Mark 12 Cross References - ACV

¹ And he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set up a hedge, and dug a wine vat, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey. ² And at the season he sent forth a bondman to the farmers, so that he might receive by the farmers from the fruit of the vineyard. ³ And having seized him, they beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ And again he sent another bondman to them. And that man, having stoned, they wounded in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. ⁵ And again he sent another, and that man they killed, and many others, beating some, and killing some. ⁶ Therefore, still having his one beloved son, he also sent him to them, last, saying, They will be made ashamed by my son. ⁷ But those farmers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. ⁸ And having taken him, they killed him, and cast him outside of the vineyard. ⁹ What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ And have ye not read this scripture: The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be into the head of the corner. ¹¹ This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes? ¹² And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away. ¹³ And they send some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, so that they might catch him in talk. ¹⁴ And when they came, they say to him, Teacher, we have seen that thou are true, and it is not a care to thee about any man, for thou look not to a personage of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Should we give, or should we not give? But Jesus, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do ye test me? Bring me a denarius, so that I may see it. ¹⁶ And they brought it. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they marveled at him. ¹⁸ And Sadducees come to him, who say there is no resurrection. And they questioned him, saying, ¹⁹ Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother dies, and leaves behind a wife, and leaves no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. ²¹ And the second took her, and died, neither did he leave seed behind, and the third likewise. ²² And the seven took her, and left no seed. Last of all the woman also died. ²³ In the resurrection when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as wife. ²⁴ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Are ye not led astray because of this: not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents in the heavens. ²⁶ But about the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how God spoke to him at the bush, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? ²⁷ He is not the God of the dead, but God of the living. Ye therefore are much misled. ²⁸ And one of the scholars having come, having heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, he questioned him, Which is the first commandment of all? ²⁹ And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, thou Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹ And this second is similar, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² And the scholar said to him, Well, teacher. Thou spoke in truth that he is one, and there is no other but he. ³³ And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. ³⁴ And when Jesus saw him, that he answered wisely, he said to him, Thou are not far from the kingdom of God. And no man dared to question him any more. ³⁵ And having responded as he taught in the temple, Jesus said, How do the scholars say that the Christ is the son of David? ³⁶ For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The Lord says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I may place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet. ³⁷ David himself therefore calls him Lord, and in what way is he his son? And the great multitude heard him gladly. ³⁸ And in his teaching he said to them, Look away from the scholars, those who desire to go about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces, ³⁹ and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at the feasts, ⁴⁰ those who devour widows' houses, and praying long in pretence. These will receive greater condemnation. ⁴¹ And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the multitude cast money into the treasury, and many rich men cast in much. ⁴² And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans. ⁴³ And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury. ⁴⁴ For they all cast in from that which is abundant to them, but she from her need cast in all, as many things she had, her whole living.

¹³ Thou also came down upon mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, ¹⁴ and made known to them thy holy sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thy servant.

⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

⁸ Thou brought a vine out of Egypt. Thou drove out the nations, and planted it. ⁹ Thou prepared place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land. ¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs of it were like cedars of God. ¹¹ It sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. ¹² Why have thou broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? ¹³ The boar out of the wood ravages it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it. ¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and, behold, and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the stock which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou made strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye LORD.

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He let out the vineyard to keepers. Every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. Thou, O Solomon, shall have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of it, two hundred.

¹ Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. ² And he dug it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. ³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, shall be for briers and thorns.

²¹ Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

¹¹ And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. ¹² Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am LORD who sanctifies them.

¹⁸ And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols. ¹⁹ I am LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them, ²⁰ and hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am LORD your God.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah lord LORD! They say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

¹⁰ And the disciples having come, they said to him, Why do thou speak to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. ¹⁵ For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes, and he did not speak to them independent of a parable, ³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

²⁸ But what does it seem to you? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, Child, go work today in my vineyard.

¹⁴ For, like a man going on a journey, he called his own bondmen, and delivered to them the things possessed by him.

² And he taught them many things in parables, and said to them in his teaching,

¹¹ And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things occur in parables. ¹² So that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest they should turn, and the sins would be forgiven them. ¹³ And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? And how will ye understand all the parables?

³³ And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴ And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.

¹ And he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set up a hedge, and dug a wine vat, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey. ² And at the season he sent forth a bondman to the farmers, so that he might receive by the farmers from the fruit of the vineyard. ³ And having seized him, they beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ And again he sent another bondman to them. And that man, having stoned, they wounded in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. ⁵ And again he sent another, and that man they killed, and many others, beating some, and killing some. ⁶ Therefore, still having his one beloved son, he also sent him to them, last, saying, They will be made ashamed by my son. ⁷ But those farmers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. ⁸ And having taken him, they killed him, and cast him outside of the vineyard. ⁹ What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ And have ye not read this scripture: The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be into the head of the corner. ¹¹ This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes? ¹² And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.

