Luke 19 Cross References - BBE

¹ And he went into Jericho, and when he was going through it, ² A man, named Zacchaeus, who was the chief tax-farmer, and a man of wealth, ³ Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man. ⁴ And he went quickly in front of them and got up into a tree to see him, for he was going that way. ⁵ And when Jesus came to the place, looking up, he said to him, Zacchaeus, be quick and come down, for I am coming to your house today. ⁶ And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy. ⁷ And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner. ⁸ And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much. ⁹ And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, for even he is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour. ¹¹ And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away. ¹² So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back. ¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come. ¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler. ¹⁵ And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done. ¹⁶ And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns. ¹⁸ And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said, You will be ruler over five towns. ²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth; ²¹ Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed. ²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed; ²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest? ²⁴ And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten. ²⁵ And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ²⁷ And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me. ²⁸ And when he had said this, he went on in front of them, going up to Jerusalem. ²⁹ And it came about that when he got near Beth-phage and Bethany by the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, ³⁰ Saying, Go into the little town in front of you, and on going in you will see a young ass fixed with a cord, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose and take him. ³¹ And if anyone says to you, Why are you taking him? say, The Lord has need of him. ³² And those whom he sent went away, and it was as he said. ³³ And when they were getting the young ass, the owners of it said to them, Why are you taking the young ass? ³⁴ And they said, The Lord has need of him. ³⁵ And they took him to Jesus, and they put their clothing on the ass, and Jesus got on to him. ³⁶ And while he went on his way they put their clothing down on the road in front of him. ³⁷ And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen; ³⁸ Saying, A blessing on the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest. ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees among the people said to him, Master, make your disciples be quiet. ⁴⁰ And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out. ⁴¹ And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, ⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. ⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy. ⁴⁵ And he went into the Temple and put out those who were trading there, ⁴⁶ Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves. ⁴⁷ And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death; ⁴⁸ But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.

¹ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.

¹ Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in. ² And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war. ³ Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days. ⁴ And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns. ⁵ And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward. ⁶ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord. ⁷ And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord. ⁸ So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them. ⁹ And the armed men went before the priests who were blowing the horns, and the mass of the people went after the ark, blowing their horns. ¹⁰ And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry. ¹¹ So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night. ¹² And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. ¹³ And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns. ¹⁴ The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days. ¹⁵ Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times. ¹⁶ And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town. ¹⁷ And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent. ¹⁸ And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel. ¹⁹ But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord. ²⁰ So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town. ²¹ And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy. ²² Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath. ²³ So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her father and mother and her brothers and all she had, and they got out all her family; and they took them outside the tents of Israel. ²⁴ Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house. ²⁵ But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land. ²⁶ Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors. ²⁷ So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went through all the land.

³⁴ In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.

¹⁸ And they came back to him, while he was still at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not? ¹⁹ Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead. ²⁰ So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him. ²¹ Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile. ²² And the water was made sweet again to this day, as Elisha said.

³⁵ And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.

⁵ So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour. ⁶ His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

²⁴ And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God. ²⁶ And those who were present said, Then who may have salvation? ²⁷ But he said, Things which are not possible with man are possible with God.

⁷ Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead; ⁸ And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life. ⁹ And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.

²⁵ And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?

⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.

²¹ They came to Philip, who was of Beth-saida in Galilee, and made a request, saying, Sir, we have a desire to see Jesus.

²⁷ And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

²⁸ Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;

⁴⁷ He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

¹⁰ The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

¹⁴ Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

¹⁹ And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

³ And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant: ⁴ Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree: ⁵ And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

¹ And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. ² And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. ³ But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.

² I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart. ³ I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. ² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. ³ You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

⁶ And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

¹⁰ For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water. ⁸ For his disciples had gone to the town to get food. ⁹ The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria. ¹⁰ In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

¹⁷ So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

² Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

²⁰ See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.

⁶ Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes. ⁷ And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

⁵⁹ I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word. ⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

⁵ Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

¹⁶ And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

⁴¹ Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.

¹⁵ And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

³⁴ And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace, ¹⁶ To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

²⁸ But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden. ²⁹ And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went. ³⁰ And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not. ³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?

³⁴ The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

³⁹ Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

² And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.

