Matthew 20 Cross References - MNT

¹ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out at dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard. ² "And when he had agreed with the workmen for two shillings a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ "About nine o'clock he went out and noticed some other workmen standing idle in the market-place; ⁴ "and he said to them, "'Do you also go into the vineyard, and whatever is just I will pay you.' ⁵ "So they went. Again at noon, and about three o'clock, he went out and did the same thing. ⁶ "When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?' ⁷ "'Because no one has hired us,' they replied. "He said to them, 'Do you also go into the vineyard.' ⁸ "And when evening came, the Lord of the vineyard said to his steward, "'Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.' ⁹ "When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received two shillings apiece; ¹⁰ "and when the first came they supposed that they would get more, but they also received each two shillings. ¹¹ "And as they took it they began to grumble against the master of the house. ¹² "'Those last men,' they said, 'have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.' ¹³ "In reply he said to one of them. 'My friend, I am doing no wrong. Did you not agree with me for two shillings? ¹⁴ "Take your wage and begone! I chose to give to this last man the same as to you. ¹⁵ "Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?' ¹⁶ "So the last shall be first, and the first, last." ¹⁷ When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them. ¹⁸ "Look! We are on the way up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, ¹⁹ "and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave." ²⁰ Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, kneeling down and begging a favor of him. ²¹ "What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom." ²² "None of you know what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied. ²³ My cup you indeed shall drink," he answered, "but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." ²⁴ When the ten heard of this, they were indignant at the two brothers; ²⁵ but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ "Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you wishes to become great, shall be your minister, ²⁷ "and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave; ²⁸ "just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many." ²⁹ Now as they were leaving Jericho a great crowd followed him. ³⁰ And two blind men, sitting by the side of the road, heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried out, "Have pity on us, Master, Son of David!" ³¹ But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!" ³² Then Jesus stopped and called to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³ "Master," they answered, "let our eyes be opened." ³⁴ Then Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and they saw at once, and followed him.

² "Repent," said he, "for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

³⁷ And he said to his disciples. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few; ³⁸ "therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to thrust forth laborers into his harvest field."

²⁴ He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

³¹ He set forth to them another parable, saying. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard-seed which a man took and planted in his field.

³³ He told them another parable. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened."

⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in the ground, which a man finds but buries again, and then in his joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that land. ⁴⁵ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of beautiful pearls.

⁴⁷ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

²⁸ "But give me your judgment. There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said to him, "'Son, go work today in my vineyard!'

³³ "Listen to another parable: "A man who was a householder planted a vineyard, fenced it about, dug a wine vat in it, built a tower, then rented it to vine-dressers and went abroad. ³⁴ When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers to get his fruit. ³⁵ And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Again he sent other slaves, a larger number than at first, and they treated them in the same way. ³⁷ And last he sent his son to them; 'Surely they will respect my son,' he said. ³⁸ But when the vine-dressers saw his son, they said to themselves: "'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.' ³⁹ "So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰ When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-dressers?" ⁴¹ "He will utterly destroy those wretches," they answered, "and will entrust his vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will pay back the fruits to him in their season." ⁴² "Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes? ⁴³ "I tell you that for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation that does produce the fruit of it.

² "The kingdom of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who made a wedding-feast for his son.

³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

¹ "Then will the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

¹⁴ "For it is like a man going into another country, who summoned his slaves, and committed his property to their care.

³⁴ Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;

¹ "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.

⁵⁸ So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

²¹ equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, ⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself. ⁸ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins. ¹⁰ So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

²⁸ "But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!'

¹³ "In reply he said to one of them. 'My friend, I am doing no wrong. Did you not agree with me for two shillings?

¹⁹ "Hypocrites! Why are you tempting me? Show me the tribute money." So they brought him a shilling.

¹⁵ "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth,

³⁵ "The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

¹⁵ and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁶ And I heard the semblance of a voice in the midst of the four Living Creatures, saying. "A quart of wheat for a shilling, and three quarts of barley for a shilling; but do not harm the oil and the wine."

¹⁶ "To what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, who call to the other children, ¹⁷ "saying. 'We have piped to you and you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not beaten your breasts.'

⁶ "When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?' ⁷ "'Because no one has hired us,' they replied. "He said to them, 'Do you also go into the vineyard.'

²⁵ It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.

