Matthew 23 Cross References - Etheridge

¹ Then Jeshu discoursed with the multitudes and with his disciples, ² and said to them, Upon the chair of Musha sit the scribes and the Pharishee. ³ Every thing, therefore, which they tell you to observe, observe and do; but after their practices do not act; for they say, and do not. ⁴ And they bind heavy burdens, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but they [themselves] with their fingers are not willing to touch them. ⁵ And all their works they do that they may be seen of men; for they widen their tephillin,* and lengthen the fringes of their waving vestments,** [* Phylakteries; called as above, from the Chaldee tephilla, " prayer." For their formation and uses, see the commentators. ** Martuto; vestis tremula: from the Chaldee rethath, tremuit.] ⁶ and love the chief reclining-places at evening feasts, and the highest seats in synagogues, ⁷ and the shaloma in public places, and to be called of men Râbi.[My Master.] ⁸ But be you not called Râbi: for One is your Master; but all ye are brethren. ⁹ And call no man Abâ [Father.] to you upon earth: for One is your Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be ye called Medabronee : [Guides.] for One is your Guide, - the Meshicha. ¹¹ But he who is great among you, let him be your servitor. ¹² For whosoever will exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever will abase himself shall be exalted. ¹³ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, with the pretext of prolonging your prayers; on account of which you shall receive the greater judgment. ¹⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you hold the kingdom of heaven closed before the children of men; for you will not enter in yourselves, and them who are entering you will not permit to enter. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you go over sea and dry (land) to make one proselyte; and when you have done it, you make him doubly more a son of gihana than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, That [to him] who sweareth by the temple, it is nothing; but if he swear by the gold which is in the temple, he is liable! ¹⁷ You senseless and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? ¹⁸ And (that) whoever sweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but [if] he swear by the oblation which is upon it, he is liable. ¹⁹ You foolish and sightless! for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation? ²⁰ He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it. ²¹ And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by whatever abideth in it. ²² And whosoever sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of Aloha, and by Him who sitteth thereon. ²³ Woe to you, scribes, Pharishee, hypocrites! because you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and omit the more grave [requirements] of the law, - justice, benignity, and faithfulness. For these you should have done, and those not omitted. ²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out gnats and swallow camels. ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! who cleanse the outside of the cup and dish (which) within are full of rapine and injustice. ²⁶ Sightless Pharishee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the dish, that their outside also may be clean. ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like whited sepulchres, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity. ²⁸ So you also from without appear to the sons of men as righteous, but within you are full of unrighteousness and hypocrisy. ²⁹ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you rebuild the tombs of the prophets and beautify the sepulchres of the just; ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been with them partakers in the blood of the prophets: ³¹ thus bearing witness against yourselves, that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² And you also, - complete the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, birth of vipers! how will you escape from the judgment of gihana? ³⁴ On this account, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; (some) of these you shall kill and crucify; and (some) of these you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. ³⁵ So that there shall come upon you all the blood of the just which hath been shed upon the earth; from the blood of Habil the righteous, unto the blood of Zakaria-bar-Barakia, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Amen I say unto you, that all these shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Urishlem, Urishlem! who killest the prophets, and stonest them who are sent unto her, what times would I have gathered thy children, as gathereth the hen her young ones beneath her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ Lo, your house is left unto you desolate. ³⁹ For I say unto you, That you shall not see me from henceforth, until you shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ And he called to the multitudes, and said to them, Hear, and understand: ¹¹ It is not that which, entering the mouth, contaminates a man; but that which shall come from the mouth, that contaminates a man. ¹² Then drew near his disciples, saying to him, Knowest thou that the Pharishee who heard this word were offended? ¹³ But he answered, and said to them, Every plantation which my Father who is in heaven hath not planted shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Leave them: they are blind leaders of the blind; but if a blind man shall lead a blind man, both shall fall into the ditch. ¹⁵ And Shemun Kipha answered and said, My Lord, expound to us this parable. ¹⁶ But he said to them, Do you also not yet understand? ¹⁷ Know you not that whatsoever entereth the mouth, goeth into the belly, and from thence in purification it is cast without? ¹⁸ But whatsoever from the mouth shall come forth, from the heart cometh forth, and this [it is that] contaminates a child of man. ¹⁹ For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, fornication, robbery, false witness, blasphemy. ²⁰ These are they which defile a man; but if any one eat when his hands are not washed, he is not defiled.

¹⁴ And Jeshu called the whole multitude, and said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand:

³⁸ And in his doctrine he said to them, Beware of the Sophree, who will to walk in long robes, and love the shaloma in public places, ³⁹ and the chief seats in the congregations, and the head couches at suppers:

¹ AND when (there) had gathered (by) myriads great assemblies, so that they would have trodden upon one another, Jeshu began to say to his disciples, Beware for yourselves before all things [Luq'dam, imprimis, chiefly.] of the leaven of the Pharishee, which is hypocrisy.

⁵⁷ But why of yourselves judge you not the truth?

⁴⁵ And while all the people heard, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ Beware of the Sophree, who will to walk in stoles, and love the shaloma in public places, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief reclining-places at evening feasts;

³⁸ And in his doctrine he said to them, Beware of the Sophree, who will to walk in long robes, and love the shaloma in public places,

⁴⁶ Beware of the Sophree, who will to walk in stoles, and love the shaloma in public places, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief reclining-places at evening feasts;

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread? ³ Jeshu answered, and said to them, Why also do ye transgress the commandment of Aloha for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For Aloha hath said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and whoso curseth his father or his mother, to die he shall die: ⁵ but ye say, Every one who shall say to a father, or to a mother, (It is) my oblation whatever thou wouldst be profited by me, and shall not honour his father or his mother (shall be guiltless). ⁶ Thus you have abolished the word of Aloha for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Ye hypocrites! rightly prophesied concerning you Eshaia the prophet, and said, ⁸ This people with the lips honour me, but their heart (is) very far from me. ⁹ But in vain they reverence me, while they teach the doctrines of the commandments of men.[Sons of men.]

³⁰ He came to the other, and said likewise. He answered and said, I (will), my lord; yet went not.

²⁹ SHEMUN answered with the apostles and said to them, Aloha must we obey rather than men.

