Matthew 23 Cross References - Murdock

¹ Then Jesus conversed with the multitude and with his disciples, ² and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses. ³ Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not. ⁴ They tie up heavy burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but will not themselves touch them with their finger. ⁵ And all their works they do, to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and extend the fringes of their garments. ⁶ And they love the highest couches at suppers and the highest seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greeting in the market places, and to be addressed by men with Rabbi. ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Rabbi, and ye are all brethren. ⁹ And ye shall not call yourselves Father on earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ And be ye not called guides; for one is your Guide, the Messiah. ¹¹ And the great one among you will be your servitor. ¹² For whoever shall exalt himself, will be abased: and whoever shall abase himself, will be exalted. ¹³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves, and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter. ¹⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden. ¹⁷ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? ¹⁸ And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation upon it, he is holden. ¹⁹ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation? ²⁰ He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it. ²¹ And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it. ²² And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it. ²³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver matters of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit. ²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels. ²⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness. ²⁶ Ye blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may be clean also. ²⁷ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity. ²⁸ So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy. ²⁹ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the prophets and ye adorn the sepulchres of the righteous; ³⁰ and ye say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been participators with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ Wherefore ye are witnesses, against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets. ³² And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how can ye escape the condemnation of hell? ³⁴ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of whom ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city: ³⁵ so that on you may come all the blood of the righteous, which hath been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate! ³⁹ For I say to you, That ye shall not see me henceforth, until ye shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ And he called the multitudes, and said to them, Hear and understand. ¹¹ Not that which entereth the mouth, defileth a man; but that which proceedeth from the mouth, that defileth a man. ¹² Then came his disciples, and said to him: Knowest thou, that the Pharisees were offended when they heard that speech? ¹³ And he replied, and said to them: Every plant, which my Father who is in heaven hath not planted, shall be eradicated. ¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if a blind man leadeth one blind, they will both fall into the ditch. ¹⁵ And Simon Cephas answered and said to him: My Lord, explain to us this similitude. ¹⁶ And he said to them: Are ye also, up to this time, without understanding? ¹⁷ Know ye not, that whatever entereth the mouth, passeth into the belly, and from there is ejected by purgation? ¹⁸ But that which proceedeth from the mouth, cometh from the heart: and that is what defileth a man. ¹⁹ For, from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, whoredom, theft, false testimony, reviling. ²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But if a man eat while his hands are unwashed, he is not defiled.

¹⁴ And Jesus called all the multitude, and said to them: Hear, all ye; and understand.

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love the salutation in the streets, ³⁹ and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at feasts.

¹ And when great multitudes were assembled by myriads, so that they trod one upon another, Jesus began to say to his disciples: First of all, beware for yourselves of that leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

⁵⁷ And why do ye not, of yourselves, judge correctly?

⁴⁵ And while all the people heard, he said to his disciples: ⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love a salutation in the streets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at suppers:

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love the salutation in the streets,

⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love a salutation in the streets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at suppers:

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread? ³ Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, on account of your tradition? ⁴ For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy mother; and he that revileth his father or his mother, shall be put to death. ⁵ But ye say Whosoever shall say to a father or to a mother, Be that my offering, by which ye get profit from me: then he must not honor his father or his mother. ⁶ And thus ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did the prophet Isaiah prophesy of you, and say : ⁸ This people honoreth me with the lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁹ And in vain they pay me homage, while they teach doctrines that are the precepts of men.

³⁰ And he came to the other, and said the same to him. And he answered and said: I go, my lord, but did not go.

²⁹ And Simon, with the legates, answered and said to them: God is to be obeyed, rather than men.

¹⁹ and hast confidence in thyself, that thou art a guide to the blind, and a light to them who are in darkness, ²⁰ and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law : ²¹ Thou therefore, who teachest others, teachest thou not thyself? And thou who teachest that men must not steal, dost thou steal? ²² And thou who sayest, Men must not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who contemnest idols, dost thou plunder the sanctuary? ²³ And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself? ²⁴ For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the authorities of magistracy. For there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist, are established by God.

⁵ having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee.

¹⁶ And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye wearied and heavily burdened, and I will ease you. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you; and learn from me, that I am gentle and subdued in my heart: and ye will find rest for your souls: ³⁰ for my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is light.

²³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver matters of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit.

⁴⁶ And he said: Woe to you also! ye Scribes, who lade men with heavy burdens; yet ye yourselves will not touch those burdens with one of your fingers

¹⁰ And now, why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke on the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we could bear?