¹⁵ "These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

¹⁷ He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there. ¹⁸ A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is? ²⁰ "For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean." ²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)

¹³ Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

¹² Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

⁹ As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

²³ When he had entered the Temple courts, and was teaching, the high priests and elders of the people came to him and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" ²⁴ Jesus answered. "I also will put a question to you, which, if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. ²⁵ John's baptism, whence was it, from heaven or from man?" So they began debating about it among themselves. ²⁶ "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet." ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you in what authority I do these deeds. ²⁸ "But give me your judgment. There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said to him, "'Son, go work today in my vineyard!' ²⁹ "'I will go, sir,' he answered; yet he did not go. ³⁰ "Then he went to the second, and said the same thing to him. "'I will not,' he answered; but afterward he changed his mind and went. ³¹ "Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!

⁷ When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." ⁸ But Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, "I give half my property to the poor, Lord, and if I have defrauded any man of anything I am restoring it to him fourfold." ⁹ "Today is salvation come to this house," said Jesus "since Zaccheus here is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

¹⁶ Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness? ¹⁷ But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed; ¹⁸ and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness— ¹⁹ I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature—just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness. ²¹ What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ Masters, deal justly and fairly with your slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

¹² And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service, ¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

⁸ This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men.

¹³ So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God. ³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

⁴⁵ Now from noon darkness fell upon the whole land, until three o'clock in the afternoon.

³³ At noon a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon. ³⁴ At three o'clock Jesus cried in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

⁴⁴ It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. ⁴⁵ And the sun was darkened, and the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two in the Temple. ⁴⁶ Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit.

³⁹ He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

⁶ Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.

⁹ Jesus replied. "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble, because he beholds the light of this world;

¹ One day Peter and John were going up together for the hour of prayer, at three in the afternoon,

³ About three o'clock one afternoon he had a vision, and distinctly saw an angel of God enter his house and say to him, "Cornelius."

⁹ The next day, while they were still on their way and were approaching the town, about noon, Peter went up to the housetop to pray.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. ²⁶ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

⁴⁰ But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he? ⁴¹ "We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong." ⁴² Then he added, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom." ⁴³ "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise."

⁴ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)

⁹ "'So go out into the partings of the highways, and summon everybody you find there to the wedding-feast.' ¹⁰ "So those slaves went out into the roads, and gathered together all whom they found, good or bad, and the banquet-hall was filled with the guests.

²¹ "So the slave came and presented all these answers to his master. Then the master of the house was indignant, and said to his slave. 'Go out, quickly, into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the blind, the lame.' ²² "And the slave said, 'My master, your orders have been carried out, but yet there is room.' ²³ "Said the master to his slave. 'Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

¹⁶ "What," said they, "shall we do with these men? For it is well known throughout Jerusalem that a notable miracle has been performed by them, and we cannot deny it.

³⁰ "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent; ³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."

¹⁴ How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring a glad gospel. ¹⁶ And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message? ¹⁷ So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,

¹¹ Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by man's hand, ¹² were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

⁸ because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

²⁶ that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

³⁹ "The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ "Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

¹⁹ "After a long time the master of those slaves came, and demanded a reckoning with them.

³¹ "But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory;

³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

⁷ "Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give. for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not go from house to house.

⁴² The Lord answered. "Who then is that faithful steward, the wise man whom his Lord will put in charge of the rations in due time?

¹ To his disciples he said: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property. ² "He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

⁶ For He will render to every man according to his works; ⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

¹ Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God. ² Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

⁷ For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

²⁸ so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

¹⁰ Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and One who sat thereon; from his presence fled earth and sky, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

² "And when he had agreed with the workmen for two shillings a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³ For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness. ⁴ Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt; ⁵ but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness. ⁶ Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

²⁰ Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; ²¹ in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,—ours!

⁶ and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved. ⁷ It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood; ⁸ so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift. ⁹ It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it; ¹⁰ for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I! ¹⁶ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

² And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

²⁸ "But he was angry and would not go in; so his father came out, and attempted to plead with him; but he said to his father. ²⁹ "'All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ "'But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.'

⁷ When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

² so, when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party disputed with him, ³ saying, "You went into the houses of the uncircumcised and ate with them!"

⁴⁵ When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

²¹ "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'" ²² Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

¹⁶ They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

¹⁶ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

⁵⁵ "And when you feel the south winds blowing you say, 'There will be a hot wind,' and it comes to pass.

