Luke 7 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum. ² Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death; ³ so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well. ⁴ When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said, ⁵ "for he is a lover of our nation; it was he who built our synagogue." 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. ⁸ 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." ⁹ When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel." ¹⁰ Then the messengers went back to the house and found the sick servant was quite well. ¹¹ It was shortly afterwards that he made his way to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd. ¹² Just as he was near the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out; he was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town were with her. ¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep." ¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise." ¹⁵ Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother. ¹⁶ All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people." ¹⁷ And this story of Jesus spread through the whole of Judaea and all the surrounding country. ¹⁸ John's disciples reported all this to him. ¹⁹ So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ²⁰ When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?" ²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk. ²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached. ²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" ²⁴ When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ²⁵ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft robes? Those who are gorgeously dressed and luxurious live in royal palaces. ²⁶ Come, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you. ²⁸ I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is." 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.) ³¹ "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like? ³² Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.' ³³ For John the Baptist has come, eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a devil'; ³⁴ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' ³⁵ Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all her children." ³⁶ One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table. ³⁷ Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume ³⁸ and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume. 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." ⁴⁰ Then Jesus addressed him. "Simon," he said, "I have something to say to you." "Speak, teacher," he said. ⁴¹ "There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five. ⁴² As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?" ⁴³ "I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said. ⁴⁴ Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair; ⁴⁵ you never gave me a kiss, while ever since she came in she has kept pressing kisses on my feet; ⁴⁶ you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume. 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."

²⁸ When Jesus finished his speech, the crowds were astounded at his teaching; ²⁹ for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.

⁵ When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him, ⁶ saying, "Sir, my servant is lying ill at home with paralysis, in terrible agony." ⁷ He replied, "I will come and heal him." 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." ¹⁰ When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel. ¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven, ¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth." ¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; as you have had faith, your prayer is granted." And the servant was cured at that very hour.

¹ When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum. ² Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death; ³ so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well. ⁴ When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said, ⁵ "for he is a lover of our nation; it was he who built our synagogue." 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. ⁸ 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." ⁹ When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel." ¹⁰ Then the messengers went back to the house and found the sick servant was quite well.

⁵⁴ Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

⁴² for he had an only daughter about twelve years old and she was dying. As Jesus went the crowds kept crushing him,

⁴⁷ When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent."

⁴⁶ Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum; ⁴⁷ when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.) ³ so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

¹ Now in Caesarea there was a man called Cornelius, a captain in the Italian regiment,

⁷ When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue,

²⁶ When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and said to him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

¹⁷ Paul summoned one of the officers and said, "Take this young man to the commander, for he has some news to give him."

¹ When it was decided we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to an officer of the Imperial regiment called Julius.

³ Next day we put in at Sidon, where Julius very kindly allowed Paul to visit his friends and be looked after.

⁴³ but as the officer wanted to save Paul, he put a stop to their plan, ordering those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

²² Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

⁵ When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him,

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

³⁸ "Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

⁴⁷ when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

¹⁰ I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

¹¹ Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave.

¹³ if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you.

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.

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.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

⁴ Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. ¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves

¹ Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him. ² This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands ³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

¹¹ I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

²⁶ truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt. ²⁷ You have heard how it used to be said, Do not commit adultery.

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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

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

⁴ When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,

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."

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.'

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

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.

²⁷ Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"

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!"

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.

⁷ When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue, ⁸ and after describing all the vision to them, he sent them to Joppa.

²⁵ They had strapped him up, when Paul said to the officer who was standing by, "Are you allowed to scourge a Roman citizen — and to scourge him without a trial?" ²⁶ When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and said to him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

²³ He summoned two of the officers and said, "Get ready by nine o'clock to-night two hundred infantry to march as far as Caesarea, also seventy troopers, and two hundred spearmen."

²⁶ "Claudius Lysias, to his excellency the governor Felix: greeting.

²³ He gave orders to the officer to have Paul kept in custody but to allow him some freedom and not to prevent any of his own people from rendering him any service.

²⁶ Only, I have nothing definite to write to the sovereign about him. So I have brought him up before you all, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, in order that I may have something to write as the result of your cross-examination.

²² Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

¹ Let all servants who are under the yoke of slavery remember that their masters are entitled to perfect respect — otherwise it will be a scandal to the Name of God and to our doctrine. ² Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

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

³³ and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

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.

¹ Then what is the Jew's superiority? What is the good of circumcision? ² Much in every way. This to begin with — Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God. ³ Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?

⁴ for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises; ⁵ the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; as you have had faith, your prayer is granted." And the servant was cured at that very hour.

²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes."

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.

⁵² Everyone was weeping and bewailing her, but he said, "Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

¹⁹ a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother;

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

⁴¹ Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

⁴ (When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.) ⁵ The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

²⁷ Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

² "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat.

¹⁹ So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

¹⁵ The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

⁶¹ the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.'

³⁴ who told them that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon.

² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.)

³³ Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted. ³⁴ "Where have you laid him?" he asked. They answered, "Come and see, sir." ³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

¹³ "Woman," they said to her, "why are you sobbing?" She said, "Because they have taken away my master, and I do not know where they have put him!"

¹⁵ "Woman," said Jesus, "why are you sobbing? Who are you looking for?" Supposing he was the gardener, she said, "Oh, sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you put him, and I will remove him."

³⁰ let mourners live as if they were not mourning, let the joyful live as if they had no joy, let buyers live as if they had no hold on their goods,

¹³ We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

¹⁷ He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

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.

²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

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. ⁴¹ Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

¹² One is indeed ashamed even to speak about what such men do in secret;

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

³¹ This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.

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

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

⁶⁵ Then fear fell on all their neighbours, and all these events were talked of through the whole of the hill-country of Judaea.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has cared for his people and wrought them redemption;

²⁰ Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

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

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."

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.

¹⁹ They replied, "John the Baptist, though some say Elijah and some say that one of the ancient prophets has arisen."

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

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,

²¹ They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

²⁵ so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

¹⁹ "Sir," said the woman, "I see you are a prophet.

¹⁴ Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

⁴⁰ On hearing this some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet"; ⁴¹ others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

¹⁷ So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."

²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you. ²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;

⁵ When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

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.

³⁷ (This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

²⁴ which made them praise God for me.

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.

²⁶ The report of this went all over that country.

³¹ But they went out and spread the news of him all over that country.

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

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

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

² Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples ³ to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. ⁶ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" ⁷ As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ⁸ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft raiment? The wearers of soft raiment are in royal palaces. ⁹ Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you. ¹¹ I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is. ¹² From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: — ¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come. ¹⁵ He who has an ear, let him listen to this. ¹⁶ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates, ¹⁷ 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.' ¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil'; ¹⁹ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

²⁶ and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony — here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

⁷ And summoning the twelve he proceeded to send them out two by two; he gave them power over the unclean spirits,

²⁵ The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

³ But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

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.

¹⁰ for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him.

²⁹ And at once the hemorrhage stopped, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

³⁴ He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be free from your complaint."

³⁰ That is why many of you are ill and infirm, and a number even dead. ³¹ If we only judged our own lives truly, we would not come under the Lord's judgment. ³² As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

⁶ for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives.

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.

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."

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.

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

³² And a deaf man who stammered was brought to him, with the request that he would lay his hand on him. ³³ So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva, ³⁴ and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open). ³⁵ Then his ears were [at once] opened and his tongue freed from its fetter — he began to speak correctly. ³⁶ Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more eagerly they made it public; ³⁷ they were astounded in the extreme, saying, "How splendidly he has done everything! He actually makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

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,

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,

¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise." ¹⁵ Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk.

⁵³ They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

¹² On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance ¹³ and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us." ¹⁴ Noticing them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went away they were cleansed. ¹⁵ Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice; ¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹ And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well."

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.

⁴⁶ "Nazaret!" said Nathanael, "can anything good come out of Nazaret?" "Come and see," said Philip.

³⁰ The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! ³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will. ³² It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

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. ³ When he noticed that Peter and John meant to go into the temple, he asked them for alms. ⁴ Peter looked at him steadily, as did John, and said, "Look at us." ⁵ The man attended, expecting to get something from them. 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.

⁷ For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

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

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.'

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 And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

⁵⁷ So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home." ⁵⁸ There he could not do many miracles owing to their lack of faith.

³⁴ but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack —

⁶⁰ Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?" ⁶¹ Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you? ⁶² Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed? ⁶³ What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him; ⁶⁵ that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father'). ⁶⁶ After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

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

²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ For the 'foolishness' of God is wiser than men, and the 'weakness' of God is stronger than men. 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; ²⁸ God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are;

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

⁷ Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving — the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone, ⁸ a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

¹ In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near." ³ (This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.') ⁴ This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem and the whole of Judaea and all the Jordan-district went out to him

⁷ As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ⁸ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft raiment? The wearers of soft raiment are in royal palaces.

⁴ John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ⁵ and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

⁸⁰ And the child grew, he became strong in the Spirit and remained in the desert till the day when he made his appearance before Israel.

² during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert;

²³ He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' — as the prophet Isaiah said."

¹⁷ Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'? ¹⁸ By the good faith of God, my word to you was not 'yes and no'; ¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not 'yes and no' — the divine 'yes' has at last sounded in him, ²⁰ for in him is the 'yes' that affirms all the promises of God. Hence it is through him that we affirm our 'amen' in worship, to the glory of God.

¹⁴ instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

⁶ Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind; ⁷ that man need not imagine he will get anything from God, ⁸ double-minded creature that he is, wavering at every turn.

¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

¹⁷ Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

⁴ This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey.

²⁹ and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.

³ You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress, ⁴ but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value.

⁹ Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you. ¹¹ I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is. ¹² From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: — ¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

⁷⁶ And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

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

⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

²⁶ and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony — here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!" ²⁷ John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven. ²⁸ You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.' 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. ³⁰ He must wax, I must wane."

³⁵ he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

¹⁰ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you.

² As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth; ¹⁶ he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God, ¹⁷ he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

¹¹ I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear! ¹⁷ I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

¹⁴ It will be joy and gladness for you, and many will rejoice over his birth: ¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

¹⁶ John said to them all, "I baptize you with water, but after me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

⁴⁸ then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

²³ Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it."

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ ⁹ and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —

²⁵ for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message — ²⁶ of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God. ²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain. ⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you; ¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

⁵ Then Jerusalem and the whole of Judaea and all the Jordan-district went out to him ⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

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.

¹² Taxgatherers also came to get baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what are we to do?"

³⁵ Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

²⁵ He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and he preached and taught about Jesus with ardour and accuracy, though all the baptism he knew was that of John.

³ "Then," said he, "what were you baptized in?" "In John's baptism," they replied.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial. ⁵ But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.) ⁶ Never! In that case, how could he judge the world?

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.

³ and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence.

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

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

²⁷ I never shrank from letting you know the entire purpose of God.

²¹ He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

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

²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

¹¹ in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

³⁰ He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

²⁵ enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

⁶ John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

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

⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!

²⁰ A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?"

¹³ Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"

¹¹ So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

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.

³⁶ One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.

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

¹ Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.

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

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

² and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

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

¹⁹ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

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;

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye. ¹⁵ The spiritual man, again, can read the meaning of everything; and yet no one can read what he is.

⁵ "Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people." ⁶ Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

³ Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head. ⁴ This angered some of those present. "What was the use of wasting perfume like this? ⁵ This perfume might have been sold for over three hundred shillings, and the poor might have got that." So they upbraided her. ⁶ But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ⁷ The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me. ⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial. ⁹ I tell you truly, wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

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!'

² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.) ³ so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." ⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness is not to end in death; the end of it is the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby." ⁵ [Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus; ⁶ So, when he heard of the illness, he stayed where he was for two days; then, ⁷ after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judaea." ⁸ "Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?" ⁹ Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world: ¹⁰ but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him." ¹¹ This he said, then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to waken him." ¹² "Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." ¹³ Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep, ¹⁴ he then told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead; ¹⁵ and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, that you may believe. Come now, let us go to him." ¹⁶ Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!"

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.

⁶ Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of expensive perfume which she poured over his head as he lay at table. ⁸ When the disciples saw this they were angry. "What is the use of this waste?" they said; ⁹ "the perfume might have been sold for a good sum, and the poor might have got that." ¹⁰ But Jesus was aware of what they said, and he replied, "Why are you annoying the woman? It is a beautiful thing she has done to me. ¹¹ The poor you always have beside you, but you will not always have me. ¹² In pouring this perfume on my body she has acted in view of my burial. ¹³ I tell you truly, wherever this gospel is preached through all the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

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

³² I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance."

³⁷ Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume ³⁸ and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume. 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."

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!'

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."

³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

¹ Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead). ² They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume. ⁴ One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to betray him), said, ⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?" ⁶ (Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.) ⁷ Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial. ⁸ You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me."

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

⁹ he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers,

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,

¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

⁴ Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

²¹ Blessed are you who hunger to-day! you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep to-day! you shall laugh.

⁴⁴ Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair; ⁴⁵ you never gave me a kiss, while ever since she came in she has kept pressing kisses on my feet; ⁴⁶ you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume.

⁶² And he went outside and wept bitterly.

⁴ he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him, ⁵ then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

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. 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.

⁹ Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression;

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."

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

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.

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?"

²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

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

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

³⁷ Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

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

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

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.

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,

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 And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

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!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them, ⁵¹ "But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?" ⁵² They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'

⁴⁹ So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

²² Conscious that they were arguing to themselves, Jesus addressed them, saying, "Why argue in your hearts?

³¹ Jesus replied to them, "Healthy people have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill:

⁸ He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.

¹⁸ Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

²⁰ So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. ²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

² he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.

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'?

³⁰ Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God."

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

²³ That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴ When he began the settlement, a debtor was brought in who owed him three million pounds; ²⁵ as he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the sum.

²⁸ But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

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."

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

⁴⁸ whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

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

²² They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin — ²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father.

²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

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.

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.

²⁵ as he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the sum. ²⁶ So the servant fell down and prayed him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you it all.'

³⁴ And in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, till he should pay him all the debt.

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

²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

⁵ but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness. ⁶ Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does — ⁷ Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered! ⁸ Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count to him.

⁶ For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

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.

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

³² be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

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

³⁴ Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

³⁸ In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house.

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.

¹⁴ for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died, ¹⁵ and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

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.

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

⁶ Now you insult the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you and drag you to court?

⁴⁸ Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, " Whoever I kiss, that is the man."

¹⁶ Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

²⁰ All the brotherhood salutes you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

²⁶ Salute everyone of the brothers with a holy kiss.

¹⁷ But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

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:

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?"

⁴² As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?" ⁴³ "I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said.

¹⁵ Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus. ¹⁶ Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

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.

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.

¹⁴ for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,

²⁴ Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

¹⁹ We love, because He loved us first.

³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

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."

²⁰ When he saw their faith he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

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

⁷ "What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

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.

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

¹⁸ So take care how you listen; for he who has, to him shall more be given, while as for him who has not, from him shall be taken even what he thinks he has."

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

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

¹ As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

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.

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that? ¹⁷ So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself. 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! ¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder. ²⁰ But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead? 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? ²⁶ For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.