²⁸ For it was pleasing to the Holy Spirit, and to us, that there should not be laid upon you any additional burden, besides these necessary things:

¹³ For not even they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to become circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

²⁴ And I say to you, to the rest that are in Thyatira, to all them who have not received this doctrine, the men who have not known the profound things of Satan, as they say; I lay no other burden upon you:

¹ Be cautious in your alms-giving, not to perform it before men, so that ye may be seen of them: otherwise, ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ² Therefore, when thou doest alms thou shalt not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get praise from men. Verily I say to you, They have gotten their reward. ³ But thou, when doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: ⁴ that thy alms may be in secret. And thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. ⁵ And when thou prayest. thou shalt not be like the hypocrites, who are fond of standing up in the synagogues and at the corners of streets to pray, so that they may be seen by people. Verily I say to you, they have gotten their reward. ⁶ But thou, when thou prayest enter into thy closet and close the door, and pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. ⁷ And when ye pray, be not garrulous like the heathen; for they expect to be heard for their abundance of words. ⁸ Therefore, be not like them; for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before ye ask him. ⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done; as in heaven, so on earth: ¹¹ Give us our needful bread, this day: ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors: ¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever: Amen. ¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their faults, your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if ye shall not forgive men, your Father also forgiveth not you your faults. ¹⁶ And when ye fast, be not sad like the hypocrites. For they distort their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say to you, they have gotten their reward.

²⁰ And behold, a woman whose blood had flowed fourteen years, came up behind him, and touched the extremity of his robe:

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them: Ye are such as justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your heart: for that which is exalted among men, is abominable before God.

⁴⁷ who eat up the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. They will receive a greater condemnation.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and seek not the glory which cometh from God only?

¹⁸ He that speaketh according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is veracious, and evil is not in his heart.

⁴³ for they loved the praise of men, more than the praise of God.

¹⁵ And they herald it, some from envy and contention; but others with good will, and with love for the Messiah;

³ And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself. ⁴ who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God.

²¹ And he said to her, What desirest thou? She said to him: Say, that these my two sons shall sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.

⁴³ Woe to you, Pharisees! who love the chief seats in the synagogues, and a salutation in the streets. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like graves that are unknown, and men walk over them and do not know it. ⁴⁵ And one of the Scribes replied, and said to him: Teacher, while saying these things, thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶ And he said: Woe to you also! ye Scribes, who lade men with heavy burdens; yet ye yourselves will not touch those burdens with one of your fingers ⁴⁷ Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the prophets, whom your fathers slew. ⁴⁸ Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres. ⁴⁹ Therefore hath wisdom said: Lo, I will send to them prophets and legates; and some of them they will persecute and slay; ⁵⁰ that from this generation may be required, the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the world was created; ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zachariah who was slain between the temple and the altar. Yea, say I to you: It will be required of this generation. ⁵² Woe to you, Scribes; for ye have taken away the keys of knowledge: ye yourselves enter not, and them that are entering ye hinder. ⁵³ And when he had said these things to them, the Scribes and Pharisees began to be offended, and became angry, and carped at his discourses, ⁵⁴ and practised many wiles upon him, seeking to catch some thing from his lips, that they might accuse him.

⁷ And he spoke a similitude to the guests that were present, as he noticed how they chose places on the highest couches. ⁸ When thou art invited by any one to a house of feasting, go not and recline on the highest couch; lest there should be invited there, one more honorable than thou; ⁹ and he that invited both him and thee come and say to thee, Give place to this man; and thou be ashamed, when thou risest, and takest a lower couch. ¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go and recline on the lowest couch; that when he who invited thee come, he may say to thee: My friend, come up higher and recline. And thou wilt have honor, before all that recline with thee. ¹¹ For, every one that exalteth himself, will be humbled: and every one that humbleth himself, will be exalted.

⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love a salutation in the streets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at suppers: ⁴⁷ who eat up the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. They will receive a greater condemnation.

¹⁰ Be affectionate to your brethren: and love one another. Be foremost in honoring one another.

¹ My brethren, hold ye not the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with a respect to persons. ² For if there come into your assembly a man with rings of gold or splendid garments, and there come in a poor man in sordid garments; ³ and ye show respect to him who is clothed in splendid garments, and say to him, Seat thyself here, conspicuously; while to the poor man, ye say, Stand thou there, or sit thou here before my footstool; ⁴ are ye not divided among yourselves, and become expositors of evil thoughts?

⁹ I was desirous of writing to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost among them, Diotrephes, receiveth us not.

⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Rabbi, and ye are all brethren.

⁵ And Cephas said to him: Rabbi, it is delightful for us to be here. And let us make three booths; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

⁵¹ Jesus said to him: What wilt thou, that I do for thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabbi, that I may have sight.

³⁸ And Jesus turned, and saw them coming after him, and he said to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Our Rabbi, where stayest thou?

