Mark 3 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Again he entered the synagogue. Now a man was there whose hand was withered, ² and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him. ³ He said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise and come forward;" ⁴ then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent. ⁵ Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored. ⁶ On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him. 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, ⁸ Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings. ⁹ So he told his disciples to have a small boat ready; it was to prevent him being crushed by the crowd, ¹⁰ for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him. 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. ¹³ Then he went up the hillside and summoned the men he wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴ He appointed twelve to be with him, also that he might despatch them to preach ¹⁵ with the power of casting out daemons; ¹⁶ there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedaeus and John the brother of James (he surnamed them Boanerges, or "Sons of thunder"), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. Then they went indoors, ²⁰ but the crowd gathered again, so that it was impossible even to have a meal. ²¹ And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind." ²² But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons." ²³ So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴ If a realm is divided against itself, that realm cannot stand: ²⁵ if a household is divided against itself, that household cannot stand: ²⁶ and if Satan has risen against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, he comes to an end. ²⁷ No one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods unless first of all he binds the strong man; then he can plunder his house. ²⁸ I tell you truly, the sons of men shall be forgiven all their sins, and all the blasphemies they may utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit is never forgiven, he is guilty of an eternal sin." ³⁰ (This was because they said, "He has an unclean spirit.") ³¹ Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing outside they sent to call him; ³² there was a crowd sitting round him, and he was told, "Here are your mother and brothers and sisters wanting you outside." ³³ He replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" ³⁴ And glancing at those who were sitting round him in a circle he said, "There are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵ Whoever does the will of God, that is my brother and sister and mother."

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

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."

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

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.

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

¹ So when he saw the crowds, he went up the hill and sat down; his disciples came up to him

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

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."

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

³¹ so the daemons begged him saying, "If you are going to cast us out, send us into that drove of swine."

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

²⁰ Now a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his robe; ²¹ what she said to herself was this, "If I can only touch his robe, I will recover."

³⁴ [vs omitted but shown in footnote] But the Pharisees said, "He casts out daemons by the prince of daemons."

¹ And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment. 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, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the taxgatherer, James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus whose surname is Thaddaeus, ⁴ Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

²³ When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; truly I tell you, you will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of man arrives.

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

¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil';

²¹ "Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

⁹ Then he moved on from there and went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"

¹⁰ Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"

¹⁰ Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?" ¹¹ He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in?

¹¹ He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in? ¹² And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

¹² And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.

¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other. ¹⁴ So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him;

¹⁴ So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him; ¹⁵ but as Jesus knew of it he retired from the spot. Many followed him, and he healed them all, ¹⁶ charging them strictly not to make him known —

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This fellow only casts out daemons by Beelzebul the prince of daemons." ²⁵ As Jesus knew what they were thinking, he said to them, "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, any city or house divided against itself will never stand; ²⁶ and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then can his realm stand? ²⁷ Besides, if I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges. ²⁸ But if I cast out daemons by the Spirit of God, then the Reign of God has reached you already. ²⁹ Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

²⁹ Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house. ³⁰ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. ³¹ I tell you therefore, men will be forgiven any sin and blasphemy, but they will not be forgiven for blaspheming the Spirit. ³² Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.

⁴⁶ He was still speaking to the crowds when his mother and brothers came and stood outside; they wanted to speak to him. ⁴⁷ — - ⁴⁸ But he replied to the man who told him this, "Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?" ⁴⁹ Stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

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 —

⁵⁵ Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

¹⁴ So when he disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them he healed their sick folk.

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

³⁶ and begging him to let them touch the mere tassel of his robe — and all who touched it got perfectly well.

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

¹⁶ So Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." ¹⁷ Jesus answered him, "You are a blessed man, Simon Bar-jona, for it was my Father in heaven, not flesh and blood, that revealed this to you. ¹⁸ Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.

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.

⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.' ⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! ⁴² For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.' ⁴⁴ Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.' ⁴⁶ So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot went and said to the high priests, ¹⁵ "What will you give me for betraying him to you?" And they weighed out for him thirty silver pieces. ¹⁶ From that moment he sought a good opportunity to betray him.

⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, up came Judas, one of the twelve, accompanied by a large mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and the elders of the people.

³ Then Judas his betrayer saw he was condemned, and repented; he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!" ⁵ Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.

¹⁰ then Jesus said to them, "Have no fear! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee; they shall see me there."

¹ THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God].

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;

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;

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."

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.

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

¹⁴ As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

²⁷ And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath: ²⁸ so that the Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."

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,

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

²¹ And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind." ²² But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

²⁸ I tell you truly, the sons of men shall be forgiven all their sins, and all the blasphemies they may utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit is never forgiven, he is guilty of an eternal sin." ³⁰ (This was because they said, "He has an unclean spirit.") ³¹ Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing outside they sent to call him;

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

⁵ All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones. ⁶ On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,

²⁷ She heard about Jesus, got behind him in the crowd, and touched his robe; ²⁸ "if I can touch even his clothes," she said to herself, "I will recover." ²⁹ And at once the hemorrhage stopped, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint. ³⁰ Jesus was at once conscious that some healing virtue had passed from him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

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

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

³ Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.

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

³¹ And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).

⁵⁶ whatever village or town or hamlet he went to, they would lay their invalids in the marketplace, begging him to let them touch even the tassel of his robe — and all who touched him recovered.

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

¹⁷ Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying.

²⁴ Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;

³¹ He left the territory of Tyre again and passed through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, crossing the territory of Decapolis.

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

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,

²⁸ When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?"

³⁴ They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest.

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

¹³ But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

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

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

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

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 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.

²⁷ On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me"; ²⁸ he rose, left everything and followed him. ²⁹ Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.

⁶ Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered, ⁷ and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.

⁷ and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him. ⁸ He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.

⁸ He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?"

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?" ¹⁰ And glancing round at them all in anger he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was quite restored.

¹⁰ And glancing round at them all in anger he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was quite restored. ¹¹ This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus.

¹¹ This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus. ¹² It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,

¹² It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God, ¹³ and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles': ¹⁴ Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon (who was called 'the Zealot'), ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot (who turned traitor). ¹⁷ With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

² Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

¹⁹ His mother and brothers reached him but they were unable to join him for the crowd. ²⁰ Word was brought to him that "your mother and brothers are standing outside; they wish to see you." ²¹ But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

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."

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

¹ Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases. ² He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick. ³ And he told them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither stick nor wallet nor bread nor silver, and do not carry two shirts. ⁴ Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there. ⁵ Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them." ⁶ So they went out from village to village preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself. ² He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest. ³ Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. ⁴ Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals. Do not stop to salute anybody on the road. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!' ⁶ Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you, ⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.' ¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry, 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!'

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."

¹⁵ but some of them said, "It is by Beelzebul the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

¹⁷ He knew what they were thinking about, so he said to them, "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, house after house falls down; ¹⁸ and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul? ¹⁹ If I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges. ²⁰ But if it is by the finger of God that I cast daemons out, then the Reign of God has reached you already. ²¹ When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed; ²² but when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he seizes the panoply on which he relied and divides up the spoil. ²³ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

²⁷ While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!" ²⁸ But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

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

¹⁰ Everyone also who says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven for it, but he who blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven.

¹³ He laid his hands on her, and instantly she became erect and glorified God. ¹⁴ But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath." ¹⁵ The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

¹⁵ The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink? ¹⁶ And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?" ¹⁷ As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings.

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

¹ Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely. ² In front of him there was a man who had dropsy; ³ so Jesus asked the jurists and Pharisees, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath or not?" ⁴ They held their peace. Then Jesus took hold of the man and cured him and sent him off. ⁵ "Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

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

⁴⁰ But he replied, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, the very stones would shout." 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."

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. 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.

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.

² The high priests and scribes were trying how to get him put to death (for they were afraid of the people),

⁵ But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

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

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

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'). ⁴³ Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me." ⁴⁴ Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter; ⁴⁵ he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets — it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

⁴ "Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time has not come yet."

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples pressed him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something." ³² But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing." ³³ So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?" ³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

³ where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk." ⁹ And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

⁵ On looking up and seeing a large crowd approaching, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for all these people to eat?" ⁶ (He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.) ⁷ Philip answered, "Seven pounds' worth of bread would not be enough for them, for everybody to get even a morsel." ⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,

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.

⁶⁴ And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

⁷¹ (He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him — and he was one of the twelve.)

³ so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do;

³ so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do; ⁴ for nobody who aims at public recognition ever keeps his actions secret. Since you can do these deeds, display yourself to the world"

⁴ for nobody who aims at public recognition ever keeps his actions secret. Since you can do these deeds, display yourself to the world" ⁵ (for even his brothers did not believe in him).

⁵ (for even his brothers did not believe in him). ⁶ Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand; ⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil. ⁸ Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet." ⁹ So saying, he stayed on in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

¹⁷ anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

²⁰ The crowd replied, "You are mad. Who wants to kill you?"

⁴¹ others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

⁵² They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

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

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

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

⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

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

²² [vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter,

³⁹ Once more they tried to arrest him, but he escaped their hands ⁴⁰ and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed; ⁴¹ and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

¹⁶ Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!"

⁵³ So from that day their plan was to kill him.

⁵³ So from that day their plan was to kill him. ⁵⁴ Accordingly Jesus no longer appeared in public among the Jews, but withdrew to the country adjoining the desert, to a town called Ephraim; there he stayed with the disciples.

⁴ One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to betray him), said, ⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?" ⁶ (Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

²¹ they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

³¹ Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

² so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

²⁶ Jesus answered, "The man I am going to give this piece of bread to, when I dip it in the dish." Then he took the piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; ²⁷ and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do." ²⁸ (None of those at table understood why he said this to him; ²⁹ some of them thought that as Judas kept the money-box, Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.) ³⁰ So Judas went out immediately after taking the bread. And it was night.

⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?

²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?"

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

¹⁷ Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

²⁴ Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called 'the Twin,' was not with them when Jesus came; ²⁵ and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it." ²⁶ Eight days afterwards his disciples were together again, and Thomas with them. Though the doors were closed, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!" ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe." ²⁸ Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" ²⁹ Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."

² Simon Peter, Thomas (who was called 'the Twin'), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the two sons of Zebedaeus, and two other disciples of his, were all together.

²⁰ Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?" ²¹ So, on catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "And what about him, Lord?" ²² Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself." ²³ This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?" ²⁴ This was the disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who wrote them down; his testimony, we know, is true. ²⁵ Now there is much else that Jesus did — so much, that if it were written down in detail. I do not suppose the world itself could hold the written records.

⁸ You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

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.

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. ¹⁷ Judas did enter our number, he did get his allotted share of this our ministry. ¹⁸ With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out — ¹⁹ a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood. ²⁰ Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge. ²¹ Well then, of the men who have been associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² from the baptism of John down to the day when he was taken up from us — of these men one must join us as a witness to his resurrection." ²³ So they brought forward two men, Joseph called Bar-Sabbas (surnamed Justus) and Matthias; ²⁴ and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen ²⁵ to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place."

¹⁵ In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them.

¹ It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church.

⁵ But, when the Gentiles and Jews along with their rulers made a hostile movement to insult and stone them, ⁶ the apostles grasped the situation and escaped to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country;

¹³ When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me.

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.

¹⁰ Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

¹⁴ The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.

¹¹ God also worked no ordinary miracles by means of Paul; ¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them. ¹³ Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded. ¹⁷ This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

¹⁸ Next day we accompanied Paul to James; all the presbyters were present,

²⁴ When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane."

²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it — ⁸ as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not — down to this very day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table prove a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened, that they cannot see, bow down their backs for ever.

²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

¹⁰ Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude. ¹¹ For Chloe's people inform me that you are quarrelling. ¹² By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

¹² By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ." ¹³ Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized?

²² Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present and the future — all belongs to you;

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?

⁷ after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

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

¹⁴ Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

¹³ 'I am beside myself,' am I? Well, that is between myself and God. I am 'sane,' am I? Well, that is in your interests;

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.

¹ PAUL an apostle — not appointed by men nor commissioned by any man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, —

¹⁵ But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace, ¹⁶ and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being, ¹⁷ instead of going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return I came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Cephas. I stayed a fortnight with him. ¹⁹ I saw no other apostle, only James the brother of the Lord.

¹⁹ I saw no other apostle, only James the brother of the Lord. ²⁰ (I am writing you the sheer truth, I swear it before God!)

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

¹⁵ (whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

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

³ to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves. ⁴ For there is one Body and one Spirit — as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call — ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, who is within us all.

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

²⁶ Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

¹⁰ To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might; ¹¹ put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. ¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

¹⁴ and my imprisonment has given the majority of the brotherhood greater confidence in the Lord to venture on speaking the word of God without being afraid.

²⁸ Never be scared for a second by your opponents; your fearlessness is a clear omen of ruin for them and of your own salvation — at the hands of God. ²⁹ For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him, ³⁰ by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.

¹⁵ when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.

⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹¹ For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,'

¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

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

¹⁷ And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

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.

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

⁴ For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit, ⁵ who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away — ⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy. ⁷ For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ whereas, if it produces thorns and thistles, it is reprobate and on the verge of being cursed — its fate is to be burned.

²⁶ For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, ²⁷ nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God. ²⁸ Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ²⁹ How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people. ³¹ It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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

¹ James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

²⁵ Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

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

¹⁶ for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

¹ Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

¹⁷ and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

²² and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

¹⁶ If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him — for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

¹ Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:

⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

¹⁶ calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;

¹¹ Then I was told, "You must prophesy again of many peoples and nations and languages and kings."

⁷ And war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon; the dragon and his angels also fought, ⁸ but he failed, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. ⁹ So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

¹ Then I saw an angel descend from heaven with the key of the abyss and a huge chain in his hand; ² he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years, ³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while.