Matthew 16 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven. ² He replied, ³ — - ⁴ "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away. ⁵ When the disciples reached the opposite side, they found they had forgotten to bring any bread. ⁶ Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ⁷ They argued among themselves, "But we have not brought any bread!" ⁸ When Jesus noted this he said, "How little trust you have in me! Why all this talk, because you have brought no bread? ⁹ Do you not understand even yet? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? ¹⁰ And the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? ¹¹ Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ¹² Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ¹³ Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?" ¹⁴ They told him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." ¹⁵ He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" 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. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the Realm of heaven; whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven." ²⁰ Then he forbade the disciples to tell anyone he was the Christ. ²¹ From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day. ²² Peter took him and began to reprove him for it; "God forbid, Lord," he said, "This must not be." ²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's." ²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me; ²⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶ What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul? ²⁷ For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done. ²⁸ I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance,

²⁰ For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

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

¹⁴ So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him;

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you." ³⁹ He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

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

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

¹¹ Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ¹² Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³ Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk.

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

²³ That same day some Sadducees came up to him, men who hold there is no resurrection. They put this question to him:

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces, ³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.

² "The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;

⁶² Next day (that is, on the day after the Preparation) the high priests and Pharisees gathered round Pilate

¹¹ Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him. ¹² But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation." ¹³ Then he left them, embarked again, and went away to the opposite side. ¹⁴ They had forgotten to bring any bread, and had only one loaf with them in the boat. ¹⁵ So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." ¹⁶ "Leaven?" they argued to themselves, "we have no bread at all." ¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear? ¹⁹ Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve." ²⁰ "And how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand?" They said, "Seven." ²¹ "Do you not understand now?" he said.

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

¹⁵ Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

¹⁸ Sadducees, men who hold there is no resurrection, also came up and put a question to him.

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

¹⁶ Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.

²⁹ As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah; ³⁰ for as Jonah was a Sign to the Ninivites, so shall the Son of man be to this generation.

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.

⁵⁴ And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is: ⁵⁵ when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is. ⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them,

²⁷ Some of the Sadducees came up, who deny any resurrection, and put a question to him.

³⁰ "Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show? ³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

⁶ (They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

¹ While they were speaking to the people, they were surprised by the priests, the commander of the temple, and the Sadducees,

¹⁷ This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

⁶ Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!" ⁷ When he said this, a quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; the meeting was divided. ⁸ For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all.

²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,

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.

⁵ You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

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

⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said,

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.

⁴⁴ Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

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?

³⁹ He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah; ⁴⁰ for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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."

¹⁷ Then they began begging Jesus to leave their district. ¹⁸ As he was stepping into the boat the lunatic begged that he might accompany him;

¹² But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation."

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

⁴⁰ And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"

⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

³⁹ Then he sent the crowd away, got into the boat and went to the territory of Magadan.

¹³ Then he left them, embarked again, and went away to the opposite side. ¹⁴ They had forgotten to bring any bread, and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

¹² Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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

¹ Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

¹⁵ Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."

⁶ Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump? ⁷ Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity. ⁹ (A morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump.)

¹⁶ Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion, ¹⁷ and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;

¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain, ¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man.

¹⁶ "Leaven?" they argued to themselves, "we have no bread at all." ¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

¹⁰ This order they obeyed, debating with themselves what 'rising from the dead' meant.

⁴⁶ A dispute arose among them as to which of them was the greatest.

¹⁴ But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean."

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

²⁶ He said to them, "Why are you afraid? How little you trust God!" Then he got up and checked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

³¹ Jesus at once stretched his hand out and caught him, saying, "How little you trust me! Why did you doubt?"

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."]

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

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

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

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

¹⁷ They said, "We have only five loaves with us and two fish." ¹⁸ He said, "Bring them here to me." ¹⁹ Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds. ²⁰ They all ate and had enough; besides, they picked up the fragments left over and filled twelve baskets with them. ²¹ The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.

¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain,

³⁸ He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish." ³⁹ Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass; ⁴⁰ so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty; ⁴¹ and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke the loaves in pieces which he handed to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all. ⁴² They all ate and had enough; ⁴³ besides, the fragments of bread and of fish which were picked up filled twelve baskets. ⁴⁴ (The number of men who ate the loaves was five thousand.)

¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

¹³ He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless — are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?" ¹⁴ (There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty." ¹⁵ They did so, and made them all lie down. ¹⁶ Then taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke them in pieces and handed them to the disciples to set before the crowd. ¹⁷ And they all ate and had enough. What they had left over was picked up, twelve baskets full of fragments.