¹⁹ and confidest upon thyself that thou art a guide of the blind, and a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰ and an instructor of the wanting-in-mind, and a teacher of children, and hast a type of knowledge and of truth in the law: ²¹ Thou, then, who teachest others, dost thou not teach thyself? and who preachest that men should not steal, dost thou steal? ²² and who sayest they should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who condemnest idols, dost thou despoil the sanctuary?[The house of holiness.] ²³ And thou who boastest of the law, in this that thou transgressest against the law, Aloha himself despisest thou? ²⁴ For the name of Aloha through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.

¹ LET every soul to the powers of dominion be subject. For there is no power that is not from Aloha, and the powers that be, of Aloha are they instituted.

⁵ having a form of the worship of Aloha, but from the power of Aloha afar off: (them) who are such put from thee.

¹⁶ And they profess to know Aloha, but in their works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and reprobate to every good work.

²⁸ Come unto me, all you (who) are wearied and bearing burdens, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Bear my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am peaceful and lowly in my heart, and you shall find repose for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is kindly, and my burden is light.

²³ Woe to you, scribes, Pharishee, hypocrites! because you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and omit the more grave [requirements] of the law, - justice, benignity, and faithfulness. For these you should have done, and those not omitted.

⁴⁶ But he said, Also unto you, Sophree, woe! because you lade men with heavy burdens, and you with one of your fingers will not touch those burdens.

¹⁰ And now why tempt you Aloha, that you would lay a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which nor our fathers nor we could bear?

²⁸ For it hath been the will of the Spirit of Holiness, and also of us, not to lay upon you greater burden beyond these things which are constraining;

¹³ For neither do these who are circumcised keep the law; but they will that you be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

²⁴ But to you I say, to those of the rest who are in Thiatiros, all them who have not this doctrine, the men who know not the depths [Amïkthö.] Of Satana, as they speak; I will not throw upon you another burden;

¹ SEE that in your almsgiving you do it not before men, so as that you may be observed by them; otherwise no reward is for you with your Father who is in heaven. ² When, therefore, thou art doing alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as do the assumers of faces in the assemblies and streets, so that they may be praised from men; and, Amen I say to you, they receive their reward. ³ But thou, when thou art doing thy alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, ⁴ that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall recompense thee in openness. ⁵ And when thou prayest, be not as the face-takers, who love to stand in the assemblies and at the corners of the streets to pray, that they may be seen of men; [The sons of men] and truly I say to you that they receive their reward. ⁶ But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy secret chamber, and shut thy door, and pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee in openness. ⁷ And when thou art praying, be not wordy, like the profane; for they think that in much speaking they are heard. ⁸ Be you not like them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you before that you ask him. ⁹ Thus pray: Our Father who art in the heavens! be sanctified thy Name. ¹⁰ Come thy kingdom. Be done thy will, as in heaven, also in earth. ¹¹ Give to us the bread of our need to-day; ¹² and forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors; ¹³ and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory to the age of ages. ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Father who is in heaven will forgive you also. ¹⁵ But if you will not forgive men, your Father also forgiveth not your trespasses unto you. ¹⁶ WHEN, too, you fast, be not morosely sad as the assumers of faces, for they defile their countenances so as that they may appear unto men to fast: and, Amen I say unto you, they receive their reward.

²⁰ And, behold, a woman whose blood had flowed twelve years, came behind him, and touched the edge of his vestment.

¹⁵ But Jeshu said to them, You are they who justify yourselves before the sons of men; but Aloha knoweth your hearts. For, what is exalted among men, before Aloha is abominable.

⁴⁷ who devour the houses of widows, and for the occasion prolong their prayers: these shall receive the greater judgment.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who glory one from another are receiving, and the glory which is from one, Aloha, you seek not?

¹⁸ He who from the will of his (own) mind speaketh, the glory of himself seeketh; but he who the glory of him who hath sent him seeketh, is true, and no iniquity is in him.

⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of Aloha.

¹⁵ Some preach from envy and contention, but some from good-will, and in the love of the Meshiha;

³ And do nothing in contention or vainglorying, but in meekness of mind let a man consider his neighbour as better than himself. ⁴ He who is the adversary, and is exalted over all who is called God and Venerable; so that also in the temple of Aloha as Aloha he will sit, and will make manifest of himself as that he is Aloha.

²¹ But he said to her, What wilt thou? She said to him, Declare that these my two sons shall sit, one at thy right hand, and one at thy left, in thy kingdom.

⁴³ Woe to you, Pharishee! for you love the chief seats in the assemblies, and the salutation in the public places. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like tombs that are not known, and men walk upon them, and do not know. ⁴⁵ And one of the Sophree answered and said to him, Doctor, while you say these things, you vilify us also! ⁴⁶ But he said, Also unto you, Sophree, woe! because you lade men with heavy burdens, and you with one of your fingers will not touch those burdens. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed: ⁴⁸ thus you bear witness that you consent in the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their sepulchres. ⁴⁹ ON this account also Wisdom saith, Behold, I will send to them prophets and apostles; and of them they will persecute and kill; ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which hath been shed from the creation of the world may be required from this generation. ⁵¹ From the blood of Habil unto the blood of Zakaria who was killed between the temple and the altar: yes, I tell you, It shall be required of this generation. ⁵² Woe to you, Sophree; for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you enter not in (yourselves), and they who are entering you prohibit. ⁵³ And while he spoke these (words) to them, the Sophree and Pharishee began to be displeased, and they were wrathful, and controverted his words, ⁵⁴ and enticed him on many (points), seeking to lay hold on something from his mouth that they might be able to accuse him.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to them who had been invited there, forasmuch as he had observed them, that they chose the chief places of reclining: ⁸ When thou art invited by one into the house of festivity, go not to recline on the principal seat, lest there be invited thither one more honourable than thou; ⁹ and he come who thyself and him had called, and say to thee, Give place to this; and thou be ashamed as thou arisest to take another place. ¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go, recline thee in the last (seat), that when he who called thee cometh, he may say to thee, My friend, ascend and recline above, and thou shalt have honour before all of them who recline with thee. ¹¹ For every one who exalteth himself shall be humbled; and every one who humbleth himself shall be exalted.

⁴⁶ Beware of the Sophree, who will to walk in stoles, and love the shaloma in public places, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief reclining-places at evening feasts; ⁴⁷ who devour the houses of widows, and for the occasion prolong their prayers: these shall receive the greater judgment.

¹⁰ Be tender to your brethren, and love one another, being forward to honour one another.

