Matthew 20 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard; ² and after agreeing with the labourers to pay them a shilling a day he sent them into his vineyard. ³ Then, on going out at nine o'clock he noticed some other labourers standing in the marketplace doing nothing; ⁴ to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever wage is fair.' So they went in. ⁵ Going out again at twelve o'clock and at three o'clock, he did the same thing. ⁶ And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?' ⁷ 'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.' ⁸ Now when evening came the master of the vineyard said to his bailiff, 'Summon the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.' ⁹ When those who had been hired about five o'clock came, they got a shilling each. ¹⁰ So when the first labourers came up, they supposed they would get more; but they too got each their shilling. ¹¹ And on getting it they grumbled at the householder. ¹² 'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!' ¹³ Then he replied to one of them, 'My man, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a shilling? ¹⁴ Take what belongs to you and be off. I choose to give this last man the same as you. ¹⁵ Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?' ¹⁶ So shall the last be first and the first last." 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." ²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus came up to him with her sons, praying him for a favour. ²¹ He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm." ²² Jesus replied, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?" They said to him, "We can." ²³ "You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father." ²⁴ When the ten heard of this, they were angry at the two brothers, ²⁵ but Jesus called them and said, "You know the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them: ²⁶ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave; 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." ²⁹ As they were leaving Jericho a crowd followed him, ³⁰ and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!" ³¹ The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!" ³² So Jesus stopped and called them. He said, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³ "Lord," they said, "we want our eyes opened." ³⁴ Then Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and they regained their sight at once and followed him.

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

³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; ³⁸ so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest."

²⁴ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

³¹ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man takes and sows in his field.

³³ He told them another parable. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

⁴⁴ The Realm of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field; the man who finds it hides it and in his delight goes and sells all he possesses and buys that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the Realm of heaven is like a trader in search of fine pearls;

⁴⁷ Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort.

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';

³³ Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad. ³⁴ When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit; ³⁵ but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them. ³⁷ Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said. ³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers?" ⁴¹ They replied, "He will utterly destroy the wretches and lease the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give him the fruits in their season." ⁴² Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes? ⁴³ I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.

² "The Realm of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a marriage-banquet in honour of his son.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

¹ Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

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

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

¹ [Chapters 15 & 16 are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

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

²¹ furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

⁵ for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, ⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love. ⁸ For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins. ¹⁰ So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

²⁸ But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

¹³ Then he replied to one of them, 'My man, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a shilling?

¹⁹ Show me the coin for taxes." So they brought him a shilling.

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;

³⁵ Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

¹⁵ remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

⁶ and I heard like a voice in the midst of the four living Creatures saying, "A shilling for a quart of wheat, a shilling for three quarts of barley; but harm not oil and wine!"

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.'

⁶ And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?' ⁷ 'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

¹⁵ these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning!

¹⁷ He argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout proselytes and also in the marketplace daily with those who chanced to be present. ¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection'). ¹⁹ Then taking him to the Areopagus they asked, "May we know what is this novel teaching of yours? ²⁰ You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean." ²¹ (For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)

¹³ Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another — and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

¹² so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

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

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. 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." 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.

⁷ But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner. ⁸ So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much." ⁹ And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

¹⁶ Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith; ¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration. ²⁰ When you served sin, you were free of righteousness. ²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death; ²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ Masters, treat your servants justly and fairly; remember you have a Master of your own in heaven.

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, ¹³ though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

⁸ It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions. ³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

⁴⁵ Now from twelve o'clock to three o'clock darkness covered all the land,

³³ When twelve o'clock came, darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock, ³⁴ and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Elôi, Elôi, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

⁴⁴ By this time it was about twelve o'clock, and darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock, ⁴⁵ owing to an eclipse of the sun; the curtain in the middle of the temple was torn in two. ⁴⁶ Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.

³⁹ He said to them, "Come and see." So they went and saw where he stayed, and stayed with him the rest of that day — it was then about four in the afternoon.

⁶ and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,

⁹ Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world:

¹ Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,

³ About three o'clock in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God entering and saying to him, "Cornelius."

⁹ Next day they were still on the road and not far from the town, when Peter went up to the roof of the house about noon to pray.

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.

⁴⁰ But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he. ⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm." ⁴² And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign." ⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

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

²¹ (For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)

⁹ So go to the byeways and invite anyone you meet to the marriage-banquet.' ¹⁰ And those servants went out on the roads and gathered all they met, bad and good alike. Thus the marriage-banquet was supplied with guests.

²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.' ²² When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,' ²³ the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house.

