Luke 20 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders ² and said to him, "Tell us what authority you have for doing as you do, or who gave you any such authority?" ³ He said to them, "I will ask you a question too. ⁴ Tell me, did John's baptism come from heaven or from men?" ⁵ And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?' ⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet." ⁷ So they answered that they did not know where it came from. ⁸ And Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do." ⁹ Then he went on to give the people this illustration: "A man once planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went away for along absence. ¹⁰ And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to have them give him a share of the vintage, but the tenants beat him, and sent him back empty-handed. ¹¹ And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed. ¹² And again he sent a third, but they wounded him too, and threw him outside. ¹³ Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What can I do? I will send them my dear son; perhaps they will respect him.' ¹⁴ But when the tenants saw him, they argued with one another, 'This is his heir! Let us kill him, so that the property will belong to us!' ¹⁵ So they drove him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!" ¹⁷ He looked at them and said, "Then what does this saying of Scripture mean, "'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone'? ¹⁸ Whoever falls on that stone will be shattered, but whoever it falls upon will be pulverized." ¹⁹ And the scribes and high priests wanted to arrest him then and there, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had aimed this illustration at them. ²⁰ So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor. ²¹ And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity. ²² Is it right for us to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?" ²³ But he detected their trickery, and said to them, ²⁴ "Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's." ²⁵ He said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" ²⁶ So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more. ²⁷ Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him, ²⁸ "Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother. ²⁹ Now there were seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died childless. ³⁰ And the second married her, ³¹ and the third, and all the seven married her and died without leaving any child. ³² After ward the woman died too. ³³ Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will the woman be? For all seven of them married her." ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married, ³⁵ but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married. ³⁶ For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God. ³⁷ But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' ³⁸ He is not the God of dead men but of living, for all men are alive to him." ³⁹ Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!" ⁴⁰ For they did not dare to ask him any more questions. ⁴¹ But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David? ⁴² For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, ⁴³ Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet!" ' ⁴⁴ David then calls him lord. So how can he be his son?" ⁴⁵ While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets— ⁴⁷ men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

¹ The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

²³ "The maiden will be pregnant and will have a son, And they will name him Immanuel."—a word which means "God with us."

² and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him." ³ When King Herod heard of this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born. ⁵ They said, "At Bethlehem in Judea, for this is what the prophet wrote: ⁶ " 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' " ⁷ Then Herod secretly sent for the astrologers, and found out from them the exact time when the star appeared. ⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to them, "Go and inquire particularly about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, so that I may go and do homage to him too." ⁹ So they obeyed the king and went, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it reached the place where the child was, and stopped above it. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were very glad, ¹¹ and they went into the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they threw themselves down and did homage to him. They opened their treasure boxes and presented the child with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. ¹² Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way. ¹³ When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and make your escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to make away with him." ¹⁴ Then he awoke and took the child and his mother by night and took refuge in Egypt, ¹⁵ to fulfil what the Lord said by the prophet, "I called my son from Egypt." ¹⁶ Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

¹⁷ and a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, my Beloved! This is my Chosen."

⁷ But as they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind? ⁸ Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who dress in that way you find in the palaces of kings. ⁹ Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

⁹ Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet! ¹⁰ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.' ¹¹ "I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he. ¹² But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it. ¹³ For up to the time of John all the Prophets and the Law itself prophesied about it, ¹⁴ and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come. ¹⁵ Let him who has ears listen! ¹⁶ But to what can I compare this present age? It is like children sitting about in the bazaars and calling out to their playmates, ¹⁷ " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not beat your breasts!' ¹⁸ For when John came, he neither ate nor drank, and people said, 'He has a demon!' ¹⁹ Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"

²² But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will! ²³ And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today. ²⁴ But I tell you that the land of Sodom will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!"

³² And whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit cannot be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

⁵ And while he wanted him killed, he was afraid of the people; for they considered him a prophet.

² "Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands." ³ But he answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of what has been handed down to you?