¹ My brethren, do not hold with acceptance of faces the faith of the glory of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. ² For if there come into your congregation a man who hath rings of gold or beautiful vestments, and there come in a poor man in sordid vestments, ³ and you look upon him who clothed in beautiful vestments, and say to him, Sit is here well; and you say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or, Sit thou here before the stool of our feet; ⁴ behold, are you not divided in yourselves, and become separaters for evil reasons?

⁹ I would have written to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost[Kadmoyo.] of you, Diotrapas, receiveth us not.

⁸ But be you not called Râbi: for One is your Master; but all ye are brethren.

⁵ And Kipha said to him, Rabi, it is good for us here to be: [Or, that here we may be.] and let us make three tabernacles; for thee one, and for Musha one, and for Elia one.

⁵¹ Saith to him Jeshu, What wilt thou that I do for thee? And he, the blind, said to him, Rabi, that I may see.

³⁸ And Jeshu turned (himself), and saw them coming after him, and said to them, Whom seek you? They say to him, Raban, where dwellest thou?[Or, where art thou?]

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and said to him, Rabi, thou art the Son of Aloha himself, thou art the very King of Isroel.

² this came to Jeshu in the night, and said to him, Rabi, we know that from Aloha thou art sent a teacher; for no man can these signs perform which thou doest, unless Aloha be with him.

²⁶ And they came to Juchanon, and said to him, Raban, he who was with thee at the passage of Jurdan, (and) concerning whom thou didst give witness, he also baptizeth, and many come to him.

²⁵ and when they had found him on the opposite side of the sea, they say to him, Raban, when camest thou hither?

¹⁶ Jeshu saith to her, Mariam. She turned and saith to him in Hebrew, Rabuni, which is saying, Malphona.

²⁵ It sufficeth the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If the master of the house they have called Beelzebub, how much more his house-sons!

⁵ But while he spake, behold, a bright cloud overspread them, and the voice was from the cloud, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I have delighted: to him attend.

¹⁰ Neither be ye called Medabronee : [Guides.] for One is your Guide, - the Meshicha.

⁴⁹ And immediately he approached Jeshu, and said, Peace, my master! and kissed him.

³² but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith may not fail: and thou also, in the time that thou art converted, confirm thy brethren.

¹³ You call me Our Master, and Our Lord; and well say you, for I am. ¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and your Master, have washed for you your feet, how much more ought you to wash the feet of one another?

⁹ Because of this also the Meshiha died and lived and arose, that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Or thou, also, why despisest thou thy brother? For we shall all stand before the tribunal of the Meshiha:

¹² For this I say, that there are some of you who say, I am of Paulos; and some who say, I am of Apollo; and some who say, I am of Kipha; and some who say, I am of the Meshiha! ¹³ Is the Meshiha divided? Or was Paulos crucified for you? Or in the name of Paulos were you baptized?

³ For as yet you are in the flesh. For while there are among you envy and contentions and divisions, are you not carnal, and walking in the flesh? ⁴ For while some of you say, I am of Paulos, and another, I am of Apollo, are you not carnal? ⁵ For who is Paulos, or who Apollo, but ministers by whom you have believed and each as the Lord gave to him?

²⁴ Not because we are lords of your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.

¹⁵ from whom is named the whole family [Abohutho, paternity.] who are in heaven and in earth;

¹ PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu the Meshiha by the will of Aloha, and the brother Timotheos, ² to those who are in Kulosos, the holy brethren and believers in Jeshu Meshiha: peace be with you, and grace from Aloha our Father.

¹ LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.

³ not as lords of the flock, but that you may be to them a goodly example;

⁹ I, Juhanon your brother, and your fellow-sharer in the affliction, and in the patience, which are in Jeshu Meshiha, was in the island which is called Pathamon, for the word of Aloha and for the testimony of Jeshu Meshiha.

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship; and he said to me, See (that thou do it) not; thy fellowservant (am I), and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jeshu. Aloha worship; for the testimony of Jeshu is the spirit of prophecy.

⁹ And he said to me, See (that thou do it) not. I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them who keep the words of this book. Worship Aloha.

⁸ Be you not like them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you before that you ask him. ⁹ Thus pray: Our Father who art in the heavens! be sanctified thy Name.

³² For after all these things do the people of the world inquire: but your Father who is in heaven knoweth that also by you are required these all.

¹¹ If, therefore, you who are evil know to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

¹ Brethren and fathers, hear the defence which I make to you.

¹⁴ For they who by the Spirit of Aloha are led, they are the sons of Aloha. ¹⁵ For we have not received the spirit of servitude again unto fear, but we have received the Spirit of the adoption* of sons, by whom we cry, Father, our Father! [* Rucho da-simath benayo: The Spirit of the constituting of sons.] ¹⁶ And the Spirit himself witnesseth with our spirit, that we are the sons of Aloha. ¹⁷ And if sons, heirs also; heirs of Aloha, and the sons of the inheritance of Jeshu Meshiha. For if we suffer with him, with him also shall we be glorified.

¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.

¹⁸ And I will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord, who holdeth all.

¹ An elder do not reprimand, but persuade him as a father, and those who are young as thy brethren, ² and the elderly women as mothers, and those who are young as thy sisters, with all purity.

⁹ And if (when) the fathers of the flesh have chastised us we have revered them, how much more are we bound to be subject to our spiritual fathers,* that we may live?[* Abothain däruchotho, a very questionable reading.]

¹ And see how great is the love of the Father toward us, that sons he hath called us, and also made us! Therefore the world doth not know us, because that it hath also not known him.

²⁶ but it shall not be so among you; but whoever among you willeth to be great, let him be minister to you. ²⁷ And whoever among you willeth to be first, let him be to you the servant.

⁴³ but not thus shall it be among you. But if any one among you willeth to be great, let him be to you the servant; ⁴⁴ and whoever of you willeth to be the first, he shall be the labourer for all.

²⁶ But you, not so: yea, he who is great among you, let him be as the least; and he who is chief, as one who serveth. ²⁷ For who is greatest, he who reclineth, or he who serveth? Is not he who reclineth? But I am among you as he who serveth.

¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and your Master, have washed for you your feet, how much more ought you to wash the feet of one another? ¹⁵ For this pattern have I given you, that as I have done to you, you also should do.

¹⁹ For while free of all men, to all men I subject myself, that the many I may gain.

²³ if they are ministers of the Meshiha, - I speak with defectiveness of mind, - I exceed then! In labours I exceed them, in stripes I exceed them, in chains I exceed them, in deaths many times.

