Matthew 22 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then Jesus again addressed them in parables. ² "The Realm of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a marriage-banquet in honour of his son. ³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come. ⁴ Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.' ⁵ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his estate, another to his business, ⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them. ⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it. 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. ¹¹ Now when the king came in to view his guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in a wedding-robe. ¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less. ¹³ Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. ¹⁴ For many are invited but few are chosen.'" ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk. ¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour. ¹⁷ Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" ¹⁸ But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show me the coin for taxes." So they brought him a shilling. ²⁰ Then Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?" ²¹ "Caesar's," they said. Then he told them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." ²² When they heard that they marvelled; then they left him and went away. ²³ That same day some Sadducees came up to him, men who hold there is no resurrection. They put this question to him: ²⁴ "Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ After them all, the woman died. ²⁸ Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her." ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, ³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living." ³³ And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching. ³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces, ³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him. ³⁶ "Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?" ³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. ³⁸ This is the greatest and chief command. ³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself. ⁴⁰ The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands." ⁴¹ As the Pharisees had mustered, Jesus put a question to them. ⁴² "Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's." ⁴³ He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord? ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.' ⁴⁵ If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?" ⁴⁶ No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

¹⁵ Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse: ¹⁷ nor do men pour fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilt, the wineskins are ruined. They put fresh wine into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

⁴³ When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment and finds none. ⁴⁴ Then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,' and when it comes it finds the house vacant, clean, and all in order. ⁴⁵ Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

³ He spoke at some length to them in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵ Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil; ⁶ but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root. ⁷ Some other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. ⁸ Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold. ⁹ He who has an ear, let him listen to this." ¹⁰ Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?" ¹¹ He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.

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."

²⁸ Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day'; ²⁹ he replied, 'I will go, sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you. ³² For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him. 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. ⁴⁴ [Everyone who falls on this stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed.]" ⁴⁵ When the high priests and Pharisees heard these parables they knew he was speaking about them; ⁴⁶ they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

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

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

¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests.

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. ³² It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches." 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; ⁴⁶ when he finds a single pearl of high price, he is off to sell all he possesses and buy it. ⁴⁷ Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort.

² "The Realm of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a marriage-banquet in honour of his son. ³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come. ⁴ Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.' ⁵ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his estate, another to his business, ⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them. ⁷ The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it. 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. ¹¹ Now when the king came in to view his guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in a wedding-robe. ¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less. ¹³ Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. ¹⁴ For many are invited but few are chosen.'"

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. ² Five of them were stupid and five were sensible. ³ For although the stupid took their lamps, they took no oil with them, ⁴ whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps. ⁵ As the bridegroom was long of coming, they all grew drowsy and went to sleep. ⁶ But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' ⁷ Then all the maidens rose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ The stupid said to the sensible, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' ⁹ But the sensible replied, 'No, there may not be enough for us and for you. Better go to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' ¹⁰ Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut. ¹¹ Afterwards the rest of the maidens came and said, 'Oh sir, oh sir, open the door for us!' ¹² but he replied, 'I tell you frankly, I do not know you.' ¹³ Keep on the watch then, for you know neither the day nor the hour. ¹⁴ For the case is that of a man going abroad, who summoned his servants and handed over his property to them;

¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests. ¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.' ¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.' 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. ²⁴ For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete. ³⁰ He must wax, I must wane."

² for I feel a divine jealousy on your behalf; I betrothed you as a chaste maiden to present you to your one husband Christ,

²⁴ as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands in every respect. 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. ²⁸ So ought husbands to love their wives — to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself). ²⁹ For no one ever hates his flesh; no, he nourishes and cherishes it (just as Christ does the church ³⁰ for we are members of his Body). ³¹ Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh. ³² This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.

⁷ Let us rejoice and triumph, let us give him the glory! For now comes the marriage of the Lamb; his bride has arrayed herself, ⁸ Yea, she is allowed to put on fine linen, dazzling white" (the white linen is the righteous conduct of the saints). ⁹ Then I was told, "Write this: — 'Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage-banquet of the Lamb!'" The angel also told me, "These are genuine words of God."

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

⁶ rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And preach as you go, tell men, 'The Reign of heaven is near.'

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

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!

⁷ And summoning the twelve he proceeded to send them out two by two; he gave them power over the unclean spirits, ⁸ and ordered them to take nothing but a stick for the journey, no bread, no wallet, no coppers in their girdle; ⁹ they were to wear sandals, but not to put on two shirts, he said. ¹⁰ Also, he told them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there till you leave the place. ¹¹ And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

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

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

¹⁵ Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!" ¹⁶ Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests. ¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

²⁸ This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,

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

⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me for life.

