Luke 17 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come; ² it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones! ³ Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him. ⁴ Even if he sins against you seven times in one day and turns to you seven times saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him." ⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!" 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. ⁷ Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'? ⁸ Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'? ⁹ Does he thank the servant for doing his bidding? ¹⁰ Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' " ¹¹ Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee. ¹² On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance ¹³ and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us." 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? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹ And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well." ²⁰ On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it; ²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst." ²² To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man. ²³ Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them, ²⁴ for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day. ²⁵ But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation. 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 ³² (remember Lot's wife). ³³ Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it. ³⁴ On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left; ³⁵ two women will be grinding together, the one will be taken and the other left." ³⁶ -- ³⁷ They asked him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the body is lying, there the vultures will gather."

¹¹ on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men, your Father will not forgive your trespasses either.

²⁵ Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

³ so he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And his leprosy was cleansed at once. ⁴ Then Jesus told him, "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, to notify men."

¹⁰ When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel.

¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

⁸ The crowds who saw it were awed and glorified God for giving such power to men.

¹⁵ Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

²² Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.

²⁷ As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!"

⁵ These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

²³ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! — for if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have lasted to this day. ²⁴ I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

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?

²⁸ But if I cast out daemons by the Spirit of God, then the Reign of God has reached you already.

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."

²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

²⁴ He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent." ²⁵ But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, do help me." ²⁶ He replied, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁷ "No, sir," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." ²⁸ At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

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? ²⁷ For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

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."

²² When his adherents mustered in Galilee Jesus told them, "The Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men; ²³ they will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised." They were greatly distressed at this.

³ and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all. ⁴ Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven; ⁵ and whoever receives a little child like this for my sake, receives me. ⁶ But whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe in me, better for him to have a great mill-stone hung round his neck and be sunk in the deep sea. ⁷ Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but — woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

¹⁴ So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that a single one of these little ones should be lost. ¹⁵ If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over; ¹⁶ but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

¹⁶ but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

²¹ Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often is my brother to sin against me and be forgiven? Up to seven times?"

²¹ Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often is my brother to sin against me and be forgiven? Up to seven times?" ²² Jesus said to him, "Seven times? I say, seventy times seven!

³⁵ My heavenly Father will do the same to you unless you each forgive your brother from the heart."

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

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

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 ¹⁹ and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; then on the third day he will be raised."

³⁰ and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!" ³¹ The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

²¹ Jesus answered, "I tell you truly, if you have faith, if you have no doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree but even if you say to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

⁴² Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?

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?"

¹⁷ a man on the housetop must not go down to fetch what is inside his house, ¹⁸ and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat. ¹⁹ Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days! ²⁰ Pray that you may not have to fly in winter or on the sabbath, 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.

²³ If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it;

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.

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.)

²⁵ (I am telling you this beforehand.)

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.

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.

²⁷ For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man.

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.

²⁸ Wherever the body lies, there will the vultures gather.

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. ³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.

³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory. ³¹ He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

³⁷ As were the days of Noah, so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

³⁷ As were the days of Noah, so will the arrival of the Son of man be. 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.

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. ⁴⁰ Then there will be two men in the field, one will be taken and one will be left; ⁴¹ two women will be grinding at the millstone, one will be taken and one will be left.

⁴¹ two women will be grinding at the millstone, one will be taken and one will be left.

³⁰ Throw the good-for-nothing servant into the darkness outside; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. ³¹ When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,

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.'

²⁴ The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

²⁰ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them; then they will fast, on that day.

³³ and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth. ³⁴ He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be free from your complaint."

³⁰ Now the apostles gathered to meet Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

³¹ And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

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?

²² "it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us." ²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes." ²⁴ At once the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe; help my unbelief."

³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, telling them that the Son of man would be betrayed into the hands of men, that they would kill him, and that when he was killed he would rise again after three days.

⁴² And whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea.

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,

⁵² Then Jesus said, "Go, your faith has made you well;" and he regained his sight at once and followed Jesus along the road.

²² Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God! ²³ I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

¹⁰ Have you not even read this scripture? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner:

¹⁴ But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills; ¹⁵ a man on the housetop must not go down into the house or go inside to fetch anything out of his house, ¹⁶ and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

²¹ If anyone tells you at that time, 'Look, here is the Christ,' or, 'Look, there he is,' do not believe it;

²¹ If anyone tells you at that time, 'Look, here is the Christ,' or, 'Look, there he is,' do not believe it; ²² for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can. ²³ Now take care! I am telling you of it all beforehand.

²³ Now take care! I am telling you of it all beforehand.

²⁶ Then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

²⁹ Peter said to him, "Though all are disconcerted, I will not be."

⁵ Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."

⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

¹² When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

¹⁴ Jesus ordered him not to say a word to anybody, but to "Go off and show yourself to the priest, and offer whatever Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men."

³⁵ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time."

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

⁵⁰ But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

⁴⁸ "Daughter," he said to her, "your faith has made you well; depart in peace."

²² The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.

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?

⁵¹ As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem. ⁵² He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

⁵² He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him, ⁵³ but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" ⁵⁵ But he turned and checked them. ⁵⁶ Then they journeyed to another village.

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!'

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!'

³² So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side. ³³ However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him; ³⁴ he went to him, bound his wounds up, pouring oil and wine into them, mounted him on his own steed, took him to an inn, and attended to him. ³⁵ Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?'

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.

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

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

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?

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."

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

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."

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?"

¹⁶ The Law and the prophets lasted till John; since then the good news of the Realm of God is preached, and anyone presses in.

¹⁹ There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day. ²⁰ Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers, ²¹ and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.) ²² Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died too, and was buried. ²³ And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom;

¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst." ²² To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man. ²³ Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,

²³ Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them, ²⁴ for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

²⁴ for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

⁸ I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

¹³ But the taxgatherer stood far away and would not lift even his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'O God, have mercy on me for my sins!'

³¹ Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

³⁸ So he shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!" ³⁹ The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

⁴² And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well."

⁴ So he ran forward and climbed into a sycomore tree to get a sight of him, as he was to pass that road.

¹¹ He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

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 Then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills, let those who are in the city escape, and let not those who are in the country come in to the city; ²² for these are the days of the divine Vengeance, in fulfilment of all that is written in scripture.

²⁷ and then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth. 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."

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

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

²⁶ "I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,

⁵ His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

³ he left Judaea and went back to Galilee. ⁴ He had to pass through Samaria,

⁹ The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink — me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

²¹ "Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem. ²² You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know — for salvation comes from the Jews.

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."

⁵⁰ Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey. ⁵¹ And on the road his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. ⁵² So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

¹⁴ Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

³³ Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me; 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'?"

⁷ but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her"; ⁸ then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground. ⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

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." 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."

⁴⁸ The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"

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.

³⁸ He said, "I do believe, Lord" — and he worshipped him.

¹⁰ but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him."

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.

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.

³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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.

⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?' ⁶ No, your heart is full of sorrow at what I have told you. ⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me." ¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying." ¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'? ²⁰ Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy. ²¹ When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world: ²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you.

¹¹ I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one. ¹² When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished — only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now I come to thee (I speak thus in the world that they may have my joy complete within them).

³⁶ Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."

¹⁵ Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

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."

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. ⁸ So there was great rejoicing in that town. ⁹ Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person, ¹⁰ and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.' ¹¹ They attached themselves to him because he had dazzled them with his skill in magic for a considerable time. ¹² But when they believed Philip, who preached the gospel of the Reign of God and the name of Jesus, they had themselves baptized, both men and women; ¹³ indeed Simon himself believed, and after his baptism kept close to Philip, utterly astonished to see the signs and striking miracles which were taking place. ¹⁴ When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they despatched Peter and John, ¹⁵ who came down and prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit. ¹⁶ (As yet it had not fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ¹⁷ Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the holy Spirit. 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." 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." ²⁴ Simon replied, "Beseech the Lord for me! Pray that nothing you have said may befall me!" ²⁵ After bearing their testimony to the word of the Lord and preaching it, the apostles went back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to a number of the Samaritan villages;

²⁵ Peter was just going into the house when Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshipped him; ²⁶ but Peter raised him, saying, "Get up, I am only a man myself."

²¹ Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

¹² All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one.

⁴ Yet what is the divine answer? I have left myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal. ⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace. ⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

³⁵ Who has first given to him and has to be repaid?

²⁰ if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame.

¹³ So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

²⁰ You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats; ²¹ the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

¹⁷ Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

⁷ Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

¹¹ He is ruined, this weak man, ruined by your 'enlightened mind,' this brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

¹⁵ Only, I have not availed myself of any of these rights, and I am not writing in order to secure any such provision for myself. I would die sooner than let anyone deprive me of this, my source of pride. ¹⁶ What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! ¹⁷ I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

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.

⁶ Now this took place as a warning for us, to keep us from craving for evil as they craved. ⁷ And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport. ⁸ Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did — and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell. ⁹ Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did — only to be destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ And you must not murmur, as some of them did — only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. ¹¹ It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world. ¹² So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.

³² Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

¹⁹ There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, ⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; ⁶ love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, ⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

⁹ For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me, ⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned. ¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play. ¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

³¹ Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice; ³² be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

¹⁵ Be strictly careful then about the life you lead; act like sensible men, not like thoughtless;

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

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 ⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

¹² As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper — ¹³ forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

¹⁶ The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷ then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

¹ As regards the course and periods of time, brothers, you have no need of being written to. ² You know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night;

² You know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night; ³ when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman — escape there is none.

³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

² not to let your minds get easily unsettled or excited by any spirit of prophecy or any declaration or any letter purporting to come from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord is already here.

⁸ Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival —

¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

¹³ As for yourselves, brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right. ¹⁴ Only, if anyone will not obey our orders in this letter, mark that man, do not associate with him — that will make him feel ashamed!

¹¹ Once you found him a worthless character, but now-a-days he is worth something to you and me.

³⁸ Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him. ³⁹ We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

⁷ It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith.

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁵ see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

¹ Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries! ² your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days; ⁴ See, the wages of which you have defrauded the workmen who mowed your fields call out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

⁸ have patience yourselves, strengthen your hearts, for the arrival of the Lord is at hand.

¹⁹ My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily. ²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

¹⁹ (It was in the Spirit that Enoch also went and preached to the imprisoned spirits ²⁰ who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah — the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.)

¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

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. ⁶ Humble yourselves under the strong hand of God, then, so that when it is time, he may raise you;

¹ Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves, ² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned); ³ in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men: ⁶ if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,

⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

¹⁸ By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct — 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."

⁶ By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed,

¹⁰ The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.

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

⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

¹⁴ But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

²⁰ Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry,

¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

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.

¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword, ¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast, ¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he bears the mark, that is, the name of the Beast or the cipher of his name. ¹⁸ Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

⁷ he cried aloud, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."

⁴ Then the four and twenty Presbyters and the four living Creatures fell down and worshipped God who is seated on the throne, crying, "So be it, hallelujah!" ⁵ And a voice came from the throne, "Extol our God, all ye his servants, ye who reverence him, low and high!"

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted aloud to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great banquet of God, ¹⁸ to devour the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of the strong, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all men, free and slaves, low and high alike."