¹⁰ "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest. ¹¹ "For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

¹¹ "The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer; ¹² "'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

²² I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile, ²³ since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God; ²⁴ but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

³⁰ since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith? ³¹ But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law? ³² And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

¹ Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved. ² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge. ³ For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁵ In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace. ⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. ²⁵ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea. ²⁶ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness. ²⁸ Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

¹¹ For as the sun comes up with a burning heat, it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes; so also shall the rich man fade away amid his pursuits.

¹² "'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?' "The man was speechless.

⁵⁰ "Friend, do that for which you came," said Jesus. Then they came forward and laid hands on Jesus, and arrested him.

¹⁴ What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed. ¹⁵ His words to Moses are. I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy; I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

²⁰ "Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

² "And whatever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets, in order that men may praise them. In solemn truth I tell you they already have their reward in full.

⁶ "But you, when you pray, go into your own room and shut your door; pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

¹⁶ "When you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces so that it may be apparent to men that they are fasting. In solemn truth I tell you, they already have received their reward.

³¹ "'My dear son,' answered his father, 'you are always with me and all that is mine is yours.

²⁵ "'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

² since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

⁴ By no means! Be sure that God is ever true, though all mankind prove false. As it is written, That thou mayest be found just in thine argument, And gain thy cause when thou contendest.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

²³ "but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children.

²² fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly—

¹⁵ His words to Moses are. I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy; I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion. ¹⁶ So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. ¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, It is for this very purpose that I have raised you up, To show in you my power, And to proclaim my name far and wide, in all the earth. ¹⁸ So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens. ¹⁹ Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?" ²⁰ "Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?" ²¹ Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses? ²² But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction? ²³ And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory? ²⁴ Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

⁷ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

¹¹ It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

¹ And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

⁵ even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

¹⁸ Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

⁹ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

¹³ "Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it;

¹¹ "I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹² "but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; there will be the wailing and the gnashing of teeth."

³⁰ "But many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

³¹ "Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!

¹⁴ "For there are many called, but few are chosen."

³¹ But many who are first shall be last, and the last, first."

⁴⁷ "This is why I tell you that her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for her love is great; but he who is forgiven little, loves but little.

²⁸ "'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out. ²⁹ "And people shall come from the Orient and from the Occident, from the north and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ "And lo, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."

²⁴ "'For I tell you that not one of those invited guests shall taste my supper.'"

⁷ "I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

¹⁷ "Were there not ten cleansed?" asked Jesus, "but where are the nine? ¹⁸ "Are there none found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!" ²⁰ Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast; ²¹ these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered.

²⁰ Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith?

¹³ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

¹³ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. ²⁵ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law—the law of liberty—and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

¹¹ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

¹³ When Jesus came into the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of man is?"

³² They were still on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus led the way; and they were amazed, and some, although they followed, were afraid. Then once more he took the Twelve, and began to tell them what was about to befall him. ³³ "See," said he, "we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the Scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will mock him, spit upon him, flog him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again."

³¹ Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled. ³² "He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon; ³³ "and they will scourge and kill him; and the third day he will rise again." ³⁴ But they understood none of these sayings. His words were a mystery to them, and they did not know what he meant.

¹² Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

¹⁵ "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

⁴¹ "not to all the people, but to witnesses—men previously chosen by God—that is, to us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead;

²¹ After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

²² As they continued going from place to place in Galilee, Jesus said to them. "The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men; ²³ "and they will kill him, but on the third day he will rise again." And they were greatly grieved.

² "You know that the Passover is coming in two days, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified."

⁶⁶ "What is your verdict?" "He ought to die," they answered.

¹ And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death.

⁶⁴ "Did you hear his blasphemy? What is your verdict?" ⁶⁵ Then they all condemn him to be worthy of death. Some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him while striking him and saying, "Prophesy." The officers, too, received him into custody with blows.

⁷¹ "What need we of further evidence? for we ourselves have heard it from his own lips."

²³ him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men;

²⁷ "In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel— ²⁸ "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

⁴⁰ "For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea-monster's belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and some struck him with the palms of their hands, and cried. ⁶⁸ "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it who struck you?"

² After they had bound him, they led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman Governor. ³ Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. ⁴ "I have sinned," he said, "in betraying innocent blood!" "What is that to us?" they answered; "you must see to that." ⁵ And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself. ⁶ The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood." ⁷ So after the consultation they bought the Potter's Field with it, for a burial-place for strangers. ⁸ That is the reason why, to this day, the field is called "The Field of Blood." ⁹ Then was fulfilled the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who had been priced, whom certain of the Children of Israel had priced; ¹⁰ and gave them for the Potter's Field, as the Lord had appointed me.

