Luke 13 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. ² But he replied to them, "Do you think, because they suffered this, that these Galileans were worse sinners than the rest of the Galileans? ³ I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did. ⁴ Or those eighteen men killed by the fall of the tower at Siloam? do you think they were worse offenders than the rest of the residents in Jerusalem? ⁵ I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did." ⁶ And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none. ⁷ So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?' ⁸ But the man replied, 'Leave it for this year, sir, till I dig round about it and put in manure. ⁹ Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'" ¹⁰ When he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, ¹¹ there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself. ¹² Jesus noticed her and called to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness." ¹³ He laid his hands on her, and instantly she became erect and glorified God. ¹⁴ But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath." ¹⁵ The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink? ¹⁶ And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?" ¹⁷ As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings. ¹⁸ So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches." ²⁰ He added, "To what shall I compare the Reign of God? ²¹ It is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened." ²² On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem. ²³ A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them, ²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able, ²⁵ once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' ²⁶ You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!' ²⁷ 'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.' ²⁸ There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside. ²⁹ Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God. ³⁰ Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." ³¹ Just then some Pharisees came up to tell him, "Get away from here, for Herod intends to kill you." ³² "Go and tell that fox," he replied, "I cast out daemons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I complete my task! ³³ But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem! ³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it! ³⁵ See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

² After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

³⁷ After him Judas the Galilean started up at the time of the census, and got people to desert to him; but he perished too, and all his followers were scattered.

¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel? ¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

⁴ Or those eighteen men killed by the fall of the tower at Siloam? do you think they were worse offenders than the rest of the residents in Jerusalem?

² and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin — for his own or for his parents' — was he born blind?"

⁴ When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live."

² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

⁴⁵ Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it! ³⁸ See, your House is left to you, desolate.

²¹ for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now — no and never shall be. ²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short. ²³ If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it; ²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible. ²⁵ (I am telling you this beforehand.) ²⁶ If they tell you, 'Here he is in the desert,' do not go out; 'here he is in the chamber,' do not believe it. ²⁷ For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man. ²⁸ Wherever the body lies, there will the vultures gather. ²⁹ Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

⁵ I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did."

⁴² saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you! ⁴³ A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side ⁴⁴ and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you — and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

²² for these are the days of the divine Vengeance, in fulfilment of all that is written in scripture. ²³ Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days, for sore anguish will come upon the land and Wrath on this people; ²⁴ they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

²⁸ but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children! ²⁹ For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!' ³⁰ Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself." ⁴⁰ And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"

¹⁹ Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,

²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice. ²² Lo, I will lay her on a sickbed, and bring her paramours into sore distress, if they do not repent of her practices;

¹² and forgive us our debts as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors,

²⁴ When he began the settlement, a debtor was brought in who owed him three million pounds;

⁴¹ "There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five. ⁴² As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

⁴ and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation."

⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

¹¹ He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight."

³ I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

¹⁹ and noticing a fig tree by the roadside he went up to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you after this!" And instantly the fig tree withered up. ²⁰ When the disciples saw this they marvelled. "How did the fig tree wither up in an instant?" they said.

³⁴ When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit; ³⁵ but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them. ³⁷ Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said. ³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers?"

¹² Next day, when they had left Bethany, he felt hungry, ¹³ and noticing a fig tree in leaf some distance away he went to see if he could find anything on it; but when he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs. ¹⁴ Then he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you after this!" The disciples heard him say it.

¹⁰ When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing. ¹¹ He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing. ¹² Then he sent still a third, but this one they wounded and threw outside. ¹³ Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' ¹⁴ But when the vinedressers saw him, they argued to themselves, 'Here is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.'

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

¹⁷ It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! ¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹⁹ [Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

⁹ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

⁴ Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent? ⁵ In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

¹ Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God!

¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

⁹ The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

⁸ whereas, if it produces thorns and thistles, it is reprobate and on the verge of being cursed — its fate is to be burned.

³ and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations! ⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence. ⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!" ⁷ And I heard the altar cry, "Even so, Lord God almighty: true and just are thy sentences of doom."

²³ Then he made a tour through the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing all the sickness and disease of the people.

¹⁵ He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by all. ¹⁶ Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

⁴⁴ So he went preaching through the synagogues of Judaea.

³² As they went out, a dumb man was brought to him, who was possessed by a daemon, ³³ and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said;

² and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven),

²⁷ As he stepped out on land he was met by a man from the town who had daemons in him; for a long while he had worn no clothing, and he stayed not in a house but among the tombs.

⁴³ and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,

¹⁶ And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

⁵ Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

¹⁹ and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?" ²⁰ His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that. ²¹ But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."

² when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.

²² (the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed, being more than forty years old).

⁸ At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born. ⁹ He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better, ¹⁰ said in a loud voice, "Stand erect on your feet." Up he jumped and began to walk.

¹⁶ Now when evening came they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all the invalids —

⁸ He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?" ¹⁰ And glancing round at them all in anger he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was quite restored.

²³ with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

⁵ There he could not do any miracle, beyond laying his hands on a few sick people and curing them.

²⁵ At this he laid his hands on his eyes once more, and the man stared in front of him; he was quite restored and saw everything distinctly.

¹⁸ they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

⁴⁰ At sunset all who had any people ill with any sort of disease brought them to him; he laid his hands on everyone and healed them.

¹⁴ Noticing them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went away they were cleansed. ¹⁵ Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice; ¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine?

⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

¹⁷ So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

² When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."

¹⁰ Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?" ¹¹ He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in? ¹² And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

² and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him. ³ He said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise and come forward;" ⁴ then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent. ⁵ Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored. ⁶ On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him.

²² A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet

⁷ and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.

¹¹ This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus.

⁴¹ A man called Jairus came, who was a president of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus entreated him to come to his house,

³ so Jesus asked the jurists and Pharisees, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath or not?" ⁴ They held their peace. Then Jesus took hold of the man and cured him and sent him off. ⁵ "Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?" ⁶ This they could not dispute.

¹⁵ Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

¹⁴ Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see." ¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

¹⁵ and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

⁸ But Crispus the president of the synagogue believed in the Lord, as did all his household, and many of the Corinthians listened, believed, and were baptized.

¹⁷ Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

² I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

⁵ You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said,

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

¹³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

²⁸ So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

⁴² How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

¹ Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

⁵ "Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it. ²² Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath. ²³ Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath? ²⁴ Give over judging by appearances; be just."

²⁰ Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God! ²¹ You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God. ²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose. ²³ For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."

⁹ So Saul (who is also called Paul), filled with the holy Spirit, looked steadily at him ¹⁰ and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

²⁷ And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath:

⁸ Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

¹¹ there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself. ¹² Jesus noticed her and called to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness."

²⁴ so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.'

⁹ And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

²⁶ Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

¹² as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man. ¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void. ¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.) ¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham — of Abraham who is the father of us all

²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

⁶ This they could not dispute.

³⁷ and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen, ³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the king who comes in the Lord's name! Peace in heaven and glory in the High places!" ³⁹ Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher." ⁴⁰ But he replied, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, the very stones would shout."

⁴⁸ but they could not discover what was to be done, for the whole of the people hung upon his lips.

⁴⁰ They no longer dared to put any question to him.

¹⁷ Now the people who were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, testified to it; ¹⁸ and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

⁹ When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰ and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him. ¹¹ As he clung to Peter and John, all the people rushed awestruck to them in what was called Solomon's portico.

²¹ Then they threatened them still further and let them go; on account of the people they found themselves unable to find any means of punishing them, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened

⁹ However, they will get no further, for their aberration will be detected by everyone, as was the case with these magicians.

¹⁶ see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

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

³¹ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man takes and sows in his field. ³² It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

²⁶ And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth;

³⁰ He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable? ³¹ It is like a grain of mustard-seed — less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth; ³² but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow." ³³ In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it; ³⁴ he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

³¹ "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

²⁰ He added, "To what shall I compare the Reign of God?

²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

²⁰ He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

³¹ It is like a grain of mustard-seed — less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth; ³² but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

⁶ The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

⁴ (A number of those who heard them speak believed, bringing up their numbers to [about] five thousand.)

¹⁴ Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name. ¹⁵ This agrees with the words of the prophets; as it is written, ¹⁶ After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent, its ruins I will rebuild and erect it anew, ¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord, ¹⁸ who makes this known from of old.

²⁰ They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

¹⁹ by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ —

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

³³ He told them another parable. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

⁶ Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

⁶ of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital, ¹⁰ so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ, ¹¹ your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

²³ May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ! ²⁴ He who calls you is faithful, he will do this.

²¹ so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

³⁵ Then Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing every disease and complaint.

⁶ He was astonished at their lack of faith. Then he made a tour round the villages, teaching.

³² They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself. ³³ "We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

⁴³ He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do." ⁴⁴ So he went preaching through the synagogues of Judaea.

⁵¹ As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem.

³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazaret with the holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and curing all who were harassed by the devil; for God was with him.

¹⁴ But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

²⁵ When the disciples heard this they were utterly astounded; they said, "Who then can possibly be saved?"

¹⁶ So shall the last be first and the first last."

¹⁴ For many are invited but few are chosen.'"

