Luke 18 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart. ² "In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man. ³ And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!' ⁴ For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man, ⁵ still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her — not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.' ⁶ Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says! ⁷ And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? 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?" ⁹ He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. ¹⁰ "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.' 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!' 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." ¹⁵ Now people even brought their infants for him to touch them; when the disciples noticed it they checked them, ¹⁶ but Jesus called for the infants. "Let the children come to me," he said, "do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷ I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all." ¹⁸ Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ¹⁹ Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God. ²⁰ You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother." ²¹ He said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth." 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. ²⁴ So Jesus looked at him and said, "How difficult it is for those who have money to enter the Realm of God! ²⁵ Why, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God." ²⁶ His hearers said, "Then whoever can be saved?" ²⁷ He said, "What is impossible for men is possible for God." ²⁸ Peter said, "Well, we have left our homes and followed you!" 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." 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; ³² he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on; ³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day." ³⁴ However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant. ³⁵ As he approached Jericho, it chanced that a blind man was seated beside the road begging. ³⁶ When he heard the crowd passing he inquired what was the matter, ³⁷ and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by. 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!" ⁴⁰ So Jesus stopped and ordered them to bring him, and asked him when he approached, ⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he said, "I want to regain my sight." ⁴² And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well." ⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

⁵ And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves; ⁶ for a friend of mine travelling has come to my house and I have nothing to set before him.' ⁷ And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.' ⁸ I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist. ⁹ So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

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."

¹² let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

¹ Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

⁹ Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

⁶ Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;

² Attend to your prayers, maintain your zest for prayer by thanksgiving;

¹² Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you — a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

¹⁷ never give up prayer,

³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing. ⁴ You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin. ⁵ And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? — My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs;

⁴ For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, ¹⁵ their feet are swift for bloodshed, ¹⁶ their ways bring destruction and calamity, ¹⁷ they know nothing of the way of peace; ¹⁸ there is no reverence for God before their eyes.

⁷ And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? 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?"

³ Magistrates are no terror to an honest man, though they are to a bad man. If you want to avoid being alarmed at the government-authorities, lead an honest life and you will be commended for it; ⁴ the magistrate is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong, you may well be alarmed; a magistrate does not wield the power of the sword for nothing, he is God's servant for the infliction of divine vengeance upon evil-doers.

¹⁷ So he debated, 'What am I to do? I have no room to store my crops.'

³ The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

¹² For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow — scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. ¹³ And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

²³ But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us."

⁴⁷ heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me." ⁴⁸ A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

⁸ I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

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!"

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

¹¹ Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

³⁷ and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

¹³ Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

¹² As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —

¹⁰ Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith.

⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

⁵ The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

³ I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

¹ Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

³⁵ Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward. ³⁶ Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised. ³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay.

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

¹⁰ and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them.

²⁰ O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

⁹ Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name. ¹⁰ And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another. ¹¹ Many false prophets will rise and mislead many. ¹² And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity; ¹³ but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

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.

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.

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; 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.

²³ let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise); ²⁴ and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds — ²⁵ not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near. ²⁶ For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left,

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; ⁶ you have condemned, you have murdered the righteous — unresisting. ⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains; ⁸ have patience yourselves, strengthen your hearts, for the arrival of the Lord is at hand.

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.

⁸ Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.

³⁹ When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

² but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

²⁹ but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

⁷ But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

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!"

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

²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

³⁴ They retorted, "And so you would teach us — you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble —

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

¹⁰ So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God —

⁴ Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him. ⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law, ⁶ in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

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. ³² For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.

⁹ it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense, ¹⁰ the mass of the people all remaining in prayer outside at the hour of incense.

²⁹ (On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John; ³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

⁴⁶ "It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

¹ Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,

⁶ Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!" ⁷ When he said this, a quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; the meeting was divided. ⁸ For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all.

⁵ They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

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.

⁵ Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself." ²⁰ The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"

²⁵ Also, whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

⁴⁷ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

⁷ Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given? ⁸ You Corinthians have your heart's desire already, have you? You have heaven's rich bliss already! You have come into your kingdom without us! I wish indeed you had come into your kingdom, so that we could share it with you!

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.

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

⁶ in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, ¹³ though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires. ¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners, ¹⁶ I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

⁹ but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression. ¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything. ¹¹ He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law. ¹² Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

¹⁷ You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.

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,

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.

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised — without omitting the former.

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.' "

²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

¹ Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God! ² I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge. ³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

²⁹ that no person may boast in the sight of God.

¹⁴ and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that;

⁸ The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

¹³ Go and learn the meaning of this word, I care for mercy not for sacrifice. For I have not come to call just men but sinners."

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

⁶ So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof, ⁷ and so I did not consider myself fit even to come to you. Just say the word, and let my servant be cured.

