Matthew 11 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ After finishing these instructions to his twelve disciples, Jesus removed from there to teach and preach among their towns. ² Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples ³ to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. ⁶ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" ⁷ As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ⁸ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft raiment? The wearers of soft raiment are in royal palaces. ⁹ Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you. ¹¹ I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is. ¹² From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: — ¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come. ¹⁵ He who has an ear, let him listen to this. ¹⁶ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates, ¹⁷ 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.' ¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil'; ¹⁹ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does." ²⁰ Then he proceeded to upbraid the towns where his many miracles had been performed, because they would not repent. 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. 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." 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; ²⁶ yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose. 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. ²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed; ³⁰ my yoke is kindly and my burden light."

¹⁷ Thus all the generations from Abraham to David number fourteen, from David to the Babylonian captivity fourteen, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ fourteen.

² asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him." 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."

¹ In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near." ³ (This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

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

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 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee; — ¹³ he left Nazaret and settled at Capharnahum beside the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali

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.

³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ⁴ Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled. ⁵ Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful! they will find mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

¹⁷ Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil. ¹⁸ (I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force. 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.)

²⁴ Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

²⁸ When Jesus finished his speech, the crowds were astounded at his teaching;

¹ When he came down from the hill, he was followed by large crowds. ² A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me"; ³ so he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And his leprosy was cleansed at once. ⁴ Then Jesus told him, "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, to notify men." ⁵ When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him,

¹⁰ Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples. ¹¹ So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?" ¹⁵ Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

²³ Now when Jesus reached the official's house and saw the flute-players and the din the crowd were making, ²⁴ he said, "Be off with you; the girl is not dead but asleep." They laughed at him. ²⁵ But after the crowd had been put out, he went in and took her hand, and the girl rose up.

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

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

⁸ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out daemons; give without paying, as you have got without paying;

¹⁵ I tell you truly, on the day of judgment it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorra than for that town.

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!

¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: — ¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

²² I tell you this, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

²⁴ I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

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. ²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

¹⁹ He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets. ²⁰ He will not break the bruised reed, he will not put out the smouldering flax, till he carries religion to victory:

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

³⁶ I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter;

⁴¹ The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

⁴¹ The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah. ⁴² The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

⁹ He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

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. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear!

⁴³ Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

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? ⁵⁶ Are not his sisters settled here among us? Then where has he got all this?" ⁵⁷ So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

³ For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip,

⁵ He was anxious to kill him but he was afraid of the people, for they held John to be a prophet.

¹² Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?" ¹³ He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

²¹ Going away from there Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

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

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.

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."

¹⁰ The disciples inquired of him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹¹ He replied, "Elijah to come and restore all things? ¹² Nay, I tell you Elijah has already come, but they have not recognized him — they have worked their will on him. And the Son of man will suffer at their hands in the same way." ¹³ Then the disciples realized he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

²⁴ When they reached Capharnahum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and asked Peter, "Does your teacher not pay the temple-tax?"

³ and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all. ⁴ Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven;

⁷ Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but — woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

⁵ Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

⁹ And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"

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

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?"

²³ When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?" ²⁴ Jesus replied, "Well, I will ask you a question, and if you answer me, then I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

²⁴ Jesus replied, "Well, I will ask you a question, and if you answer me, then I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do. ²⁵ Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

²⁵ Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

²⁵ Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ²⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet."

²⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet." ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do. ²⁸ Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day'; ²⁹ he replied, 'I will go, sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you. ³² For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.

⁴ They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

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. ¹⁴ — - ¹⁵ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁷ You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁹ You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰ He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it; ²¹ he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it; ²² he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. ²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel! ²⁵ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well. ²⁷ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity. ²⁸ So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,

³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation.

¹⁰ And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.

³⁴ I tell you truly, the present generation will not pass away till all this happens.

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

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

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

²⁰ and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

² As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you: ³ the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' — ⁴ John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ⁵ and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

³⁸ but he said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the adjoining country-towns, so that I may preach there as well; that is why I came out here." ³⁹ And he went preaching in their synagogues throughout the whole of Galilee, casting out daemons.

⁸ Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.

⁹ He added, "Anyone who has ears to hear, let him listen to this." ¹⁰ When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable, 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."

²³ If anyone has an ear to hear, let him listen to this."

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

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

¹⁷ For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip;

⁴⁵ Then he made the disciples at once embark in the boat and cross before him towards Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd;

¹⁵ nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

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.

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

²² Then they reached Bethsaida. A blind man was brought to him with the request that he would touch him.

¹¹ So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹² He said to them, "Elijah does come first, to restore all things; but what is written about the Son of man as well? This, that he is to endure great suffering and be rejected. 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."

¹⁹ He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me."

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

¹⁴ but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁵ I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all." ¹⁶ Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.

