Mark Cross References - Moffatt

¹ THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God]. ² As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you: ³ the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' — 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. ⁶ John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷ He announced, "After me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to stoop and untie the string of his sandals: ⁸ I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the holy Spirit." ⁹ Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John. ¹⁰ And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove; ¹¹ then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.' ¹² Then the Spirit drove him immediately into the desert, ¹³ and in the desert he remained for forty days, while Satan tempted him; he was in the company of wild beasts, but angels ministered to him. ¹⁴ After John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the gospel of God; ¹⁵ he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel." 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. 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." ²⁶ And after convulsing him the unclean spirit did come out of him with a loud cry. 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!" ²⁸ So his fame at once spread in all directions through the whole of the surrounding country of Galilee. ²⁹ On leaving the synagogue they went straight to the house of Simon and Andrew, accompanied by James and John. ³⁰ Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with fever, so they told him at once about her, ³¹ and he went up to her and taking her hand made her rise; the fever left her at once and she ministered to them. ³² Now when evening came, when the sun set, they brought him all who were ill or possessed by daemons — ³³ indeed the whole town was gathered at the door — ³⁴ and he cured many who were ill with various diseases and cast out many daemons; but as the daemons knew him he would not let them say anything. 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 ³⁷ and discovered him; they told him, "Everybody is looking for you," ³⁸ but he said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the adjoining country-towns, so that I may preach there as well; that is why I came out here." ³⁹ And he went preaching in their synagogues throughout the whole of Galilee, casting out daemons. 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.

¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

³ So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

³³ and the men in the boat worshipped him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son."

⁵ He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

² exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message, ³ and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency,

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

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People. ¹¹ To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality.

³⁴ Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

³¹ but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

¹ IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching ² down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God ² (which he promised of old by his prophets in the holy scriptures) ³ concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent ⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

¹ Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, ² but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son — a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.

¹ It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life ² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) — ³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

⁵ They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet:

¹ In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near." ³ (This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.') ⁴ This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem and the whole of Judaea and all the Jordan-district went out to him ⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance, ⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! ¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

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

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

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, "You will all be disconcerted over me to-night, for it is written, I will strike at the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

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."

⁷⁰ as he promised of old by the lips of his prophets

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,

² during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert; ³ and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins — ⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him. ⁵ Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth; ⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.' ⁷ To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? 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! ⁹ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." ¹⁰ The crowds asked him, "Then what are we to do?" ¹¹ He replied, "Let everyone who possesses two shirts share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise." ¹² Taxgatherers also came to get baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what are we to do?" ¹³ He said to them, "Never exact more than your fixed rate." ¹⁴ Soldiers also asked him, "And what are we to do?" He said to them, "Never extort money, never lay a false charge, but be content with your pay." ¹⁵ Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ," 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.

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."

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

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

¹⁵ (John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')

¹⁹ Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰ he frankly confessed — he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ." ²¹ They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered. ²² "Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?" 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." ²⁴ Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him; ²⁵ so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?" ²⁶ "I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize, ²⁷ and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal." ²⁸ This took place at Bethany on the opposite side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. ²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world! ³⁰ That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.' ³¹ I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel." ³² And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him. ³³ I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.' ³⁴ Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

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." ³¹ He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others. ³² He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony. ³³ Whoever does accept it, certifies to the truth of God. ³⁴ For he whom God has sent utters the words of God — God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure; ³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything. ³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

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."

⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

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.

⁷⁷ to bring his people the knowledge of salvation through the remission of their sins

² during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert; ³ and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins —

²³ John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

³⁷ you know how it spread over the whole of Judaea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John —

²⁴ before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel. ²⁵ And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

³ "Then," said he, "what were you baptized in?" "In John's baptism," they replied. ⁴ "John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

¹⁶ And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'

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.

²⁵ And he was followed by great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from across the Jordan.

²⁸ This took place at Bethany on the opposite side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

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.

¹⁸ Many believers would also come to confess and disclose their magic spells;

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.

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.