¹⁶ "What are we to do with these men?" they said. "It is plain to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that a miracle has admittedly been worked by them. That we cannot deny.

³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent, ³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

¹⁴ But how are they to invoke One in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they ever to hear, without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? — as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news! ¹⁶ But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? ¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)

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

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

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), ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

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

²⁶ of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

¹⁰ God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Well then, just as the weeds are gathered and burnt in the fire, so will it be at the end of the world;

¹⁹ Now a long time afterwards the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

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,

³ Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another.

⁴² The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

¹ He also said to the disciples: "There was a rich man who had a factor, and this factor, he found, was accused of misapplying his property. ² So he summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Hand in your accounts; you cannot be factor any longer.'

⁶ For he will render to everyone according to what he has done, ⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality, ⁸ but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness — ⁹ anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well, ¹⁰ but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

¹ This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths. ² Now in this matter of stewards your first requirement is that they must be trustworthy.

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.

⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

²⁸ so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

¹⁰ You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found. 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.

² and after agreeing with the labourers to pay them a shilling a day he sent them into his vineyard.

³ For what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and this was counted to him as righteousness. ⁴ Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour; ⁵ but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness. ⁶ Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does —

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, ²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁶ redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved, ⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed. ⁸ So richly has God lavished his grace upon us!

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that; ¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires. ¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners, ¹⁶ I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

² but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

²⁸ This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him, ²⁹ but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'

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

² So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him. ³ "You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!"

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '" ²² Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

¹⁶ For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

⁵⁵ when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is.

¹⁰ No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests. ¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

²² but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn. ²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

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

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

¹ Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God! ² I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge. ³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

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

²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — 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. ²⁸ And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

¹¹ up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.

⁵⁰ Jesus said, "My man, do your errand." Then they laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

¹⁴ Then are we to infer that there is injustice in God? Never! ¹⁵ God says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

²⁰ But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

² When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

⁶ When you pray, go into your room and shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

¹⁶ When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

³¹ The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours.

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.

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

²³ but if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened. And if your very light turns dark, then — what a darkness it is!

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;

²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

¹⁵ God says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion. ¹⁶ You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy. ¹⁷ Why, scripture says to Pharaoh, It was for this that I raised you up, to display my power in you, and to spread news of my name over all the earth. ¹⁸ Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases. ¹⁹ "Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?" ²⁰ But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?" ²¹ What! has the potter no right over the clay? Has he no right to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for a menial? ²² What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed? ²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory — ²⁴ that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

⁷ Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?

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),

¹ And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

⁹ Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you are judged; look, the Judge is standing at the very door!

¹³ Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven, ¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

³⁰ Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

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.

¹⁴ For many are invited but few are chosen.'"

³¹ Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

⁴⁷ Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."

²⁸ There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside. ²⁹ Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God. ³⁰ Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

²⁴ For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"

⁷ So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

¹⁹ Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him." ²⁰ Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival; ²¹ they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith;

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

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.

²³ For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ he glances at himself, goes off, and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

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.

¹³ Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?"

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."

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.

¹² Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

¹⁵ I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

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,

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 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.

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."

⁶⁶ What is your view?" They replied, "He is doomed to death."

¹ When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death.

⁶⁴ You have heard his blasphemy for yourselves. What is your mind?" They condemned him, all of them, to the doom of death; ⁶⁵ and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps.

⁷¹ So they said, "What more evidence do we need? We have heard it from his own lips."

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

²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, ²⁸ mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

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.

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him ⁶⁸ and crying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! tell us who struck you!"

² After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor. ³ Then Judas his betrayer saw he was condemned, and repented; he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!" ⁵ Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself. ⁶ The high priests took the money and said, "It would be wrong to put this into the treasury, for it is the price of blood." ⁷ So after consulting they bought with it the Potter's Field, to serve as a burying-place for strangers. ⁸ That is why the field is called to this day "The Field of Blood." ⁹ Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel; ¹⁰ and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord had bidden me.

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him; ²⁸ they stripped him and threw a scarlet mantle round him, ²⁹ plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" ³⁰ They spat on him, they took the stick and struck him on the head, ³¹ and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.

⁶⁵ and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps.

¹ Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.