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered all the battalion together. ²⁸ They stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. ²⁹ And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" ³⁰ And they spit upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head, again and again. ³¹ At last, when they had finished their mocking, they took the robe off, and put his own garments on him, and led him away to crucify him.

⁶⁵ Then they all condemn him to be worthy of death. Some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him while striking him and saying, "Prophesy." The officers, too, received him into custody with blows.

¹ As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

¹⁶ The soldiers then led him away into the courtyard (Praetorium), and called together the whole battalion. ¹⁷ They clothed Jesus in purple, and plaited a crown of thorns, and placed it on his head. ¹⁸ Then they began to salute him. "Hail, King of the Jews," they said. ¹⁹ They kept striking him on the head with a rod, and spitting upon him; and on bended knee they did him homage. ²⁰ And after their sport with him, they stripped off the purple robe, and put on his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him.

²⁹ And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself! ³⁰ Come down from the cross! ³¹ In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save.

¹ Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate, ² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King." ³ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him saying, "Certainly I am." ⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man." ⁵ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

⁴⁶ and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;

²⁸ From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover. ²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?" ³⁰ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you." ³¹ "Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law." ³² The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die). ³³ So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said. ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" ³⁵ "I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins." ³⁷ "You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

¹ After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged; ² and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and threw a purple cloak about him, and kept marching up to him, ³ saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands. ⁴ Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him,"

¹³ "The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go; ¹⁴ "but you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favor the release of a murderer. ¹⁵ "The Pioneer of Life you put to death. But God has raised him from the dead, and we are witnesses of that fact. ¹⁶ "And his name, on the ground of faith in his name, has made strong this man, whom you now see and know; yes, the faith that is through him has made this man sound and strong again, in the presence of you all.

²⁷ "In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel—

¹¹ He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

³ For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, ⁴ that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve. ⁶ Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

¹¹ When they had entered the house, they saw the child with Mary, his mother, and opening their treasure-chests they gave him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

²¹ As he went farther on he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

² And behold! a leper came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord if you choose, you can make me clean."

³³ and the men in the boat fell upon their knees before him, saying, "You are, indeed, the Son of God."

²⁵ But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me."

⁵⁶ among them being Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

¹⁷ And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted.

³⁵ Presently there came up to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and said, "Teacher, we wish you would do for us whatever we ask you." ³⁶ "What is it you want me to do for you?" said he. ³⁷ They answered, "Allow us to sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left hand, in your glory." ³⁸ "You know not what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" ³⁹ They answered him, "We can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized, ⁴⁰ but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved." ⁴¹ When they heard this the ten began to be indignant at James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said: ⁴² "You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority. ⁴³ Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant; ⁴⁴ and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all, ⁴⁵ and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

⁴⁰ There were some women also watching from a distance. Among them were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

¹ At that hour his disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Who is really greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

²⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus answered, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

³² Then Jesus stopped and called to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

²² at which the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced. She charmed Herod and his guests. "Ask me whatever you want," said the king to the young girl, "and I will give it to you."

³⁶ "What is it you want me to do for you?" said he. ³⁷ They answered, "Allow us to sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

⁵¹ "What do you want me to do?" said Jesus, addressing him. And the blind man answered, "O Rabboni, that I might receive my sight!"

¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

²⁰ The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it, ²¹ "nor will they say, 'Look here it is!' or 'See there!'—for the kingdom of God is now in your midst."

⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he answered, "that I might see again."

¹¹ As they were listening to his words he added this parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear.

²⁴ And there arose also a dispute among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest,

⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

⁶ So, when they came together, they began to ask him, "Master, are you at this time about to restore the kingdom of Israel?"

³⁴ Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

¹ If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

² to my sister Apphia, to my fellow soldier Archippus, and to the church which meets at Philemon's house. From Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy. ³ Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³⁵ But Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And so said all the disciples.

³⁹ Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

⁴² Then he went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "O, my Father, if this cup cannot pass except I drink it, Thy will be done."

⁵⁶ "But all this has happened in order that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."

³⁸ "You know not what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" ³⁹ They answered him, "We can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized,

³⁶ "Abba, Father," he said, "all things are possible with thee. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

⁵⁰ "Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

⁴² "Father, if thou art willing, take away this cup from me; but thy will, not mine, be done!"