⁴⁹ Nathaniel answered, and said to him: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

² And he came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God; for no one can work those signs which thou workest, unless God be with him.

²⁶ And they came to John, and said to him: Our Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan, and of whom thou gavest testimony, lo, he also baptizeth; and many go after him.

²⁵ And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Our Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

¹⁶ Jesus said to her: Mary! And she turned, and said to him in Hebrew: Rabbuni; which is interpreted Teacher.

²⁵ It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much more the children of his family?

⁵ And while he was yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and there was a voice from the cloud which said: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have pleasure; hear ye him.

¹⁰ And be ye not called guides; for one is your Guide, the Messiah.

⁴⁹ And forthwith he approached Jesus, and said: Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him.

³² but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith may not fail. And thou also, in time, turn; and confirm thy brethren.

¹³ Ye call me, Our Rabbi, and Our Lord; and ye speak well; for I am so. ¹⁴ If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another?

⁹ Moreover, for this cause Messiah died, and revived, and arose; that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah,

¹² And this I state: That one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; and another saith, I am of Cephas; and another saith, I am of Messiah. ¹³ Now was Messiah divided? Or was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

³ For ye are still in the flesh. For, as there are among you envying, and contention, and parties, are ye not carnal, and walking in the flesh? ⁴ For, while one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? ⁵ For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him?

²⁴ Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith ye stand.

⁵ For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.

¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named;

¹ PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, and Timothy a brother, ² to them who are at Colosse, the brethren, holy and believing in Jesus the Messiah: peace be with you, and grace from God our Father.

¹ Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment.

³ not as lords of the flock, but so as to be a good example for them:

⁹ I John, your brother, and partaker with you in the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the Messiah, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus the Messiah.

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet, to worship him. And he said to me, See, thou do it not; I am thy fellow-servant, and of those thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship ye God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

⁹ And he said to me: See, thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them that observe the words of this book. Worship God.

⁸ Therefore, be not like them; for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before ye ask him. ⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name:

³² For, all these things the people of the world seek after. And your Father, who is in heaven, knoweth that all these things are needful to you.

¹¹ If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

¹ Brethren, and fathers, hearken to my defence before you.

¹⁴ For they who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God :) ¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Father, our Father. ¹⁶ And this Spirit testifieth to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. ¹⁷ And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and participators of the inheritance of Jesus Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

¹⁵ For though ye have a myriad of teachers in Messiah, yet not many fathers; for in Jesus Messiah, I have begotten you by preaching.

¹⁸ and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be sons and daughters to me, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹ Chide not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men, as thy brothers; ² and the elder women, as mothers; and the younger women, as thy sisters, with all purity.

⁹ And if our fathers of the flesh chastened us, and we revered them, how much more ought we to be submissive to our spiritual fathers, and live?

¹ And ye see, how great is the love of the Father towards us, who hath called us sons, and made us such. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it likewise knoweth him not.

²⁶ Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to you, a ministerer: ²⁷ and whoever among you desireth to be first, let him be your servant:

⁴³ But it shall not be so among you: but he that would be great among you, must be a servitor to you. ⁴⁴ And he of you that would be first, must be servant to every one.

²⁶ But ye, not so: but he that is great among you, must be as the least; and he that is chief, as the servitor. ²⁷ For, which is the greater, he that reclineth, or he that serveth? Is not he that reclineth? But I am among you, as he that serveth.

¹⁴ If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another? ¹⁵ For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.

¹⁹ Being free from them all, I have made myself servant to every man; that I might gain many:

²³ If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.

¹³ And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.

⁵ And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought; ⁶ who, as he was in the likeness of God, deemed it no trespass to be the coequal of God; ⁷ yet divested himself, and assumed the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a man; ⁸ and he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

⁴ He therefore that shall humble himself like this child, he will be great in the kingdom of heaven.

⁵¹ He hath wrought victory with his arm; and hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. ⁵² He hath cast down the mighty from their thrones, and hath exalted the lowly.

¹¹ For, every one that exalteth himself, will be humbled: and every one that humbleth himself, will be exalted.

¹⁴ I say to you, that this man went down to his house justified, rather than the Pharisee. For every one that exalteth himself, will be humbled; and every one that humbleth himself, will be exalted.

⁶ But our Lord hath given us more grace. Therefore he said: The Lord humbleth the lofty, and giveth grace to the lowly.

⁵ And ye juniors submit yourselves to your seniors; and clothe yourselves, stringently, with lowliness of mind one towards another; because God resisteth them who exalt themselves, and giveth grace to the humble.

³¹ Which of these two performed the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him: and ye, after ye had seen it, did not even then repent and believe in him.

¹³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves, and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter. ¹⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

²⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness.

²⁷ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity.

²⁹ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the prophets and ye adorn the sepulchres of the righteous;

⁴³ Woe to you, Pharisees! who love the chief seats in the synagogues, and a salutation in the streets. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like graves that are unknown, and men walk over them and do not know it.

⁵² Woe to you, Scribes; for ye have taken away the keys of knowledge: ye yourselves enter not, and them that are entering ye hinder.

⁴⁶ The constables say to them: Never did a man speak, as this man speaketh. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees said to them: Are ye also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the chiefs, or of the Pharisees, believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this people, who know not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰ One of them: Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, said to them: ⁵¹ Doth our law condemn a man, unless it first hear him, and know what he hath done? ⁵² They answered, and said to him: Art thou also from Galilee? Search, and see, that no prophet ariseth from Galilee.

²² These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that if any one should confess him to be Messiah, they would expel him from the synagogue.

²⁴ And they called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; for we know that this man is a sinner.

³⁴ They replied, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they expelled him.

¹⁷ But that the fame of it spread no further, let us interdict their speaking any more to any man in this name. ¹⁸ And they called them, and commanded them not to speak nor to teach at all in the name of Jesus.

²⁸ Did we not strictly charge you, to teach no person in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine; and ye would bring the blood of this man upon us.

⁴⁰ And they called the legates, and scourged them, and commanded them not to teach in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

¹ And Saul was consenting and participating in his death. And there was, in that day, a great persecution against the church that was at Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed, except the legates, among the villages of Judaea and likewise among the Samaritans.

⁸ And this sorcerer, Bar-Suma, (whose name is interpreted, Elymas,) withstood them; because he wished to divert the proconsul from the faith.

¹⁵ the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men; ¹⁶ and they forbid us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all times. And wrath cometh on them to the uttermost.

⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and they reprobates from the faith.

¹⁵ And do thou also beware of him; for he is very insolent against our words.

²⁴ But I say to thee, It will be comfortable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, rather than for thee.

³³ Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how can ye escape the condemnation of hell? ³⁴ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of whom ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city: ³⁵ so that on you may come all the blood of the righteous, which hath been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation.

⁴⁰ They devour the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. These shall receive a greater condemnation.

⁴⁸ But he that knew not, yet did that which deserved stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, from him will much be required; and to whom much is committed, the more will be required at his hand.

⁴⁷ who eat up the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. They will receive a greater condemnation.

⁶ For of them are they who creep into this and that house, and captivate the women who are plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts,

¹⁰ For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision. ¹¹ The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains.

³ And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

¹⁴ having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction: ¹⁵ and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

²² But I say to you, That every one who is angry with his brother rashly, is obnoxious to judgment: and every one that saith to his brother, Raka! is obnoxious to the council and every one that shall say, Fool is obnoxious to hell-fire.

²⁹ If therefore thy right eye make thee offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that thy one member perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father, the calumniator; and the lust of your father ye are disposed to do. He was from the beginning a manslayer, and abode not in the truth; for the truth is not in him, and when he speaketh a lie he speaketh from himself, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹⁰ and those from the region of Phrygia, and of Pamphylia, and of Egypt, and of the parts of Lybia near Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews and proselytes;

⁵ And this proposal was acceptable before all the people. And they elected Stephen, a man who was full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas an Antiochian proselyte.

¹⁰ and said: O thou full of all subtilties, and all mischiefs, thou child of the calumniator, and enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

⁴³ And when the synagogue was dismissed, many Jews went after them, and likewise proselytes who feared God. And they conversed with them, and persuaded them to adhere to the grace of God.

² But Jews of the class of unbelievers, excited the Gentiles, to maltreat the brethren.

¹⁹ But Jews came hither from Iconium and Antioch, and excited the people against them. And they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

⁵ But the Jews were indignant, and gathered to themselves evil men from the marketplace of the city, and formed a great mob; and they alarmed the city, and came and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to draw them from it, and to deliver them up to the mob. ⁶ And when they found them not there, they drew Jason and the brethren who were there, and brought them before the chiefs of the city, crying out: These are they who have terrified all the country; and lo, they have come hither also:

¹³ And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul in the city of Berea, they came thither also, and they ceased not to excite and alarm the people.

¹⁷ They are zealous towards you, yet not for good; but they wish to shut you up, that ye may be zealous towards them.

¹² They who are disposed to glory in the flesh, they urge you to become circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted on account of the cross of the Messiah.

³ in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

³³ Again, ye have heard that it hath been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not be false in thy oaths; but thou shalt perform thine oaths to the Lord. ³⁴ But I say to you, Swear not at all: not by heaven, for it is the throne of God: ³⁵ and not by the earth, for it is the footstool under his feet: and likewise not by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.

