Luke 14 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely. ² In front of him there was a man who had dropsy; 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. ⁷ He also told a parable to the guests, when he observed how they picked out the best places. ⁸ "When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited; ⁹ then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests. ¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted." ¹² He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid. ¹³ No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. ¹⁴ Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just." ¹⁵ Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!" ¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests. ¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.' ¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.' ²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.' ²² When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,' ²³ the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house. ²⁴ For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'" ²⁵ There were large crowds travelling with him; so he turned and said to them, ²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine; ²⁷ whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁸ For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? — ²⁹ in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him, ³⁰ saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.' ³¹ Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand? ³² If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him. ³³ So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine. ³⁴ Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour? ³⁵ It is no use for either soil or dunghill, it is flung out. He who has an ear let him listen to this."

² and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him.

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

³⁴ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' ³⁵ Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all her children." ³⁶ One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.

³⁷ When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.

⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

²⁰ So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

¹ Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who belonged to the Jewish authorities;

³⁴ But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could. ²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law; ²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

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?"

³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.

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.

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?"

⁴⁴ Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares." ⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."

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?"

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?

²⁵ Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ²⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet." ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

⁴⁶ No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

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."

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?

¹⁷ As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings.

²⁶ So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

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

¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

¹⁰ but they could not meet the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

³⁴ Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable —

⁶ they are fond of the best places at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues;

³⁸ And in the course of his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, to get saluted in the marketplaces, ³⁹ to secure the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

¹⁸ Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money, ¹⁹ saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit."

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

⁹ I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

⁹ Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) — lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.

¹² Whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be uplifted.

⁵¹ He has done a deed of might with his arm, he has scattered the proud with their purposes,

¹⁴ I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

¹⁰ humble yourselves before the Lord, and then he will raise you up.

⁵ You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

⁴⁶ For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

¹ Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No, ² When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward. ³ When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so as to keep your alms secret; then your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.

¹⁶ When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward. ¹⁷ But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸ so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

⁵³ he has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

³² If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them. ³³ If you help only those who help you, what merit is that to you? Why, even sinful men do that. ³⁴ If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return. ³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil. ³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

¹ My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people. ² Suppose there comes into your meeting a man who wears gold rings and handsome clothes, and also a poor man in dirty clothes; ³ if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet," ⁴ are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ Now you insult the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you and drag you to court?

¹⁴ So when he disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them he healed their sick folk. ¹⁵ When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages." ¹⁶ Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away; give them some food yourselves." ¹⁷ They said, "We have only five loaves with us and two fish." ¹⁸ He said, "Bring them here to me." ¹⁹ Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds. ²⁰ They all ate and had enough; besides, they picked up the fragments left over and filled twelve baskets with them. ²¹ The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.

³² Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road." ³³ The disciples said to him, "Where are we to get loaves enough in a desert to satisfy such a crowd?" ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you got?" They said, "Seven, and some little fish." ³⁵ So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground. ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fish and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ³⁷ So the people all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over and filled seven large baskets with them. ³⁸ The men who ate numbered four thousand, apart from the children and the women. ³⁹ Then he sent the crowd away, got into the boat and went to the territory of Magadan.

¹⁰ And those servants went out on the roads and gathered all they met, bad and good alike. Thus the marriage-banquet was supplied with guests.

⁴¹ Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.

²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.'

⁴⁴ The believers all kept together; they shared all they had with one another, ⁴⁵ they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds among all, as anyone might be in need.

³⁴ There was not a needy person among them, for those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale, ³⁵ laying the money before the feet of the apostles; it was then distributed according to each individual's need.

³⁹ So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him up to the room, where all the widows stood beside him crying as they showed him the garments and dresses that Dorcas used to make when she was with them.

¹³ contribute to needy saints, make a practice of hospitality. ¹⁴ Bless those who make a practice of persecuting you; bless them instead of cursing them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

² Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

¹⁰ she must have a reputation for good service, as a woman who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved distress, and interested herself in all good works.

⁸ he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

⁷ I have had great joy and encouragement over your love, my brother, over the way you have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

² Never forget to be hospitable, for by hospitality some have entertained angels unawares.

⁴ so as to keep your alms secret; then your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.

⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, ³⁶ I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.' ³⁷ Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink? ³⁸ when did we see you a stranger and entertain you? or unclothed and clothed you? ³⁹ when did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married, ³⁶ for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

¹⁵ and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

¹⁸ Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes. ¹⁹ My God will supply all your own needs from his wealth in Glory in Christ Jesus.

⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ As for the rest of the dead, they did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

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,

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.

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

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 I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

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." ²⁸ Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" ²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent." ³⁰ "Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show? ³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ³² Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven — ³³ for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." ³⁴ "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." ³⁵ Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again. ³⁶ But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe. ³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them; ³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me, ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day." ⁴¹ Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." ⁴² They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" ⁴³ Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day). ⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died; ⁵⁰ the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. ⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), ⁵⁵ for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me. ⁵⁸ Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever." ⁵⁹ This he said as he taught in the synagogue at Capharnahum.

⁹ Then I was told, "Write this: — 'Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage-banquet of the Lamb!'" The angel also told me, "These are genuine words of God."

² "The Realm of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a marriage-banquet in honour of his son. ³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come. ⁴ Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.' ⁵ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his estate, another to his business, ⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them. ⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it. ⁹ So go to the byeways and invite anyone you meet to the marriage-banquet.' ¹⁰ And those servants went out on the roads and gathered all they met, bad and good alike. Thus the marriage-banquet was supplied with guests. ¹¹ Now when the king came in to view his guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in a wedding-robe. ¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less. 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. ¹⁴ For many are invited but few are chosen.'"

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature: ¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.

¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests. ¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.' ¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.' ²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.' ²² When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,' ²³ the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house. ²⁴ For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"

²⁰ Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.

¹ In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near." ³ (This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.') ⁴ This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem and the whole of Judaea and all the Jordan-district went out to him ⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance, 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. 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."

¹ And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment. ² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the taxgatherer, James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus whose surname is Thaddaeus, ⁴ Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

²⁷ All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father — nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. ²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come. ⁴ Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him. ⁵ Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth; ⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.'

¹ Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases. ² He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick. ³ And he told them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither stick nor wallet nor bread nor silver, and do not carry two shirts. ⁴ Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there. ⁵ Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself. ² He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest. ³ Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. ⁴ Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals. Do not stop to salute anybody on the road. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!' ⁶ Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you, ⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.' ¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry, ¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!' ¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

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."

²⁴ and all the prophets who have spoken since Samuel and his successors have also announced these days. ²⁵ Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring. ²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

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

³⁸ So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him, ³⁹ and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

¹⁸ It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation.

⁵ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his estate, another to his business, ⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

³⁸ For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

¹⁴ As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.

²⁶ And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man; ²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, ²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back

²⁴ So Jesus looked at him and said, "How difficult it is for those who have money to enter the Realm of God!

⁴ did the baptism of John come from heaven or from men?" ⁵ Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

¹¹ he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me for life.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him. ⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

⁵ By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus. ⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.' ²⁷ For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

⁹ Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

⁴ they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

¹⁰ for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

¹⁶ that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did — Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine; ²⁷ whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁸ For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? —

²⁹ He said to them, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Realm of God, ³⁰ who does not receive ever so much more in this present world, and in the world to come life eternal."

²⁹ I mean, brothers, — the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let mourners live as if they were not mourning, let the joyful live as if they had no joy, let buyers live as if they had no hold on their goods, ³¹ let those who mix in the world live as if they were not engrossed in it, for the present phase of things is passing away.

³³ the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife —

⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised.

²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you.

¹² Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?"

³¹ Now when his fellow-servants saw what had happened they were greatly distressed, and they went and explained to their master all that had happened.

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.

⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it.

²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached. ²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

¹⁰ Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida,

¹³ No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

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

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

³⁹ Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans arrived, they pressed him to stay with them; he did stay there two days, ⁴¹ and far more of them believed on account of what he said himself. ⁴² As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

⁴⁷ The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well? ⁴⁸ Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ As for this mob, with its ignorance of the Law — it is accursed!"

³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."

⁴ Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel. ⁵ Philip travelled down to a town in Samaria, where he preached Christ to the people. ⁶ And the crowds attended like one man to what was said by Philip, listening to him and watching the miracles he performed. ⁷ For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

³ how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

¹ Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and marvellous: seven angels with seven plagues — the last plagues, for they complete the wrath of God. ² And I saw what was like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and, standing beside the sea of glass, those who came off conquerors from the Beast and his statue and the cipher of his name; they had harps of God 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 After that I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was thrown open, ⁶ and out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure dazzling linen, their breasts encircled with golden belts. ⁷ Then one of the four living Creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever; ⁸ and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his might, nor could anyone enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were over.

¹⁵ A sharp sword issues from his lips, wherewith to smite the nations; he will shepherd them with an iron flail, and trample the winepress of the passion of the anger of God almighty.

² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?

¹ IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching ² down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven. ³ After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm. ⁴ Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised — "for what you have heard me speak of," said he; ⁵ "for John baptized with water, but not many days after this you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit." ⁶ Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?" 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." ⁹ On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.

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

⁹ It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,

⁵ For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men, ⁶ the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": — in due time this was attested,

² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

⁴ And I heard what was the number of the sealed — a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel, ⁵ twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben, ⁶ [Relocated to follow vs 8] twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Manasseh. ⁷ twelve thousand from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand from the tribe of Issachar, ⁸ twelve thousand from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad, 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;

⁴³ I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.