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?" ²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

⁹ "There is a servant here, with five barley-cakes and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?" ¹⁰ Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand. ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹² And when they were satisfied, he said to the disciples, "Gather up the pieces left over, so that nothing may be wasted." ¹³ They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five loaves left over from the meal.

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you got?" They said, "Seven, and some little fish." ³⁵ So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground. ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fish and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ³⁷ So the people all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over and filled seven large baskets with them. ³⁸ The men who ate numbered four thousand, apart from the children and the women.

⁵ He asked them, "How many loaves have you got?" They said, "Seven." ⁶ So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground, and taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out. They served them out to the crowd, ⁷ and as they also had a few small fish, he blessed them too and told the disciples to serve them out as well. ⁸ So the people ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets of fragments which were left over. ⁹ (There were about four thousand of them.) Then he sent them away,

⁴⁰ Then he said to them, "Why are you afraid like this? Have you no faith yet?"

²¹ "Do you not understand now?" he said.

⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

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.

⁸ For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all.

²⁰ Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

⁶ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home."

⁸ For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."

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.

⁴⁰ for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

³⁷ So he replied, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;

⁴¹ the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity,

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

³¹ When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,

²⁷ Then Jesus and his disciples set off for the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road he inquired of his disciples, "Who do people say I am?" ²⁸ "John the Baptist," they told him, "though some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the prophets." ²⁹ So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ."

⁴⁵ for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

¹⁸ Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?" ¹⁹ They replied, "John the Baptist, though some say Elijah and some say that one of the ancient prophets has arisen." ²⁰ He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

⁵¹ He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

¹⁴ Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

³⁴ So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

⁵⁶ "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

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.

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) ¹⁵ and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death. ¹⁶ (For of course it is not angels that he succours, it is the offspring of Abraham.) ¹⁷ He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People. ¹⁸ It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

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

¹⁰ The disciples inquired of him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

¹⁵ others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

²⁸ "John the Baptist," they told him, "though some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the prophets."

⁸ some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen.

¹⁸ Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?" ¹⁹ They replied, "John the Baptist, though some say Elijah and some say that one of the ancient prophets has arisen."

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

¹² And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

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

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

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.

²⁹ So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ."

²⁰ He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

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

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

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

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

⁶¹ He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

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

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

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

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

³⁶ As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

²⁰ He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God —

¹⁵ shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

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

³ you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.

¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

¹⁵ in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

¹⁰ that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular.

² but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son — a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world. ³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; ⁴ and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs. ⁵ For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

³¹ It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

²² You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that 'Jesus is the Son of God,' in him God remains, and he remains in God;

⁵ Who is the world's conqueror but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.

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;

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.

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

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." 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."

³² but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

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').

⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

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. ⁷ They know now that whatever thou hast given me comes from thee, ⁸ for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

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

⁹ No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him. ¹⁰ And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received the Spirit — not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us.

⁵⁰ I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.

¹¹ No, brothers, I tell you the gospel that I preach is not a human affair; ¹² no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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 May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself, ¹⁸ illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints,

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

¹⁸ May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' ¹⁹ by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

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.

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.

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)

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

¹ Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),

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,

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.

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁴⁷ praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.

¹ (Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built. ¹⁰ In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds. ¹¹ The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

⁵⁵ O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?

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.

¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household, ²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone; ²¹ in him the whole structure is welded together and rises into a sacred temple in the Lord, ²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

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,

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

³² This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.

¹⁸ Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead — that gives him pre-eminence over all.

⁵ (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

³ Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself. ⁴ (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.)

²⁸ Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably —

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

¹ Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more. ² And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying, "Lo, God's dwelling-place is with men, with men will he dwell; they shall be his people, and God will himself be with them: ⁴ he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more — no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

¹⁴ And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁸ I tell you truly, Whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.

²³ If you remit the sins of any, they are remitted: if you retain them, they are retained."

¹⁴ But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this — attend to what I say: ¹⁵ these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning! ¹⁶ No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel — ¹⁷ In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams: ¹⁸ on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ And I will display wonders in heaven above and signs on earth below, blood and fire and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives. ²¹ And everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved. 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), ²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; ²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him. ²⁵ For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand. ²⁶ My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope, ²⁷ because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay. ²⁸ Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence. ²⁹ Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day. ³⁰ (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne; ³¹ so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay. ³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness. ³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.) ³⁴ For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'. ³⁶ So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified." ³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?" ³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself." ⁴⁰ And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!" ⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day. ⁴² They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites, ³⁵ but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him. ³⁶ You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all); ³⁷ you know how it spread over the whole of Judaea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John — 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. ³⁹ As for what he did in the land of the Jews and of Jerusalem, we can testify to that. They slew him by hanging him on a gibbet, ⁴⁰ but God raised him on the third day, and allowed him to be seen ⁴¹ not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead, 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. ⁴³ All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name."

⁷ and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

⁴ by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; I have met with you in spirit, and by the power of our Lord Jesus ⁵ I have consigned that individual to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁰ If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,

⁸ hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

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

¹ The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss,

⁶ They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.

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.

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."

⁹ As they went down the hill Jesus ordered them, "Tell this vision to nobody until the Son of man is raised from the dead."

³⁰ Then he forbade them to tell anyone about him.

⁹ As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.

²¹ Then he forbade them strictly to tell this to anyone.

³⁶ When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen.

⁴¹ In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').

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."

³⁶ So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."

²² Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.

¹ Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

²⁸ I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

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."

²² When his adherents mustered in Galilee Jesus told them, "The Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men; ²³ they will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised." They were greatly distressed at this.

¹⁷ Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road, ¹⁸ "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death ¹⁹ and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; then on the third day he will be raised."

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

² "You know the passover is to be held two days after this; and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified."

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.

¹² But while he was being accused by the high priests and elders, he made no reply.

⁶³ and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.'

³¹ And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, telling them that the Son of man would be betrayed into the hands of men, that they would kill him, and that when he was killed he would rise again after three days. ³² But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

³² They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself. ³³ "We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

²² The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised. ²³ He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me; ²⁴ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself? ²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. ²⁷ I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

³¹ who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears: 'the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men.'" ⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying — indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it — and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

²⁵ But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation.

³¹ Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled; ³² he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on; ³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day." ³⁴ However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

⁶ He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee ⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days." ²⁰ "This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!" ²¹ He meant the sanctuary of his body, however,

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; ²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him. ²⁵ For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand. ²⁶ My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope, ²⁷ because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay. ²⁸ Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence. ²⁹ Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day. ³⁰ (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne; ³¹ so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay. ³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness.

³ First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said, ⁴ that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

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.

⁵¹ One of his companions put out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. ⁵² Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword. ⁵³ What! do you think I cannot appeal to my Father to furnish me at this moment with over twelve legions of angels?

³² he spoke of this quite freely. Peter took him and began to reprove him for it,

⁶ He came to Simon Peter. "Lord," said he, "you to wash my feet!" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "You do not understand just now what I am doing, but you will understand it later on." ⁸ Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot."

¹¹ He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'." ¹² Now when we heard this, we and the local disciples besought Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

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

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

³³ but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

⁸ Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

⁵ For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit. ⁶ The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. ⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot). ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

¹³ So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

²¹ the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

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

¹⁴ No wonder they do, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds.

¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

² mind what is above, not what is on earth,

³⁸ he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

³² As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

²¹ Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

²¹ They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

²⁷ whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

²⁶ As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

¹⁷ and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' — the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

²⁴ I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

³ to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;

¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

²⁴ It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures — for he had an eye to the Reward.

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, ² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

³⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

³³ Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.

²⁵ He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

²³ Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me. ²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹¹ But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

⁸ Once more the devil conveyed him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the realms of the world and their grandeur; ⁹ he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me."

²⁹ If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

³⁶ What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? ³⁷ What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

²⁵ What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?'

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

⁴⁹ So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the just

³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

⁶² Jesus said, "I am. And, what is more, you will all see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

²⁷ and then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

⁶⁹ But after this the Son of man will be seated at God's right hand of power."

¹¹ who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

⁶ For he will render to everyone according to what he has done,

¹² Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God.

⁸ Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

¹⁰ for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

⁸ Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

¹⁶ The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

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, ⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

¹⁴ It was of these, too, that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, when he said, Behold the Lord comes with myriads of his holy ones,

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

¹² [Relocated to follow vss 16 & 13] Lo, I am coming very soon, with my reward, to requite everyone for what he has done." ¹³ [Relocated to follow vs 16] I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end. ¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City! ¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

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.

³ So as he sat on the Hill of Olives the disciples came up to him in private and said, "Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign of your arrival and of the end of the world?"

²⁷ For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man. ²⁸ Wherever the body lies, there will the vultures gather. ²⁹ Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken. ³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory. ³¹ He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

⁴² Keep on the watch then, for you never know what day your Lord will come.

¹ I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power."

²⁶ Then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

²⁶ indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

²⁷ I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

⁸ I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

²⁷ and then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ But when these things begin to happen, look up and raise your heads, for your release is not far distant."

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'!

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.