¹¹ (The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

²⁶ In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

³ You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

⁴⁰ but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

² and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

⁹ Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

⁷ My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

¹¹ Faithful is the saying. "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him. ¹² If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

¹⁶ but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

⁹ I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

⁴¹ When they heard this the ten began to be indignant at James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said:

²³ And they began to question among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do such a thing. ²⁴ And there arose also a dispute among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest, ²⁵ and he said to them. "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have who have authority over them are called Benefactors.

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

⁵ Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?" ⁶ But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

⁵ You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble.

²⁹ "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

³ "In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ "Whoever therefore will humble himself like this little child, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven;

²⁵ but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ "Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you wishes to become great, shall be your minister, ²⁷ "and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave; ²⁸ "just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

⁴² "You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

²⁵ and he said to them. "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have who have authority over them are called Benefactors. ²⁶ "But you shall not be so. But he who is greater among you let him become like the younger; and he who is leader like him who serves. ²⁷ "For which is greater, he who sits at table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at table? But I am in your midst as one who serves.

¹² So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them. ¹³ "Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am. ¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

⁸ "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers; ⁹ "and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven. ¹⁰ "And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ. ¹¹ "Whoever is great among you shall be your minister; ¹² "whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

⁴⁴ "Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

⁵⁵ And there were present several women who were looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from a Galilee, ministering to him.

³⁵ So he sat down and called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and the servant of all."

⁴³ Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant;

⁴⁵ and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

⁷ He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them. ⁸ "When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say, ⁹ "'Give place to this man,' and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place.

¹⁴ "I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself shall be humbled; but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

³⁶ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

⁵ And while they were in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.

²⁴ (not that I am attempting to lord it over your faith, but rather to work with you for your happiness); for your faith is stedfast.

⁴ for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses. ⁵ For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ; ⁶ and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question. ⁷ Look these facts in the face. If any man is fully persuaded as regards himself that he belongs to Christ, let him consider again with himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also am I. ⁸ If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame. ⁹ Let it not seem as if I were overawing you with my letters. ¹⁰ "His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

¹⁸ The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

¹³ I could wish to retain him at my side, so that he might minister to me in your stead, in my bonds for the gospel. ¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

¹¹ If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

³ not by way of lording it over your heritage, but by becoming examples to the flock.

⁹ I have written somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who love to take the lead among them, does not receive me. ¹⁰ Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

¹¹ And I saw another beast ascending from the land; and he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon; ¹² and he exerts the full authority of the first beast before him, and he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose death-stroke was healed. ¹³ And he performs great miracles, so that he even causes fire to come down to the earth from the sky, before men's eyes. ¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived. ¹⁵ And he was permitted to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speak; and so that any one who would not worship the image of the beast should be put to death. ¹⁶ And he makes all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to have a brand put upon their right hands or upon their brows, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the brand of the beast, or the number of his name.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and I wondered with a great wonder.

⁴ "Whoever therefore will humble himself like this little child, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven;

³³ Then they came to Capernaum; and when he got into the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the road?" ³⁴ But they were silent, for on the road they were disputing together which one was greatest. ³⁵ So he sat down and called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and the servant of all."

²⁶ "But you shall not be so. But he who is greater among you let him become like the younger; and he who is leader like him who serves.

³⁴ "You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions. ³⁵ "In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

¹⁴ To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge.

¹⁹ Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more. ²⁰ To the Jews I am become like a Jew, that I may win Jews; to those under the Law, like one under the Law, though I am not under the Law, myself; ²¹ to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ). ²² I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some. ²³ And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

⁵ It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.

⁵ For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. ²⁵ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea. ²⁶ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

¹⁵ For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

²⁰ "Foxes have their holes," answered Jesus, "and wild birds their roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head."

²⁸ "Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

²⁴ and he said: "This is my covenant blood, which is poured out for many.

²⁷ "For which is greater, he who sits at table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at table? But I am in your midst as one who serves.

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

⁵⁰ "You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed." ⁵¹ now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation, ⁵² and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

⁴ and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself. ⁵ Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself. ⁶ Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later." ⁸ Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." ¹¹ (For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.)

²⁴ but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness—since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed—to show forth his righteousness, ²⁶ I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

²⁵ who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

¹⁵ But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men. ¹⁶ And it is not with the free gift as it was through the one that sinned; for the judgment came from one transgression unto condemnation; but the free gift came from many transgressions unto acquittal. ¹⁷ For if through the transgression of the one, death reigned as king through the one, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through One, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ It follows then, as through the transgression of one man came condemnation unto all men, even so through the act of righteousness of One came acquittal and life to all men. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

⁷ It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

² and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

⁴ Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained, ⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. ⁸ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.