³⁴ like a man abroad, having left his house, and having given authority to his bondmen, and to each man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

¹⁰ And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables, so that seeing they would not see, and hearing they would not understand.

⁶ And he spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. ⁷ And he said to the vine workman, Behold, three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down, why also waste the ground? ⁸ And having answered, he says to him, Sir, allow it this year also until I may dig around it and cast manure. ⁹ Although surely it should bear fruit, and if not, in the coming year thou will cut it down.

¹³ And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, journeyed into a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth living recklessly.

¹² He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

⁹ And he began to speak this parable to the people. A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to farmers, and went abroad for a considerable time. ¹⁰ And at the season he sent a bondman to the farmers, so that they would give him from the fruit of the vineyard. But having beaten him, the farmers sent him away empty. ¹¹ And he proceeded to send another bondman. And they, having beaten and shamefully treated, sent him also away empty. ¹² And he proceeded to send a third. And they also having wounded this man, cast him out. ¹³ And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will be made ashamed after seeing this man. ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they deliberated among themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours. ¹⁵ And having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen! ¹⁷ But having looked upon them, he said, What then is this that is written, The stone that those who build rejected, this became the head of the corner? ¹⁸ Every man who falls on that stone will be broken, but on whomever it may fall, it will grind him to dust. ¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

⁹ And they said to him, Where do thou want that we should prepare?

¹ I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the farmer. ² Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit. ³ Now ye are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me. ⁵ I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any man does not dwell in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and are burned. ⁷ If ye dwell in me, and my sayings dwell in you, ye will ask whatever ye may want, and it will be done to you. ⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

³⁸ This is he who became in the congregation in the wilderness with the agent who spoke to him on the mount Sinai, and of our fathers who received living oracles to give to us.

⁴⁶ who found favor in the sight of God. And he asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon built him a house.

¹ What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ² Much every way. First, because they were indeed entrusted with the oracles of God.

⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises, ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

¹⁷ And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, thou do not bear the root, but the root thee. ¹⁹ Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. ²⁰ Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear, ²¹ for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps neither will he spare thee. ²² Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God. Indeed toward those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou too will be cut off. ²³ And also those, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if thou were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree.

⁸ that LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel. And he said to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage. ⁹ And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land. ¹⁰ And I said to you, I am LORD your God. Ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell, but ye have not hearkened to my voice.

¹³ Yet LORD testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

¹⁵ And LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place.

¹¹ which thou have commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

⁴ And LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear), ⁵ saying, Return ye now each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore.

¹⁵ I have also sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers. But ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.

⁴ However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

¹ Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.

³ Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. ⁴ Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so he has dealt with us.

⁷ Should ye not hear the words which LORD cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?

³⁴ And when the time of the fruits approached, he sent his bondmen to the farmers to receive his fruits.

⁴⁸ but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.

¹⁰ And at the season he sent a bondman to the farmers, so that they would give him from the fruit of the vineyard. But having beaten him, the farmers sent him away empty.

¹ God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son,

⁴ for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

¹³ Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of LORD, how I hid a hundred men of LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

¹⁰ And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.

¹⁴ And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

²⁷ and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace.

¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house. For he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

¹⁹ Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to LORD. And they testified against them, but they would not give ear. ²⁰ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest. And he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do ye transgress the commandments of LORD, so that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have forsaken LORD, he has also forsaken you. ²¹ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of LORD.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

³⁰ In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

² Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of LORD.

²⁰ And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim. And he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. ²¹ And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the rulers, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death, but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt. ²² And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt, ²³ and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. ²⁴ But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

²⁶ LORD has made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of LORD, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that thou should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

¹⁵ And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

⁴ Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. ⁵ And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand, for the king is not he who can do anything against you. ⁶ Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

⁴ However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate. ⁵ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

¹⁶ As for the word that thou have spoken to us in the name of LORD, we will not hearken to thee.

¹⁰ nor have we obeyed the voice of LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have sinned against him.

⁹ Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. ¹⁰ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. ¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. ¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts. ¹³ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

³⁴ Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scholars. 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, ³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

⁴⁷ Woe to you! Because ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, but your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ Consequently, ye testify and approve the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers. ⁴⁹ Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute, ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.

³³ Nevertheless it is necessary for me to go today and tomorrow and the following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem. ³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

¹⁰ And at the season he sent a bondman to the farmers, so that they would give him from the fruit of the vineyard. But having beaten him, the farmers sent him away empty. ¹¹ And he proceeded to send another bondman. And they, having beaten and shamefully treated, sent him also away empty. ¹² And he proceeded to send a third. And they also having wounded this man, cast him out.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

¹⁵ The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented

³⁰ Yet many years thou bore with them, and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers. ²⁷ And thou shall speak all these words to them, but they will not hearken to thee. Thou shall also call to them, but they will not answer thee. ²⁸ And thou shall say to them, This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice of LORD their God, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

¹² Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

³⁵ And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again, he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.