⁵ But ye say Whosoever shall say to a father or to a mother, Be that my offering, by which ye get profit from me: then he must not honor his father or his mother. ⁶ And thus ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if a blind man leadeth one blind, they will both fall into the ditch.

¹⁷ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

¹⁹ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?

²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels.

²⁶ Ye blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may be clean also.

¹⁰ For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and whoever shall revile his father or his mother, shall surely die. ¹¹ But ye say: If a man say to his father or to his mother, Be it my oblation, whatever thou mayest gain from me: ¹² then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother. ¹³ And ye reject the word of God, on account of the tradition which ye hand down. And many things like these, ye do.

³⁹ And Jesus said: For the judgment of this world, have I come; that they who see not, might see; and that they who see, might become blind. ⁴⁰ And some of those Pharisees who were with him, heard these things; and they said to him: How? Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would be without sin; but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin is established.

³ And again, I testify to every one who becometh circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill the whole law.

¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.

²² while ye also are builded in him, for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

⁹ in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity corporeally.

³⁴ But I say to you, Swear not at all: not by heaven, for it is the throne of God:

⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool under my feet. What is the house, ye will build for me? saith the Lord: or, what is the place of my repose?

² Instantly, I was in the Spirit: and lo, a throne was placed in heaven; and there was one seated on the throne. ³ And he who sat, was like the appearance of a jasper-stone, and of a sardine sard, and of a rainbow of the clouds, round about the throne, in form as the appearance of emeralds.

¹⁹ Therefore whoever shall break one of these small commands and shall so inculcate on the children of men, shall be called little in the kingdom of heaven: but every one that shall do and teach them, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

¹³ Go and learn what that is: I require compassion, and not a sacrifice! For I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinful.

⁷ And if ye had known what that is, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; ye would not have criminated them who are without fault.

³⁷ Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first command. ³⁹ And the second, which is like it, is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commands hang the law and the prophets.

⁴² But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and every pot-herb; but pass over justice and the love of God. Now ye ought to do these things, and not to omit those.

¹² But I fast twice in a week, and tithe all I possess.

²² But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience. ²³ Against these there standeth no law.

⁴ Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Allow me to pluck the straw from thy eye; and lo! a beam is in thy own eye.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread? ³ Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, on account of your tradition? ⁴ For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy mother; and he that revileth his father or his mother, shall be put to death.

²⁴ And again, I say to you: It is easier for a camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.

⁶ And the chief priests took up the silver, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. ⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, for a place to bury strangers. ⁸ Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, unto this day.

⁷ And the Scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might be able to accuse him. ⁸ And as he knew their thoughts, he said to the man with a withered hand: Rise and come into the midst of the congregation. And when he came and stood there, ⁹ Jesus said to them: I ask you, What is it lawful to do on the sabbath? that which is good? or that which is evil? to save life or to destroy it? ¹⁰ And he looked upon them all; and then said to him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched out his hand, and it was restored like the other.

²⁸ And they led Jesus from the presence of Caiaphas unto the Praetorium; and it was morning. But they did not enter the Praetorium, lest they should defile themselves before they had eaten the passover.

⁴⁰ And they all cried out, and said: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now this Barabbas was a robber.

⁴ And coming from the market-place, except they baptize, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to observe, such as the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and of brazen vessels, and of couches. ⁵ And the Scribes and Pharisees asked him: Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat bread with their hands unwashed? ⁶ And he said to them: Well did Isaiah the prophet prophecy concerning you, ye hypocrites; as it is written: This people honoreth me with its lips, but their heart is very far from me. ⁷ And in vain do they give me reverence, while teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. ⁸ For ye have forsaken the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men, the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and many things like these. ⁹ He said also to them: Full well do ye spurn the precept of God, that ye may establish your tradition!

³⁹ And Jesus said to him: Now ye Pharisees make clean the exterior of the cup and the dish; but your interior is full of extortion and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye deficient in understanding! did not he who made the exterior, make also the interior?

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruits good; or make the tree bad, and its fruits bad: for a tree is known by its fruits.

⁴⁵ A good man, from the good treasure that is in his heart, bringeth out good things: and a bad man, from the bad treasure that is in his heart, bringeth out bad things. For, from the abundance of the heart, the lips speak.

¹ Seeing, therefore, we have these promises, my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit; and let us work righteousness, in the fear of God.

²² Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart, and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled as to our hearts, and pure from an evil conscience, and our body being washed with pure water.

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: sanctify your hearts, ye divided in mind.

⁴⁴ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like graves that are unknown, and men walk over them and do not know it.

³ And Paul said to him: God is here-after to smite thee, thou Whited Wall! For, sittest thou judging me agreeably to law, while thou transgressest the law, and commandest to smite me?

³⁴ Offspring of vipers, how can ye who are evil, speak good things? For out of the fullnesses of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man out of good treasures bringeth forth good things, and a bad man out of bad treasures bringeth forth bad things.

⁵ And all their works they do, to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and extend the fringes of their garments.

²¹ For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultery, whoredom, ²² theft, murder, avarice, malice, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, reviling, haughtiness, folly. ²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.

¹² For the word of God is living, and all-efficient, and sharper than a two-edged sword, and entereth even to the severance of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow and the bones, and judgeth the thoughts and reasonings of the heart: ¹³ neither is there any creature, which is concealed from before him; but every thing is naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom we are to give account.

⁴⁷ Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the prophets, whom your fathers slew. ⁴⁸ Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres.

²⁹ Men, brethren, I may speak to you explicitly of the patriarch David, that he died, and also was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this day.

³⁵ And the cultivators laid hold of his servants, and beat one, and stoned another and one they slew. ³⁶ And again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first; and they did the like to them.

³⁴ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of whom ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city: ³⁵ so that on you may come all the blood of the righteous, which hath been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

²² He said to him: Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, thou evil servant. Thou knewest me, that I am a hard man, and that I take up what I laid not down, and reap what I sowed not!

⁵¹ O ye stiff of neck, and uncircumcised in their heart, and in their hearing; ye do always set yourselves against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, so also ye. ⁵² For, which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute and kill, even them, who foretold the coming of the Just One, whom ye delivered up and slew?

¹⁶ and they forbid us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all times. And wrath cometh on them to the uttermost.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, who came to be baptized, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the wrath that cometh?

³⁴ Offspring of vipers, how can ye who are evil, speak good things? For out of the fullnesses of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁴ And when the time for the fruits arrived, he sent his servants to the cultivators that they might remit to him of the fruits of the vineyard. ³⁵ And the cultivators laid hold of his servants, and beat one, and stoned another and one they slew.

⁷ And he said to the multitudes, who came to him to be baptized: Ye progeny of vipers, who hath instructed you to flee from the future wrath?

³ But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.

³ how shall we escape, if we despise the things which are our life, things which began to be spoken by our Lord, and were confirmed to us by them who heard from him,

²⁹ how much more, think ye, will he receive capital punishment, who hath trodden upon the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of his covenant, by which he is sanctified, as the blood of all men, and hath treated the Spirit of grace with contumely?

²⁵ Beware, therefore, lest ye refuse to hear him who speaketh with you. For if they escaped not, who refused to hear him who spake with them on the earth, how much more shall we not, if we refuse to hear him who speaketh with us from heaven?

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves. Therefore be ye sagacious as serpents, and guileless as doves. ¹⁷ And beware of men; for they will deliver you over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in their synagogues.

²³ And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Israel, till the Son of man shall come.

⁵² He said to them: Therefore every Scribe who is instructed for the kingdom of heaven, is like a man who is master of a house, who bringeth forth from his treasures things new and old.

¹⁹ Go ye, therefore, and instruct all nations; and baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ And teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And, behold, I am with you always, unto the consummation of the worlds Amen. Completion of the Holy Gospel as published by Matthew; and which he published in Hebrew, in the land of the Palestineans.

⁴⁹ Therefore hath wisdom said: Lo, I will send to them prophets and legates; and some of them they will persecute and slay; ⁵⁰ that from this generation may be required, the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the world was created; ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zachariah who was slain between the temple and the altar. Yea, say I to you: It will be required of this generation.

⁴⁷ and that, in his name, repentance for the remission of sins should be preached among all nations, and that the commencement be at Jerusalem.

² For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.

²¹ And Jesus said to them; Peace be with you. As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.

⁸ But when the Holy Spirit shall come upon you, ye will receive energy, and will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and also among the Samaritans, and unto the ends of the earth.

⁵⁸ And they seized him, and hurried him out of the city, and stoned him. And they who testified against him, laid their clothes at the feet of a certain young man who was called Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, while he prayed and said: Our Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

¹ And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord. ² And he requested that a letter from the high priest might be given him unto Damascus to the synagogues; that if he should find persons pursuing this course, men or women, he might bind and bring them to Jerusalem.

²⁷ In those days came prophets thither from Jerusalem.

² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

¹ Now there were in the church at Antioch, several prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simon called Niger, and Lucius who was from the city Cyrene, and Menaen, a son of the guardians of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

³² And with abundant discourse they strengthened the brethren; and the associates of Jude and Silas established them, because they also were prophets.