¹³ BUT you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.

⁵ And feel [Or, be of this sentiment in yourselves.] this in yourselves, which Jeshu the Meshiha (did) also: ⁶ who, when he was in the form of Aloha, considered this not to be robbery, (this, namely,) that he was the co-equal of Aloha: ⁷ yet emptied he himself, and took the form of a servant, and was made in the form of men; and in fashion was found as a man, ⁸ and humbled himself, and was obedient unto death, but the death of the cross.

³ BLESSED (are) the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

⁴ Whosoever therefore humbleth himself as this child, he shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

⁵¹ He hath wrought victory with his arm; ⁵² He hath scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He hath overturned the mighty from their thrones, and hath exalted the humble.

¹¹ For every one who exalteth himself shall be humbled; and every one who humbleth himself shall be exalted.

¹⁴ I tell you that this one went down justified to his house, rather than that Pharisha. For every man who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and every one who humbleth himself shall be exalted.

⁶ But more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.

⁵ And you younger, be subject to your presbyters, and be clothed carefully [Or, closely.] with humility of mind towards one another; because Aloha is against those who exalt themselves, and to the humble he giveth grace.

³¹ Which of these two did the will of his father? They say to him, The elder. Jeshu saith to them, Amen I tell you, the tribute-takers and harlots go before you into the kingdom of Aloha. ³² For Juchanon came to you in the way of righteousness; and you believed him not. But the tribute-takers and harlots believed him: but you neither when you saw (him, nor) afterwards, repented, that you might believe him.

¹³ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, with the pretext of prolonging your prayers; on account of which you shall receive the greater judgment. ¹⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you hold the kingdom of heaven closed before the children of men; for you will not enter in yourselves, and them who are entering you will not permit to enter. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you go over sea and dry (land) to make one proselyte; and when you have done it, you make him doubly more a son of gihana than yourselves.

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! who cleanse the outside of the cup and dish (which) within are full of rapine and injustice.

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like whited sepulchres, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.

²⁹ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you rebuild the tombs of the prophets and beautify the sepulchres of the just;

⁴³ Woe to you, Pharishee! for you love the chief seats in the assemblies, and the salutation in the public places. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like tombs that are not known, and men walk upon them, and do not know.

⁵² Woe to you, Sophree; for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you enter not in (yourselves), and they who are entering you prohibit.

⁴⁶ The officers say to them, Never so spake a son of man as speaks this man! ⁴⁷ The Pharishee say to them, Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the heads, or of the Pharishee, believed in him? ⁴⁹ But if this people who know not the law (believe in him), they are accursed. ⁵⁰ One of them, Nikodimos, he who came to Jeshu by night, saith to them, ⁵¹ Does our law condemn a man unless it shall hear from him first, and know what he hath done? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galila? Investigate, and see, that the Prophet from Galila ariseth not.

²² These words said his parents, because they feared the Jihudoyee; for the Jihudoyee had determined that if any man should confess him that he was the Meshicha, they would cast him out of the synagogue:

²⁴ And they called the second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Glorify Aloha: for we know that this man is a sinner.

³⁴ They answered and say to him, Thou altogether wast born in sins, and art thou teaching us? And they cast him without.

¹⁷ But that this report may not go forth more [widely], we will threaten them that again they shall not speak in This Name to any man.[To a man of men.] ¹⁸ And they called them, and commanded them that not at all they should speak and teach in the name of Jeshu.

²⁸ Did we not commanding command you, that you should teach no man in this name? But, behold, you have filled Urishlem with your doctrine, and you will to bring upon us the blood of this man!

⁴⁰ and called the apostles, and scourged them, and commanded them that they should not teach in the name of Jeshu, and loosed them.

¹ But Shaol willed to take part in his killing. And there was made in those days a great persecution against the church that was in Urishlem; and they were all dispersed in the country of Jihud and also among the Shomroyee, excepting only the apostles.

⁸ But this sorcerer, Bar Shuma, whose name interpreted is Elymos, stood against them, because he desired to avert the proconsul from faith.

¹⁵ who killed our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and the prophets who were of them, and ourselves have persecuted, and Aloha have not pleased, and have acted adversely to all men; ¹⁶ who forbid us to speak with the Gentiles that they might be saved; to fill up their sins for all time: but upon them cometh the wrath unto the end!

⁸ But as Yonis and Yanbris stood against Musha, so also these stand against the truth: men whose understanding is corrupted, and reprobate from the faith.

¹⁵ But be thou also aware of him, for he is much uplifted against our words.

²⁴ But I tell you that for the land of Sadum it shall be more tolerable [Or, tranquil.] in the day of judgment than for thee.

³³ Serpents, birth of vipers! how will you escape from the judgment of gihana? ³⁴ On this account, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; (some) of these you shall kill and crucify; and (some) of these you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. ³⁵ So that there shall come upon you all the blood of the just which hath been shed upon the earth; from the blood of Habil the righteous, unto the blood of Zakaria-bar-Barakia, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Amen I say unto you, that all these shall come upon this generation.

⁴⁰ they who devour the houses of widows, and for the occasion prolong their prayers: they shall receive the greater judgment.

⁴⁸ But he who knew not, and did that which was worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For every one to whom much is given, much will be required from him; and to whom much is committed, the more will they require at his hand.

⁴⁷ who devour the houses of widows, and for the occasion prolong their prayers: these shall receive the greater judgment.

⁶ For of them are they who creep into houses, and captivate women who are overladen with sins, and led away by divers lusts;

¹⁰ For there are many who are not in subjection, and whose words are vain, and make the minds of men to err, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ those, whose mouths it behoves to stop. Many houses they destroy, and teach what they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.

³ And with fraudulency [Olubutho is used both for avaritia and defraudatio.] of deceptive words will they make merchandise of you; they, whose judgment (denounced) before tarrieth not, and whose destruction doth not sleep.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and sins which cease not, alluring souls that are not established. An heart have they which is disciplined in covetousness; ¹⁵ sons of malediction, who, forsaking the straight way, have erred, and gone in the way of Belam bar Beur, who the wages of iniquity loved.

²² But I say unto you, that he who is angry against his brother rashly, is obnoxious to the judgment; and he who shall say to his brother, Thou empty one! is liable to the council; and every one who shall say, Thou fool! is liable to the gihano of fire.