¹⁶ The soldiers took him inside the courtyard (that is, the praetorium) and got all the regiment together; ¹⁷ then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited, ¹⁸ and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!" ¹⁹ They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage. ²⁰ Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

²⁹ Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! ³⁰ Come down from the cross and save yourself!" ³¹ So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

¹ Then the whole body of them rose and led him to Pilate. ² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah." ³ Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly." ⁴ And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowds, "I cannot find anything criminal about him." ⁵ But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

¹¹ Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

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

²⁸ Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover; ²⁹ so Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?" ³⁰ They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you." ³¹ Then said Pilate, "Take him yourselves, and sentence him according to your own Law." The Jews said, "We have no right to put anyone to death" ³² (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die). ³³ So Pilate went back inside the praetorium and called Jesus, saying, "Then you are king of the Jews?" ³⁴ Jesus replied, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did other people tell you about me?" ³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" said Pilate. "Your own nation and the high priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere." ³⁷ "So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ "Truth!" said Pilate, "what is truth!" With these words he went outside to the Jews again and told them, "I cannot find anything wrong about him.

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. ² And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe, ³ marching up to him and shouting, "Hail, king of the Jews!" — and striking him. ⁴ Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him."

¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him, ¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, ¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness. ¹⁶ (He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.)

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

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'."

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, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve; ⁶ after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died; ⁷ after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

¹¹ on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

²¹ Then going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John, mending their nets in the boat beside their father Zebedaeus. He called them,

² A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";

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

²⁵ But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, do help me."

⁵⁶ including Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus.

¹⁷ When they saw him they worshipped him, though some were in doubt.

³⁵ James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, came up to him saying, "Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you." ³⁶ So he said, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³⁷ They said to him, "Give us seats, one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in your glory." ³⁸ Jesus said, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I have to drink, or undergo the baptism I have to undergo?" ³⁹ They said to him, "We can." Jesus said, "You shall drink the cup I have to drink and undergo the baptism I have to undergo; ⁴⁰ but it is not for me to grant seats at my right or my left hand — these belong to the men for whom they have been destined." ⁴¹ Now when the ten heard of this, they burst into anger at James and John; ⁴² so Jesus called them and said, "You know the so-called rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them: ⁴³ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you wants to be first must be your slave; 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."

⁴⁰ There were some women also watching at a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

¹ At that hour the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Who is greatest in the Realm of heaven?"

²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

³² So Jesus stopped and called them. He said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

²² The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."

³⁶ So he said, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³⁷ They said to him, "Give us seats, one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in your glory."

⁵¹ Jesus spoke to him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight."

¹⁹ Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,

²⁰ On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it; ²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he said, "I want to regain my sight."

¹¹ He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

²⁴ A quarrel also rose among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest.

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

⁶ Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"

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!

¹⁰ Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

¹ Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

² to our sister Apphia, to our fellow-soldier Archippus, and to the church that meets in your house: ³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³⁵ Peter said to him, "Even though I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the disciples said the same thing.

³⁹ Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

⁴² Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

⁵⁶ However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

³⁸ Jesus said, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I have to drink, or undergo the baptism I have to undergo?" ³⁹ They said to him, "We can." Jesus said, "You shall drink the cup I have to drink and undergo the baptism I have to undergo;

³⁶ "Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

⁵⁰ I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!

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

¹¹ whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

²⁶ So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words,

³ you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

⁴⁰ but it is not for me to grant seats at my right or my left hand — these belong to the men for whom they have been destined."

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

¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

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.

⁷ Hence my hope for you is well-founded, since I know that as you share the sufferings you share the comfort also.

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;

¹¹ It is a sure word, that "If we have died with him, we shall live with him, ¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,

¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

⁴¹ Now when the ten heard of this, they burst into anger at James and John;

²³ And they began to discuss among themselves which of them could possibly be going to do such a thing. ²⁴ A quarrel also rose among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest. ²⁵ But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and their authorities take the name of 'Benefactor':

⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

¹⁴ But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth.

⁵ What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? — 'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.') ⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

⁵ You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

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;

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;

²⁵ but Jesus called them and said, "You know the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them: ²⁶ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave; 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."

⁴² so Jesus called them and said, "You know the so-called rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them:

²⁵ But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and their authorities take the name of 'Benefactor': ²⁶ not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant. ²⁷ Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant.

¹² Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe, he lay down again. "Do you know," he said to them, "what I have been doing to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. ¹⁴ Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet; ¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

⁸ But you are not to be called 'rabbi,' for One is your teacher, and you are all brothers; ⁹ you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father; ¹⁰ nor must you be called 'leaders,' for One is your leader, even the Christ. ¹¹ He who is greatest among you must be your servant. ¹² Whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be uplifted.

⁴⁴ Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

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

³⁵ So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."

⁴³ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

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."

⁷ He also told a parable to the guests, when he observed how they picked out the best places. ⁸ "When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited; ⁹ then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place.

¹⁴ I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

³⁶ Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."

⁵ On reaching Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues, with John as their assistant.

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

⁴ the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses — 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, ⁶ I am prepared to court-martial anyone who remains insubordinate, once your submission is complete. ⁷ Look at this obvious fact. So-and-so is perfectly sure he 'belongs to Christ'? Well then, let him understand, on second thoughts, that I 'belong to Christ' as much as he does. ⁸ Even supposing I were to boast somewhat freely of my authority (and the Lord gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you), I would feel quite justified. ⁹ But I am not going to seem as if I were 'overawing you with a letter,' so to speak. ¹⁰ My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

¹⁸ (may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

¹³ I would have liked to keep him beside me, that as your deputy he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel; ¹⁴ Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?

¹¹ If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

³ not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.

⁹ I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me. ¹⁰ So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words — and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.

¹¹ Then I saw another Beast rising from the land; he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ He performs amazing miracles, even making fire descend from heaven on earth in the sight of men, ¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword, ¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast, ¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he bears the mark, that is, the name of the Beast or the cipher of his name.

⁶ Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.

⁴ Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven;

³³ Then they reached Capharnahum. And when he was indoors he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" ³⁴ They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest. ³⁵ So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."

²⁶ not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.

³⁴ you know yourselves how these hands of mine provided everything for my own needs and for my companions. ³⁵ I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

¹⁴ To Greeks and to barbarians, to wise and to foolish alike, I owe a duty.

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; 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.

⁵ (It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)

⁵ I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!

²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — 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.

¹⁵ And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

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."

²⁸ this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

²⁴ he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many;

²⁷ Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant.

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

⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed." ⁵¹ (He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

⁴ he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him, ⁵ then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him. 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." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "then wash not only my feet but my hands and head." ¹⁰ Jesus said, "He who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed; he is clean all over. And you are clean — but not all of you" ¹¹ (he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean").

²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over; ²⁶ it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

²⁵ Jesus who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised that we might be justified.

¹⁵ but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men. ¹⁶ Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal. ¹⁷ For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all. ¹⁹ Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

⁹ (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

⁴ and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own. ⁵ Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus. ⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God 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.

⁶ the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": — in due time this was attested,

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

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.

⁸ Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

⁸ And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints), ⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

²⁷ As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!" ²⁸ When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir." ²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, "As you believe, so your prayer is granted," ³⁰ and their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly charged them, "See, nobody is to know of this." ³¹ But they went out and spread the news of him all over that country.

⁴⁶ Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road, ⁴⁷ heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me." ⁴⁸ A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!" ⁴⁹ Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." Then they called the blind man and told him, "Courage! Get up, he is calling you." ⁵⁰ Throwing off his cloak he jumped up and went to Jesus. ⁵¹ Jesus spoke to him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight." ⁵² Then Jesus said, "Go, your faith has made you well;" and he regained his sight at once and followed Jesus along the road.

³⁵ As he approached Jericho, it chanced that a blind man was seated beside the road begging. ³⁶ When he heard the crowd passing he inquired what was the matter, ³⁷ and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by. ³⁸ So he shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!" ³⁹ The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!" ⁴⁰ So Jesus stopped and ordered them to bring him, and asked him when he approached, ⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he said, "I want to regain my sight." ⁴² And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well." ⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

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

²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

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.

⁴² "Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

⁴⁶ Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road,

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,

²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk.

¹ As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth; ² and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin — for his own or for his parents' — was he born blind?" ³ Jesus replied, "Neither for his own sin nor for his parents' — it was to let the work of God be illustrated in him. ⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work. ⁵ When I am in the world, I am light for the world." ⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, ⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing. ⁸ Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know."

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;

³ concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent ⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁷ Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ⁸ for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

²³ But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us."

¹³ Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray over them. The disciples checked the people,

⁸ I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist. ⁹ So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ¹⁰ for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

¹ He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart. ² "In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man. ³ And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!' ⁴ For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man, ⁵ still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her — not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.' ⁶ Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says! ⁷ And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? 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?"

³⁹ The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

² Attend to your prayers, maintain your zest for prayer by thanksgiving;

¹⁷ never give up prayer,

²¹ He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."

²⁹ and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"

⁶ Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;

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

¹⁵ so he touched her hand; the fever left her and she rose and ministered to him.

²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, "As you believe, so your prayer is granted,"

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

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

³² Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

³³ So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

⁴³ Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

⁵¹ Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.

⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, ⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

³³ Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted. ³⁴ "Where have you laid him?" he asked. They answered, "Come and see, sir." ³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

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.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning. ¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,