¹⁴ John tried to prevent him; "I need to get baptized by you," he said, "and you come to me!"

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.

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.

²⁷ and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal."

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." ³¹ He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.

²⁵ And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

⁵ "for John baptized with water, but not many days after this you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit."

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.

¹⁷ In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

⁴⁵ Now the Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the holy Spirit had actually been poured out on the Gentiles —

¹⁵ Now just as I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning; ¹⁶ and I remembered the saying of the Lord, that 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit.'

⁴ "John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus." ⁵ When they heard this, they had themselves baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, ⁶ and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied.

¹³ For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.

⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

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

¹³ Then Jesus came on the scene from Galilee, to get baptized by John at the Jordan. ¹⁴ John tried to prevent him; "I need to get baptized by you," he said, "and you come to me!" ¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him. ¹⁶ Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him. ¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

²¹ Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened ²² and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

¹⁶ Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

²² and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

⁷ Then a cloud came overshadowing them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, listen to him."

³⁵ but a voice came from the cloud, "This is my Son, my Chosen one; listen to him."

²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder; ²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. 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.)

³⁷ The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

²⁸ I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." ²⁹ When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him." ³⁰ Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.

⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

¹⁷ when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight." ¹⁸ That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill,

¹ Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. ² He fasted forty days and forty nights and afterwards felt hungry. ³ So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves." ⁴ He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God." ⁵ Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone." ⁷ Jesus said to him, "It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God." ⁸ Once more the devil conveyed him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the realms of the world and their grandeur; ⁹ he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone." ¹¹ At this the devil left him, and angels came up and ministered to him.

¹ From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit, ² and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry. ³ The devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to become a loaf." ⁴ Jesus replied to him, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone." ⁵ Then he lifted Jesus up and showed him all the realms of the universe in a single instant; ⁶ and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose. ⁷ If you will worship before me, then it shall all be yours." ⁸ Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone." ⁹ Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this; ¹⁰ for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you, ¹¹ and They will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone." ¹² Jesus answered him, "It has been said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God." ¹³ And after exhausting every kind of temptation the devil left him till a fit opportunity arrived.

⁵³ What! do you think I cannot appeal to my Father to furnish me at this moment with over twelve legions of angels?

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

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. ¹⁸ It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

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.

¹² Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee; —

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.

³⁵ Then Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing every disease and complaint.

² Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples

² And he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are working through him."

²⁰ crowned all by shutting John up in prison.

¹⁷ and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written, 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.

⁴³ He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do." ⁴⁴ So he went preaching through the synagogues of Judaea.

¹ Shortly afterwards he went travelling from one town and village to another preaching and telling the good news of the Reign of God; he was accompanied by the twelve

²² [vss 22-30 moved to between 2:12 and 2:13] After this Jesus and his disciples went into the country of Judaea, where he spent some time with them baptizing. ²³ John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized ²⁴ (John had not yet been thrown into prison).

²⁵ I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again — not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.

²³ So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

¹⁷ he came with a gospel of peace for those far away (that is, for you) and for those who were near,

² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

¹⁷ From that day Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

⁷ And preach as you go, tell men, 'The Reign of heaven is near.'

³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you. ³² For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.

⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.'

¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'

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

³⁶ So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified." ³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?" 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.

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

²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

⁴ but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

¹⁰ so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ —

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.

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.

² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

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.

¹⁶ there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

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

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.

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

⁴⁰ One of the two men who heard what John said and went after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Peter. 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').

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,

²² Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

¹³ On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

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.

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."

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself." ⁴⁰ And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!" ⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

²⁷ Then Peter replied, "Well, we have left our all and followed you. Now what are we to get?" ²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal. ³⁰ Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

²⁸ Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you." ²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, ³⁰ who does not get a hundred times as much — in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal. ³¹ Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

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

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

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."

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

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,

¹⁷ James the son of Zebedaeus and John the brother of James (he surnamed them Boanerges, or "Sons of thunder"),

³⁷ He would not allow anyone to accompany him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

² Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured,

³⁵ James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, came up to him saying, "Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you."

³³ But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,

² James the brother of John he slew with the sword,

²¹ Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me go and bury my father first of all"; ²² Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

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:

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,

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

¹⁶ Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

¹³ he left Nazaret and settled at Capharnahum beside the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali

³⁹ And he went preaching in their synagogues throughout the whole of Galilee, casting out daemons.

¹ When he entered Capharnahum again after some days it was reported that he was at home,

² When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and the large audience was astounded. "Where did he get all this?" they said. "What is the meaning of this wisdom he is endowed with? And these miracles, too, that his hands perform!

¹ Then he left and went to the territory of Judaea over the Jordan. Crowds gathered to him again, and again he taught them as usual.

¹⁶ Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

³¹ Then he went down to Capharnahum, a town of Galilee, and on the sabbath he taught the people; ³² they were astounded at his teaching, for his word came with authority. ³³ Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud, ³⁴ "Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!" ³⁵ But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm. 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!" ³⁷ And a report of him spread over all the surrounding country.

¹⁵ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades!

¹⁰ When he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

¹⁴ but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down; ¹⁵ and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it." ¹⁶ So Paul stood up and motioning with his hand said, "Listen, men of Israel and you who reverence God. ¹⁷ The God of this People Israel chose our fathers; he multiplied the people as they sojourned in the land of Egypt and with arm uplifted led them out of it. ¹⁸ For about forty years he bore with them in the desert, ¹⁹ and after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan he gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. ²⁰ After that he gave them judges, down to the prophet Samuel. ²¹ Then it was that they begged for a king, and God gave them forty years of Saul, the son of Kish, who belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. ²² After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.' ²³ From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus, ²⁴ before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel. ²⁵ And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!' ²⁶ Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us. ²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath; ²⁸ though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death, ²⁹ and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb. ³⁰ But God raised him from the dead. ³¹ For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People. ³² So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers ³³ has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father. ³⁴ And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not. ³⁵ Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay. ³⁶ Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay, ³⁷ but He whom God raised did not suffer decay. 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. ⁴⁰ Beware then in case the prophetic saying applies to you: ⁴¹ Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you." ⁴² As Paul and Barnabas went out, the people begged to have all this repeated to them on the following sabbath. ⁴³ After the synagogue broke up, a number of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed them; Paul and Barnabas talked to them and encouraged them to hold by the grace of God. ⁴⁴ And on the next sabbath nearly all the town gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him. ⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles! ⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life; ⁴⁹ and the word of the Lord went far and wide over the whole country. ⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory. ⁵¹ They shook the dust off their feet as a protest and went to Iconium. ⁵² As for the disciples, they were filled with joy and the holy Spirit.

² and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures,

⁴ Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

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.

⁵⁴ and went to his native place, where he taught the people in the synagogue till they were astounded. They said, "Where did he get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁷ You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁹ You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰ He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it; ²¹ he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it; ²² he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. ²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

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; ⁴ they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?" ⁶ He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites — as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: 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."

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

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

⁴⁶ The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."

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

²¹ to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?" ²² Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;

² I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

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

⁴³ When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment and finds none.

³⁴ and he cured many who were ill with various diseases and cast out many daemons; but as the daemons knew him he would not let them say anything.

² And as soon as he stepped out of the boat a man from the tombs came to meet him, a man with an unclean spirit

²⁵ a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

²⁵ Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again."

²⁹ They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"

⁷ shrieking aloud, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? By God, I adjure you, do not torture me."

³⁴ "Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

²⁸ On catching sight of Jesus he shrieked aloud and prayed him with a loud cry, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? Do not torture me, I beg of you."

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 "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,

²⁷ because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.

¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,

²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

⁵ The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

⁷ Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: — These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

¹¹ And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!" ¹² But he charged them strictly and severely not to make him known.

³⁵ But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.

⁴¹ From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"

²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

²⁶ And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";

³⁹ and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces.

⁴² Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

²² but when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he seizes the panoply on which he relied and divides up the spoil.

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!"

²² Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. ²³ And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

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

³⁷ they were astounded in the extreme, saying, "How splendidly he has done everything! He actually makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

²⁴ The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God!

³² They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself.

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!"

¹ Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases.

¹⁷ The seventy came back with joy. "Lord," they said, "the very daemons obey us in your name." ¹⁸ He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. ¹⁹ I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you. ²⁰ Only, do not rejoice because the spirits obey you: rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven."

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.

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

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.

¹⁷ and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

³⁷ And a report of him spread over all the surrounding country.

¹⁴ On entering the house of Peter, Jesus noticed his mother-in-law was down with fever, ¹⁵ so he touched her hand; the fever left her and she rose and ministered to him.

²¹ They then entered Capharnahum. As soon as the sabbath came, he at once began to teach in the synagogue;

²³ Now there was a man with an unclean spirit in their synagogue, who at once shrieked out,

³⁸ When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her; ³⁹ he stood over her and checked the fever, and it left her. Then she instantly got up and ministered to them.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

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,"

³ so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

⁵ Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

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.

⁵⁵ There were also a number of women there looking on from a distance, women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and waited on him,

⁴¹ then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" — which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

⁴¹ women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

² and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven), ³ Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

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

¹⁶ Now when evening came they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all the invalids —

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

⁴⁰ At sunset all who had any people ill with any sort of disease brought them to him; he laid his hands on everyone and healed them.

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.

⁴⁴ And on the next sabbath nearly all the town gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

²⁵ But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him."

¹² But he charged them strictly and severely not to make him known.

¹⁶ Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling. ¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!" ¹⁸ She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

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

⁴⁶ and after saying goodbye to them he went up the hill to pray. ⁴⁷ Now when evening came the boat was [far out] in the middle of the sea, and he was on the land alone; ⁴⁸ but when he saw them buffeted as they rowed (for the wind was against them) he went to them about the fourth watch of the night walking on the sea. He meant to pass them,

⁴² When day broke he went away out to a lonely spot, but the crowds made inquiries about him, came to where he was, and tried to keep him from leaving them. ⁴³ He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."

¹⁶ while he kept in lonely places and prayed.

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

³⁹ Then he went outside and made his way to the Hill of Olives, as he was accustomed. The disciples followed him, ⁴⁰ and when he reached the spot he said to them, "Pray that you may not slip into temptation." ⁴¹ He withdrew about a stone's throw and knelt in prayer, ⁴² saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done." ⁴³ [And an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him; ⁴⁴ he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.] ⁴⁵ Then rising from prayer he went to the disciples, only to find them asleep from sheer sorrow. ⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

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.

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

⁵ Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

⁷ In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.

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!"

⁴⁸ If we let him alone, like this, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and suppress our holy Place and our nation."

¹⁹ Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

⁴⁹ "Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"

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. ²⁰ Then, folding up the book, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him, ²¹ and he proceeded to tell them that "To-day, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

⁴³ He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."

⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

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

⁴ I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;

⁸ for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

³⁰ So she went home and found the child lying in bed and the daemon gone from her.

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."

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

¹⁴ When they reached the crowd, a man came up and knelt to him.

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."

¹⁷ As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

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."

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."

⁴¹ He withdrew about a stone's throw and knelt in prayer,

⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, let not this sin stand against them!" With these words he slept the sleep of death.

¹⁴ For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father

³⁶ As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

³⁹ And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

³⁴ So when Jesus disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them, as they were like sheep without a shepherd, he proceeded to teach them at length.

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."

³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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.

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.

³¹ and he went up to her and taking her hand made her rise; the fever left her at once and she ministered to them.

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

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.

³ You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.

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

⁴³ But he strictly forbade them to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

³⁶ Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more eagerly they made it public;

⁵⁶ Her parents were amazed, but he charged them not to tell anyone what had happened.

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."

² "The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses; ³ so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.

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."

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

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

¹¹ It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

¹⁵ So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.

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

¹³ Then he went out again by the seaside, and all the crowd came to him and he taught them.

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,

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.

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

¹⁰ For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;