²⁹ But if thy right eye cause thee to offend, root it out and cast it from thee: it is better to thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should fall into gihano.

⁴⁴ You are from your father the accuser, and the desires of your father you are willing to do. He from the beginning was the killer of men, and in the truth he stood not; therefore the truth is not in him. And when he speaketh a lie, of his own he speaketh, because of falsity he is also the father.

¹⁰ and from the land of Phrygia and of Pamphylia and of Metsreen, and the regions of Lybi neighbouring upon Kyrine, and those who come from Rumi, Jihudoyee, and Proselytes, [Gíuree,]

⁵ And this saying was pleasing before all the people; and they chose Estephanos, a man who was full of faith and the Spirit of Holiness; and Philipos, and Prokoros, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmena, and Nikolos, a proselyte of Antiokia.

¹⁰ and said, O full of all deceits and all wickednesses, thou son of the devil, and adversary of all righteousness, ceasest thou not to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

⁴³ And when the congregation was dissolved, many Jihudoyee went after them; and also the proselytes who worshipped Aloha. And they discoursed (with) and persuaded them to cleave to the grace of Aloha.

² But Jihudoyee, of those who were not persuaded, excited the Gentiles to ill-treat the brethren.

¹⁹ But there came thither Jihudoyee from Ikanon and from Antiokia, and stirred up against them the people; and they stoned Paulos, and dragged him out of the city, because they thought that he was dead.

⁵ And the Jihudoyee envied, and joined to them evil men from the public place of the city, and made a great multitude, and conturbed the city. And they came and stood at the house of Jason, and demanded that they should bring them out from thence and deliver them to the multitude. ⁶ And when they could not find them there, they drew Jason and the brethren who were there, and brought them to the chiefs of the city, crying, These are they who have troubled the whole land; and behold again have they come here;

¹³ And when those Jihudoyee who were of Thessalonika knew that the word of Aloha was preached by Paulos in Beroa the city, they came there also, and ceased not to move and trouble the people.

¹⁷ They are emulous of you not for good; but they would shut you in, that you might be emulous of them.

¹² They who would glory in the flesh would constrain you to be circumcised; only lest for the cross of the Meshiha they might be persecuted.

³ in those works in which we also walked from the first in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of our flesh and of our mind, and were the sons of wrath fully as the rest.

³³ Again, you have heard it was said to those beforetime, Thou shalt not lie in thine oaths, but shalt fulfil thine oaths unto the Lord. ³⁴ But I say unto you, Swear not at all: not by heaven, for it is the throne of Aloha; ³⁵ nor by earth, for it is the foot-stool beneath his feet; neither by Urishlem, for it is the city of the great king.

⁵ but ye say, Every one who shall say to a father, or to a mother, (It is) my oblation whatever thou wouldst be profited by me, and shall not honour his father or his mother (shall be guiltless). ⁶ Thus you have abolished the word of Aloha for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁴ Leave them: they are blind leaders of the blind; but if a blind man shall lead a blind man, both shall fall into the ditch.

¹⁷ You senseless and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

¹⁹ You foolish and sightless! for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?

²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out gnats and swallow camels.

²⁶ Sightless Pharishee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the dish, that their outside also may be clean.

¹⁰ For Musha hath said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and whosoever curseth father and mother, the death he shall die. ¹¹ But you say, If a man shall say to his father, or to his mother, My oblation, (be that) whatever from me thou mayest profit; ¹² and you permit him not to do any thing for his father and his mother. ¹³ But you reject the word of Aloha for the sake of the tradition which you have delivered: and many similar (observances) to these you practise.

³⁹ Jeshu said to them, For the judgment of this world am I come, that they who see not may see, and they who see may be made blind. ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharishee who were with him heard these (words), and they said to him, Are we blind also? ⁴¹ Jeshu saith to them, If blind you were, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see: therefore your sin is confirmed.

³ But I attest again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to fulfil the whole law.

¹² But before every thing, my brethren, swear not; by heaven nor by earth, nor with any other oath; but let your word be Yes, yes, and No, no, that you be not bound under condemnation.

²² while you also in him are being builded the dwelling of Aloha by the Spirit.

⁹ in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

³⁴ But I say unto you, Swear not at all: not by heaven, for it is the throne of Aloha;

⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool beneath my feet: what house will you build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

² At once I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne [Kursio, a seat of state.] placed in heaven, and upon the throne (One) sat. ³ And he who sat was like to the appearance of the stone of jaspon, and of sardion; and the bow of the clouds was around the throne, in resemblance to the appearance of zmragda.

¹⁹ Every one, therefore, who shall set loose one from these least commandments, and shall so teach the children of men, the least shall he be called in the kingdom of heaven: but every one who shall do and teach [them], this [one] shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the scribes * and the Pharishee, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [* Sophree. This order of public teachers (the preaching and writing clergy of the Jews) does not seem sufficiently indicated by the word " scribes " in the English version. Luther well renders the corresponding Greek term by Schriftgelehrten.]

¹³ Go, learn what that is: - " I require mercy, and not sacrifice; " for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.

⁷ Moreover, if you knew what that (meaneth), " I desire mercy and not a sacrifice," you would not have condemned them who are not faulty.

³⁷ Jeshu said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy Aloha with [Or, from all, &c.] all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the commandment, the great and the first. ³⁹ And the second is like unto it, That thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang the law and the prophets.

⁴² But woe to you, Pharishee! for you tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of Aloha. These hath it behoved you to do, and those not to have omitted.

¹² But I fast twice in the week, and tithe whatever I possess.

²² But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, prolonging of the spirit, benignity, goodness, fidelity, meekness, patience; ²³ against these the law is not set.

⁴ Or how sayest thou to thy brother, Permit that I draw forth the rod from thine eye, and, behold, there is a rafter in thine own eye?

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread? ³ Jeshu answered, and said to them, Why also do ye transgress the commandment of Aloha for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For Aloha hath said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and whoso curseth his father or his mother, to die he shall die:

²⁴ Again I say to you, that it is easier for a camel to enter through the aperture of a needle, than the rich to enter into the kingdom of Aloha.

¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, That [to him] who sweareth by the temple, it is nothing; but if he swear by the gold which is in the temple, he is liable!

⁶ But the chief priests took up the silver, and said, It is not lawful that we throw it into the place of offering, because it is the price of blood. ⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with it the field of the potter, for the burial-place of strangers. ⁸ Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, until this day.