¹⁰ And he called the people to him and said to them,

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

¹ The Pharisees and Sadducees came up and to test him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

⁴ "It is a wicked and faithless age that insists on a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah." And he left them and went away.

⁶ And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" ⁷ But they were discussing something with one another, and saying, "We have not brought any bread!"

¹² Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

⁵ As he spoke a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved. He is my Chosen. Listen to him!"

¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and is to reform everything, ¹² but I tell you, Elijah has come already, and they would not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. It is in just that way that the Son of Man is going to be treated by them!"

²⁵ He said, "Yes." But when he went home, Jesus spoke of it first and said, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect duties and taxes? From their own people, or from aliens?"

²⁷ But rather than give offense to them, go down to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take that and pay the tax for us both."

²⁸ But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

² He agreed with the laborers to pay them a dollar a day, and sent them to his vineyard.

²³ When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?" ²⁴ Jesus answered, "Let me ask you one question, and if you answer it, I will tell you what authority I have for doing as I do. ²⁵ Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

²⁵ Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

²⁵ Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ²⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' we have the people to fear, for they all consider John a prophet."

²⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' we have the people to fear, for they all consider John a prophet."

²⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' we have the people to fear, for they all consider John a prophet." ²⁷ And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

²⁷ And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

²⁷ And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do. ²⁸ But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'My son, go and work in the vineyard today.' ²⁹ And he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ Then the man went to the second son, and told him the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not!' But afterward he changed his mind and went. ³¹ Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you. ³² For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him! ³³ "Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood. ³⁴ When the time for the vintage approached he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share.

³⁴ When the time for the vintage approached he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share.

³⁴ When the time for the vintage approached he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share. ³⁵ But the tenants took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned a third.

³⁵ But the tenants took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned a third. ³⁶ Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way.

³⁶ Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way. ³⁷ Finally he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

³⁷ Finally he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' ³⁸ But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

³⁸ But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took him and drove him out of the vineyard and killed him.

³⁹ So they took him and drove him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ When the owner of the vineyard comes back, therefore, what will he do to these tenants?"

⁴⁰ When the owner of the vineyard comes back, therefore, what will he do to these tenants?" ⁴¹ They said to him, "He will put the wretches to a miserable death, and let the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the vintage when it is due."

⁴¹ They said to him, "He will put the wretches to a miserable death, and let the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the vintage when it is due." ⁴² Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

⁴² Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'? ⁴³ "That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit. ⁴⁴ Whoever falls on that stone will be shattered, but whoever it falls upon will be pulverized."

⁴⁴ Whoever falls on that stone will be shattered, but whoever it falls upon will be pulverized." ⁴⁵ When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his figures, they knew that he was speaking about them, ⁴⁶ and they wanted to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for the people considered him a prophet.

⁴⁶ and they wanted to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for the people considered him a prophet.

³ And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come. ⁴ He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" ' ⁵ But they took no notice of it, and went off, one to his estate, and another to his business, ⁶ and the rest seized his slaves, and ill treated them and killed them. ⁷ This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

⁷ This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city. ⁸ Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it. ⁹ So go out where the roads leave the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.' ¹⁰ So his slaves went out on the roads, and got together all the people they could find, good or bad, and the hall was filled with guests. ¹¹ But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw among them a man who did not have on wedding clothes. ¹² And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

¹² And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say. ¹³ Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.' ¹⁴ For many are invited but few chosen." ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument. ¹⁶ So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

¹⁶ So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

¹⁶ So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial. ¹⁷ So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?"

¹⁷ So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?"

¹⁷ So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?" ¹⁸ But he saw their malice, and said,

¹⁸ But he saw their malice, and said,

¹⁸ But he saw their malice, and said,

¹⁸ But he saw their malice, and said, ¹⁹ "Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius.

¹⁹ "Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius.

¹⁹ "Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius. ²⁰ And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?"

²⁰ And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?"

²⁰ And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" ²¹ They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

²¹ They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

²¹ They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

²¹ They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" ²² And when they heard it they were amazed, and they went away and left him.