⁹ and both those in front and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

¹⁴ Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

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

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

¹⁷ he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

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

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

³ and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins — ⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him. ⁵ Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth; ⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.' ⁷ To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

¹⁹ But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife as well as for all the wickedness that he, Herod, had committed,

¹⁵ He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by all. ¹⁶ Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson ¹⁷ and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written, ¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed, ¹⁹ to proclaim the Lord's year of favour. ²⁰ Then, folding up the book, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him, ²¹ and he proceeded to tell them that "To-day, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

²³ So he said to them, "No doubt you will repeat to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' 'Do here in your own country all we have heard you did in Capharnahum.'"

²³ So he said to them, "No doubt you will repeat to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' 'Do here in your own country all we have heard you did in Capharnahum.'" ²⁴ He added, "I tell you truly, no prophet is ever welcome in his native place. ²⁵ I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land: ²⁶ yet Elijah was not sent to any of these, but only to a widow woman at Zarephath in Sidon.

²⁶ yet Elijah was not sent to any of these, but only to a widow woman at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ And in Israel there were many lepers in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of these was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." ²⁸ When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage; ²⁹ they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.

²⁹ Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

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.

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

¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise." ¹⁵ Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother. ¹⁶ All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people."

¹⁸ John's disciples reported all this to him. ¹⁹ So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ²⁰ When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?" ²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk.

²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk. ²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached.

²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached. ²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" ²⁴ When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

²⁴ When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ²⁵ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft robes? Those who are gorgeously dressed and luxurious live in royal palaces.

²⁵ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft robes? Those who are gorgeously dressed and luxurious live in royal palaces. ²⁶ Come, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

²⁶ Come, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

²⁶ Come, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you. ²⁸ I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

²⁸ I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

²⁸ I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is." ²⁹ (On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;

²⁹ (On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;

²⁹ (On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John; ³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.) ³¹ "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like? ³² Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.' ³³ For John the Baptist has come, eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a devil'; ³⁴ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'

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

³⁵ Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all her children." ³⁶ One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.

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

⁸ some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

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

³⁵ The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

¹⁰ Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida,

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

⁵¹ As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem. ⁵² He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him, ⁵³ but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" ⁵⁵ But he turned and checked them. ⁵⁶ Then they journeyed to another village.

¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town. ¹³ Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades!

²¹ He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said,

²¹ He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said, ²² "All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

²² "All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." ²³ Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it."

³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk. ⁴⁰ Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand." ⁴¹ The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, ⁴² Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

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!"

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. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares." ⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well." ⁴⁶ He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens. 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. ⁵² Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

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.

¹⁸ So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it?

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

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

¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

³⁵ It is no use for either soil or dunghill, it is flung out. He who has an ear let him listen to this."

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

²⁵ Now his elder son was out in the field, and as he came near the house he heard music and dancing;

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

²³ And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom;

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

³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the king who comes in the Lord's name! Peace in heaven and glory in the High places!"

⁴² saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

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

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.

²¹ They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered. ²² "Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?" ²³ He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' — as the prophet Isaiah said."

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

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

³⁸ Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

⁴⁴ Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter;

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

²³ When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

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

⁵ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. ⁷ Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.' ⁸ The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit." ⁹ Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?" ¹⁰ Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? — you, a teacher in Israel!

²⁴ (John had not yet been thrown into prison). ²⁵ Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification'; ²⁶ and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony — here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!" ²⁷ John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven. ²⁸ You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

³⁰ He must wax, I must wane."

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

¹ Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

²¹ "Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

⁴⁶ Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum; ⁴⁷ when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe." ⁴⁹ The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead." ⁵⁰ Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey. ⁵¹ And on the road his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. ⁵² So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household. ⁵⁴ This was the second Sign which Jesus performed again after leaving Judaea for Galilee.

²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. ²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

³⁵ he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶ But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

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

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

⁶⁰ Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?" ⁶¹ Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you?

⁶⁶ After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

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

²⁹ but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

³¹ Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

³⁹ (he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: — as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

⁴¹ others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee? ⁴² Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

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!"

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

³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?" ⁴¹ Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight — and so your sin remains."

¹⁵ (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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

²⁵ Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe,

³⁸ but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me — that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

⁴¹ and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

²⁷ "Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" —

⁴¹ Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.

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

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

¹³ and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

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

³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

³ the Father had put everything into his hands — knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,

¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

¹⁷ If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me. ⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father too. You know him now and you have seen him." 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'?

¹¹ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: — or else, believe because of the deeds themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,

²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him. ²⁴ He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love. ¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete. ¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that. ¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

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

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now.

¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him. ³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

⁶ I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

²⁵ O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me; ²⁶ so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

² down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

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

² when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple. ³ When he noticed that Peter and John meant to go into the temple, he asked them for alms. ⁴ Peter looked at him steadily, as did John, and said, "Look at us." ⁵ The man attended, expecting to get something from them. ⁶ But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!" ⁷ And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong, ⁸ he leapt to his feet, started to walk, and accompanied them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

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

²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People; ²⁴ and all the prophets who have spoken since Samuel and his successors have also announced these days.

⁹ if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better, ¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

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

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

⁴² when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.

²⁰ As there was a bitter feud between him and the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they waited on him unanimously, and after conciliating the royal chamberlain Blastus they made overtures for peace, as their country depended for its food-supply upon the royal territory.

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;

⁴⁴ And on the next sabbath nearly all the town gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him. ⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles! ⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

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

¹⁰ Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

²⁸ The holy Spirit and we have decided not to impose any extra burden on you, apart from these essential requirements:

²⁰ You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean."

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands;

¹ It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples, ² whom he asked, "Did you receive the holy Spirit when you believed?" "No," they said, "we never even heard of its existence." ³ "Then," said he, "what were you baptized in?" "In John's baptism," they replied.

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

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

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."

²¹ But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned, ²³ but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members. ²⁴ Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? ²⁵ God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)

¹⁸ Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

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.

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.

³³ What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods! ³⁴ Who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord? Who has ever been his counsellor? ³⁵ Who has first given to him and has to be repaid? ³⁶ All comes from him, all lives by him, all ends in him. Glory to him for ever, Amen!

² Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages ²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

¹⁸ Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves. ¹⁹ It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise. ²⁰ Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,

²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ For the 'foolishness' of God is wiser than men, and the 'weakness' of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called! ²⁷ No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong; ²⁸ God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are; ²⁹ that no person may boast in the sight of God.

⁶ We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world, ⁷ it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory. ⁸ None of the Powers of this world understands it (if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

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

² I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise. ¹⁹ For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness, ²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise is futile.

¹¹ To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

⁴ And yet, when you have mundane issues to settle, you refer them to the judgment of men who from the point of view of the church are of no account!

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could. ²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law;

²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law; ²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means. ²³ And I do it all for the sake of the gospel, to secure my own share in it.

²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

⁹ For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

²⁵ For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet. ²⁶ (Death is the last foe to be put down.) ²⁷ For God has put everything under his feet. When it is said that everything has been put under him, plainly that excludes Him who put everything under him;

⁴ who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God. ⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ are abundant in my case, so my comfort is also abundant through Christ.

¹⁷ Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'? ¹⁸ By the good faith of God, my word to you was not 'yes and no';

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!

³ Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing; ⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. ⁵ (It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.) ⁶ For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

¹ I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

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

⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

¹ with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

¹¹ I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

¹⁸ If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

⁹ He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design

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

²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere, ²¹ above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come — ²² he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church, ²³ the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.

³ among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

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

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,

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

²⁰ That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ ²¹ (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus);

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.

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

⁷ but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise ⁸ and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father. ¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

²⁶ of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God. ²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

² You remember the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power ⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth; ¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

¹⁰ We used to charge you even when we were with you, 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'

¹⁴ to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ —

⁹ who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration — not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus ¹⁰ and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

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

³ how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

⁸ putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man; ⁹ what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone. ¹⁰ In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.

¹ Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

³ For we do enter the Rest by our faith: according to his word, As I swore in my anger, they shall never enter my Rest — although his works were all over by the foundation of the world. ⁴ For he says this somewhere about the seventh day: And God rested from all his works on the seventh day. ⁵ And again in this passage, they shall never enter my Rest. ⁶ Since then it is reserved for some to enter it, and since those who formerly got the good news failed to enter owing to their disobedience, 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. ⁸ Thus if Joshua had given them Rest, God would not speak later about another day. ⁹ There is a sabbath-Rest, then, reserved still for the People of God ¹⁰ (for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did). ¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

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.

³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay.

⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

⁵ Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his. ⁶ Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind;

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?

¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you;

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.

²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps. ²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips; ²³ he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

²² who is at God's right hand — for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

⁴ For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom: ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men: ⁶ if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them, ⁷ but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless ⁸ (for when that righteous man resided among them, by what he saw and heard his righteous soul was vexed day after day with their unlawful doings) — ⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

⁷ but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.

⁶ he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

¹⁷ Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

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

¹⁹ We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One. ²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.

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.

¹¹ Woe to them! they go the road of Cain, rush into Balaam's error for what it brings them, and perish in Korah's rebellion.

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice.

²⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁶ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹³ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²² Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches."

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!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

¹² and crying, "Even so! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever: Amen!"

²⁰ But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir; ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.

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

⁸ and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified.

⁹ till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory.

¹¹ blaspheming the God of heaven for their pains and their ulcers, but refusing to repent of their doings.

⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.