³ So as he sat on the Hill of Olives the disciples came up to him in private and said, "Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign of your arrival and of the end of the world?" ⁴ Jesus replied, "Take care that no one misleads you; ⁵ for many will come in my name, saying 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

⁴ "Tell us, when is this to happen? What will be the sign for all this to be accomplished?" ⁵ So Jesus began: "Take care that no one misleads you: —

¹³ A man out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance"; ¹⁴ but he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over your affairs?" ¹⁵ Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."

⁷ So they asked him, "Teacher, and when will this happen? What will be the sign for this to take place?" ⁸ He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' — do not go after them.

²¹ So, on catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "And what about him, Lord?" ²² Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

⁷ But he told them, "It is not for you to know the course and periods of time that the Father has fixed by his own authority. ⁸ You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

¹³ Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way. ¹⁴ But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

¹² From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it.

¹⁸ John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife." ¹⁹ Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it, ²⁰ for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John — he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

³⁴ you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come."

²¹ Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come."

³³ My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.

³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble — ³³ as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize. ²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. ²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air — ²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

²⁹ I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

¹⁰ So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

¹⁰ Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut. ¹¹ Afterwards the rest of the maidens came and said, 'Oh sir, oh sir, open the door for us!' ¹² but he replied, 'I tell you frankly, I do not know you.'

⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

⁴⁶ Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not?

²⁷ 'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'

² (He saith, I have heard you in the time of favour, and helped you on the day of salvation. Well, here is the time of favour, here is the day of salvation.)

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert,

¹⁷ You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.

⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.

¹² but he replied, 'I tell you frankly, I do not know you.'

²⁵ once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

³ but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven, ¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

⁴² and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁵⁰ and fling them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

¹³ Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁵¹ he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

³⁰ Throw the good-for-nothing servant into the darkness outside; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

¹⁵ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades!

¹⁵ Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

²³ And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom;

⁴² And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign." ⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

⁵ They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it —

¹¹ you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven,

²⁷ Then he will despatch his angels and muster the elect from the four winds, from the verge of earth to the verge of heaven.

²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise. ⁷ Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power; ⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

⁶ which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

²³ that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands; ¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!"

³⁰ Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

²⁸ Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day'; ²⁹ he replied, 'I will go, sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.

³¹ Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

¹⁴ Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

²⁶ The king was very vexed, but for the sake of his oaths and his guests he did not like to disappoint her; ²⁷ so the king at once sent one of the guard with orders to bring his head. The man went and beheaded him in the prison, ²⁸ brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

¹⁹ But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife as well as for all the wickedness that he, Herod, had committed, ²⁰ crowned all by shutting John up in prison.

⁷ When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead, ⁸ some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen. ⁹ Herod said, "John I beheaded. But who is this, of whom I hear such tales?" And he made efforts to see him.

⁸ Herod was greatly delighted to see Jesus; he had long wanted to see him, because he had heard about him and also because he hoped to see him perform some miracle. ⁹ But though he put many questions to him, Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Meanwhile the high priests and scribes stood and accused him with might and main. ¹¹ Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

³² Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?"

⁸ "Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?" ⁹ Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world: ¹⁰ but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him."

⁴ I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do; ⁵ now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

³⁰ And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

¹⁰ In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

²⁸ For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

¹⁸ "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death

¹¹ and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"

⁵³ but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem.

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

⁹ Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world:

⁵⁴ Accordingly Jesus no longer appeared in public among the Jews, but withdrew to the country adjoining the desert, to a town called Ephraim; there he stayed with the disciples.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

³⁵ but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.

³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it! ³⁸ See, your House is left to you, desolate. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

²⁸ This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,

⁴¹ And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you!

⁴⁴ and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you — and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

²⁸ but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, ¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

¹ (Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

²⁵ for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

⁸ and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified.

⁹ And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"

⁹ and both those in front and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! ¹⁰ Blessed be the Reign to come, our father David's reign. Hosanna in high heaven!"

⁵ Some were speaking of the temple with its ornamentation of splendid stones and votive gifts, but he said, ⁶ "As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

²⁴ they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

³⁴ you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come." ³⁵ The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?"

²² So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?" ²³ He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world. ²⁴ So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins."

¹³ and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of the Light." [vss 36b to 43 are relocated after vs 50] With these words Jesus went away and hid from them.

¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

¹³ They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law! ¹⁴ Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

⁹ Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved; ¹⁰ for with his heart man believes and is justified, with his mouth he confesses and is saved. ¹¹ No one who believes in him, the scripture says, will ever be disappointed. No one — ¹² for there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, the same Lord is Lord of them all, with ample for all who invoke him. ¹³ Everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved. ¹⁴ But how are they to invoke One in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they ever to hear, without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? — as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

¹⁵ Yes, down to this day, whenever Moses is read aloud, the veil rests on their heart; ¹⁶ though whenever they turn to the Lord, the veil is removed. ¹⁷ (The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.) ¹⁸ But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another — for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.