¹⁴ He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

¹⁰ For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

⁸ Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience through the things which he suffered;

¹⁸ For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors; ¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

² And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

⁸ When he took the book, the four Living Creatures and the four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb. And each had a harp and a golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

²⁷ And as he went on from thence two blind men followed Jesus, crying, "Have pity on us, Son of David!" ²⁸ And when he had gone indoors, they came to him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" asked Jesus. "Yes, Lord," they answered. ²⁹ Then he touched their eyes, saying "According to your faith be it unto you," and their eyes were opened. ³⁰ Jesus charged them sternly, saying, "See to it that you let no one know." ³¹ But they went and published his fame in that whole region.

⁴⁶ Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road. ⁴⁷ Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began shouting and saying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!" ⁴⁸ and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" ⁴⁹ Then Jesus stood still, saying, "Call him." So they called the blind man, and said, "Courage, rise, he is calling you." ⁵⁰ The man threw off his cloak, sprang to his feet, and came to Jesus. ⁵¹ "What do you want me to do?" said Jesus, addressing him. And the blind man answered, "O Rabboni, that I might receive my sight!" ⁵² "Go," said Jesus, "your own faith has saved you," and immediately he received his sight, and began to follow Jesus along the road.

³⁵ As Jesus drew near to Jericho, there was a blind man who sat by the wayside begging. ³⁶ He heard the crowd passing and asked what the matter was. ³⁷ They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." ³⁸ Then he shouted out, saying, "Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!" ³⁹ Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!" ⁴⁰ So Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to him. When he was come near to him he asked him ⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he answered, "that I might see again." ⁴² "Receive your sight," said Jesus, "your faith has saved you." ⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people who saw it gave praise to God.

²² Then they brought to him a blind and deaf demoniac; and he healed him, so that the dumb both spoke and saw. ²³ And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?"

²² Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

⁹ And the crowds who preceded and those who followed after him shouted again and again, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

¹⁴ Then the blind and the lame came to him in the Temple courts, and he healed them.

⁴² "What is your opinion concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?" "David's," they answered.

⁴⁶ Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

²¹ At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight.

¹ Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth. ² "Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" ³ "Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him. ⁴ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work. ⁵ "While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." ⁶ When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes. ⁷ Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing. ⁸ Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said. ¹⁰ So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

³⁰ "Because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit of his loins he would set one on his throne,

³ this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature, ⁴ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ "For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.

²³ But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

¹³ Then young children were brought to him, that he might lay his hands on them and pray. His disciples interfered, but Jesus said to them.

⁸ "I tell you that, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunate persistence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. ⁹ "So I say to you. "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. ¹⁰ "For he that asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door shall be opened.

¹ He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart. ² "There was a certain town," he said, "a judge who had neither reverence for God, nor respect for man. ³ "In that same town there was a widow who came again and again before him, saying, "'Do for me the justice of my adversary.' ⁴ "For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have neither reverence for God nor regard for man, ⁵ "'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.' ⁶ "Listen" said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says. ⁷ "And will not God see justice done to his elect who are crying unto him day and night, even if he seems to delay helping them? ⁸ "I tell you that he will quickly see justice done to his elect! Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith upon the earth?"

³⁹ Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!"

² Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

²¹ "What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."

²⁹ "I ask therefore why you sent for me."

⁶ Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

¹⁷ I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself; ¹⁸ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might

¹⁵ He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and waited upon him.

²⁹ Then he touched their eyes, saying "According to your faith be it unto you," and their eyes were opened.

³⁶ And when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were distressed and fainting, like sheep without a shepherd.

¹⁴ So when he landed he saw a great multitude, and felt compassion for them, and healed their sick.

³² But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

³³ So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva;

¹³ A great crowd accompanied her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."

⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people who saw it gave praise to God.

⁵¹ "Permit me to do this at least," said Jesus, as he touched his ear and healed him.

⁶ When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes. ⁷ Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

³³ Then when Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews likewise who accompanied her, sobbing, he shuddered with indignation in his spirit, and was deeply agitated. ³⁴ "Where have you laid him?" he said: "Master, come and see," they answered. ³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

¹⁷ And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

¹⁵ For we have not a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Let us, then, draw near with glad boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help us in our times of need.

⁸ Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded;