Luke 5 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret, ² two boats on the shore of the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. ³ So he entered one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the land. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. ⁴ When he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out to the deep water and lower your nets for a take." ⁵ Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command." ⁶ And when they did so, they enclosed a huge shoal of fish, so that their nets began to break. ⁷ Then they made signals to their mates in the other boat to come and assist them. They came and filled both the boats, till they began to sink. ⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man." ⁹ For amazement had seized him and all his companions at the take of fish they had caught; ¹⁰ as was the case with James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, who were partners of Simon. Then said Jesus to Simon, "Have no fear; from now your catch will be men." ¹¹ Then they brought the boats to land, and leaving all they followed him. 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." ¹³ So he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And the leprosy at once left him. 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." ¹⁵ But the news of him spread abroad more and more; large crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their complaints, ¹⁶ while he kept in lonely places and prayed. ¹⁷ One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing. ¹⁸ Some men came up carrying a man who was paralysed; they tried to carry him inside and lay him in front of Jesus, ¹⁹ but when they could not find any means of getting him in, on account of the crowd, they climbed to the top of the house and let him down through the tiles, mattress and all among the people in front of Jesus. ²⁰ When he saw their faith he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." ²¹ Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?" ²² Conscious that they were arguing to themselves, Jesus addressed them, saying, "Why argue in your hearts? ²³ Which is the easier thing, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? 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. ²⁶ And all were seized with astonishment; they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen incredible things to-day." ²⁷ On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me"; ²⁸ he rose, left everything and followed him. ²⁹ Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" ³¹ Jesus replied to them, "Healthy people have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: ³² I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance." ³³ They said to him, "The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, as do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your adherents eat and drink." ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "Can you make friends at a wedding fast while the bride groom is beside them? ³⁵ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time." ³⁶ He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old. ³⁷ No one pours fresh wine into old wineskins; otherwise the fresh wine will burst the wineskins, the wine will be spilt and the wineskins ruined. ³⁸ No, fresh wine must be poured into new wineskins. ³⁹ Besides, no one wants new wine [immediately] after drinking old; 'The old,' he says, 'is better.'"

¹⁸ As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea — for they were fishermen; 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.

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

³⁴ On crossing over they came to land at Gennesaret.

¹⁶ Now as he passed along the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Simon's brother Andrew netting fish in the sea — for they were fishermen; ¹⁷ so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men." ¹⁸ At once they dropped their nets and went after him. ¹⁹ Then going on a little further he saw James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets; ²⁰ he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

⁹ So he told his disciples to have a small boat ready; it was to prevent him being crushed by the crowd,

²⁴ So Jesus went away with him. Now a large crowd followed him; they pressed round him.

⁵³ On crossing over they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.

⁴⁵ Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!"

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

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,

¹⁹ Then going on a little further he saw James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets;

¹⁸ As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea — for they were fishermen;

¹ That same day Jesus went out of the house and seated himself by the seaside; ² but, as great crowds gathered to him, he entered a boat and sat down, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

¹ Once more he proceeded to teach by the seaside, and a crowd gathered round him greater than ever, so he entered a boat on the sea and sat down, while all the crowd stayed on shore. ² He gave them many lessons in parables, and said to them in the course of his teaching:

⁴¹ In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ'). ⁴² He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

² Early in the morning he returned to the temple, the people all came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

²⁷ However, not to give any offence to them, go to the sea, throw a hook in, and take the first fish you bring up. Open its mouth and you will find a five-shilling piece; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

⁶ So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish.

⁴⁶ Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not? ⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

²⁴ they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.

³³ When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

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."

¹³ and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us."

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

¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

³ Simon Peter said to them, "I am going to fish." They said, "We are coming with you too." Off they went and embarked in the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

⁶ So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish. ⁷ So the disciple who was Jesus' favourite said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Hearing it was the Lord, Simon Peter threw on his blouse (he was stripped for work) and jumped into the water, ⁸ while the rest of the disciples came ashore in the punt (they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards), dragging their netful of fish. ⁹ When they got to land, they saw a charcoal fire burning, with fish cooking on it, and some bread. ¹⁰ Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught." ¹¹ So Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty three of them; but for all their number the net was not torn.

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

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

⁵⁸ Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

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.

²⁵ So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

² receive her in the Lord as saints should receive one another, and give her any help she may require. She has been a help herself to many people, including myself. ³ Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who have risked their lives for me; I thank them, and not only I but all the Gentile churches as well.

² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

³ And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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.

⁸ The captain answered, "Sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof; only say the word, and my servant will be cured.

⁶ When the disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces in terror;

³² But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

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."

¹² At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,

⁸ I John saw and heard all this; and when I heard and saw it, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me it all. ⁹ But he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers the prophets, who lay to heart the words of this book. Worship God."

⁶ (for he did not know what to say, they were so terrified).

³² they were astounded at his teaching, for his word came with authority.

³⁶ Then amazement came over them all; they talked it over among themselves, saying, "What does this mean? He orders the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!"

¹⁹ so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

⁴⁷ Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort.

²⁷ Then Jesus spoke to them at once; "Courage," he said, "it is I, have no fear."

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus came up to him with her sons, praying him for a favour.

¹⁷ so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

⁷ Then they made signals to their mates in the other boat to come and assist them. They came and filled both the boats, till they began to sink.

¹⁴ Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy Spirit — they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves.

²³ Titus is my colleague, he shares my work for you, and these brothers of mine are apostles of the church, a credit to Christ.

²⁰ And they dropped their nets at once and followed him.

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

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

¹⁸ At once they dropped their nets and went after him. ¹⁹ Then going on a little further he saw James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets; ²⁰ he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him. ²¹ They then entered Capharnahum. As soon as the sabbath came, he at once began to teach in the synagogue; ²² and people were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them like an authority, not like the scribes. ²³ Now there was a man with an unclean spirit in their synagogue, who at once shrieked out, ²⁴ "Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One." ²⁵ But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him."

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."

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.

²⁸ he rose, left everything and followed him.

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."

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

² A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me"; 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."

⁸ The captain answered, "Sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof; only say the word, and my servant will be cured. ⁹ For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

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."

⁶ Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

⁴⁰ A leper came to him beseeching him on bended knee, saying, "If you only choose, you can cleanse me;" ⁴¹ so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed." ⁴² And the leprosy at once left him and he was cleansed. ⁴³ Then he sent him off at once with the stern charge, ⁴⁴ "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men." ⁴⁵ But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

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

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."

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."

¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

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."

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

⁵⁴ But he took her hand and called to her, "Rise, little girl." ⁵⁵ And her spirit returned, she got up instantly, and he ordered them to give her something to eat.

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.

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."

³⁰ and their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly charged them, "See, nobody is to know of this."

¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁶ charging them strictly not to make him known —

⁴⁴ "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men."

¹¹ And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

⁵ Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

¹⁴ Noticing them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went away they were cleansed.

²³ Then he made a tour through the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing all the sickness and disease of the people. ²⁴ The fame of him spread all through the surrounding country, and people brought him all their sick, those who suffered from all manner of disease and pain, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics; he healed them all. ²⁵ And he was followed by great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from across the Jordan.

²⁶ The report of this went all over that country.

³⁰ And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them. ³¹ This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.

²⁸ So his fame at once spread in all directions through the whole of the surrounding country of Galilee.

⁴⁵ But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

⁷ Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea, and a large number of people from Galilee followed him; also a large number came to him from Judaea,

²⁵ There were large crowds travelling with him; so he turned and said to them,

² followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

²⁵ Good works are equally conspicuous; and even when they are not, they cannot escape notice for ever.

²³ after he had dismissed the crowds he went up the hill by himself to pray. When evening came he was there alone,

³⁵ Then in the early morning, long before daylight, he got up and went away out to a lonely spot. ³⁶ He was praying there when Simon and his companions hunted him out

⁴⁶ and after saying goodbye to them he went up the hill to pray.

¹² It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,

¹⁵ Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

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

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

²² But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

³⁰ Jesus was at once conscious that some healing virtue had passed from him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

¹ Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

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

⁴⁶ Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

²¹ Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

¹⁹ Indeed the whole of the crowd made efforts to touch him, for power issued from him and cured everybody.

³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

⁴⁶ Jesus said, "Somebody did touch me, for I felt power had passed from me."

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

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

²¹ whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

³⁰ when thy hand is stretched out to heal and to perform miracles and wonders by the name of thy holy Servant Jesus."

¹¹ God also worked no ordinary miracles by means of Paul;

² There a paralytic was brought to him, lying on a pallet; and when Jesus saw the faith of the bearers he said to the paralytic, "Courage, my son! your sins are forgiven." ³ Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!" ⁴ Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? ⁵ Which is the easier thing, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? ⁶ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home." ⁷ And he got up and went home. ⁸ The crowds who saw it were awed and glorified God for giving such power to men.

³ when a paralytic was brought to him; four men carried him, ⁴ and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay. ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." ⁶ Now there were some scribes sitting there who argued in their hearts, ⁷ "What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?" ⁸ Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts? ⁹ Which is the easier thing, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to tell him, 'Rise, lift your pallet, and go away'? ¹⁰ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he said to the paralytic, ¹¹ "Rise, I tell you, lift your pallet, and go home." ¹² And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

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

³³ There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis.

²⁷ what I tell you in the dark, you must utter in the open, what you hear in a whisper you must proclaim on the housetop.

¹⁷ a man on the housetop must not go down to fetch what is inside his house,

⁴ and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

² There a paralytic was brought to him, lying on a pallet; and when Jesus saw the faith of the bearers he said to the paralytic, "Courage, my son! your sins are forgiven."

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

⁴⁸ And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

²⁵ and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

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 When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

⁹ He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better,

¹⁰ If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,

¹³ forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

¹⁸ Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

¹⁴ Is anyone ill? let him summon the presbyters of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; ¹⁵ the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; even the sins he has committed will be forgiven him.

³ Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!"

⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!

⁶ Now there were some scribes sitting there who argued in their hearts, ⁷ "What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

¹⁷ One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

⁴⁹ His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

³³ The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

¹¹ They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God." ¹² In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin. ¹³ They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

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

⁴ Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

²⁵ As Jesus knew what they were thinking, he said to them, "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, any city or house divided against itself will never stand;

¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart?

³⁸ but he said to them, "Why are you upset? Why do doubts invade your mind?

³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

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.

²³ and her children I will exterminate. So shall all the churches know that I am the searcher of the inmost heart; I will requite each of you according to what you have done.

⁵ Which is the easier thing, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

⁹ Which is the easier thing, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to tell him, 'Rise, lift your pallet, and go away'?

⁶ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home."

¹³ Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?"

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,

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."

¹⁸ Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

¹³ So he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And the leprosy at once left him.

¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise."

⁵⁴ But he took her hand and called to her, "Rise, little girl."

¹³ And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk." ⁹ And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat." ¹¹ He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'." ¹² They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, 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.)

²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!"

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

²² And with these words he breathed on them, and added, "Receive the holy Spirit! ²³ If you remit the sins of any, they are remitted: if you retain them, they are retained."

⁶ But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!" ⁷ And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong, ⁸ he leapt to his feet, started to walk, and accompanied them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

³¹ God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

³⁴ "Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

⁴⁰ Peter put them all outside; then he knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body said, "Tabitha, rise." She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter she sat up.

¹⁰ said in a loud voice, "Stand erect on your feet." Up he jumped and began to walk.

¹³ and in the middle of the lampstands One who resembled a human being, with a long robe, and a belt of gold round his breast;

¹³ He laid his hands on her, and instantly she became erect and glorified God.

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?"

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

²⁴ So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

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

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

⁸ Then they ran quickly from the tomb in fear and great joy, to announce the news to his disciples.

¹² And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

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

¹⁶ All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people."

³⁷ and then all the inhabitants of the surrounding country of the Gergesenes asked him to leave them, they were so seized with terror. He embarked in the boat and went back.

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

¹¹ Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this. ¹² [Move first half of vs to start of vs 15] Many miracles and wonders were performed among the people by the apostles. Now they all without exception met in the portico of Solomon. ¹³ Though the people extolled them, not a soul from the outside dared to join them.

²⁴ which made them praise God for me.

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 Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

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. ¹⁰ Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples. ¹¹ So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?" ¹² When Jesus heard it he said, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill. 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." 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?" 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. ¹⁶ No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse: ¹⁷ nor do men pour fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilt, the wineskins are ruined. They put fresh wine into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the taxgatherer, James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus whose surname is Thaddaeus,

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

¹³ Then he went out again by the seaside, and all the crowd came to him and he taught them. ¹⁴ As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him. ¹⁵ Now Levi was at table in his own house, and he had many taxgatherers and sinners as guests along with Jesus and his disciples — for there were many of them among his followers. ¹⁶ So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" ¹⁷ On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: I have not come to call just men but sinners." ¹⁸ As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?" ¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is beside them? As long as they have the bridegroom beside them they cannot fast. ²⁰ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them; then they will fast, on that day. ²¹ No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse: ²² no one pours fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and both wine and wineskins are ruined."

¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the zealot,

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."

⁴³ Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

¹⁹ (he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me." ²⁰ Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?" ²¹ So, on catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "And what about him, Lord?" ²² Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

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?"

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

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."

¹⁰ Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples.

¹⁵ Now Levi was at table in his own house, and he had many taxgatherers and sinners as guests along with Jesus and his disciples — for there were many of them among his followers.

¹ Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him,

² They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

⁹ In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral. ¹⁰ I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

²⁷ When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it.

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

³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

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.)

³⁴ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'

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."

¹ Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him, ² but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

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.

⁹ Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

¹² When Jesus heard it he said, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill. 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."

¹⁷ On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: I have not come to call just men but sinners."

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.

⁷ (There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.)

¹⁰ (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed, ¹⁹ to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.

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.

¹⁰ So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."

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."

¹⁰ For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

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

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

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

²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

²¹ bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

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.

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. ⁶ When you pray, go into your room and shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

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

⁴⁰ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

³⁴ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' ³⁵ Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

¹ He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

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

³⁵ Next day again John was standing with two of his disciples;

²⁵ Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, "Go away to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus called Saul. He is praying at this very moment,

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.

² "The Realm of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a marriage-banquet in honour of his son.

¹ Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. ² Five of them were stupid and five were sensible. ³ For although the stupid took their lamps, they took no oil with them, ⁴ whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps. ⁵ As the bridegroom was long of coming, they all grew drowsy and went to sleep. ⁶ But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' ⁷ Then all the maidens rose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ The stupid said to the sensible, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' ⁹ But the sensible replied, 'No, there may not be enough for us and for you. Better go to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' ¹⁰ Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

² for I feel a divine jealousy on your behalf; I betrothed you as a chaste maiden to present you to your one husband Christ,

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

⁷ Let us rejoice and triumph, let us give him the glory! For now comes the marriage of the Lamb; his bride has arrayed herself, ⁸ Yea, she is allowed to put on fine linen, dazzling white" (the white linen is the righteous conduct of the saints). ⁹ Then I was told, "Write this: — 'Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage-banquet of the Lamb!'" The angel also told me, "These are genuine words of God."

¹⁷ But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸ so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

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.

¹⁷ He said to them, "What is all this you are debating on your walk?" They stopped, looking downcast, ¹⁸ and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?" ¹⁹ "What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance, ²⁰ but the high priests and our rulers delivered him up to be sentenced to death and crucified him. ²¹ Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

⁸ You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me."

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.

³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going."

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.

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.

²⁸ From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."

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).

⁹ On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.

²¹ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and let them go.

²³ They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

⁵ Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

⁴ There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

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?" —

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them? ¹⁰ You observe days and months and festal seasons and years! ¹¹ Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!

¹ with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude. ² Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you. ³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law. ⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace, ⁵ for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for; ⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

¹³ Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh! ¹⁴ But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

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

¹⁹ instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine. ²⁰ As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like ²¹ "Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" — ²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets; ²³ they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

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.

⁸ Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers, ⁹ on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me; ¹¹ one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together. ¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more. ¹³ By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it. ¹⁰ Our altar is one of which the worshippers have no right to eat.

⁵ Then he who was seated on the throne said, "Lo, I make all things new." And he said, "Write this: 'these words are trustworthy and genuine.'"

⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ¹¹ But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), ¹² he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother. ¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

¹¹ He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them, ¹² as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man.

¹ Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see. ² It was for this that the men of old won their record.

³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain.