up his right hand to the heaven,

66N   10    6     and swore by him that lives to the ages of ages, who  created the heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth  and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that  are in it, that there should be no longer delay;

66N   10    7     but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he  is about to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God also shall be  completed, as he has made known the glad tidings to his own  bondmen the prophets.

66N   10    8     And the voice which I heard out of the heaven [was] again  speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the little book which is  opened in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and  on the earth.

66N   10    9     And I went to the angel, saying to him to give me the  little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it up: and it  shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet  as honey.

66N   10    10    And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel,  and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet; and when  I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.

66N   10    11    And it was said to me, Thou must prophesy again as to  peoples and nations and tongues and many kings.

66N   11    1     And there was given to me a reed like a staff, saying,  Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them  that worship in it.

66N   11    2     And the court which [is] without the temple cast out, and  measure it not; because it has been given [up] to the nations,  and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.

66N   11    3     And I will give [power] to my two witnesses, and they shall  prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days, clothed in  sackcloth.

66N   11    4     These are the two olive trees and the two lamps which stand  before the Lord of the earth;

66N   11    5     and if any one wills to injure them, fire goes out of their  mouth, and devours their enemies. And if any one wills to  injure them, thus must he be killed.

66N   11    6     These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall  during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the  waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often  as they will with every plague.

66N   11    7     And when they shall have completed their testimony, the  beast who comes up out of the abyss shall make war with them,  and shall conquer them, and shall kill them:

66N   11    8     and their body [shall be] on the street of the great city,  which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their  Lord was crucified.

66N   11    9     And [men] of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations  see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer  their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.

66N   11    10    And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and  are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another,  because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon  the earth.

66N   11    11    And after the three days and a half [the] spirit of life  from God came into them, and they stood upon their feet; and  great fear fell upon those beholding them.

66N   11    12    And I heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to  them, Come up here; and they went up to the heaven in the  cloud, and their enemies beheld them.

66N   11    13    And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the  tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand names of men were  slain in the earthquake. And the remnant were filled with fear,  and gave glory to the God of the heaven.

66N   11    14    The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe comes  quickly.

66N   11    15    And the seventh angel sounded [his] trumpet: and there  were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the  world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign  to the ages of ages.

66N   11    16    And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones  before God, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

66N   11    17    saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, [He] who  is, and who was, that thou hast taken thy great power and hast  reigned.

66N   11    18    And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is  come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the  recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and  to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy  those that destroy the earth.

66N   11    19    And the temple of God in the heaven was opened, and the  ark of his covenant was seen in his temple: and there were  lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and  great hail.

66N   12    1     And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clothed  with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a  crown of twelve stars;

66N   12    2     and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in  pain to bring forth.

66N   12    3     And another sign was seen in the heaven: and behold, a  great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his  heads seven diadems;

66N   12    4     and his tail draws the third part of the stars of the  heaven; and he cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood  before the woman who was about to bring forth, in order that  when she brought forth he might devour her child.

66N   12    5     And she brought forth a male son, who shall shepherd all  the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to  God and to his throne.

66N   12    6     And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there  a place prepared of God, that they should nourish her there a  thousand two hundred [and] sixty days.

66N   12    7     And there was war in the heaven: Michael and his angels  went to war with the dragon. And the dragon fought, and his  angels;

66N   12    8     and he prevailed not, nor was their place found any more in  the heaven.

66N   12    9     And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he  who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole  habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels  were cast out with him.

66N   12    10    And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is  come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,  and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our  brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day  and night:

66N   12    11    and *they* have overcome him by reason of the blood of the  Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have  not loved their life even unto death.

66N   12    12    Therefore be full of delight, ye heavens, and ye that  dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the  devil has come down to you, having great rage, knowing he has a  short time.

66N   12    13    And when the dragon saw that he had been cast out into the  earth, he persecuted the woman which bore the male [child].

66N   12    14    And there were given to the woman the two wings of the  great eagle, that she might fly into the desert into her place,  where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a  time, from [the] face of the serpent.

66N   12    15    And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman  water as a river, that he might make her be [as] one carried  away by a river.

66N   12    16    And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its  mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his  mouth.

66N   12    17    And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went to make  war with the remnant of her seed, who keep the commandments of  God, and have the testimony of Jesus.

66N   13    1     And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast  rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and  upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads names of  blasphemy.

66N   13    2     And the beast which I saw was like to a leopardess, and its  feet as of a bear, and its mouth as a lion's mouth; and the  dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great  authority;

66N   13    3     and one of his heads [was] as slain to death, and his wound  of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after  the beast.

66N   13    4     And they did homage to the dragon, because he gave the  authority to the beast; and they did homage to the beast,  saying, Who [is] like to the beast? and who can make war with  it?

66N   13    5     And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things  and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue  its career forty-two months.

66N   13    6     And it opened its mouth for blasphemies against God, to  blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and those who have their  tabernacle in the heaven.

66N   13    7     And there was given to it to make war with the saints, and  to overcome them; and there was given to it authority over  every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation;

66N   13    8     and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, [every  one] whose name had not been written from [the] founding of  [the] world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.

66N   13    9     If any one has an ear, let him hear.

66N   13    10    If any one [leads] into captivity, he goes into captivity.  If any one shall kill with [the] sword, he must with [the]  sword be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the  saints.

66N   13    11    And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it  had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon;

66N   13    12    and it exercises all the authority of the first beast  before it, and causes the earth and those that dwell in it to  do homage to the first beast, whose wound of death was healed.

66N   13    13    And it works great signs, that it should cause even fire  to come down from heaven to the earth before men.

66N   13    14    And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason  of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast,  saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to  the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived.

66N   13    15    And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the  beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and  should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image  of the beast should be killed.

66N   13    16    And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich  and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should  give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;

66N   13    17    and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that  had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

66N   13    18    Here is wisdom. He that has understanding let him count  the number of the beast: for it is a man's number; and its  number [is] six hundred [and] sixty-six.

66N   14    1     And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing upon mount Zion,  and with him a hundred [and] forty-four thousand, having his  name and the name of his Father written upon their foreheads.

66N   14    2     And I heard a voice out of the heaven as a voice of many  waters, and as a voice of great thunder. And the voice which I  heard [was] as of harp-singers harping with their harps;

66N   14    3     and they sing a new song before the throne, and before the  four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn  that song save the hundred [and] forty-four thousand who were  bought from the earth.

66N   14    4     These are they who have not been defiled with women, for  they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb  wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men [as]  first-fruits to God and to the Lamb:

66N   14    5     and in their mouths was no lie found; [for] they are  blameless.

66N   14    6     And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having [the]  everlasting glad tidings to announce to those settled on the  earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,

66N   14    7     saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give him glory, for  the hour of his judgment has come; and do homage to him who has  made the heaven and the earth and the sea and fountains of  waters.

66N   14    8     And another, a second, angel followed, saying, Great  Babylon has fallen, has fallen, which of the wine of the fury  of her fornication has made all nations drink.

66N   14    9     And another, a third, angel followed them, saying with a  loud voice, If any one do homage to the beast and its image,  and receive a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,

66N   14    10    he also shall drink of the wine of the fury of God  prepared unmixed in the cup of his wrath, and he shall be  tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and  before the Lamb.

66N   14    11    And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages of ages,  and they have no respite day and night who do homage to the  beast and to its image, and if any one receive the mark of its  name.

66N   14    12    Here is the endurance of the saints, who keep the  commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

66N   14    13    And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Write,  Blessed the dead who die in [the] Lord from henceforth. Yea,  saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for  their works follow with them.

66N   14    14    And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one  sitting like [the] Son of man, having upon his head a golden  crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

66N   14    15    And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a  loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send thy sickle and  reap; for the hour of reaping is come, for the harvest of the  earth is dried.

66N   14    16    And he that sat on the cloud put his sickle on the earth,  and the earth was reaped.

66N   14    17    And another angel came out of the temple which [is] in the  heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

66N   14    18    And another angel came out of the altar, having power over  fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp  sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches  of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened.

66N   14    19    And the angel put his sickle to the earth, and gathered  the vine of the earth, and cast [the bunches] into the great  wine-press of the fury of God;

66N   14    20    and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood  went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a  thousand six hundred stadia.

66N   15    1     And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful:  seven angels having seven plagues, the last; for in them the  fury of God is completed.

66N   15    2     And I saw as a glass sea, mingled with fire, and those that  had gained the victory over the beast, and over its image, and  over the number of its name, standing upon the glass sea,  having harps of God.

66N   15    3     And they sing the song of Moses bondman of God, and the  song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful [are] thy works,  Lord God Almighty; righteous and true [are] thy ways, O King of  nations.

66N   15    4     Who shall not fear [thee], O Lord, and glorify thy name?  for [thou] only [art] holy; for all nations shall come and do  homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made  manifest.

66N   15    5     And after these things I saw, and the temple of the  tabernacle of witness in the heaven was opened;

66N   15    6     and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of  the temple, clothed in pure bright linen, and girded about the  breasts with golden girdles.

66N   15    7     And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven  angels seven golden bowls, full of the fury of God, who lives  to the ages of ages.

66N   15    8     And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God  and from his power: and no one could enter into the temple  until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

66N   16    1     And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the  seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the fury of  God upon the earth.

66N   16    2     And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth;  and there came an evil and grievous sore upon the men that had  the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped its image.

66N   16    3     And the second poured out his bowl on the sea; and it  became blood, as of a dead man; and every living soul died in  the sea.

66N   16    4     And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and [on]  the fountains of waters; and they became blood.

66N   16    5     And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Thou art  righteous, who art and wast, the holy one, that thou hast  judged so;

66N   16    6     for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets,  and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.

66N   16    7     And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, true  and righteous [are] thy judgments.

66N   16    8     And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was  given to it to burn men with fire.

66N   16    9     And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the  name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not  repent to give him glory.

66N   16    10    And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the  beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their  tongues with distress,

66N   16    11    and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their distresses  and their sores, and did not repent of their works.

66N   16    12    And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river  Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the  kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.

66N   16    13    And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the  mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet,  three unclean spirits, as frogs;

66N   16    14    for they are [the] spirits of demons, doing signs; which  go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them  together to the war of [that] great day of God the Almighty.

66N   16    15    (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watches  and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that  they [may not] see his shame.)

66N   16    16    And he gathered them together to the place called in  Hebrew, Armagedon.

66N   16    17    And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air; and there  came out a great voice from the temple of the heaven, from the  throne, saying, It is done.

66N   16    18    And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and  there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were  upon the earth, such an earthquake, so great.

66N   16    19    And the great city was [divided] into three parts; and the  cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered  before God to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his  wrath.

66N   16    20    And every island fled, and mountains were not found;

66N   16    21    and a great hail, as of a talent weight, comes down out of  the heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the  plague of hail, for the plague of it is exceeding great.

66N   17    1     And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls,  came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the  sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;

66N   17    2     with whom the kings of the earth have committed  fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made  drunk with the wine of her fornication.

66N   17    3     And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a  woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy,  having seven heads and ten horns.

66N   17    4     And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had  ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a  golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean  things of her fornication;

66N   17    5     and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great  Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of  the earth.

66N   17    6     And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and  with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered,  seeing her, with great wonder.

66N   17    7     And the angel said to me, Why hast thou wondered? *I* will  tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which  carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

66N   17    8     The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about  to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they  who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the  founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing  the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present.

66N   17    9     Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven  mountains, whereon the woman sits.

66N   17    10    And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the  other has not yet come; and when he comes he must remain [only]  a little while.

66N   17    11    And the beast that was and is not, he also is an eighth,  and is of the seven, and goes into destruction.

66N   17    12    And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which  have not yet received a kingdom, but receive authority as kings  one hour with the beast.

66N   17    13    These have one mind, and give their power and authority to  the beast.

66N   17    14    These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall  overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and  they [that are] with him called, and chosen, and faithful.

66N   17    15    And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the  harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and  tongues.

66N   17    16    And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these  shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked,  and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her with fire;

66N   17    17    for God has given to their hearts to do his mind, and to  act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until  the words of God shall be fulfilled.

66N   17    18    And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which  has kingship over the kings of the earth.

66N   18    1     After these things I saw another angel descending out of  the heaven, having great authority: and the earth was lightened  with his glory.

66N   18    2     And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has  fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons,  and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean  and hated bird;

66N   18    3     because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury  of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed  fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have been  enriched through the might of her luxury.

66N   18    4     And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come  out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins,  and that ye do not receive of her plagues:

66N   18    5     for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the  heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

66N   18    6     Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double [to  her] double, according to her works. In the cup which she has  mixed, mix to her double.

66N   18    7     So much as she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously,  so much torment and grief give to her. Because she says in her  heart, I sit a queen, and I am not a widow; and I shall in no  wise see grief:

66N   18    8     for this reason in one day shall her plagues come, death  and grief and famine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for  strong [is the] Lord God who has judged her.

66N   18    9     And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication,  and lived luxuriously with her, shall weep and wail over her,  when they see the smoke of her burning,

66N   18    10    standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying,  Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one  hour thy judgment is come.

66N   18    11    And the merchants of the earth weep and grieve over her,  because no one buys their lading any more;

66N   18    12    lading of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and  pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet dye,  and all thyine wood, and every article in ivory, and every  article in most precious wood, and in brass, and in iron, and  in marble,

66N   18    13    and cinnamon, and amomum, and incense, and unguent, and  frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and  cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of  bodies, and souls of men.

66N   18    14    And the ripe fruits which were the lust of thy soul have  departed from thee, and all fair and splendid things have  perished from thee, and they shall not find them any more at  all.

66N   18    15    The merchants of these things, who had been enriched  through her, shall stand afar off through fear of her torment,  weeping and grieving,

66N   18    16    saying, Woe, woe, the great city, which [was] clothed with  fine linen and purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold  and precious stones and pearls!

66N   18    17    for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate.  And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and  sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood  afar off,

66N   18    18    and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What  [city] is like to the great city?

66N   18    19    and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and  grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that  had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for  in one hour she has been made desolate.

66N   18    20    Rejoice over her, heaven, and [ye] saints and apostles and  prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her.

66N   18    21    And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone,  and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall  Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more  at all;

66N   18    22    and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players  and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and  no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee,  and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,

66N   18    23    and light of lamp shall shine no more at all in thee, and  voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard no more at all in  thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for  by thy sorcery have all the nations been deceived.

66N   18    24    And in her was found [the] blood of prophets and saints,  and of all the slain upon the earth.

66N   19    1     After these things I heard as a loud voice of a great  multitude in the heaven, saying, Hallelujah: the salvation and  the glory and the power of our God:

66N   19    2     for true and righteous [are] his judgments; for he has  judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her  fornication, and has avenged the blood of his bondmen at her  hand.

66N   19    3     And a second time they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke goes  up to the ages of ages.

66N   19    4     And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures  fell down and did homage to God who sits upon the throne,  saying, Amen, Hallelujah.

66N   19    5     And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God,  all ye his bondmen, [and] ye that fear him, small and great.

66N   19    6     And I heard as a voice of a great crowd, and as a voice of  many waters, and as a voice of strong thunders, saying,  Hallelujah, for [the] Lord our God the Almighty has taken to  himself kingly power.

66N   19    7     Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the  marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself  ready.

66N   19    8     And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine  linen, bright [and] pure; for the fine linen is the  righteousnesses of the saints.

66N   19    9     And he says to me, Write, Blessed [are] they who are called  to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me,  These are the true words of God.

66N   19    10    And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says  to me, See [thou do it] not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and [the  fellow-bondman] of thy brethren who have the testimony of  Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the  testimony of Jesus.

66N   19    11    And I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse,  and one sitting on it, [called] Faithful and True, and he  judges and makes war in righteousness.

66N   19    12    And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head many  diadems, having a name written which no one knows but himself;

66N   19    13    and [he is] clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and  his name is called The Word of God.

66N   19    14    And the armies which [are] in the heaven followed him upon  white horses, clad in white, pure, fine linen.

66N   19    15    And out of his mouth goes a sharp [two-edged] sword, that  with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them  with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of  the wrath of God the Almighty.

66N   19    16    And he has upon his garment, and upon his thigh, a name  written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.

66N   19    17    And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with  a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven,  Come, gather yourselves to the great supper of God,

66N   19    18    that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs,  and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses and of those that  sit upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, and small  and great.

66N   19    19    And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their  armies gathered together to make war against him that sat upon  the horse, and against his army.

66N   19    20    And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that [was]  with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived  them that received the mark of the beast, and those that  worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire  which burns with brimstone;

66N   19    21    and the rest were slain with the sword of him that sat  upon the horse, which goes out of his mouth; and all the birds  were filled with their flesh.

66N   20    1     And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the  key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.

66N   20    2     And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is  [the] devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

66N   20    3     and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it]  over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until  the thousand years were completed; after these things he must  be loosed for a little time.

66N   20    4     And I saw thrones; and they sat upon them, and judgment was  given to them; and the souls of those beheaded on account of  the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God; and  those who had not done homage to the beast nor to his image,  and had not received the mark on their forehead and hand; and  they lived and reigned with the Christ a thousand years:

66N   20    5     the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years  had been completed. This [is] the first resurrection.

66N   20    6     Blessed and holy he who has part in the first resurrection:  over these the second death has no power; but they shall be  priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a  thousand years.

66N   20    7     And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan  shall be loosed from his prison,

66N   20    8     and shall go out to deceive the nations which [are] in the  four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them  together to the war, whose number [is] as the sand of the sea.

66N   20    9     And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and  surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city: and  fire came down [from God] out of the heaven and devoured them.

66N   20    10    And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of  fire and brimstone, where [are] both the beast and the false  prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages  of ages.

66N   20    11    And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it,  from whose face the earth and the heaven fled, and place was  not found for them.