⁹ And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others: ¹⁰ Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. ¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. ¹² Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have. ¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

¹⁶ Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

¹ If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made. ² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. ⁴ If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour, ³ Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things, ⁴ Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance, ⁵ Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong. ⁶ Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing; giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you:

⁷ Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

³ Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

³¹ But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

⁸ Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham. ⁹ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire. ¹⁰ And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do? ¹¹ And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same. ¹² Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do? ¹³ And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount. ¹⁴ And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

⁴¹ But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

³³ Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

⁹ And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.

²² And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me. ²³ But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.

⁴⁴ And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common; ⁴⁵ And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need. ⁴⁶ And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

³⁴ And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them, ³⁵ And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.

⁷ And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way. ⁸ I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use; ¹⁸ And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

³⁰ For my eyes have seen your salvation,

⁸ Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

¹⁶ And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?

³⁰ And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

³⁸ I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward. ³⁹ Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did. ⁴⁰ So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days. ⁴¹ And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said. ⁴² And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

³⁰ And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation? ³¹ And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation. ³² And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

¹¹ And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; ¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁷ Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

¹⁴ So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

¹⁶ I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

²¹ And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.

¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. ¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

⁶ But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

²⁴ But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

¹⁰ Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

³¹ And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. ³² I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is? ⁵ And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy. ⁶ And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away. ⁷ I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

⁶ For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith; ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: ¹⁶ But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

⁹ And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. ¹⁰ And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins. ¹¹ My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another. ¹² No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us: ¹³ And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us. ¹⁴ And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

²⁰ And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:

⁶ So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?

¹ Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers, ² That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come; ³ Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

³⁸ But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

¹⁴ For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more. ¹⁷ In the same way he who had been given the two got two more. ¹⁸ But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place. ¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them. ²⁰ And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²² And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more. ²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours. ²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? ²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

¹ And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch. ³⁵ So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; ³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.

¹² So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back. ¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come. ¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler. ¹⁵ And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done. ¹⁶ And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns. ¹⁸ And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said, You will be ruler over five towns. ²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth; ²¹ Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed. ²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed; ²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest? ²⁴ And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten. ²⁵ And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ²⁷ And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

⁹ And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

⁵¹ And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.

³⁷ Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

⁹ And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud. ¹⁰ And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing, ¹¹ And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

³¹ Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

²⁵ For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.

²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come: ²² And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²⁸ So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

¹⁴ For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.

²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

⁶ And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith; ⁷ Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it; ⁸ He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

⁷ But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good. ⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: ⁹ To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues: ¹¹ But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

²⁸ And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues. ²⁹ Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

⁹ Keep open house for all with a glad heart; ¹⁰ Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God; ¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

¹ Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish? ² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying, ³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

⁷ The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

⁸ And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

²⁷ And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

¹⁸ If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

²³ He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

¹⁴ But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you, ¹⁵ And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, ²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them. ⁵ Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled: ⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

²³ For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants. ²⁴ And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. ²⁵ And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made. ²⁶ So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all. ²⁷ And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt. ²⁸ But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt. ²⁹ So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you. ³⁰ And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt. ³¹ So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done. ³² Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me: ³³ Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you? ³⁴ And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt. ³⁵ So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.

⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

² And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property. ³ And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets. ⁴ I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses. ⁵ And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? ⁶ And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty. ⁷ Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty. ⁸ And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light. ⁹ And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places. ¹⁰ He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth? ¹² And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours? ¹³ No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

¹⁰ But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge. ¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. ¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

¹ Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God. ² And it is right for such servants to be safe persons. ³ But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself. ⁴ For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge. ⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

¹⁴ But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours. ¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

²⁸ Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ; ²⁹ And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith: ⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

¹⁸ But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works. ¹⁹ You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear. ²⁰ Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use? ²¹ Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them; ²³ And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only. ²⁵ And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.

⁴ And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

³⁰ For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

¹⁰ He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.

³⁰ So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

¹⁰ But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

⁷ So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire, may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

²⁶ He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations, ²⁷ And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father: ²⁸ And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²³ And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

²⁰ And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

⁸ Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another. ⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

⁶ But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

⁸ Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. ¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. ¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

⁹ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

⁴⁶ Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.

¹⁹ But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them. ²⁰ And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us? ²¹ And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.