⁷ and the Sophree and Pharishee watched him, if he would heal on the shabath, that they might accuse him. ⁸ But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man whose hand was dried, Rise (and) come into the midst of the assembly. And when he had come and stood, ⁹ Jeshu said to them, I ask you which is lawful to do on the shabath, good or evil, life to save or to destroy? ¹⁰ And he beheld them all, and said to him, Stretch forth thine hand: and he stretched it forth, and his hand was restored as its fellow.

²⁸ NOW they led Jeshu from Kaiapha into the praetorium, and it was early. But they would not enter the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, until they should have eaten the petscha.

⁴⁰ And they all cried and said, Not this, but Bar Aba. Now this Bar Aba was a robber.

⁴ and (coming) from the market, unless they lave,[Baptize.] they eat not. And many other of those (things) there are which they have received to observe, (as) the baptisms of cups, and of measures, and of brasen utensils, and of beds. ⁵ And the Sophree and Pharishee questioned him, Why do not your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders; but, while their hands are not washed, eat bread? ⁶ But he said to them, Well prophesied concerning you Eshaia the prophet, you hypocrites; [Assumers of faces.] as it is written, This people with their lips honour me, but their heart is very far from me. ⁷ But in vain do they reverence me while they teach the teachings of the commandments of men.[Sons of man.] ⁸ For you have abandoned the commandment of God and hold the tradition of men, as the baptisms of cups and measures, and many things like these. ⁹ He said to them (moreover), You decently* suppress the commandment of God, that you may establish your tradition. *[Decenter, SCHAFF. " speciously."]

³⁹ But Jeshu said to him, Now you Pharishee cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but within you are full of rapine and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Wanting in understanding! did not he who made that which is without, make also that which is within?

³³ Or make the tree good, and the fruits (will be) good; or make the tree evil, and the fruits (will be) evil: for by the fruits the tree is known.

⁴⁵ The good man, from the good treasures which are in his heart, bringeth forth good things; and the evil man, from the evil treasures which are in his heart, bringeth forth evil things; for from the adundancies of the heart the lips speak.

¹ Because then we have these promises, my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all impurity of the flesh and of the spirit, and accomplish sanctification in the fear of Aloha.

²² Let us, therefore, draw near with a confirmed heart, and the full security of faith, with our hearts sprinkled and cleansed from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure waters;

⁸ and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.

⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like tombs that are not known, and men walk upon them, and do not know.

³ And Paulos said to him, It will be that Aloha will smite thee, (thou) whitened wall: thou sittest to judge me according to the law, while thou transgressest the law, and commandest that they smite me!

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you speak good who are evil? For from the abundancies of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man from the good treasuries bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasuries bringeth forth evil (things).

⁵ And all their works they do that they may be seen of men; for they widen their tephillin,* and lengthen the fringes of their waving vestments,** [* Phylakteries; called as above, from the Chaldee tephilla, " prayer." For their formation and uses, see the commentators. ** Martuto; vestis tremula: from the Chaldee rethath, tremuit.]

²¹ For from within, from the heart of the sons of men, go forth evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, ²² robbery, murder, rapacity, malice, fraud, obscenity, an evil eye, blasphemy, vain-glory, folly; ²³ all these evils come from within, and they defile a man.

¹² For living is the Word of Aloha, and all-acting, and more penetrating than a two-edged sword,[The sword of two mouths.] and entereth to the separation of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints, and of the marrow, and the bones, and discerneth the reasonings and counsel of the heart. ¹³ Neither is there any creature that is concealed from before him; but every thing (is) naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom they shall give account.[D'leh yohbin pethgomo, to whom giving the answer.]

⁴⁷ Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed: ⁴⁸ thus you bear witness that you consent in the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their sepulchres.

²⁹ Men, brethren, suffer me to speak openly with you concerning the chief-father David, that he is dead and also buried, and his sepulchre is with us till this day.

³⁵ And the husband-men took his servants, and beat some, and stoned some, and killed others. ³⁶ And again he sent other servants more than the first, and they acted towards them likewise:

³⁴ On this account, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; (some) of these you shall kill and crucify; and (some) of these you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. ³⁵ So that there shall come upon you all the blood of the just which hath been shed upon the earth; from the blood of Habil the righteous, unto the blood of Zakaria-bar-Barakia, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

²² He said to him, From thy own mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou didst know that I was a hard man, taking up what I had not laid down, and reaping what I sowed not:

⁵¹ O, hardened of neck and uncircumcised in your hearts and in your hearing, you at all times against the Spirit of Holiness stand up; as your fathers, so you also. ⁵² For which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted and slain? they who before announced the coming of the Righteous; him whom you delivered up and slew.

¹⁶ who forbid us to speak with the Gentiles that they might be saved; to fill up their sins for all time: but upon them cometh the wrath unto the end!

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharishee and Zodukoyee coming to be baptized, he said to them, Generation of vipers, who hath showed you to escape from the wrath that cometh?

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you speak good who are evil? For from the abundancies of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁴ And when the time of fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might send him of the fruits of his vinery. ³⁵ And the husband-men took his servants, and beat some, and stoned some, and killed others.

⁷ And he said to those multitudes who came to him to be baptized, O brood of vipers, who hath showed you to flee from the wrath that cometh?

³ But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived 'Hava by his guile, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward the Meshiha.

³ how shall we escape if we despise those (words) which themselves are our salvation? those [namely] which began by our Lord to be spoken, and by them who from him heard them in us were confirmed,

²⁹ how much greater punishment, think ye, shall he receive who hath trampled upon the Son of Aloha, and hath counted the blood of the covenant of him by which he had been sanctified as that of every man and hath insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁵ Beware, therefore, lest ye be averse from Him who hath spoken with you; for if they escaped not who were averse from one who spake with them on earth, how much less we, if we withdraw from one who hath spoken to us from heaven?

⁹ And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and the Adversary, which seduceth the whole habitable world. And he was cast upon the earth, and his angels with him were cast.

¹⁶ LO, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: be you, therefore, wise as serpents and guileless as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of the sons of men; for, delivering you to the house of judgments, in their synagogues they will scourge you,

²³ When they persecute you in this city, escape to the other; for, Amen I say unto you, that you shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Isroel, till the Son of man shall come.

⁵² He saith to them, On this account every scribe who is learned in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man a house-lord, who bringeth forth from his treasuries the new and the old.

¹⁹ Go therefore, disciple all nations, and baptize them in the name (of) the Father, and (of) the Son, and (of) the Spirit of Holiness. ²⁰ And teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days, until the consummation of the world. Amen.

⁴⁹ ON this account also Wisdom saith, Behold, I will send to them prophets and apostles; and of them they will persecute and kill; ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which hath been shed from the creation of the world may be required from this generation. ⁵¹ From the blood of Habil unto the blood of Zakaria who was killed between the temple and the altar: yes, I tell you, It shall be required of this generation.

⁴⁷ and that in his name should be preached repentance and the forgiveness of sins among all nations, and that the commencement should be from Urishlem.

² They shall cast you out from their synagogues; and the hour cometh when every one who shall kill you will think that a sacrifice he offereth unto Aloha.

²¹ Then said Jeshu unto them, Peace (be) with you: as my Father sent me, I also send you.

⁸ but when the Spirit of Holiness hath come upon you, you shall receive power to be made unto me the witnesses, in Urishlem and in all Jehud, and also among the Shomroyee, and unto the confines of the earth.

⁵⁸ and seizing they brought him out of the city and stoned him. And they who witnessed against him laid their garments before the feet of a certain young man named Shaol. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Estephanos, (he) praying and saying, Our Lord Jeshu, receive my spirit.

¹ BUT Shaol was yet full of threatenings and murderous wrath [Wrath of slaughter.] against the disciples of our Lord. ² And he demanded letters from the chief priests which he should give at Darmsuk to the synagogues, that if he found (any) who walked in this way, men or women, he might bind and bring them to Urishlem.

²⁷ And in those days there came from Urishlem thither prophets.

² And he killed with the sword Jakub the brother of Juhanon.

¹ But there were in the church of Antiokia prophets and teachers, Bar Naba and Shemun who was called Niger, and Lukios who was from the city of Kyrene, and Manael, a fosterbrother of Herodes Tetrarka, and Shaol.

³² And by the word the brethren were the more strengthened, and Jihuda and Shilo established them because they were prophets also.

¹⁹ And I said, My Lord, they know also how I delivered to the house of the bound, and smote in all the synagogues, those who have believed in thee. ²⁰ And when the blood of thy martyr Estephanos was shed, I also stood with them, and fulfilled the will of his murderers, and kept the garments of them who stoned him.

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this world, nor the authorities of this world, which are abolished;

¹⁰ And according to the grace of Aloha which is given to me, I have laid the foundation as a wise architect; but another hath built upon it. But let every man beware how he buildeth upon it.

³ I therefore make known to you, that there is no man who by the Spirit of Aloha speaketh, and saith that Jeshu is accursed; [Cherem.] and no man also can say that Jeshu is THE LORD unless by the Spirit of Holiness. ⁴ Now, there are distributions of gifts, but one is the Spirit; ⁵ and there are distributions of ministries, but one is the Lord; ⁶ and distributions of powers, but one is Aloha, who worketh all in every man. ⁷ But to each is given (such) a revelation of the Spirit as is profitable to him. ⁸ To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, but to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; ⁹ and to another, faith by the same Spirit; and to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ but to another, powers; to another, prophecy; to another, the discernment of spirits; but to another, kinds of tongues; and to another, the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these one Spirit effecteth, and divideth unto every man as he willeth.

²⁴ From the Jihudoyee, five times, forty (stripes) wanting one have I devoured; ²⁵ three times with staves have I been beaten, once was I stoned, three times have I been in shipwreck, a day and a night without a ship have I been in the sea.

⁸ Wherefore it is said, He ascended on high; he led captive captivity, and gave gifts unto men. ⁹ But he who ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the low places of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended, is he who also ascended above all the heavens, to fulfil all. ¹¹ And he gave some who (are) apostles, and some who (are) prophets, and some who (are) evangelists, and some who (are) pastors, and some who (are) doctors; ¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the (church of the) Meshiha,

²⁸ whom we proclaim, and (concerning whom) we teach and inform every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Jeshu Meshiha;

³⁷ others were stoned, others divided, others died by the edge of the sword, others wandered about clothed with skins of sheep and of goats, necessitous, afflicted, and driven out.

¹⁰ And they who dwell upon earth will rejoice over them and be gratified, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them who dwell upon earth.

⁵¹ From the blood of Habil unto the blood of Zakaria who was killed between the temple and the altar: yes, I tell you, It shall be required of this generation.

⁴ By faith Habel offered a sacrifice which was far better than that of Koen unto Aloha; and because of it there is respecting him a testimony that he was righteous; and Aloha gave witness concerning his oblation; and on account thereof also while dead he is speaking.

²⁴ and to Jeshu the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling of his blood, which speaketh better [things] than that of Habel.

¹¹ For this is the commandment which you have heard from before, that you love one another. ¹² Not as Koen, who was from the Evil, and killed his brother. And on what account killed he him? unless that his own works were evil and his brother's righteous.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all those who had been killed upon the earth.

³⁴ Amen I say to you, that this race [Sharebtha, " tribe, people, nation."] shall not have passed away until all these shall take place.

³⁰ Amen I tell you, That this race shall not pass until these all shall be. ³¹ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³² Amen I say to you, That this race shall not pass away till all these things shall be. ³³ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

¹² Then be glad and exult, for your reward is great in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

³ and he sent his servants to call the invited ones to the feast, but they were not willing to come.

⁶ But the rest took his servants and shamefully treated and killed (them).

³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been with them partakers in the blood of the prophets:

³ But they beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ He sent to them again another servant; and also that one they stoned, and bruised him, and sent him away with dishonour. ⁵ And he sent again another, and him they killed; and many other servants he sent, and of them they beat, (and) of them they killed. ⁶ But at last having one son, the beloved, he sent him to them; for he said, Now will they be confounded by my son.

³⁴ Urishlem, Urishlem! killing the prophets, and stoning them that are sent to her, what times would I have gathered thy sons as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and you willed not! ³⁵ Behold, left to you is your house a desert; for I say to you, that you will not see me until you shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ And he sent his servant, at the time of the supper, to say to them who were called, Behold, every thing is prepared for you, come. ¹⁸ And every one of them began to excuse himself. The first said to him, I have bought an estate, and am constrained to go forth to see it: I beseech thee, permit me to be excused. ¹⁹ Another said, Five yoke of oxen have I bought, and I go to prove them: I beseech thee, permit me to be excused. ²⁰ Another said, A wife have I taken, and therefore I cannot come.

²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in. And his father came forth and besought him.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent messengers after him, saying, We are not willing that this should reign over us. ¹⁵ And having received the kingdom and returned, he spake to call to him those servants to whom he had given the silver, that he might know how every one of them had traded. ¹⁶ And the first came and said, My lord, thy mani ten minin hath gained. ¹⁷ He saith to him, Well, good servant: because in a little thou art found faithful, thou shalt have rule over ten towns. ¹⁸ And the second came and said, My lord, thy mani five minin hath made. ¹⁹ He saith also to this, Thou also shalt have rule over five towns. ²⁰ And the other came and said, My lord, behold thy mani which I have had with me, laid up in a napkin. ²¹ For I feared thee, because thou art a hard man, taking up what thou hadst not laid down, and reaping what thou sowedst not. ²² He said to him, From thy own mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou didst know that I was a hard man, taking up what I had not laid down, and reaping what I sowed not: ²³ why (then) gavest thou not my silver upon the table, that when I came I might require it with its increase? ²⁴ And to those who stood before him he said, Take from him the mani, and give to him who hath the ten minin. ²⁵ They say to him, Our lord, he hath ten minin. ²⁶ He saith to them, I tell you, that to every one who hath (it) shall be given; and from him who hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken. ²⁷ But those adversaries who would not that I should reign over them, bring them, and slay them before me. ²⁸ AND when Jeshu had said these things, he went forward to go to Urishlem. ²⁹ And when he came to Bethphage and Beth-ania, at the mount that is called the Place of Olives, he sent two from his disciples, ³⁰ and said to them, Go to the village over against us; and as you enter, behold, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man hath ridden: loose and bring him. ³¹ And if any man demand why you loose him, thus say: It is requested by our Lord. ³² And they who were sent went and found as he had told them. ³³ And as they were loosing the colt, the owners of him said to them, Why loose you the colt? ³⁴ And they said to them, Because by our Lord it is requested. ³⁵ And they brought him to Jeshu; and they cast upon the colt their garments, and Jeshu rode upon him. ³⁶ And as they went, they spread their clothes in the way. ³⁷ And when he had come nigh to the declivity of the Mount of Olives, the whole assembly of the disciples began to rejoice, and praise Aloha with a high voice, for all the mighty acts which they had seen: ³⁸ and they said, Blessed be the King who cometh in the name of the Lord! Peace in the heavens, and glory in the highest! ³⁹ But some of the Pharishee from among the multitudes say to him, Rabi, rebuke thy disciples. ⁴⁰ He saith to them, I tell you, if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. ⁴¹ AND when he approached, and saw the city, he wept over her, ⁴² saying, If thou hadst known these things which are for thy peace, and in this thy day! But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ But the days will come to thee when thine enemies shall encompass thee and straiten thee on every side, ⁴⁴ and they shall overthrow thee, and thy children within thee, and not leave in thee one stone upon another,[A stone upon stone.] because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

¹¹ And he added and sent another servant; but they beat him also, and maltreated him, and sent him away empty. ¹² And he added and sent a third; but they also wounded him, and cast him out. ¹³ The lord of the vinery saith, What shall I do? I will send my son, the beloved; now will they see him and reverence him. ¹⁴ But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

¹⁵ who killed our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and the prophets who were of them, and ourselves have persecuted, and Aloha have not pleased, and have acted adversely to all men;

⁷ And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast of prey, which ascended from the abyss, will make war against them, and overcome them, [and kill them, Ibid.] ⁸ and their dead bodies (will be) upon the wide street of the great city, which is called, spiritually, Sedum, and Metsreen, where also our Lord hath been crucified.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jeshu; and I wondered, when I saw, with great wonder.

² But he said to them, See you not all these? Amen I say to you, There shall not be left here a stone upon a stone which shall not be destroyed.

¹⁴ But when you see the unclean sign of desolation, that which is spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, - he who readeth, let him understand! - then let those who are in Jehud flee to the mountain.

³⁵ Behold, left to you is your house a desert; for I say to you, that you will not see me until you shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.

⁶ These that you see, the days shall come (when) of them there will not be found a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

²⁰ But when you see Urishlem encompassed by an army, then know that its destruction hath drawn nigh.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge [Mouth.] of the sword, and be led captive into every place, and Urishlem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until shall be fulfilled the times of the Gentiles.

¹³ AND witnesses of falsehood arose, and said, This man ceases not from speaking words contrary to the law and against this holy place. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say that this Jeshu Natsroya shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Musha delivered unto us.

⁹ But the throngs who went before him, and came after him, cried out and said, Ushana to the son of David! blessed be He who cometh in the name of the Lord! Ushana in the heights!

²⁶ And it was said to him from the Spirit of Holiness, that he should not see death, until he had seen the Meshicha of the Lord. ²⁷ Behold, this man came in the Spirit to the temple, and when his parents [Fathers.] brought in Jeshu the child, to do for him as it is commanded in the law, ²⁸ he took him upon his arms and blessed Aloha, and said, ²⁹ Now dismiss thy servant, my Lord, according to thy word, in peace; ³⁰ For lo, mine eyes have seen thy grace,

²² And he turned to his disciples, and said to them, Every thing is delivered to me by my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is but the Father; and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son willeth to reveal. ²³ And he turned to his disciples by themselves, and said, Blessed are your eyes because they see what you see;

²² And he said to his disciples, The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see.

²¹ Jeshu said again, I go, and you will seek me, and will die in your sins; and where I go you cannot come.

²⁴ I said to you, that you will die in your sins: for if you believe not that I AM, you will die in your sins.

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, desired to see my day, and he saw, and was glad.

⁹ Jeshu saith to him, All this time have I been with you, and hast thou not known me, Philipé? He who me seeth, seeth the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?

¹⁹ a little after. And the world seeth me not, but you shall see me; for because I live, you also shall live.

²⁵ But I would have you know, my brethren, this mystery, that you may not be wise in your own mind, - that blindness of heart for a little space is unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in:

¹⁴ But they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished. ¹⁵ And unto this day, when Musha is read, the veil is thrown upon their heart. ¹⁶ And when any one of them is converted unto the Lord, the veil from him is uplifted. ¹⁷ But the Lord himself is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord, (there) is liberty. ¹⁸ But we all with disclosed [Or, revealed.] faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, as by the Lord the Spirit.