²² And when they heard it they were amazed, and they went away and left him.

²² And when they heard it they were amazed, and they went away and left him. ²³ On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question: ²⁴ "Master, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

²⁴ "Master, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.' ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother; ²⁶ so did the second, and the third, and the rest of the seven.

²⁶ so did the second, and the third, and the rest of the seven. ²⁷ After them all the woman died.

²⁷ After them all the woman died. ²⁸ At the resurrection which one's wife will she be? For they all married her."

²⁸ At the resurrection which one's wife will she be? For they all married her." ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For after the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

³⁰ For after the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven. ³¹ But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God, ³² 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!" ³³ When the crowd heard this, they were astounded at his teaching. ³⁴ And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

³⁴ And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵ and one of them, an expert in the Law, to test him, asked, ³⁶ "Master, what command is greatest in the Law?" ³⁷ And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.' ³⁸ That is the great, first command. ³⁹ There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' ⁴⁰ These two commands sum up the whole of the Law and the Prophets." ⁴¹ While the Pharisees were still gathered there, Jesus asked them, ⁴² "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's." ⁴³ He said to them, "How is it then that David under the Spirit's influence calls him lord, and says, ⁴⁴ " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I put your enemies under your feet" '? ⁴⁵ So if David calls him lord, how can he be his son?" ⁴⁶ And no one could make him any answer, and from that day no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

¹ Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, ² "The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

⁵ They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels, ⁶ and they like the best places at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'

¹³ "But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

²⁶ You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too. ²⁷ Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean. ²⁸ So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

³⁰ and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.' ³¹ So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets. ³² Go on and fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt. ³³ You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit? ³⁴ This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another; ³⁵ it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar! ³⁶ I tell you, all this will come upon this age! ³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

¹⁴ "For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.

³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the house of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, ⁴ and plotted to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death. ⁵ But they said, "It must not be during the festival, or there may be a riot."

⁴⁹ And he went straight up to Jesus and said, "Good evening, Master!" and kissed him affectionately. ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "My friend, what are you here for?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and secured him.

⁵⁵ At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

² And they bound him and led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

²¹ And the governor answered, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" They said, "Barabbas!" ²² Pilate said to them, "Then what am I to do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified!" ²³ He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!" ²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves." ²⁵ And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

² And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

⁵ And he looked around at them with anger, hurt by their obstinacy, and he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

¹⁵ And he warned them, saying, "Look out! Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

³⁴ And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

²³ And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"

²⁷ Then they went into Jerusalem again. And as Jesus was walking about in the Temple, the high priests, scribes, and elders came up ²⁸ and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?" ²⁹ Jesus said to them, "Let me ask you one question, and if you answer me, I will tell you what authority I have for doing as I do. ³⁰ Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me." ³¹ And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ³² Yet can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because all the people thought John was really a prophet. ³³ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do."

³³ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do."

¹ Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood. ² At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

² At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage. ³ And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

³ And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed. ⁴ And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.

⁴ And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

⁵ And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed. ⁶ He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

⁶ He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' ⁷ But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!'

⁷ But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!' ⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside of the vineyard.

⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside of the vineyard. ⁹ What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others.

⁹ What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone;

¹⁰ Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; ¹¹ This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?" ¹² And they tried to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that the illustration was aimed at them. And they left him and went away.

¹² And they tried to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that the illustration was aimed at them. And they left him and went away. ¹³ They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument. ¹⁴ And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?

¹⁴ And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not? ¹⁵ Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at." ¹⁶ And they brought him one. He said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" And they told him, "The emperor's." ¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him.

¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him. ¹⁸ Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question. ¹⁹ "Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

¹⁹ "Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother. ²⁰ There were once seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died, leaving no child.

²⁰ There were once seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died, leaving no child. ²¹ And the second married her, and died without leaving any child, and so did the third.

²¹ And the second married her, and died without leaving any child, and so did the third. ²² And none of the seven left any child. Finally, the woman died too.