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 He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven.

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

³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.

⁸ Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it.

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself. ² He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest. ³ Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. ⁴ Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals. Do not stop to salute anybody on the road. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!' ⁶ Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you, ⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.' ¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry, ¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!' ¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town. ¹³ Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! ¹⁶ He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

¹⁷ At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁵⁰ the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. ⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), ⁵⁵ for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

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

¹⁹ Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews. ²⁰ Some of them, however, were Cypriotes and Cyrenians, who on reaching Antioch told the Greeks also the gospel of the Lord Jesus;

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

¹⁷ Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem. ¹⁸ They meant to release me after examination, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death. ¹⁹ But the Jews objected, and so I was obliged to appeal to Caesar — not that I had any charge to bring against my own nation. ²⁰ This is my reason for asking to see you and have a word with you. I am wearing this chain because I share Israel's hope." ²¹ They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you. ²² We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands." ²³ So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets. ²⁴ Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe. ²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.' ²⁷ For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them. ²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it." ²⁹ -- ³⁰ For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him; ³¹ he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

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.

²² As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

³⁸ For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

¹⁸ But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.' ¹⁹ The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.'

²⁶ And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man; ²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, ²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back ³² (remember Lot's wife).

¹³ Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"

²⁵ but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

⁴ Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

⁶ The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

⁹ Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God —

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

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

¹² When you enter the house, salute it; ¹³ if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet. ¹⁵ I tell you truly, on the day of judgment it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorra than for that town. ¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷ Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end. 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. ²⁴ A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord; ²⁵ enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

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.

³⁴ This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town; ³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.

¹ While they were speaking to the people, they were surprised by the priests, the commander of the temple, and the Sadducees, ² who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead. ³ They laid hands on them and, as it was now evening, put them in custody till next morning.

⁴⁰ They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus. ⁴¹ The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

⁵¹ Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you! ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! — ⁵³ you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!" ⁵⁴ When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. ⁵⁵ He, full of the holy Spirit, gazed up at heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand. ⁵⁶ "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!" ⁵⁷ With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

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.

¹⁴ for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

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 saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you! ⁴³ A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side ⁴⁴ and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you — and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills, let those who are in the city escape, and let not those who are in the country come in to the city;

²⁴ they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

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!

¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel? ¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

¹¹ Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave. ¹² When you enter the house, salute it; ¹³ if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me: ³⁸ he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

⁵ They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it —

⁴ Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

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 And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature: ¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.

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

⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth."

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

⁴⁷ Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort. ⁴⁸ When it was full, they dragged it to the beach and sitting down they gathered the good fish into vessels but flung away the bad.

¹¹ Now when the king came in to view his guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in a wedding-robe. ¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.

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. ² Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.

¹⁰ Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut.

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. 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.

²¹ afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

¹⁹ They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.

¹⁴ But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice. ¹⁵ So even with you; you likewise have some adherents of the tenets of the Nicolaitans.

²⁰ Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice. ²² Lo, I will lay her on a sickbed, and bring her paramours into sore distress, if they do not repent of her practices; 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.

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;

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

⁶ Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder — "Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns!

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

³⁰ Let them both grow side by side till harvest; and at harvest-time I will tell the reapers to gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to be burnt, but to collect the wheat in my granary.'"

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, ³² and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,

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.

¹⁴ No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

⁵ So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

³ since I am sure that once so covered I shall not be 'naked' at the hour of death.

²⁷ (for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

²⁴ putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

¹⁰ and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him. ¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

¹² For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow — scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. 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.

⁴ Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to. ⁵ 'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.

¹⁵ (Lo, I am coming like a thief; blessed be he who keeps awake and holds his raiment fast, not to go naked and have the shame of exposure!)

⁸ Yea, she is allowed to put on fine linen, dazzling white" (the white linen is the righteous conduct of the saints).

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

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

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

² appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles. ³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land? ⁴ When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God." ⁵ When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.) ⁶ And the younger men rose, wrapped the body up and carried it away to be buried. ⁷ After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred. ⁸ "Tell me," said Peter, "did you only sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was all we sold it for." ⁹ Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well." ¹⁰ Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. ¹¹ Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this.

²⁰ Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God! ²¹ You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God. ²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose. ²³ For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."

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;

¹¹ you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.

¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

²⁹ Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

⁴² and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁵⁰ and fling them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁵¹ he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

³⁰ Throw the good-for-nothing servant into the darkness outside; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

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.

¹⁸ Truly, truly I tell you, you put on your own girdle and went wherever you wanted, when you were young; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands for someone to gird you, and you will be taken where you have no wish to go"

⁵⁴ When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

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'."

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

⁴ For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

⁶ while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day —

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

²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

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. ¹⁴ But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

¹⁶ So shall the last be first and the first last."

²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

²³ A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them, ²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

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;

¹⁴ They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings — the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

¹³ But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question. ¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it." ¹⁶ So they brought one. He said, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they said. ¹⁷ Jesus said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." He astonished them.

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.

²⁰ So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. ²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly. ²² Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them, ²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. ²⁵ "Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." ²⁶ So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

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.

²⁴ "Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother.

²⁶ The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh.

¹⁸ He said, "Go into the city to so-and-so; tell him that the Teacher says, 'My time is near, I will celebrate the passover at your house with my disciples.' "

⁴⁹ So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

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

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

¹⁷ As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

⁴⁰ Then Jesus addressed him. "Simon," he said, "I have something to say to you." "Speak, teacher," he said.

²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

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

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

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."

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

² I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

¹⁶ Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

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

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

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

¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

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.

²⁵ He said, "Yes." But when he went indoors Jesus spoke first; "Tell me, Simon," he said, "from whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes? Is it from their own people or from aliens?"

¹ Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

¹² This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!" ¹³ On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out and seated him on the tribunal at a spot called the 'mosaic pavement' — the Hebrew name is Gabbatha ¹⁴ (it was the day of Preparation for the passover, about noon). "There is your king!" he said to the Jews. ¹⁵ Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!"

³⁷ After him Judas the Galilean started up at the time of the census, and got people to desert to him; but he perished too, and all his followers were scattered.

⁷ Jason has welcomed them! They all violate the decrees of Caesar by declaring someone else called Jesus is king."

⁸ Paul's defence was, "I have committed no offence against the Law of the Jews, against the temple, or against Caesar."

²² We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

⁶ for the same reason as you pay taxes — since magistrates are God's officers, bent upon the maintenance of order and authority. ⁷ Pay them all their respective dues, tribute to one, taxes to another, respect to this man, honour to that.

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.

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

⁸ Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts?

⁵ He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed.

²² Conscious that they were arguing to themselves, Jesus addressed them, saying, "Why argue in your hearts?

⁴⁷ Jesus knew the dispute that occupied their minds, so he took hold of a little child and set it by his side;

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

²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them,

²⁵ and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

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;

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

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!'

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

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!"

²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.

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

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

³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.

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."

¹⁹ But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God.

²⁹ Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men.

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

¹³ Submit for the Lord's sake to any human authority; submit to the emperor as supreme, ¹⁴ and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people — ¹⁵ for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons. ¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God. ¹⁷ Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

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

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

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

¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

¹⁰ but they could not meet the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

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

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?

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

¹⁸ Sadducees, men who hold there is no resurrection, also came up and put a question to him. ¹⁹ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁰ Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring: ²¹ the second took her and died without leaving any offspring: so did the third: ²² none of the seven left any offspring. Last of all the woman died too. ²³ At the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them." ²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? — you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. ²⁵ When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? ²⁷ He is not the God of dead people but of living. You are far wrong."

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

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

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.

¹² Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'? ¹³ If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise; ¹⁴ and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

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

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

¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

³⁶ "Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?"

¹⁹ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

⁴⁶ Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not?

²⁸ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

¹⁹ "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother. ²⁰ Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring: ²¹ the second took her and died without leaving any offspring: so did the third: ²² none of the seven left any offspring. Last of all the woman died too. ²³ At the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

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

²⁷ And just as it is appointed for men to die once and after that to be judged,

³⁷ for with God nothing is ever impossible."

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.

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

⁸ [Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead,

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

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

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

¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

³⁸ For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark;

²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? — you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. ²⁵ When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven.

²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "People in this world marry and are married, ³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married, ³⁶ for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

²⁹ I mean, brothers, — the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let mourners live as if they were not mourning, let the joyful live as if they had no joy, let buyers live as if they had no hold on their goods, ³¹ let those who mix in the world live as if they were not engrossed in it, for the present phase of things is passing away.

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

¹³ Go and learn the meaning of this word, I care for mercy not for sacrifice. For I have not come to call just men but sinners."

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

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

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

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

³⁷ And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.' ³⁸ God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."