¹⁹ And I said: My Lord, they well know that I have delivered up to prison, and have scourged in all synagogues, those who believed in thee. ²⁰ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing with them, and performed the pleasure of his slayers, and took charge of the garments of those that stoned him.

⁶ Yet we do speak wisdom, among the perfect; the wisdom not of this world, nor of the potentates of this world, who will come to naught.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given me, I laid the foundation like a wise architect; and another buildeth on it. But let each one see, how he buildeth on it.

³ I therefore inform you, that there is no man, that speaketh by the Spirit of God, who saith that Jesus is accursed: neither can a man say that Jesus is the Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts; but the Spirit is one. ⁵ And there are diversities of ministrations; but the Lord is one. ⁶ And there are diversities of energies; but God, who worketh all in all men, is one. ⁷ And to each man, there is given a manifestation of the Spirit, that it may aid him. ⁸ To one, by the Spirit, there is given a word of wisdom; and to another, by the same Spirit, there is given a word of knowledge: ⁹ to another, by the same Spirit, faith: to another, by the same Spirit, gifts of healing: ¹⁰ and to another, miracles: and to another, prophecy: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, divers kinds of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these, worketh that one Spirit; and he distributeth to every one as he pleaseth.

²⁴ By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Three times was I beaten with rods: at one time I was stoned: three times I was in shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in the sea, without a ship.

⁸ Wherefore it is said: He ascended on high, and carried captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also previously descended to the interior regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended, is also the same that ascended up, high above all the heavens, that he might fulfill all things. ¹¹ And he gave some, legates; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers: ¹² for perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of the Messiah;

²⁸ whom we proclaim, and teach and make known to every man, in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Jesus the Messiah.

³⁷ others were stoned; others were sawed; others died by the edge of the sword; others roamed about clothed in sheep skins and goat skins, and were needy, and afflicted, and agitated;

¹⁰ And they who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and will be merry, and will send presents to one another; because those two prophets tormented them who dwell on the earth.

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zachariah who was slain between the temple and the altar. Yea, say I to you: It will be required of this generation.

⁴ By faith, Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than that of Cain; and on account of it, he is testified of that he was righteous, and God bore testimony to his offering; and in consequence thereof, though dead he yet speaketh.

²⁴ and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant; and to the sprinkling, of his blood, which speaketh better than that of Abel.

¹¹ because this is the commandment, which ye heard from the beginning, that ye should love one another. ¹² Not like Cain, who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him, but because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous?

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all those that have been slain on the earth.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, That this generation shall not pass away, till all these things shall be.

³⁰ Verily I say to you, That this generation shall not pass away, until all these things occur. ³¹ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

³² Verily I say to you, That this generation will not pass away, until all these things occur. ³³ Heaven and earth will pass away; but my word will not pass away.

¹² At that time, rejoice and be glad: for your reward in heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

³ And he sent his servants to call those that had been invited, to the feast: and they would not come.

⁶ and the rest seized his servants, and abused them, and slew them.

³⁰ and ye say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been participators with them in the blood of the prophets.

³ And they beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ And again he sent to them another servant; and him also they stoned, and wounded, and sent him away under indignities. ⁵ And again he sent another; and him they killed. And he sent many other servants, some of whom they beat, and some they killed. ⁶ At last, having an only and dear son, he sent him to them; for he said, Perhaps they will respect my son.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how many times would I have gathered thy children, as a hen that gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not? ³⁵ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you: Ye will not see me, until ye will say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ And at the time for supper, he sent his servant to say to those invited: Lo, every thing is ready for you; come. ¹⁸ And they all to a man, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him: I have bought a field, and am constrained to go out and see it. I pray thee, allow me to be excused. ¹⁹ Another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to inspect them. I pray thee, allow me to be excused. ²⁰ Another said: I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in: and his father went out and entreated him.

¹⁴ But the inhabitants of his city hated him; and they sent envoys after him, saying: We wish this man not to reign over us. ¹⁵ And when he had obtained the royalty, and had returned, he commanded those servants to be called, to whom he had committed his money; that he might know what each of them had gained by trading. ¹⁶ And the first came, and said: My Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. ¹⁷ He said to him: Well done, good servant! As thou hast been faithful over a little, thou shalt have authority over ten towns. ¹⁸ And the second came, and said: My lord, thy pound hath produced five pounds. ¹⁹ He said likewise to him: Thou also shalt have authority over five towns. ²⁰ And another came, and said: My lord, lo, this is thy pound, which hath been with me, laid up in fine linen. ²¹ For I was afraid of thee, because thou art a hard man, and takest up that which thou layedst not down, and reapest that which thou sowedst not. ²² He said to him: Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, thou evil servant. Thou knewest me, that I am a hard man, and that I take up what I laid not down, and reap what I sowed not! ²³ Why didst thou not put my money into the broker's hands, that when I came, I might have demanded it with interest? ²⁴ And he said to them that stood before him: Take from him the pound, and give it to him with whom are the ten pounds. ²⁵ They say to him: Our lord, there are with him ten pounds. ²⁶ He said to them: I tell you, that to every one that hath, will be given; and from him that hath not, even what he hath will be taken away. ²⁷ But as for those my enemies, who would not have me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me. ²⁸ And when Jesus had spoken these things, he went forward, to go to Jerusalem. ²⁹ And when he arrived at Bethphage and Bethany, near to the mount called the place of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, ³⁰ and said to them: Go ye to the village that is over against us, and as ye enter it, ye will find a colt tied, on which no man ever rode; loose him and bring him. ³¹ And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? say to him: Our Lord needeth him. ³² And they went who were sent, and they found, as he said to them. ³³ And as they loosed the colt, the owner of him said to them: Why do ye loose that colt? ³⁴ And they said: Because our Lord needeth him. ³⁵ And they brought him to Jesus. And they cast their garments upon the colt, and set Jesus upon him. ³⁶ And as he went, they spread their garments in the way. ³⁷ And when he came near to the descent of the place of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to praise God, with a loud voice, for all the mighty deeds which they had seen. ³⁸ And they said: Blessed be the king, that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory on high. ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees from among the crowd, said to him: Rabbi, rebuke thy disciples. ⁴⁰ He said to them: I tell you, that, if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. ⁴¹ And as he drew near, and beheld the city, he wept over it: ⁴² and said: O, hadst thou known the things that are of thy peace, at least in this thy day: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. ⁴³ For the days will come upon thee, when thy enemies will encompass thee, and besiege thee on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will destroy thee, and thy children within thee; and will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

¹¹ And again he sent another servant; and him also they beat, and treated with rudeness, and sent empty away. ¹² And again he sent the third. And they wounded him, and cast him out. ¹³ The lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my dear son. Perhaps they will look upon him, and be ashamed. ¹⁴ But when the cultivators saw him, they reasoned with themselves, and said: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

¹⁵ the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;

⁷ And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast of prey that came up from the abyss, will make war upon them, and will overcome them. ⁸ And their dead bodies will be in the open street of that great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

⁶ And I saw that the woman was intoxicated with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

² And he said to them: See ye not all these? Verily I say to you, There will not be left here a stone upon a stone, that is not demolished.

¹⁴ And when ye see the profane sign of desolation, which was mentioned by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not; (let him that readeth, understand;) then let those that are in Judaea, flee to the mountain:

³⁵ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you: Ye will not see me, until ye will say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

⁶ As for these things, on which ye gaze, the days will come, in which there will not be left a stone upon a stone, that is not cast down.

²⁰ And when ye shall see Jerusalem with an army encompassing it, then know ye, that its destruction draweth nigh.

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried captive to every place. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles shall be completed.

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to utter words contrary to the law, and against this holy place. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarean will destroy this place, and will change the rites which Moses delivered to you.

⁹ And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed after him, shouted and said: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

²⁶ And it had been told him by the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death, until he should see the Messiah of the Lord. ²⁷ This man came, by the Spirit, into the temple; and when his parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him as is commanded in the law, ²⁸ he took him in his arms, and blessed God, and said: ²⁹ My Lord, now release thou thy servant in peace, as thou hast said: ³⁰ for lo, my eyes have seen thy mercy,

²² And he turned himself to his disciples, and said to them: Every thing is committed to me by my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; or who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him. ²³ And he turned to his disciples, privately, and said: Blessed are the eyes that see, what ye see.

²² And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when ye will long to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye will not see them.

²¹ Again Jesus said to them: I go away, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sins. And whither I go, ye cannot come.

²⁴ I said to you, That ye will die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye will die in your sins.

⁵⁶ Abraham your father desired to see my day: and he saw it, and rejoiced.

⁹ Jesus said to him: Have I been all this time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that seeth me, seeth the Father: and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?

¹⁹ And the world will not see me; but ye will see me. Because I live, ye will live also.

²⁵ And that ye, my brethren, may not be wise in your own apprehension, I wish you to know this mystery, that blindness of heart hath in some measure befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in:

¹⁴ But they were blinded in their understanding; for until this day, when the old Testament is read, the same vail resteth upon them; nor is it manifest to them, that it is abolished by the Messiah. ¹⁵ And unto this day, when Moses is read, a vail is thrown upon their hearts. ¹⁶ But when any of them is turned unto the Lord, the vail is taken from him. ¹⁷ Now the Lord himself is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ And we all, with uncovered faces, behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord the Spirit.