²⁰ Then Samuel said to the people, Have no fear: truly you have done evil, but do not be turned away from the Lord; be his servants with all your heart;

⁹ And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me? ¹⁰ So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹¹ And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

²⁵ But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal? ²⁶ When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him. ²⁷ Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul. ²⁸ Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate. ²⁹ But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies? ¹⁵ And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

¹⁵ For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

¹⁰ For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

¹⁵ To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him. ¹⁶ And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

⁵ For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. ⁶ It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

³⁷ For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

²⁵ If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. ²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: ²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

¹⁹ Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have: ²⁰ From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

⁴ Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart? ⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

² And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.

¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord. ⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

²⁸ And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

¹⁵ But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

⁸ Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

¹² Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. ¹³ And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. ¹⁴ But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it. ¹⁵ But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord; ¹⁶ They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.

¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

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

²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

²⁵ He who has, to him will be given: and he who has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.

¹⁸ So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

³ And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

¹ After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways. ³ In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

²⁰ For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

³ And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

¹¹ I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.

³⁶ And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses, ³⁷ Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

³⁰ But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men. ³¹ And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two; ³² And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. ³³ So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people. ³⁴ And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth. ³⁵ Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us. ⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them. ⁵ Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

⁹ They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

⁸ Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. ⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

²² Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them. ²³ Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking. ²⁴ Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them. ²⁵ Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents. ²⁶ Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. ²⁷ Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness. ²⁸ Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

⁶ There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.

¹⁴ And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.

² The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

⁸ But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

³⁷ But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸ But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage. ³⁹ And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death. ⁴⁰ When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen? ⁴¹ They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

⁷ But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; ³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. ⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

¹⁶ He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

¹⁵ Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men; ¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

¹³ And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

⁶ You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request. ⁷ Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book, ⁸ My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

³² And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were full of wonder; but those who came after him were in fear. And again he took the twelve, and gave them word of the things which were to come on him, ³³ Saying, See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given up to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will give an order for his death, and will give him up to the Gentiles: ³⁴ And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

⁵¹ And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem,

⁵⁰ But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!

³¹ And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.

¹¹ Then Jesus said to Peter, Put back your sword: am I not to take the cup which my Father has given to me?

² Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

⁴ And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.

¹ And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ² Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me. ³ And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straight away he will send them. ⁴ Now this took place so that these words of the prophet might come true, ⁵ Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass. ⁶ And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders, ⁷ And got the ass and the young one, and put their clothing on them, and he took his seat on it. ⁸ And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way. ⁹ And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest. ¹⁰ And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this? ¹¹ And the people said, This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.

¹⁷ And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.

¹ And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Beth-phage and Bethany, at the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, ² And said to them, Go into the little town opposite: and when you come to it, you will see a young ass with a cord round his neck, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose, and come back with him. ³ And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord has need of him and will send him back straight away. ⁴ And they went away and saw a young ass by the door outside in the open street; and they were getting him loose. ⁵ And some of those who were there said to them, What are you doing, taking the ass? ⁶ And they said to them the words which Jesus had said; and they let them go. ⁷ And they took the young ass to Jesus, and put their clothing on him, and he got on his back. ⁸ And a great number put down their clothing in the way; and others put down branches which they had taken from the fields. ⁹ And those who went in front, and those who came after, were crying, Glory: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: ¹⁰ A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest. ¹¹ And he went into Jerusalem into the Temple; and after looking round about on all things, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

³⁷ And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;

³⁷ And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest.

³⁹ And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.

⁵⁰ And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.

¹² The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! ¹⁴ And Jesus saw a young ass and took his seat on it; as the Writings say, ¹⁵ Have no fear, daughter of Zion: see your King is coming, seated on a young ass. ¹⁶ These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.

¹² Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

² When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son? ³ Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine: ⁴ They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them. ⁵ After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets: ⁶ And the spirit of the Lord will come on you with power, and you will be acting like a prophet with them, and will be changed into another man. ⁷ And when these signs come to you, see that you take the chance which is offered you; for God is with you. ⁸ Then you are to go down before me to Gilgal, where I will come to you, for the offering of burned offerings and peace-offerings: go on waiting there for seven days till I come to you and make clear to you what you have to do. ⁹ And it came about, that when he went away from Samuel, God gave him a changed heart: and all those signs took place that day.

³² And those whom he sent went away, and it was as he said.

⁸ And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it. ⁹ And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready? ¹⁰ And he said to them, When you go into the town you will see a man coming to you with a vessel of water; go after him into the house into which he goes. ¹¹ And say to the master of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples? ¹² And he will take you up to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready. ¹³ And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.

²⁹ And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

¹⁰ For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. ¹¹ I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. ¹² If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.

² Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me. ³ And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straight away he will send them.

³ And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord has need of him and will send him back straight away. ⁴ And they went away and saw a young ass by the door outside in the open street; and they were getting him loose. ⁵ And some of those who were there said to them, What are you doing, taking the ass? ⁶ And they said to them the words which Jesus had said; and they let them go.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

¹³ And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.

⁹ Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

³⁵ If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came and the Writings may not be broken,

¹⁶ These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

¹³ Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

⁷ And got the ass and the young one, and put their clothing on them, and he took his seat on it.

⁷ And they took the young ass to Jesus, and put their clothing on him, and he got on his back. ⁸ And a great number put down their clothing in the way; and others put down branches which they had taken from the fields.

¹⁴ And Jesus saw a young ass and took his seat on it; as the Writings say,

¹⁵ Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

⁸ And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way.

¹ Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. ² The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory. ³ The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ⁴ Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea. ⁵ They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves. ⁶ Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. ⁷ When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. ⁸ By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea. ⁹ Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. ¹⁰ You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters. ¹¹ Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders? ¹² When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them. ¹³ In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place. ¹⁴ Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. ¹⁵ The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. ¹⁶ Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours. ¹⁷ You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands. ¹⁸ The Lord is King for ever and ever.

¹ At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying: ² Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord. ³ Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁴ Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water. ⁵ The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁶ In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads. ⁷ Country towns were no more in Israel, (OMITTED TEXT) were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel. ⁸ They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? ⁹ Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord. ¹⁰ Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road. ¹¹ Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel. ¹² Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam. ¹³ Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones. ¹⁴ Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod. ¹⁵ Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart. ¹⁶ Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks? ¹⁷ Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets. ¹⁸ It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field. ¹⁹ The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money. ²⁰ The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera. ²¹ The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord! ²² Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses. ²³ A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones. ²⁴ Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents! ²⁵ His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate. ²⁶ She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow. ²⁷ Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death. ²⁸ Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding? ²⁹ Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself, ³⁰ Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen? ³¹ So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.

² And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones. ³ And they put the ark of God on a new cart and took it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were the drivers of the cart. ⁴ And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it. ⁵ And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass. ⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.

⁵⁵ And, getting on his feet, he gave a blessing to all the men of Israel, saying with a loud voice, ⁵⁶ Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true.

²⁸ So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.

⁴ And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly; ⁶ And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all the time before the ark of the agreement of God. ⁷ Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.

²⁸ And all the people gave worship, to the sound of songs and the blowing of horns; and this went on till the burned offering was ended. ²⁹ And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads. ³⁰ Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship.

³⁶ And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.

¹⁰ And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel. ¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

¹² Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise. ¹³ But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

¹ And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew said to him privately,

²⁶ And after a song of praise to God they went out to the Mountain of Olives.

¹⁶ And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.

⁴³ And straight away he was able to see, and he went after him, giving glory to God; and all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.

²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;

¹² The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!

¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name. ¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. ¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

²² The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building. ²³ This is the Lord's doing; it is a wonder in our eyes. ²⁴ This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it. ²⁵ Send salvation now, O Lord; Lord, send us your blessing. ²⁶ A blessing be on him who comes in the name of the Lord; we give you blessing from the house of the Lord.

⁹ And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:

⁹ And those who went in front, and those who came after, were crying, Glory: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: ¹⁰ A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest.

¹⁰ And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people: ¹¹ For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord. ¹² And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a great band of spirits from heaven, giving praise to God, and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.

³⁵ Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

¹² So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down, ¹⁵ Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace; ¹⁶ And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division. ¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near; ¹⁸ Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

²¹ To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

²⁰ Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

⁹ And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, ¹⁰ And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth. ¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; ¹² Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. ¹³ And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.

¹ After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God: ² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants. ³ And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever. ⁴ And the four and twenty rulers and the four beasts went down on their faces and gave worship to God who was seated on the high seat, saying, Even so, praise to the Lord. ⁵ And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him. ⁶ And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King.

¹¹ Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him, ¹⁶ Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?

¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

⁴⁷ Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

¹⁰ Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.

¹ And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them, ² Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

¹⁶ Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so. ¹⁷ But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name. ¹⁸ And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.

⁵ Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

¹¹ Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

⁷ Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it; ⁸ Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together, ⁹ Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.

¹ When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; ² Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. ³ The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? ⁶ You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? ⁷ Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob; ⁸ Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

¹² For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

¹¹ For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

⁹ And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

⁵¹ And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken; ⁵² And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life; ⁵³ And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people. ⁵⁴ Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.

⁶ And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

⁵³ I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

¹³⁶ Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

¹⁵⁸ I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.

¹ If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

¹⁶ As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

⁸ How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not! ³⁵ Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

³⁵ And Jesus himself was weeping.

² That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. ³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

²⁹ If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

²⁹ If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

⁶ For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

¹³ If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice! ⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

⁹ And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser. ¹⁰ Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

¹⁰ For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered. ¹¹ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: ¹² And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing. ¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men; ¹⁴ For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

¹⁸ They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

¹⁸ If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

¹¹ Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins, ⁷⁸ Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us, ⁷⁹ To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

⁵ And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going. ³⁶ In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

³⁸ So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled? ³⁹ For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ²⁷ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

⁷ What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard. ⁸ As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

¹⁴ But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ. ¹⁵ But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart. ¹⁶ But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction: ⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose. ² For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation:

⁹ Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, ¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. ¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: ¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

¹⁵ As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, ²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. ²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

²⁴ And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood. ²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven? ²⁶ Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

⁴⁹ The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you; ⁵⁰ A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young: ⁵¹ He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete. ⁵² Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you. ⁵³ And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters. ⁵⁴ That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; ⁵⁵ And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁶ The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; ⁵⁷ And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁸ If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

¹² The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him. ¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

¹ Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round: ² And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel. ³ And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you. ⁴ And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

³³ For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.

³ Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place. ⁴ Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out. ⁵ Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses. ⁶ For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

² And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

⁸ He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. ²⁷ And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ See, your house is made waste. ³⁹ For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

¹⁴ But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be let this be clear to the reader, then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains: ¹⁵ And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house: ¹⁶ And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat. ¹⁷ And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days. ¹⁸ And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter. ¹⁹ For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again. ²⁰ And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.

²⁰ But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near. ²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in. ²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect. ²³ It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people. ²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

⁷ Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples. ⁸ And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

⁹ Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

⁸ Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

¹² For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ See, your house is made waste.

² But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.

² And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.

⁶⁸ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,

⁷⁸ Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

⁶ As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.

¹⁸ The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. ²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. ²¹ But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

²⁵ Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself; ²⁶ And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

¹² And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves. ¹³ And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.

¹⁵ And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the Temple, and sent out those who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were offering doves for money; ¹⁶ And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple. ¹⁷ And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

¹³ The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats: ¹⁵ And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables; ¹⁶ And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market. ¹⁷ And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

⁵ Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.

⁷ I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.

¹¹ Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

¹² This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.

⁷ As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

²³ And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

³ Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. ⁴ And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.

¹⁸ And it came to the ears of the chief priests and scribes, and they took thought how they might put him to death; being in fear of him, because all the people were full of wonder at his teaching.

²⁷ And they came again to Jerusalem: and while he was walking in the Temple, there came to him the chief priests and the scribes and those in authority: ²⁸ And they said to him, By what authority do you do these things? or who gave you authority to do these things? ²⁹ And Jesus said to them, I will put to you one question; give me an answer, and I will say by what authority I do these things. ³⁰ The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? give me an answer. ³¹ And they gave thought to it among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not have faith in him? ³² But if we say, From men--they were in fear of the people, because all took John to be truly a prophet. ³³ And they said in answer to Jesus, We have no idea. And Jesus said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

¹² And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

¹ It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

³⁷ And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest. ³⁸ And all the people came early in the morning to give ear to his words in the Temple.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

⁴⁴ And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.

³⁷ I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you. ³⁸ I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house. ³⁹ In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did. ⁴⁰ But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

³⁹ Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

⁵³ And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death. ⁵⁴ So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples. ⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast? ⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.

²⁰ Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.

³ He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him. ¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them. ²⁰ And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

² And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people. ³ And Satan came into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve. ⁴ And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.

⁴⁶ The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man. ⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.