66N   20    12    And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the  throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened,  which is [that] of life. And the dead were judged out of the  things written in the books according to their works.

66N   20    13    And the sea gave up the dead which [were] in it, and death  and hades gave up the dead which [were] in them; and they were  judged each according to their works:

66N   20    14    and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This  is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.

66N   20    15    And if any one was not found written in the book of life,  he was cast into the lake of fire.

66N   21    1     And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first  heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists  no more.

66N   21    2     And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of  the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her  husband.

66N   21    3     And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold,  the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he shall tabernacle  with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall  be with them, their God.

66N   21    4     And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and  death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor  distress shall exist any more, for the former things have  passed away.

66N   21    5     And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all  things new. And he says [to me], Write, for these words are  true and faithful.

66N   21    6     And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the  Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that  thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely.

66N   21    7     He that overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be  to him God, and he shall be to me son.

66N   21    8     But to the fearful and unbelieving, [and sinners], and  those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and  fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their  part [is] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone;  which is the second death.

66N   21    9     And there came one of the seven angels which had had the  seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me,  saying, Come here, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

66N   21    10    And he carried me away in [the] Spirit, [and set me] on a  great and high mountain, and shewed me the holy city,  Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

66N   21    11    having the glory of God. Her shining [was] like a most  precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone;

66N   21    12    having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at  the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are those  of the twelve tribes of [the] sons of Israel.

66N   21    13    On [the] east three gates; and on [the] north three gates;  and on [the] south three gates; and on [the] west three gates.

66N   21    14    And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on  them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

66N   21    15    And he that spoke with me had a golden reed [as] a  measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its  wall.

66N   21    16    And the city lies four-square, and its length [is] as much  as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed --  twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and height  of it are equal.

66N   21    17    And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four  cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.

66N   21    18    And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city  pure gold, like pure glass:

66N   21    19    the foundations of the wall of the city [were] adorned  with every precious stone: the first foundation, jasper; the  second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

66N   21    20    the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,  chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth,  chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

66N   21    21    And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the  gates, respectively, was of one pearl; and the street of the  city pure gold, as transparent glass.

66N   21    22    And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is  its temple, and the Lamb.

66N   21    23    And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that  they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened  it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.

66N   21    24    And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of  the earth bring their glory to it.

66N   21    25    And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night  shall not be there.

66N   21    26    And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the  nations to it.

66N   21    27    And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a  lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who [are]  written in the book of life of the Lamb.

66N   22    1     And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as  crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

 

66N   22    2     In the midst of its street, and of the river, on this side  and on that side, [the] tree of life, producing twelve fruits,  in each month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree  for healing of the nations.

66N   22    3     And no curse shall be any more; and the throne of God and  of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him,

66N   22    4     and they shall see his face; and his name [is] on their  foreheads.

66N   22    5     And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and  light of [the] sun; for [the] Lord God shall shine upon them,  and they shall reign to the ages of ages.

66N   22    6     And he said to me, These words [are] faithful and true; and  [the] Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his  angel to shew to his bondmen the things which must soon come to  pass.

66N   22    7     And behold, I come quickly. Blessed [is] he who keeps the  words of the prophecy of this book.

66N   22    8     And I, John, [was] he who heard and saw these things. And  when I heard and saw, I fell down to do homage before the feet  of the angel who shewed me these things.

66N   22    9     And he says to me, See [thou do it] not. I am thy  fellow-bondman, and [the fellow-bondman] of thy brethren the  prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do  homage to God.

66N   22    10    And he says to me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of  this book. The time is near.

66N   22    11    Let him that does unrighteously do unrighteously still;  and let the filthy make himself filthy still; and let him that  is righteous practise righteousness still; and he that is holy,  let him be sanctified still.

66N   22    12    Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render  to every one as his work shall be.

66N   22    13    *I* [am] the Alpha and the Omega, [the] first and [the]  last, the beginning and the end.

66N   22    14    Blessed [are] they that wash their robes, that they may  have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by  the gates into the city.

66N   22    15    Without [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the  fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every  one that loves and makes a lie.

66N   22    16    *I* Jesus have sent mine angel to testify these things to  you in the assemblies. *I* am the root and offspring of David,  the bright [and] morning star.

66N   22    17    And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that  hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; he that  will, let him take [the] water of life freely.

66N   22    18    *I* testify to every one who hears the words of the  prophecy of this book, If any one shall add to these things,  God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this  book.

66N   22    19    And if any one take from the words of the book of this  prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life,  and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

66N   22    20    He that testifies these things says, Yea, I come quickly.  Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

66N   22    21    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with all the  saints.