³² 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

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.)

²⁸ When Jesus finished his speech, the crowds were astounded at his teaching; ²⁹ for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.

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

² When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and the large audience was astounded. "Where did he get all this?" they said. "What is the meaning of this wisdom he is endowed with? And these miracles, too, that his hands perform!

¹⁷ Jesus said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." He astonished them.

⁴⁷ till all his hearers were amazed at the intelligence of his own answers.

²² All spoke well of him and marvelled at the gracious words that came from his lips; they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"

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

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

³ For although the stupid took their lamps, they took no oil with them, ⁴ whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps. ⁵ As the bridegroom was long of coming, they all grew drowsy and went to sleep.

²⁸ Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. ³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

⁴⁷ whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone, like this, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and suppress our holy Place and our nation." ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it — ⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

²⁴ On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it. ²⁵ However, someone came and reported to them, "Here are the very men you put in prison, standing in the temple and teaching the people!" ²⁶ At this the commander went off with the attendants and fetched them — but without using violence, for fear that the people would pelt them with stones. ²⁷ They conducted them before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked them, ²⁸ "We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

²³ It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened. ²⁴ By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen. ²⁵ So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth. ²⁶ You also see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over Asia this fellow Paul has drawn off a considerable number of people by his persuasions. He declares that hand-made gods are not gods at all. ²⁷ Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship." ²⁸ When they heard this they were filled with rage and raised the cry, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"

²⁸ shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!" ²⁹ (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian along with him in the city, and they supposed Paul had taken him inside the temple.) ³⁰ The whole city was thrown into turmoil. The people rushed together, seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple; whereupon the doors were immediately shut.

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

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

³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." ²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?" ³⁰ Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead. ³¹ Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side. ³² So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side. ³³ However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him; ³⁴ he went to him, bound his wounds up, pouring oil and wine into them, mounted him on his own steed, took him to an inn, and attended to him. 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.' ³⁶ Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?" ³⁷ He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."

⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well." ⁴⁶ He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

⁵² Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

³ so Jesus asked the jurists and Pharisees, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath or not?"

¹³ Give a hearty send-off to Zenas the jurist and Apollos; see that they want for nothing.

¹⁹ Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.) ²⁰ For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

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!

²⁸ Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. ³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Right, teacher! You have truly said, He is One, and there is none else but Him. ³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

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

²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength.

³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

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

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

¹⁶ This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds, ¹⁷ And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more.

² This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands ³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome, ⁴ for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world. ⁵ Who is the world's conqueror but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself. ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

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

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

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

⁸ If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

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

¹⁷ while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin. ²¹ But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

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

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God; ⁸ he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

¹⁹ We love, because He loved us first. ²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen. ²¹ And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

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

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces,

³⁵ And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son? ³⁶ David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.' ³⁷ David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

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

¹ The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

⁴ so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born. ⁵ They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet: ⁶ And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people."

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

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

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.

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!"

⁶⁹ he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David ⁷⁰ as he promised of old by the lips of his prophets

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

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

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

²⁸ Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

²² After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.' ²³ From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,

⁹ Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, ¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; ⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ ⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith. ¹⁰ I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died, ¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

⁴ come to him then — come to that living Stone which men have rejected and God holds choice and precious, ⁵ come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ For thus it stands in the scripture: Here I lay a Stone in Sion, a choice, a precious cornerstone: he who believes in him will never be disappointed. ⁷ Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving — the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone,

¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

³⁶ David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

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 By an inspiration of the Spirit he came to the temple, and when the parents of the child Jesus carried him in to perform the customary regulations of the law for him,

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

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.

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice,

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

¹⁰ On the Lord's day I found myself rapt in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet calling,

² At once I found myself rapt in the Spirit; and lo a Throne stood in heaven with One seated on the throne —

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'.

² to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

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

⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

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;

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

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

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁹ And I saw the Beast and the kings of earth and their troops mustered to wage war on him who was seated on the horse and on his troops.

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. ¹³ The sea gave up its corpses, Death and Hades gave up their dead, and all were judged by what each had done. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire, ¹⁵ and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire — which is the second death, the lake of fire.

⁵⁸ "Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

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

⁵ the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

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.

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

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)

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

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.

³⁴ Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

¹⁷ As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings.

⁶ This they could not dispute.

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

⁷ but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her"; ⁸ then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground. ⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

¹⁴ but as they saw the man who had been healed standing beside them, they could say nothing.