⁶ and the others having seized his bondmen, abused and killed them.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

¹³ But I say to you, that Elijah has also come, and they did to him as much as they wanted, just as it is written for him.

²² Blessed are ye, when men will hate you, and when they will exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of man. ²³ Rejoice ye in that day, and leap, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did in the same way to the prophets.

³⁶ Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

² And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

¹² And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a coat of many colors.

¹¹ And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind. ¹² And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. ¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Are not thy brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

⁷ I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

¹ Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

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 am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God.

¹¹ And a voice occurred out of the heavens, Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

⁷ And a cloud developed overshadowing them. And a voice came out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him.

²² and the Holy Spirit to descend in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and a voice to occur out of heaven, saying, Thou are my beloved Son. In thee I am well pleased.

³⁵ And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

³⁴ And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered, and says to him, Rabbi, thou are the Son of God. Thou are the king of Israel.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

¹ God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son, ² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.

⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation. ¹⁰ And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth. ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as a voice of many agents all around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly!

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

²⁰ Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

¹² Many bulls have encompassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around. ¹³ They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

⁷ Thus says LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, rulers, and they shall worship, because of LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee.

⁷ He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that is mute before its shearers, so he opened not his mouth. ⁸ In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

³ And Herod the king having heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ And having gathered together all the chief priests and scholars of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born. ⁵ And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written through the prophet, ⁶ And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of thee will come forth a man who rules, who will tend my people Israel. ⁷ Then Herod having called the wise men privately, ascertained from them what time the star appeared. ⁸ And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, After going, search diligently about the child. And when ye find him, report to me, so that I also having come, may worship him. ⁹ And when they heard the king, they departed. And lo, the star that they saw in the east went before them until, having come, it stood over where the child was. ¹⁰ And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. ¹¹ And having come into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down, they worshiped him. And having opened their treasures, they brought to him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. ¹² And divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country by another way. ¹³ Now after they departed, behold, an agent of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, After rising, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and thou be there until I tell thee, for Herod is going to seek the child to destroy it.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

¹² And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.

⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What are we doing? Because this man does many signs. ⁴⁸ If we allow him this way, all men will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the nation. ⁴⁹ And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing at all, ⁵⁰ nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation should perish.

²³ this man, having been designated (by the purpose and foreknowledge of God) a man delivered up, ye, having taken by lawless hands, killed, having crucified,

²⁸ saying, Did we not command by an order for you not to teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem of your doctrine, and intend to bring upon us this man's blood.

²⁷ For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this and the voices of the prophets being read at every sabbath, they fulfilled, having condemned him. ²⁸ And not having found one cause of death in him, they asked for Pilate to kill him.

³³ Hear ye another parable. There was a certain man who was a house-ruler, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.

³⁹ And having seized him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

¹⁵ And having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

¹¹ For of the beasts whose blood is brought into the holy things for sin by the high priest, the bodies of these are burned outside the camp. ¹² Therefore Jesus also, so that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹⁵ and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, ¹⁶ I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and ye shall flee when no man pursues you. ¹⁸ And if for these things ye will not yet hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

²³ And if by these things ye will not be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me, ²⁴ then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.

²⁷ And if for all this ye will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me, ²⁸ then I will walk contrary to you in wrath, and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land to which ye go over the Jordan to possess it. Ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations where LORD shall lead you away.

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shall thou be in the city, and cursed shall thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. ¹⁹ Cursed shall thou be when thou come in, and cursed shall thou be when thou go out. ²⁰ LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou put thy hand to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the evil of thy doings, by which thou have forsaken me. ²¹ LORD will make the pestilence cling to thee, until he has consumed thee from off the land, where thou go in to possess it. ²² LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew. And they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From the sky it shall come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies. Thou shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them. And thou shall be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away. ²⁷ LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which thou cannot be healed. ²⁸ LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of mind, ²⁹ and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee. ³⁰ Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shall not eat of it. Thy donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shall have none to save thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand. ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always, ³⁴ so that thou shall be mad because of the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see. ³⁵ LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which thou cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shall set over thee, to a nation that thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers. And there thou shall serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away. ³⁸ Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹ Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Thou shall have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shall not anoint thyself with the oil, for thine olive shall drop off. ⁴¹ Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. ⁴³ The sojourner who is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher, and thou shall come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou shall be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou hearkened not to the voice of LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee, ⁴⁶ and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever. ⁴⁷ Because thou served not LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, ⁵¹ and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed, that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish. ⁵² And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, in which thou trusted, throughout all thy land. And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which LORD thy God has given thee. ⁵³ And thou shall eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemies shall distress thee. ⁵⁴ The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining, ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear, for she shall eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD, ⁵⁹ then LORD will make thy calamities extraordinary, and the calamities of thy seed, even great calamities and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses and of long continuance. ⁶⁰ And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou were afraid of, and they shall cling to thee. ⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them LORD will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou did not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. And ye shall be plucked from off the land where thou go in to possess it. ⁶⁴ And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot, but LORD will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shall say, Would it were evening! and at evening thou shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shall fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see. ⁶⁸ And LORD will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to thee, Thou shall see it no more again. And there ye shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

¹⁵ And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you of which LORD your God spoke to you, so will LORD bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which LORD your God has given you.

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded, ²⁵ but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof, ²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, ²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me, ²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. ³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

⁵ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. ⁷ For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

¹⁷ Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

¹⁵ until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest. ¹⁶ Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

¹⁵ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the lord LORD will kill thee. And he will call his servants by another name,

³ O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate. And even to the full end, and that determined, wrath shall be poured out upon the desolate.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it. ⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD is my God.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says LORD of hosts.

⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ¹⁰ And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit. ¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

¹¹ And I say to you, that many will come from east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens, ¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ¹³ And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thou. And as thou have believed, be it done to thee. And his boy was healed in that hour.

⁴⁵ Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

⁴⁰ When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers? ⁴¹ They say to him, Evil men, he will miserably destroy them, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

⁴³ Because of this I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

⁷ But having heard that, the king was angry, and having sent forth his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

³⁴ Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scholars. 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, ³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

²⁷ Nevertheless those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring here, and kill them before me.

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

¹⁵ And having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us: I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles, for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth. ⁴⁸ And hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed for eternal life believed.

²³ And having appointed a day for him, more came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded, solemnly testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening. ²⁴ And some were convinced by the things that were spoken, and some disbelieved. ²⁵ And being discord among each other, they departed after Paul spoke one thing, saying, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ saying, Go thou to this people, and say, Hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. ²⁷ For this people's heart was made fat, and they hear heavily with the ears. And they shut their eyes, lest they may perceive with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should turn, and I would heal them. ²⁸ Be it known to you therefore, that the salvation of God was sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith. ³¹ But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, ³³ just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed.

²⁰ And Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those not seeking me. I became manifest to those not asking for me.

²² The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. ²³ This is LORD's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation. He who believes in him shall, no, not be shamed.

³ But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those with him,

⁴ And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

¹⁶ and said to him, Do thou hear what these are saying? And Jesus says to them, Yes! Did ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and those who suckle thou have perfected praise?

⁴² Jesus says to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be in the head of the corner. This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

²⁵ And he said to them, Did ye never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry, he and those with him?

²⁶ But about the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how God spoke to him at the bush, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

¹⁴ But when ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him who reads understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains,

³ And having answered them, Jesus said, Have ye not read even this, what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him,

¹⁷ But having looked upon them, he said, What then is this that is written, The stone that those who build rejected, this became the head of the corner? ¹⁸ Every man who falls on that stone will be broken, but on whomever it may fall, it will grind him to dust.

¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you who build, which became into the head of the corner. ¹² And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

³³ just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed.

²⁰ Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner, ²¹ in whom the whole building joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom ye also are built together in Spirit into a habitation of God.

⁷ To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner, ⁸ and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

²³ This is LORD's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

⁵ Behold ye scoffers, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

¹² And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, others saying to others, Whatever does this intend to be?

³² This Jesus, God raised up, of which we are all witnesses. ³³ Therefore, exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this that ye now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand ³⁵ until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet. ³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.

¹² And Peter having seen, he responded to the people, Men, Israelites, why do ye marvel at this man? Or why do ye stare at us, as by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man. ¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy and Righteous, and asked for a man, a murderer to be granted to you. ¹⁵ And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

⁴⁰ Watch therefore, lest that which is spoken in the prophets should come upon you: ⁴¹ Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.

⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church, ¹¹ according to the purpose of the ages, which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou are the man. Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to thee such and such things. ⁹ Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For thou did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. ¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die. ¹⁴ However, because by this deed thou have given great occasion to the enemies of LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to thee shall surely die. ¹⁵ And Nathan departed to his house. And LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

³⁸ So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. ³⁹ And as the king passed by, he cried out to the king, and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle, and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man. If by any means he is missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shall pay a talent of silver. ⁴⁰ And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So shall thy judgment be, thyself have decided it. ⁴¹ And he hastened, and took the headband away from his eyes, and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

¹⁷ And the word of LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸ Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it. ¹⁹ And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou have sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of LORD. ²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel. ²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which thou have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin. ²³ And LORD spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat. ²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. ²⁶ And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did whom LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.) ²⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

²⁶ But if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.

⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke about them. ⁴⁶ And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

²² And when they heard it, they marveled. And having left him, they departed.

¹⁸ And the scholars and the chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him, for they feared him, because all the people were awed at his doctrine.

³² But should we say, From men? (They feared the people, for all held John that he was indeed a prophet.)

⁶ But if we say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are convinced John is a prophet.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

²⁵ Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

³⁰ They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

⁴⁴ And some of them wanted to take him, but no man laid hands on him.

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

⁵ All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶ They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

²¹ who make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

⁶ And Jesus said to them, Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk. ¹⁶ And they send out their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it is not a concern to thee about a man, for thou look not to the personage of men. ¹⁷ Tell us therefore, what does it seem to thee? Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not? ¹⁸ But Jesus having known their wickedness, said, Why do ye tempt me, ye hypocrites? ¹⁹ Exhibit to me the tribute money. And they brought to him a denarius. ²⁰ And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? ²¹ They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore, render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. ²² And when they heard it, they marveled. And having left him, they departed.

⁶ And the Pharisees having gone out, they straightaway were making a plot with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

¹⁵ And he commanded them, saying, Take heed, watch for the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

⁵⁴ waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.

²⁰ And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. ²¹ And they questioned him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou speak and teach rightly, and thou do not accept a personage, but teach the way of God in truth, ²² Is it permitted for us to give tribute to Caesar or not? ²³ But having perceived their craftiness, he said to them, Why do ye try me? ²⁴ Display to me a denarius. Whose image and inscription has it? And having answered, they said, Caesar's. ²⁵ And he said to them, Then render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. ²⁶ And they were unable to lay hold of his word before the people. And having marveled at his answer, they were silent.

² Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice, ³ neither shall thou favor a poor man in his case. ⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release it with him. ⁶ Thou shall not distort the justice due to thy poor in his case.

¹⁹ Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant. ¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, and Israel thy law. They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thine altar.

¹³ And Micaiah said, As LORD lives, what my God says, that will I speak.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of LORD be upon you. Take heed and do it. For there is no iniquity with LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

¹² Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from thee have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and the evil city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations. ¹³ Be it known now to the king, that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom thou have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. ³ LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, ⁴ who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

²³ Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. ²⁴ He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. ²⁵ When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. ²⁶ Though his hatred cover itself with guile, his wickedness shall be openly shown before the assembly.

⁷ For the lord LORD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. ⁸ He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. ⁹ Behold, the lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says LORD: If thou return, then I will bring thee again that thou may stand before me. And if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shall be as my mouth. They shall return to thee, but thou shall not return to them. ²⁰ And I will make thee to this people a fortified brazen wall. And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee. For I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says LORD. ²¹ And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

² and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for us to LORD thy God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us, ³ that LORD thy God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

²⁰ For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls. For ye sent me to LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to LORD our God, and according to all that LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

⁶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dwell among scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. ⁷ And thou shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.

⁸ But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

²⁵ He says, Yes. And when he entered into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What think thou, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they take taxes or tribute, from their sons or from strangers? ²⁶ And Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Therefore the sons are free. ²⁷ But, so that we might not offend them, after going to the sea, cast a hook. And take up the first fish coming up, and having opened its mouth, thou will find a four-drachma coin. After taking that, give thou to them for me and thee.

¹⁷ Tell us therefore, what does it seem to thee? Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not?

⁴⁵ And when he came, straightaway having approached him, he says, Rabbi, Rabbi, and kissed him much.

²² Is it permitted for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?

² And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ, a king.

¹⁸ He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

⁶ For because of this ye also fulfill taxes, for they are servants of God being devoted to this same thing.

² For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me?

¹⁷ For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

¹ Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

¹¹ Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

⁶ But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me,

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to the face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also joined in hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas went along with their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

² Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

¹⁸ But Jesus having known their wickedness, said, Why do ye tempt me, ye hypocrites?

² And the Pharisees having approached, they demanded of him if it is permitted for a man to divorce a wife, testing him.

²³ But having perceived their craftiness, he said to them, Why do ye try me?

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any man should testify about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

⁹ But Peter said to her, How is it that it was agreed by you to challenge the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out.

⁹ Nor should we challenge the Christ as some of them also challenged, and were destroyed by the serpents.

¹³ And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

²³ And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you-to each-according to your works.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.

¹² He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will, no, not go out any more. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem (it comes down out of the heaven from my God), and my new name.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

²⁶ My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.

²¹ My son, fear thou LORD and the king, and do not associate with those who are given to change.

⁴ When thou vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou vow. ⁵ Better is it that thou should not vow, than that thou should vow and not pay.

⁶ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy name?

³³ And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his doctrine.

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him a word, nor did any man from that day dare to question him any more.

³⁰ and thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

¹⁹ But Peter and John having replied to them, they said, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than God, judge ye. ²⁰ For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.

¹³ And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,

¹ I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

⁷ Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem.

¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own, ²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all. ²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

¹⁷ Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

²³ On that day Sadducees came to him, those who claim to be no resurrection. And they questioned him, saying, ²⁴ Teacher, Moses said, If some man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. ²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers. And the first having married perished. And having no seed left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Likewise also the second, and the third, until the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all, the woman also died. ²⁸ In the resurrection therefore, which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her. ²⁹ But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven. ³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 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. ³³ And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his doctrine.

²⁷ And some of the Sadducees having approached, those who say there is no resurrection, they questioned him, ²⁸ saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, if any brother dies, having a wife, and this man dies childless, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. ²⁹ There were therefore seven brothers. And the first having taken a wife, died childless. ³⁰ And the second took the woman, and this man died childless. ³¹ And the third likewise took her, and likewise also the seven; they left behind no children, and died. ³² And last of all the woman also died. ³³ In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them does she become? For the seven had her as wife. ³⁴ And having answered, Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage, ³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ For neither can they die any more, for they are like the agents, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. ³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the Bush when he calls the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ³⁸ Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him. ³⁹ And some of the scholars having answered, they said, Teacher, thou said well. ⁴⁰ For they no longer dared to question him anything.

¹ And as they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees approached them, ² being greatly annoyed because of their teaching the people, and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

⁶ But when Paul ascertained that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee. About the hope and resurrection of the dead I am judged. ⁷ And when he said this, there developed a conflict of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group was divided. ⁸ For in fact Sadducees say to be no resurrection nor agent nor spirit, but Pharisees acknowledge them all. ⁹ And there developed a great clamor. And some of the scholars of the Pharisees part having risen, they argued vehemently, saying, We find nothing wrong in this man. But if a spirit spoke to him, or an agent, we should not fight against God.

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ risen. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty. ¹⁵ And also we are found false witnesses of God, because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if therefore the dead are really not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

¹⁸ men who missed the mark about the truth, saying the resurrection happened already, and they overthrow the faith of some.

⁸ And Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

⁵ If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶ And it shall be, that the firstborn who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. ⁷ And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. ⁸ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. And if he stands, and says, I do not want to take her, ⁹ then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰ And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe loosed.

¹¹ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will ye go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? ¹² Turn again, my daughters. Go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope. If I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons, ¹³ would ye therefore delay till they were grown? Would ye therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of LORD has gone forth against me.

⁵ Then Boaz said, That day thou buy the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers. And the first having married perished. And having no seed left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Likewise also the second, and the third, until the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all, the woman also died. ²⁸ In the resurrection therefore, which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.

²⁹ There were therefore seven brothers. And the first having taken a wife, died childless. ³⁰ And the second took the woman, and this man died childless. ³¹ And the third likewise took her, and likewise also the seven; they left behind no children, and died. ³² And last of all the woman also died. ³³ In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them does she become? For the seven had her as wife.

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for LORD? At the set time I will return to thee, when the season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son.

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

⁸ He will swallow up death in victory, and the lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

¹⁹ Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD. ⁸ How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of LORD is with us? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsely. ⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

¹⁷ Ah lord LORD! Behold, thou have made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for thee,

¹ The hand of LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. ² And he caused me to pass by them round about. And, behold, there were very many in the open valley, and, lo, they were very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O lord LORD, thou know. ⁴ Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of LORD. ⁵ Thus says the lord LORD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. ⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the lord LORD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. ¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off. ¹² Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and I will bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ And ye shall know that I am LORD when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people. ¹⁴ And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live. And I will place you in your own land. And ye shall know that I, LORD, have spoken it and performed it, says LORD.

² And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

² After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.

⁶ For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

¹² I wrote for him the multitude of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

¹⁴ I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy sting? Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

²⁹ But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

²⁷ And having looked at them, Jesus says, With men, impossible, but not with God. For with God all things are possible.

³⁷ For no word from God will be impossible.

³⁹ Ye search the scriptures, because ye think to have eternal life in them, and those are testifying about me.

⁹ For they had not yet known the scripture that he must rise from the dead.

¹¹ But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

⁴ For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ For neither can they die any more, for they are like the agents, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit. ⁴⁶ Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly. ⁴⁹ And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly. ⁵⁰ Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed, ⁵² in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

²² But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of agents, ²³ to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

²⁴ And LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

¹³ And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lie, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed.

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

⁹ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,

²⁰ And he erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

² And the agent of LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. ³ And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. ⁴ And when LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. ⁵ And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground. ⁶ Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

¹⁶ Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

⁸ But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, ⁹ thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said to thee, Thou are my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away. ¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 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.

¹⁰ And have ye not read this scripture: The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be into the head of the corner.

³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the Bush when he calls the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

³⁰ And forty years having been fulfilled, an agent of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire of a bush. ³¹ And when Moses looked, he wondered at the sight. And as he approached to examine, a voice of the Lord came to him, ³² I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But Moses, who developed trembling, dared not examine.

²⁷ To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

²⁴ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Are ye not led astray because of this: not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God?

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing.

⁹ For because of this Christ both died and arose, and he became alive so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return. ¹⁶ But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

¹⁹ Whoever therefore may relax one of these least commandments, and may teach men so, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens. But whoever may do and may teach them, this man will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely.

³⁴ But the Pharisees, having heard that he silenced the Sadducees, they came together in the same place. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, questioned, trying him, and saying, ³⁶ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? ³⁷ And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

²³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law-justice and mercy and faith. These things must be done, and not neglecting those things.

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life? ²⁶ And he said to him, What is written in the law? How read thou? ²⁷ And having answered, he said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength, and from thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁸ And he said to him, Thou answered correctly. Do this and thou will live.

⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.

³⁹ And some of the scholars having answered, they said, Teacher, thou said well.

⁴ Hear, O Israel: LORD our God is one LORD.

¹² And now, Israel, what does LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

⁶ And LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.

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.

⁹ And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

³² And the scholar said to him, Well, teacher. Thou spoke in truth that he is one, and there is no other but he. ³³ And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

²⁷ And having answered, he said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength, and from thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.

³⁰ since God is one, who will make the man of circumcision righteous from faith, and the man of uncircumcision through faith.

⁴ Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

²⁰ Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

⁵ But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and non-hypocritical faith.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ,

¹⁹ Thou believe that there is one God, thou do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

²⁵ to the only wise God our Savior, is glory, majesty, dominion and power, both now and into all the ages. Truly.

⁵ And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

¹³ Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

¹⁸ Thou shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am LORD.

¹² All things therefore, as many as ye may want that men should do to you, so also do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. ¹⁹ Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

³⁹ And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

³⁶ Which therefore, of these three, appears to thee to have become neighbor to the man who fell among the bandits? ³⁷ And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.

⁸ Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law. ⁹ For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up. ⁵ It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil, ⁶ does not rejoice in wrong but rejoices in the truth, ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

⁸ If ye indeed fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. ⁹ But if ye respect personages, ye work sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and stumbles on one, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said thou shall not commit adultery, also said thou shall not murder. Now if thou will not commit adultery, but murder, thou have become a transgressor of law. ¹² So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty. ¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him.

⁷ Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

²¹ And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

³⁵ It was shown to thee, that thou might know that LORD he is God. There is none else besides him.

³⁹ Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart, that LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else.

⁷ Thou shall have no other gods before me.

⁸ Fear ye not, nor be afraid. Have I not declared to thee of old, and shown it? And ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no Rock. I know not any.

⁵ I am LORD, and there is none else. Besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou have not known me, ⁶ that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am LORD, and there is none else.

¹⁴ Thus says LORD: The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine. They shall go after thee. In chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee. They shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, no God.

¹⁸ For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring it forth. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Have not I, LORD? And there is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is none besides me. ²² Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me,

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

²⁹ And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, thou Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

²² And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me. ⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. ¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High. ¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

²³ Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.

³ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.

¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. ¹² When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand-to trample my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD? ⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

²¹ Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. ²² For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. ²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

²¹ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. ²² Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. ²³ Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. ²⁴ But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

⁶ With what shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? ⁷ Will LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

¹³ But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

⁷ But if ye had known what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocent.

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

⁸ saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law.

¹⁵ They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say. ¹⁶ And shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break, and smoldering flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice for victory.

⁴⁰ For they no longer dared to question him anything.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God. ²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God.

⁶ your speech always with grace, seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

⁹ holding firm the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may also be able to exhort by the sound doctrine, and to correct those who contradict. ¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision, ¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

²⁷ And when Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Be merciful to us, thou son of David.

⁴¹ Now the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus interrogated them, saying, ⁴² What does it seem to you about the Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him, Of David. ⁴³ He says to them, How then does David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet? ⁴⁵ If David therefore calls him Lord, how is he his son?

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Did ye come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.

²⁷ And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders come to him.

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scholars sought to destroy him, even the foremost men of the people.

¹ And it came to pass on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the good news, the chief priests and the scholars with the elders stood near.

⁴¹ And he said to them, How do they say the Christ is David's son? ⁴² Even David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, ⁴³ until I will place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet. ⁴⁴ David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?

³⁷ And during the days he was teaching in the temple, and going forth the nights, he lodged on the mount that is called Olives.

⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

²⁰ Jesus answered him, I spoke in public to the world. I always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple where the Jews always gather together, and I spoke nothing in secret.

² The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

¹ LORD says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

¹⁶ Men, brothers, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus,

²⁵ And being discord among each other, they departed after Paul spoke one thing, saying, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

²⁵ For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet.

¹⁶ Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness,

¹³ But to which of the agents has he ever said, Sit thou by my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁷ again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying in David after so long a time (as it is said), Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

¹² But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting henceforth until his enemies are placed a footstool of his feet.

¹¹ searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things.

²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by the Holy Spirit.

⁵ the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor are proclaimed good news.

²⁵ Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

⁴⁶ And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

⁴⁸ And they did not find what they might do, for the people all hung upon him, listening.

³⁸ And all the people rose early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

⁴⁶ The subordinates answered, A man never so spoke like this man. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have ye not also been led astray? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.

⁹ Therefore a great multitude of the Jews knew that he is there. And they came, not only because of Jesus, but that they might also see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

³ concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh. ⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord-

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

⁵ And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray having stood in the synagogues and in the corners of the thoroughfares, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

¹⁷ But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues,

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, ² The scholars and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat. ³ All things therefore, however many they may tell you to observe, observe and do, but do not ye according to their works, for they say, and do not. ⁴ For they bind heavy burdens and difficult to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they do not want to move them with their finger. ⁵ But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. And they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the hems of their garments. ⁶ And they love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be designated by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! Because ye love the place of honor in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to those who were invited when he noticed how they chose out the chief places, saying to them, ⁸ When thou are invited by any man to wedding festivities, do not sit down in the chief place, lest there may be a more honorable man than thou who was invited by him. ⁹ And he who invited thee and him, having come, will say to thee, Give place to this man, and then thou will begin with embarrassment to take the last place. ¹⁰ But when thou are invited, having gone, sit down in the last place, so that when he who has invited thee comes, he will say to thee, Friend, go up higher, then it will be esteem to thee in the presence of those dining with thee. ¹¹ Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

⁴⁵ And while all the people were listening, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ Beware of the scholars, who desire to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at the feasts, ⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.

⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first of them, did not accept us.

² For if a man with a gold ring in bright clothing comes into your synagogue, and also a poor man in dirty clothing comes in, ³ and ye have regard for the man wearing the bright clothing, and say to him, Sit thou here well, and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here below my footstool,

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice? ² Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones, ³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. ⁴ Then they shall cry to LORD, but he will not answer them. Yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

⁷ And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.

²² Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

¹³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

³³ Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

⁴⁷ And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much, ⁴⁸ but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.

⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.

⁶ for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses,

⁹ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as a man comes into the house of LORD. And the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of LORD.

⁶ And after taking the silver pieces, the chief priests said, It is not permitted to put them into the treasury, since it is a price of blood.

¹ And having looked up, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury. ² And he also saw a certain poor widow there casting in two mites. ³ And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than they all. ⁴ For all these cast into the offerings of God from their abundance, but this woman from her poverty cast in all the living that she had.

²⁰ Jesus spoke these sayings in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no man seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

²¹ And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought LORD's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service of it, and for the holy garments. ²² And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, and earrings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold, even every man who offered an offering of gold to LORD. ²³ And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and certain skins, brought them. ²⁴ Everyone who offered an offering of silver and brass brought LORD's offering, and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. ²⁵ And all the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. ²⁶ And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. ²⁷ And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate, ²⁸ and the spice, and the oil, for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. ²⁹ The sons of Israel brought a freewill offering to LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which LORD had commanded to be made by Moses.

⁴² And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.

²⁹ And the disciples, as any man prospered, determined, each of them regarding aid, to send to the brothers who dwell in Judea,

² that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity,

¹² For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

⁶ But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. ⁷ Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,

⁶ No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.

² Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, onyx stones, and stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. ³ Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, ⁴ even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses, ⁵ of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to LORD? ⁶ Then the rulers of the fathers, and the rulers of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly. ⁷ And they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents. ⁸ And those with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of LORD under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to LORD. And David the king also rejoiced with great joy. ¹⁰ Therefore David praised LORD before all the assembly. And David said, Blessed be thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. ¹¹ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou are exalted as head above all. ¹² Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rule over all. And in thy hand is power and might. And in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. ¹⁴ But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. ¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. ¹⁶ O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name comes of thy hand, and is all thine own. ¹⁷ I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, offer willingly to thee.

¹⁰ And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. ¹¹ And it was so, that, at what ever time the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. ¹² And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of LORD. And they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of LORD. ¹³ So the workmen labored, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it. ¹⁴ And when they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the house of LORD, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

⁵ And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the sons of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field. And they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly. ⁶ And the sons of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to LORD their God, and laid them by heaps. ⁷ In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. ⁸ And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed LORD, and his people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. ¹⁰ And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since they began to bring the oblations into the house of LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left. For LORD has blessed his people, and that which is left is this great store.

⁷ And Josiah gave to the sons of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and also three thousand bullocks; these were of the king's substance. ⁸ And his rulers gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

⁶⁸ And some of the heads of fathers, when they came to the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place. ⁶⁹ They gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

⁷⁰ And some from among the heads of fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. ⁷¹ And some of the heads of fathers gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver. ⁷² And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.

⁸ She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.

⁴³ And a woman being with an issue of blood for twelve years, who, although she spent her entire living on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his living.

³⁰ But when this thy son came, who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou killed for him the fatted calf.

² that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity, ³ so that according to their ability, I testify, and beyond their ability, willingly,

¹⁰ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content. ¹² I know both how to be abased and how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be lacking. ¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me. ¹⁴ Nevertheless ye did well having shared with my affliction. ¹⁵ And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only, ¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica ye sent both once and again to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?