⁹ So go to the byeways and invite anyone you meet to the marriage-banquet.' ¹⁰ And those servants went out on the roads and gathered all they met, bad and good alike. Thus the marriage-banquet was supplied with guests.

¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

²⁹ but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said. ⁴⁵ Now the Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the holy Spirit had actually been poured out on the Gentiles — ⁴⁶ for they heard them speak with 'tongues' and magnify God. At this Peter asked, ⁴⁷ "Can anyone refuse water for the baptism of these people — people who have received the holy Spirit just as we ourselves have?" ⁴⁸ And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain for some days.

¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!" ¹⁹ Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews. ²⁰ Some of them, however, were Cypriotes and Cyrenians, who on reaching Antioch told the Greeks also the gospel of the Lord Jesus; ²¹ the strong hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number believed and turned to the Lord.

⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

¹⁵ When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '" ²² Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.' ¹⁹ Upon this, O king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision; ²⁰ I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.

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

¹⁸ But, I ask, "Have they never heard?" Indeed they have. Their voice carried over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

¹³ I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office, ¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name; ¹⁰ or again, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his People; ¹¹ or again, Extol the Lord, all Gentiles, let all the peoples praise him; ¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could. ²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law; ²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means. ²³ And I do it all for the sake of the gospel, to secure my own share in it.

¹¹ If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

¹ I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world. ¹³ Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, he who has made both of us a unity and destroyed the barrier which kept us apart; ¹⁵ in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties, ¹⁶ so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross; ¹⁷ he came with a gospel of peace for those far away (that is, for you) and for those who were near, ¹⁸ for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit. ¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household, ²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone; ²¹ in him the whole structure is welded together and rises into a sacred temple in the Lord, ²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

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.

²⁸ This is the Christ we proclaim; we train everyone and teach everyone the full scope of this knowledge, in order to set everyone before God mature in Christ;

² I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve 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."

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

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."

²⁴ So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins."

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

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,

²⁴ and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus. ²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" ²⁶ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill. 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."

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

²⁵ He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved but Esau I hated.

⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

¹¹ But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

³⁸ he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

²¹ he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me; ²⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶ What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me; ³⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. ³⁶ What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? ³⁷ What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

²¹ Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

²¹ They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

²³ He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me; ²⁴ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

¹⁷ and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' — the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

²⁰ Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

²² Jesus replied, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?" They said to him, "We can." ²³ "You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father."

³³ So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹³ Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

⁴ for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" — and, as you know, it has been so.) ⁵ Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

¹³ so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder, ¹⁴ since I know my tent must be folded up very soon — as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

²⁷ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell — with a mighty crash."

³ Then Judas his betrayer saw he was condemned, and repented; he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!" ⁵ Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself. ⁶ The high priests took the money and said, "It would be wrong to put this into the treasury, for it is the price of blood." ⁷ So after consulting they bought with it the Potter's Field, to serve as a burying-place for strangers. ⁸ That is why the field is called to this day "The Field of Blood."

¹⁸ With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out — ¹⁹ a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.

¹¹ The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other. ¹² On that foundation anyone may build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹³ but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be. ¹⁴ If the structure raised by any man survives, he will be rewarded;

⁴ For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit, ⁵ who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away — ⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy. ⁷ For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ whereas, if it produces thorns and thistles, it is reprobate and on the verge of being cursed — its fate is to be burned.

¹¹ It is my heart's desire that each of you would prove equally keen upon realizing your full hope to the very end,

³⁸ Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him). ²⁰ After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first. ²¹ Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them. ²² They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

⁸ Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.

²⁵ Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

⁵⁸ Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

²⁰ As there was a bitter feud between him and the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they waited on him unanimously, and after conciliating the royal chamberlain Blastus they made overtures for peace, as their country depended for its food-supply upon the royal territory.

⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace. ⁷ Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you: ⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression; ¹⁰ humble yourselves before the Lord, and then he will raise you up.

¹¹ Then they brought the boats to land, and leaving all they followed him.

²⁸ he rose, left everything and followed him.

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

²² When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me." ²³ But when he heard that, he was vexed, for he was extremely rich.

²⁸ Peter said, "Well, we have left our homes and followed you!"

¹ But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property, ² appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles. ³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land? ⁴ When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God." ⁵ When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

¹⁹ saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit." 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.

⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; ⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

¹³ You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

⁴⁹ Everyone has to be consecrated by the fire of the discipline. ⁵⁰ Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

⁶ let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

⁴ while God corroborated their testimony with signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, distributing the holy Spirit as it pleased him. ⁵ For the world to come, of which I am speaking, was not put under the control of angels. ⁶ One writer, as we know, has affirmed, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou carest for him? ⁷ For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour, ⁸ putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man;

¹⁵ He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

⁹ He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

⁸ some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears: 'the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men.'"

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.

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

²⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.