²² And none of the seven left any child. Finally, the woman died too. ²³ At the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her."

²³ At the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her." ²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?

²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

²⁵ For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven. ²⁶ But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? ²⁷ He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong." ²⁸ One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, Israel! The Lord our God is one lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.' ³¹ And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Really, Master, you have finely said that he stands alone, and there is none but he, ³³ and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices." ³⁴ And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

³⁴ And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions. ³⁵ As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David? ³⁶ David himself, under the influence of the holy Spirit, said, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand Until I put your enemies under your feet." ' ³⁷ David himself calls him lord, and how can he be his son?" The mass of the people liked to hear him. ³⁸ And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places, ³⁹ and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at dinners— ⁴⁰ men that eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get a far heavier sentence!"

³¹ You are to become a mother and you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David, ³³ and he will reign over Jacob's house forever; his reign will have no end." ³⁴ Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, when I have no husband?" ³⁵ The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.

⁷⁶ "And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

¹ In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

¹¹ for today, in the town of David, a Savior for you has been born who is your Messiah and Lord.

¹ In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

²² But Jesus saw what they were discussing, and said to them, "What are you pondering over in your minds?

⁸ But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand in front." And he got up and stood there.

²⁶ Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet! ²⁷ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!' ²⁸ "I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he.

²⁸ "I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he. ²⁹ And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

²⁹ And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John, ³⁰ but the Pharisees and experts in the Law thwarted God's purpose for themselves, by refusing to be baptized by him. ³¹ So what is there to which I can compare the men of this age? What are they like? ³² They are like children sitting about in the bazaar and calling out to one another, " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not weep!' ³³ "For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!' ³⁴ Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' ³⁵ So wisdom is vindicated by all who are really wise."

¹ Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him,

³⁵ And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

¹² I tell you, on that Day Sodom will fare better than that town! ¹³ Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes! ¹⁴ But Tyre and Sidon will fare better than you at the Judgment!

¹⁶ Others to test him asked him for a sign from heaven. ¹⁷ But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and one house falls after another.

⁴³ Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

⁴⁷ Alas for you! For you build monuments for the prophets, whom your forefathers killed. ⁴⁸ So you testify to what your fathers did and approve it, for they killed them and you build their monuments. ⁴⁹ This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'— ⁵⁰ so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

⁵³ After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

⁵⁴ plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

¹ Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

⁴⁷ The slave who knows his master's wishes, but does not get ready or act upon them, will be severely punished. ⁴⁸ But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

¹⁷ When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, and all the people were delighted at all the splendid things that he did.

³⁴ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

⁷ He noticed that the guests picked out the best places, and he gave them this illustration:

¹⁸ I will get up, and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your eyes;

⁸ And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

²⁷ People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

³⁸ And he shouted, "Jesus, you Son of David, take pity on me!" ³⁹ And those who were in front reproved him and told him to be quiet, but he cried out all the louder, "You Son of David, take pity on me!"

¹² So he said, "A nobleman once went to a distant country to secure his appointment to a kingdom and then return.

²⁷ But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me made king over them, and slaughter them in my presence!' "

³⁵ And they brought it to Jesus. And they threw their coats on the colt and mounted Jesus on it. ³⁶ And as he went on, people spread their coats in the road. ³⁷ Just as he was coming down the Mount of Olives and approaching the city, the whole throng of his disciples began to praise God loudly and joyfully, for all the wonders they had seen, ³⁸ and to say, "Blessed is the king who comes in the Lord's name, Peace be in heaven and glory on high!" ³⁹ Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!" ⁴⁰ And he answered, "I tell you, if they keep silence, the stones will cry out!" ⁴¹ As he approached the city and saw it, he wept over it,

⁴⁵ Then he went into the Temple and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things there, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!" ⁴⁷ Every day he taught in the Temple, and the high priests and scribes and the leading men of the people were trying to destroy him,

⁴⁷ Every day he taught in the Temple, and the high priests and scribes and the leading men of the people were trying to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

⁵ And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

¹⁴ But when the tenants saw him, they argued with one another, 'This is his heir! Let us kill him, so that the property will belong to us!'

¹⁹ And the scribes and high priests wanted to arrest him then and there, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had aimed this illustration at them. ²⁰ So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

²² Is it right for us to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?"

²⁶ So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

³⁹ Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!" ⁴⁰ For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.

³⁶ But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."

² And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

³⁷ For I tell you that this saying of Scripture must find its fulfilment in me: 'He was rated an outlaw.' Yes, that saying about me is to be fulfilled!"

⁶¹ And the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the words the Master had said to him— "Before the cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

⁶⁸ and if I ask you a question, you will not answer me.

² and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you—that everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

⁶ There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God.

¹⁵ (John testified to him and cried out—for it was he who said it—"He who was to come after me is now ahead of me, for he existed before me!") ¹⁶ For from his abundance we have all had a share, and received blessing after blessing. ¹⁷ For while the Law was given through Moses, blessing and truth came to us through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; it is the divine Only Son, who leans upon his Father's breast, that has made him known. ¹⁹ Now this is the testimony that John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him who he was. ²⁰ He admitted—he made no attempt to deny it—he admitted that he was not the Christ. ²¹ Then they asked him, "What are you then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "No, I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." ²² Then they said to him, "Who are you? We must have some answer to give those who sent us here. What have you to say for yourself?" ²³ He said, "I am a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Straighten the Lord's way!' as the prophet Isaiah said." ²⁴ Now the messengers were Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" ²⁶ "I am only baptizing in water," John answered, "but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know. ²⁷ He is to come after me, and I am not worthy to undo his shoe!" ²⁸ This took place at Bethany, on the farther side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

³⁰ This is the man of whom I spoke when I said, 'After me there is coming a man who is even now ahead of me, for he existed before me.'

³⁴ And I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

¹⁸ Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

²⁴ But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all, ²⁵ and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

² This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

¹⁹ And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light. ²⁰ For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

²⁶ And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

³⁵ The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands. ³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

²² For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son, ²³ so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life. ²⁵ I tell you, the time is coming—it is here already!—when those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live. ²⁶ For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son, ²⁷ and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

²⁹ and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

³³ You yourselves sent to John, and he testified to the truth. ³⁴ But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

⁵⁷ Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

⁴² Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

³⁹ And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

⁴¹ And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"

⁴⁷ Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs? ⁴⁸ If we let him go on, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and put an end to our holy place and our people." ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, ⁵⁰ "You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

¹⁹ In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

¹ "I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. ² Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more. ³ You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you. ⁴ You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me. ⁶ Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them. ⁷ If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it. ⁸ When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

²⁵ But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

²⁰ Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues or in the Temple where all the Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

²⁸ Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper. ²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them, and said, "What charge do you make against this man?" ³⁰ They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you." ³¹ Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death." ³² This was to fulfil what Jesus said when he declared how he was to die.

²⁰ "For in the Book of Psalms it is written, 'Let his estate be desolate, with no one to live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

²³ But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

³⁰ But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne,

³⁴ "For David did not go up to heaven, but he said, 'The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ Until I make your enemies your footstool.'

¹⁵ and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

¹ As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

¹ As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them, ² greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

⁷ They had the apostles brought before them and demanded of them, "By what power or authority have men like you done this?" ⁸ Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders of the people and members of the council, ⁹ if it is for a benefit conferred upon a helpless man, and as to how he was cured, that we are called to account here today, ¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well. ¹¹ He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him, ²⁰ for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

¹⁷ This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy,

²⁶ Then the commander and his men went and brought them back, but without using violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

²⁹ Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

³⁷ After him, at the time of the census, Judas of Galilee appeared, and raised a great following, but he too perished, and all his followers were scattered.

⁴¹ So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

¹² They aroused the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they set upon him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

²⁷ But the aggressor thrust him off, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?