¹⁸ I will be up and off to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; ¹⁹ I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."' ²⁰ So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him. ²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I don't deserve to be called your son any more.'

¹² On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance

⁴⁰ But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he. ⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm." ⁴² And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign." ⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

⁴⁸ And when all the crowds who had collected for the sight saw what had happened, they turned away beating their breasts.

³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"

⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, ²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹¹ See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.

¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more.

⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us; ⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity; ¹⁰ if we say, "We have not sinned," we make him a liar and his word is not within us.

³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

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

⁵² princes he has dethroned and the poor he has uplifted,

²⁴ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he said to the paralysed man, "Rise, I tell you, lift your mattress and go home." ²⁵ Instantly he got up before them, lifted what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

⁴⁷ Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love." ⁴⁸ And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." ⁴⁹ His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?" ⁵⁰ But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

⁵ but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness.

¹ As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands — for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

²¹ When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did? ²² In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds, ²³ and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness — he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes. ²⁵ So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

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

¹³ Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray over them. The disciples checked the people, ¹⁴ but Jesus said to them, "Let the children alone, do not stop them from coming to me: the Realm of heaven belongs to such as these." ¹⁵ Then he laid his hands on them and went upon his way.

¹³ Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them; ¹⁴ but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁵ I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all." ¹⁶ Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.

⁴⁹ John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours." ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him; he who is not against you is for you."

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?"

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;

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."

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

²⁰ Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

² Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

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.

¹⁵ I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

¹⁶ Up came a man and said to him, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to gain life eternal?" ¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." ¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself." ²⁰ The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?" ²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me." ²² When the young man heard that, he went sadly away, for he had great possessions. ²³ And Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you truly, it will be difficult for a rich man to get into the Realm of heaven. ²⁴ I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God." ²⁵ When the disciples heard this they were utterly astounded; they said, "Who then can possibly be saved?" ²⁶ Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but anything is possible for God." ²⁷ Then Peter replied, "Well, we have left our all and followed you. Now what are we to get?" ²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal. ³⁰ Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

¹⁷ As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?" ¹⁸ Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God. ¹⁹ You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother." ²⁰ "Teacher," he said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth." 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." ²² But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions. ²³ Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have money to get into the Realm of God!" ²⁴ The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God." ²⁶ They were more astounded than ever; they said to themselves, "Then who ever can be saved?" ²⁷ Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God: anything is possible for God." ²⁸ Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you." ²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, ³⁰ who does not get a hundred times as much — in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal. ³¹ Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

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

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live."

¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. ¹⁴ Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet; ¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

³⁰ and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?"

³⁵ The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

¹⁶ And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

¹⁷ all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." ¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

¹⁸ Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God. ¹⁹ You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. ⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. ⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; ¹⁰ the command that meant life proved death for me. ¹¹ The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it. ¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, — ¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them), ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

² honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),

²⁰ Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

⁸ If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good; ⁹ but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression. ¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything. ¹¹ He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law.

²⁰ The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?" ²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

²⁰ "Teacher," he said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth." 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."

⁷ So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

²⁹ but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

¹⁹ Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal: ²⁰ store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

²⁷ Then Peter replied, "Well, we have left our all and followed you. Now what are we to get?" ²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

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;

⁵⁷ And as they journeyed along the road a man said to him, "I will follow you anywhere." ⁵⁸ 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." ⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God." ⁶¹ Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."

⁴² Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

³³ Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

⁹ And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.

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. ³⁶ Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth, ³⁷ sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.

¹³ Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,

¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous, ¹⁹ amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

⁸ Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

²² When the young man heard that, he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

²² But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

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.

¹⁵ Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."

⁸ So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

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.

⁵ Be sure of this, that no one guilty of sexual vice or impurity or lust (that is, an idolater) possesses any inheritance in the realm of Christ and God.

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

⁵ So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

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.

²³ And Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you truly, it will be difficult for a rich man to get into the Realm of heaven. ²⁴ I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God." ²⁵ When the disciples heard this they were utterly astounded; they said, "Who then can possibly be saved?"

²⁶ The king was very vexed, but for the sake of his oaths and his guests he did not like to disappoint her;

²³ Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have money to get into the Realm of God!" ²⁴ The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God." ²⁶ They were more astounded than ever; they said to themselves, "Then who ever can be saved?" ²⁷ Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God: anything is possible for God."

²⁶ Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called! ²⁷ No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

⁹ but I am glad now — not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did; ¹⁰ the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.

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.

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? ⁷ Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?

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; ⁶ you have condemned, you have murdered the righteous — unresisting.

²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

²³ A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them,

²⁶ Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but anything is possible for God."

³⁷ for with God nothing is ever impossible."

¹⁹ and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might ²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere,

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved); ⁶ together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus, ⁷ to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that; ¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

¹⁹ so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men." ²⁰ And they dropped their nets at once and followed him. ²¹ Then going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John, mending their nets in the boat beside their father Zebedaeus. He called them, ²² and they left the boat and their father at once, and went after him.

⁹ As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

²⁷ Then Peter replied, "Well, we have left our all and followed you. Now what are we to get?"

²⁸ Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you."

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

⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

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: ³⁸ he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

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? —

³² Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.

³¹ only seek his Realm, and it will be yours over and above. ³² Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm.

²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death; ²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal. ²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ And so it is — provided it goes with a contented spirit;

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you. ⁶ So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?

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.

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.'

²¹ 'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

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.

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.

¹⁷ Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road, 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."

⁹ (There were about four thousand of them.) Then he sent them away,

³⁰ Then he forbade them to tell anyone about him. 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;

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

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.

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

⁶ He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee ⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him

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

²⁸ they stripped him and threw a scarlet mantle round him, ²⁹ plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" ³⁰ They spat on him, they took the stick and struck him on the head,

⁶⁵ and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps.

¹ Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.

¹⁷ then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited, ¹⁸ and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!" ¹⁹ They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage. ²⁰ Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

⁶³ Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him; ⁶⁴ blindfolding him they would ask him, "Prophesy, tell us who struck you?" ⁶⁵ And many another insult they uttered against him.

¹ Then the whole body of them rose and led him to Pilate.

¹¹ Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

³⁵ The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

²² As he said this, one of the attendants who stood by gave him a blow, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

²⁸ Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;

³⁰ They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" said Pilate. "Your own nation and the high priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. ² And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe, ³ marching up to him and shouting, "Hail, king of the Jews!" — and striking him. ⁴ Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him." ⁵ So out came Jesus, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said, "Here the man is!"

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

⁶³ and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.'

⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

²¹ Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

³ First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said, ⁴ that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

³² But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

⁵⁰ But they did not understand what he said.

⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying — indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it — and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.

⁶ Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them;

¹⁶ (His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

¹ I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled. ² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴ I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then; 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. ⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now. ¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it 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'?

²⁹ As they were leaving Jericho a crowd followed him, 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!" ³² So Jesus stopped and called them. He said, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³ "Lord," they said, "we want our eyes opened." ³⁴ Then Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and they regained their sight at once and followed him.

⁴⁶ Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road, ⁴⁷ heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me." ⁴⁸ A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!" ⁴⁹ Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." Then they called the blind man and told him, "Courage! Get up, he is calling you." ⁵⁰ Throwing off his cloak he jumped up and went to Jesus. ⁵¹ Jesus spoke to him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight." ⁵² Then Jesus said, "Go, your faith has made you well;" and he regained his sight at once and followed Jesus along the road.

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.)

¹ Then he entered Jericho. And as he passed through it,

⁸ Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

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

¹⁰ When he entered Jerusalem the whole city was in excitement over him. "Who is this?" they said, ¹¹ and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"

²⁶ so, summoning one of the servants, he asked what this meant.

²³ He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

¹ When he entered Capharnahum again after some days it was reported that he was at home, ² and a large number at once gathered, till there was no more room for them, not even at the door. He was speaking the word to them, ³ when a paralytic was brought to him; four men carried him,

⁵¹ Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.

⁴⁵ he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets — it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

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

¹⁹ Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

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

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

²³ And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

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."

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

¹⁵ But when the high priests and scribes saw his wonderful deeds and saw the children who shouted in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant;

⁴² "Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's." ⁴³ He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord? ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.' ⁴⁵ If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"

³ concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent

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

⁷ Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

⁴⁰ Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak." ⁴² Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done." ⁴³ And when he returned he found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. ⁴⁴ So he left them and went back for the third time, praying in the same words as before.

⁴⁹ He was still speaking when someone came from the house of the synagogue-president to say, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any further."

⁸ I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist. ⁹ So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ¹⁰ for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

⁵² Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

¹ He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

¹⁵ Now people even brought their infants for him to touch them; when the disciples noticed it they checked them,

³⁸ So he shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"

³⁹ Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me,

²¹ He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm." 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."

²⁵ But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

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.

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.

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.

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."

¹⁹ And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well."

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

²⁸ When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir." ²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, "As you believe, so your prayer is granted," ³⁰ and their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly charged them, "See, nobody is to know of this."

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

¹⁴ Blind and lame people came up to him in the temple and he healed them.

³⁹ he stood over her and checked the fever, and it left her. Then she instantly got up and ministered to them.

²⁶ And all were seized with astonishment; they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen incredible things to-day."

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

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?"

³⁷ and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,

⁵ When I am in the world, I am light for the world." ⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, 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.

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." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?"

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

¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and 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.'

²⁴ which made them praise God for me.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives). ¹¹ In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —