Mark 12 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then he proceeded to address them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a trough for the winepress, and built a tower; then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad. ² When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard, ³ but they took and flogged him and sent him off with nothing. ⁴ Once more he sent them another servant; him they knocked on the head and insulted. ⁵ He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed. ⁶ He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ⁷ But these vinedressers said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.' ⁸ So they took and killed him, and threw him outside the vineyard. ⁹ Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Have you not even read this scripture? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: ¹¹ this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes." ¹² Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away. ¹³ But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question. ¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it." ¹⁶ So they brought one. He said, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they said. ¹⁷ Jesus said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." He astonished them. ¹⁸ Sadducees, men who hold there is no resurrection, also came up and put a question to him. ¹⁹ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁰ Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring: ²¹ the second took her and died without leaving any offspring: so did the third: ²² none of the seven left any offspring. Last of all the woman died too. ²³ At the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them." ²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? — you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. ²⁵ When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? ²⁷ He is not the God of dead people but of living. You are far wrong." ²⁸ Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. ³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Right, teacher! You have truly said, He is One, and there is none else but Him. ³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices." 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. ³⁵ And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son? ³⁶ David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.' ³⁷ David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him. ³⁸ And in the course of his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, to get saluted in the marketplaces, ³⁹ to secure the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets; ⁴⁰ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!" ⁴¹ Sitting down opposite the treasury, he watched the people putting their money into the treasury. A number of the rich were putting in large sums, ⁴² but a poor widow came up and put in two little coins amounting to a halfpenny. ⁴³ And he called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than all who have put their money into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they have all put in a contribution out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all she possessed, her whole living."

¹⁰ Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?" ¹¹ He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people. ¹² For he who has, to him shall more be given and richly given, but whoever has not, from him shall be taken even what he has. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴ In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

³⁴ Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable — ³⁵ to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

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';

¹⁴ For the case is that of a man going abroad, who summoned his servants and handed over his property to them;

² He gave them many lessons in parables, and said to them in the course of his teaching:

¹¹ and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables, ¹² so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven." ¹³ And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

³³ In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it; ³⁴ he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

¹ Then he proceeded to address them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a trough for the winepress, and built a tower; then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad. ² When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard, ³ but they took and flogged him and sent him off with nothing. ⁴ Once more he sent them another servant; him they knocked on the head and insulted. ⁵ He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed. ⁶ He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ⁷ But these vinedressers said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.' ⁸ So they took and killed him, and threw him outside the vineyard. ⁹ Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Have you not even read this scripture? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: ¹¹ this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes." ¹² Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

³⁴ It is like a man leaving his house to go abroad; he puts his servants in charge, each with his work to do, and he orders the porter to keep watch.

¹⁰ so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

⁶ And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none. ⁷ So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?' ⁸ But the man replied, 'Leave it for this year, sir, till I dig round about it and put in manure. ⁹ Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'"

¹³ Not many days later, the younger son sold off everything and went abroad to a distant land, where he squandered his means in loose living.

¹² "A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

⁹ Then he proceeded to tell the people the following parable. "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went abroad for some time. ¹⁰ When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing. ¹¹ He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing. ¹² Then he sent still a third, but this one they wounded and threw outside. ¹³ Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' ¹⁴ But when the vinedressers saw him, they argued to themselves, 'Here is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.' ¹⁵ And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and kill these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid!" ¹⁷ But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner. ¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed." ¹⁹ At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

⁹ They asked him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

¹ [Chapters 15 & 16 are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser; ² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit. ³ You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it. ⁸ As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified.

³⁸ This was the man who at the assembly in the desert intervened between the angel who spoke to him on mount Sinai and our fathers; he received living Words to be given to us.

⁴⁶ He found favour with God and asked permission to devise a dwelling for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ It was Solomon, however, who built him a house.

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.

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.)

¹⁷ Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem, ¹⁸ do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem. ¹⁹ You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!" ²⁰ Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. ²² Consider both the kindness and the severity of God; those who fall come under his severity, but you come under the divine kindness, provided you adhere to that kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut away too. ²³ And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?

³⁴ When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit;

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.

¹⁰ When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

¹ Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets,

³⁴ This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town; ³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation. ³⁷ 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!

⁴⁷ Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed: ⁴⁸ thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build. ⁴⁹ This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute'; ⁵⁰ it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God — yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

³³ But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem! 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!

¹⁰ When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing. ¹¹ He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing. ¹² Then he sent still a third, but this one they wounded and threw outside.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

³⁶ others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment — ³⁷ they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated

¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

³⁵ but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.

⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

³⁷ 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!

¹³ As for Elijah, I tell you he has come already, and they have done to him whatever they pleased — as it is written of him."

²² Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man; ²³ rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

²³ The maiden will conceive and bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel (which may be translated, God is with us).

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

²⁷ All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father — nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

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."

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

¹¹ then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

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

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

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.

¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

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. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

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.)

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.

⁶ And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

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.

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"

³ The news of this troubled king Herod and all Jerusalem as well; ⁴ so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born. ⁵ They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet: ⁶ And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people." ⁷ Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance. ⁸ He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too." ⁹ The magicians listened to the king and then went their way. And the star they had seen rise went in front of them till it stopped over the place where the child was. ¹⁰ When they caught sight of the star, they were intensely glad; ¹¹ on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. ¹² Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road. ¹³ After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."

¹⁶ Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

¹² Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

⁴⁷ whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs. 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." ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it — ⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

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

²⁸ "We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

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,

³³ Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad.

³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.

¹⁵ And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

¹¹ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the holy Place by the high priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp; ¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood. ¹³ Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

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. ¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

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.

⁴⁵ Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

⁴⁰ Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers?" ⁴¹ They replied, "He will utterly destroy the wretches and lease the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give him the fruits in their season."

⁴³ I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.

⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

³⁴ This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town; ³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation. ³⁷ 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! ³⁸ See, your House is left to you, desolate.

²⁷ And now for these enemies of mine who objected to me reigning over them — bring them here and slay them in my presence.' "

⁴¹ And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you! ⁴³ A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side 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."

¹⁵ And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and kill these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid!"

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;

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. ²⁴ Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe. ²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.' ²⁷ For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them. ²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith; ³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble — 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.

²⁰ And then Isaiah dares to say, I have been found by those who never sought me, I have shown myself to those who never inquired of me.

³ He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

⁴ He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

¹⁶ they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

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

³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

²⁵ He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

²⁶ As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

¹⁴ But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

³ But Jesus answered them, "And have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

¹⁷ But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner. ¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed."

¹¹ He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner. ¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

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.

²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone; ²¹ in him the whole structure is welded together and rises into a sacred temple in the Lord, ²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

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.

¹² They were all amazed and quite at a loss. "What can it mean?" they said to one another.

³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness. ³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.) ³⁴ For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'. 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."

¹² But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours? ¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him, ¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, ¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness. ¹⁶ (He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.)

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."

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 — ¹⁰ intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere, ¹¹ in terms of the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,

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.

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

²⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet."

⁴⁵ When the high priests and Pharisees heard these parables they knew he was speaking about them; ⁴⁶ they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

²² When they heard that they marvelled; then they left him and went away.

¹⁸ This came to the ears of the scribes and high priests, and they tried to get him put to death, for they were afraid of him. But the multitude were all astounded at his teaching.

³² No, let us say, From men" — but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

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

¹⁹ At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

²⁵ Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill?

³⁰ So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

⁴⁴ some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁶ Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk. ¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour. ¹⁷ Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" ¹⁸ But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show me the coin for taxes." So they brought him a shilling. ²⁰ Then Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?" ²¹ "Caesar's," they said. Then he told them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." ²² When they heard that they marvelled; then they left him and went away.

⁶ On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him.

¹⁵ So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

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. ²² Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them, ²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. ²⁵ "Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." ²⁶ So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

²⁵ He said, "Yes." But when he went indoors Jesus spoke first; "Tell me, Simon," he said, "from whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes? Is it from their own people or from aliens?" ²⁶ "From aliens," he said. Then Jesus said to him, "So their own people are exempt. ²⁷ However, not to give any offence to them, go to the sea, throw a hook in, and take the first fish you bring up. Open its mouth and you will find a five-shilling piece; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

¹⁷ Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

⁴⁵ So when he arrived he at once went up to him and said, "Rabbi [rabbi]," and kissed him.

²² Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?"

² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

¹⁸ He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

⁶ for the same reason as you pay taxes — since magistrates are God's officers, bent upon the maintenance of order and authority.

² For if I pain you, then who is to give me pleasure? None but the very people I am paining!

¹⁷ I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

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

¹¹ If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

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.

¹⁰ Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

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

⁴ no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

¹⁸ But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?

² Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.

²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them,

²⁴ Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men, ²⁵ and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

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.

⁹ Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."

⁹ Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did — only to be destroyed by serpents.

¹³ And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

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

¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

¹² 'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

³³ And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.

⁴⁶ No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength.

¹⁹ But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God. ²⁰ Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

¹³ you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

¹ Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

⁷ Pay them all their respective dues, tribute to one, taxes to another, respect to this man, honour to that.

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

²⁴ Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all; ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are brought to light, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring, 'God is really among you.'

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.

¹⁷ Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

²³ That same day some Sadducees came up to him, men who hold there is no resurrection. They put this question to him: ²⁴ "Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ After them all, the woman died. ²⁸ Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her." ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, ³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living." ³³ And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.

²⁷ Some of the Sadducees came up, who deny any resurrection, and put a question to him. ²⁸ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁹ Well, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless. ³⁰ The second ³¹ and the third took her, as indeed all the seven did, dying and leaving no children. ³² Afterwards the woman died too. ³³ Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them." ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "People in this world marry and are married, ³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married, ³⁶ for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God. ³⁷ And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.' ³⁸ God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him." ³⁹ Some of the scribes declared, "Teacher, that was a fine answer!" ⁴⁰ They no longer dared to put any question to him.

¹ While they were speaking to the people, they were surprised by the priests, the commander of the temple, and the Sadducees, ² who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.

⁶ Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!" ⁷ When he said this, a quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; the meeting was divided. ⁸ For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all. ⁹ Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

¹³ If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise; ¹⁴ and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too. ¹⁵ Besides, we are detected bearing false witness to God by affirming of him that he raised Christ — whom he did not raise, if after all dead men never rise. ¹⁶ For if dead men never rise, Christ did not rise either; ¹⁷ and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all.

¹⁸ they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

²⁵ Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ After them all, the woman died. ²⁸ Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her."

²⁹ Well, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless. ³⁰ The second ³¹ and the third took her, as indeed all the seven did, dying and leaving no children. ³² Afterwards the woman died too. ³³ Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

²⁷ Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God: anything is possible for God."

³⁷ for with God nothing is ever impossible."

³⁹ You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me —

⁹ (For as yet they did not understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.)

¹¹ where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.

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.

¹⁹ and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might

²¹ who will transform the body that belongs to our low estate till it resembles the body of his Glory, by the same power that enables him to make everything subject to himself.

¹⁵ remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline, ¹⁷ to make the man of God proficient and equip him for good work of every kind.

³⁰ At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married, ³⁶ for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

⁴² So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal; ⁴³ sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power; ⁴⁴ sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit'; ⁴⁶ but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven. ⁴⁸ As Man the material is, so are the material; as Man the heavenly is, so are the heavenly. ⁴⁹ Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man. ⁵⁰ I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹ Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed — ⁵² changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.

²² You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, ²³ to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, ³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."

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

³⁷ And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

³⁰ At the close of forty years an angel [of the Lord] appeared to him in the flames of a burning thorn-bush, in the desert of mount Sinai. ³¹ When Moses saw this, he marvelled at the sight; and as he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said, ³² 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? — you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

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.

⁹ it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰ Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways;

¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.' ¹⁴ Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland. ¹⁵ If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back, ¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

¹⁹ Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.)

¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness,

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces, ³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him. ³⁶ "Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?" ³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. ³⁸ This is the greatest and chief command. ³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself. ⁴⁰ The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

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.

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

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

³⁹ Some of the scribes declared, "Teacher, that was a fine answer!"

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:

⁹ you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;

³² The scribe said to him, "Right, teacher! You have truly said, He is One, and there is none else but Him. ³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."

³⁰ Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

⁴ Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

²⁰ (an intermediary implies more than one party, but God is one).

⁵ Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

⁵ For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men,

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

²⁵ to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.

¹² Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

³⁶ Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?" ³⁷ He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."

⁸ Be in debt to no man — apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law. ⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, ⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; ⁶ love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, ⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient. ⁸ Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

⁸ If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good; ⁹ but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression. ¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything. ¹¹ He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law. ¹² Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom; ¹³ for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy — whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.

¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? 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

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God; ⁸ he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

²¹ And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

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."

⁷ Besides, if you had known what this meant, I care for mercy not for sacrifice, you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

¹ Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal; ² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing; ³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

⁸ He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law);

²⁰ He will not break the bruised reed, he will not put out the smouldering flax, till he carries religion to victory:

⁴⁰ They no longer dared to put any question to him.

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

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

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

⁶ let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

⁹ he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.] ¹⁰ For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism; ¹¹ they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

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

⁴¹ As the Pharisees had mustered, Jesus put a question to them. ⁴² "Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's." ⁴³ He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord? ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.' ⁴⁵ If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"

⁵⁵ At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

²⁷ Once more they came to Jerusalem. And as he was walking within the temple the high priests and scribes and elders came

⁴⁷ Day after day he taught within the temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, and so did the leaders of the people,

¹ One day, when he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, up came the priests and scribes along with the elders.

⁴¹ But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son? ⁴² Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, ⁴³ till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.' ⁴⁴ David then calls him Lord. So how can he be his son?"

³⁷ By day he taught in the temple, but at night he went outside the city and passed the night on the hill called the Olive-Orchard.

⁴² Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

²⁰ Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews gather; I have said nothing in secret.

¹⁶ "My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

²⁵ For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet.

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline,

¹³ To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'?

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert,

⁷ he again fixes a day; To-day — as he says in 'David' after so long an interval, and as has been already quoted — To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

¹² He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God, ¹³ to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

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;

²¹ for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.

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

²⁵ At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;

⁴⁶ they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

⁴⁸ but they could not discover what was to be done, for the whole of the people hung upon his lips.

³⁸ And all the people used to come early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.

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

⁹ Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

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,

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.)

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?

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

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

¹⁷ Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples. 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. ⁴ They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them. ⁵ Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels, ⁶ they are fond of the best places at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues; ⁷ they like to be saluted in the marketplaces and to be called 'rabbi' by men.

⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

⁷ He also told a parable to the guests, when he observed how they picked out the best places. ⁸ "When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited; ⁹ then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests. ¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

⁴⁵ And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets; ⁴⁷ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

⁹ I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

² Suppose there comes into your meeting a man who wears gold rings and handsome clothes, and also a poor man in dirty clothes; ³ if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

⁷ Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

²² I tell you this, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! — for if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have lasted to this day. ²⁴ I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

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

³³ You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

⁴⁷ The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes; 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.

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

⁶ Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins — wayward creatures of impulse,

⁶ The high priests took the money and said, "It would be wrong to put this into the treasury, for it is the price of blood."

¹ Looking up he saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, ² and noticed a poor widow putting two little coins in. ³ He said, "I tell you plainly, this poor widow has put in more than them all; ⁴ for these people all contributed out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all her living."

²⁰ These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

²⁹ So the disciples put aside money, as each of them was able to afford it, for a contribution to be sent to the brothers in Judaea.

² Amid a severe ordeal of trouble, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty together have poured out a flood of rich generosity;

¹² If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

⁶ Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest. ⁷ Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully. ⁸ God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others;

⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

⁴³ and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,

¹² and the younger said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' So he divided his means among them.

³⁰ But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'

² Amid a severe ordeal of trouble, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty together have poured out a flood of rich generosity; ³ I can testify that up to their means, aye and beyond their means, they have given —

¹⁰ It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it. ¹¹ Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am. ¹² I know how to live humbly; I also know how to live in prosperity. I have been initiated into the secret for all sorts and conditions of life, for plenty and for hunger, for prosperity and for privations. ¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything. ¹⁴ But you were kind enough to take your share in my trouble. ¹⁵ You Philippians are well aware that in the early days of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had any financial dealings with me; ¹⁶ even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs. ¹⁷ It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?