³⁰ When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. ³¹ When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight, and when he went up to see what it was, the voice of the Lord said, ³² 'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was terrified and did not dare to look at it.

³⁵ The Moses whom they had refused, saying to him, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?' God sent both to rule and to deliver them, with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ It was he who brought them out of Egypt, and did wonders and signs there, and at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the desert. ³⁷ This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.' ³⁸ It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live. ³⁹ Yet our forefathers would not listen to him, but thrust him off, and their hearts turned back to Egypt,

⁵¹ You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did! ⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed—

³⁴ Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality, ³⁵ but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

²⁸ and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.

²⁵ Toward the end of his career, John said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he! No! Someone is coming after me, the shoes on whose feet I am not fit to untie!'

³³ that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!' ³⁴ Now as evidence that he has raised him from the dead, never again to return to decay, he said this: 'I will fulfil to you my sacred promises to David.' ³⁵ For in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One undergo decay.'

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

⁶ Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!" ⁷ When he said that, a dispute arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the meeting was divided. ⁸ For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three. ⁹ So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"

¹⁵ and I have the same hope in God that they themselves hold, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

⁸ Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor." ⁹ Then Festus, wishing to gratify the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there before me on these charges?" ¹⁰ But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see. ¹¹ If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor." ¹² Then Festus after conferring with the council answered, "You have appealed to the emperor, and to the emperor you shall go!"

³² "He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."

³ about his Son, who was physically descended from David, ⁴ and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord,

¹⁹ Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

¹⁰ For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God. ¹¹ So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

²² But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. ¹⁸ For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us. ¹⁹ For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. ²⁰ For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope ²¹ that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. ²² We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. ²³ More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

⁵ and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came—God who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

¹⁰ Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

⁶ just as you pay your taxes; they are God's ministers, devoting themselves to this service. ⁷ Pay them all what is due them—tribute to the man entitled to receive it, taxes to the man entitled to receive them, respect to the man entitled to it, and honor to the man entitled to it.

⁷ None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself; ⁸ if we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and if we die, we are responsible to him; so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow. ⁷ So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow. ⁸ The planter and the waterer are all one, though each of us will be paid for his own work. ⁹ For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.

¹⁹ For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

² But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own. ³ The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband. ⁴ A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's. ⁵ You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control. ⁶ But I mean this as a concession, not a command. ⁷ I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another. ⁸ To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am. ⁹ But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion. ¹⁰ To those already married my instructions are—and they are not mine, but the Lord's—that a wife is not to separate from her husband. ¹¹ If she does separate, she must remain single or else become reconciled to him. And a husband must not divorce his wife. ¹² To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her, ¹³ and a woman who has a husband who is not a believer, but is willing to live with her, must not divorce her husband. ¹⁴ For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated. ¹⁵ But if the one who is not a believer wishes to separate, let the separation take place. In such cases the brother or sister is not a slave; God has called you to live in peace. ¹⁶ For how do you wives know whether you will save your husbands? Or how do you husbands know whether you will save your wives?

⁹ Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes.

³¹ So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.

¹² Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

²⁵ for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy to be overthrown will be death,

⁴² It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.

⁴⁹ and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true—"Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

¹⁷ For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

¹⁶ What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."

⁴ Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

¹⁰ Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

⁶ Those who were regarded as the leaders—what they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences—the leaders contributed nothing new to me.

⁴ but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

³ Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors. ⁴ Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well. ⁵ Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

²¹ He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.

²² All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those who belong to the emperor's household.

³ For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.

⁶ Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.

² We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.

⁴ God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts. ⁵ We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness.

⁵ We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness.

¹⁶ try to keep us from speaking to the heathen so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has overtaken them at last!

¹³ We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then by means of Jesus God will bring back with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For we can assure you, on the Lord's own authority, that those of us who will still be living when the Lord comes will have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise; ¹⁷ then those of us who are still living will be caught up with them on clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so we shall be with the Lord forever.

⁵ This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering,

¹⁰ and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved. ¹¹ This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false, ¹² so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.

¹⁶ No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

²⁰ Those who are found guilty you must reprove publicly, as a warning to others.

¹⁷ and their teaching spreads like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.

² People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God, ⁵ keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people. ⁶ They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses,

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people in turn oppose the truth; they are men of depraved minds and counterfeit faith. ⁹ But they will not make much progress, for everyone will perceive their folly, just as they did that of those others.

¹⁵ You too must be on your guard against him, for he vehemently opposed my teaching.

¹⁰ For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

² but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

¹³ But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"?

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, "If you hear his voice today,

¹³ No being created can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and helpless before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

²⁷ And just as men are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

¹⁶ But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them.

³⁵ Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life. ³⁶ Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison. ³⁷ They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused—

⁴ Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

¹² And so Jesus too, in order to purify the people by his blood, suffered death outside the city gate.

¹ Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

⁷ It is you, therefore, who believe who see its value, but for men who do not believe, "The stone which the builders refused has been made a cornerstone," ⁸ and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny.

¹³ Submit to all human authority, for the Master's sake; to the emperor, as supreme, ¹⁴ and to governors, as sent by him to punish evil-doers, and to encourage those who do right. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by doing right you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish people. ¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God. ¹⁷ Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.

¹¹ If one preaches, let him do it like one who utters the words of God; if one does some service, let him do it as with strength which God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

³ In their greed they will exploit you with pretended arguments. From of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not slumbered.

³ First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

¹ Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are—because it has never come to know him. ² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts. ¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us—because he has given us some of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God.

⁹ I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes who likes to be their leader will not accept what I say.

⁴ Yet you have a few at Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me clad in white, for they deserve to.

⁶ Then I saw standing in the center of the throne and of the four animals and of the elders a Lamb which seemed to have been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes; these are the seven spirits of God, which are sent on errands to all parts of the earth. ⁷ He came and took the roll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. ⁸ When he took the roll, the four animals and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp and gold bowls full of incense, that is, of the prayers of God's people. ⁹ Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the roll and open its seals, for you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought for God men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation, ¹⁰ and have made them a kingdom of priests for our God, and they are to reign over the earth." ¹¹ Then in my vision I heard the voices of many angels surrounding the throne, the animals, and the elders, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying in a loud voice, "The Lamb that was slaughtered deserves to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing." ¹³ Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, and on the sea, and all that they contain, say, "Blessing, honor, glory, and power to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever!" ¹⁴ The four animals said, "Amen!" And the elders fell down and worshiped.

⁹ After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰ and they cried in a loud voice, "Our deliverance is the work of our God who is seated on the throne, and of the Lamb!" ¹¹ Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹² saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"

¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

¹⁴ The armies of heaven followed him mounted on white horses and clothed in pure white linen. ¹⁵ From his mouth came a sharp sword with which he is to strike down the heathen. He will shepherd them with a staff of iron, and will tread the winepress of the fierce anger of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his clothing and his thigh he has this title written: King of kings and Lord of lords. ¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and shouting in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in midair, "Come! Gather for God's great banquet, ¹⁸ and eat the bodies of kings, commanders, and mighty men, of horses and their riders—the bodies of all men, slaves and freemen, high and low." ¹⁹ Then I saw the animal and the kings of the earth and their armies gather to make war on him who was mounted upon the horse and upon his army. ²⁰ And the animal was captured and with it the false prophet who performed wonders on its behalf by means of which he led astray those who had let the animal's mark be put on them and who worshiped its statue. Both of them were flung alive into the fiery lake of burning brimstone. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of him who sat on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves upon their bodies.

⁶ Blessed and holy is the man who experiences the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and the Christ, and reign with him for the thousand years.

⁴ and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."

¹ Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which issued from the throne of God and of the Lamb, ² and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen. ³ There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him; ⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ There will no longer be any night and they will have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

⁹ But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God!

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star."