Luke 22 Cross References - Riverside

¹ THE Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. ² The high priests and the scribes were intent upon finding some way to destroy Jesus; for they were afraid of the people. ³ But Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve, ⁴ and he went away and talked over with the high priests and officers how he could betray him. ⁵ They were delighted and agreed to give him money. ⁶ He promised, and was on the lookout for an opportunity to betray him to them when the crowd was not with him. ⁷ The day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb must be sacrificed, ⁸ and Jesus sent Peter and John, telling them, "Go and make ready the Passover for us so that we may eat it." ⁹ They said to him, "Where do you wish us to make ready?" ¹⁰ He said, "As you are entering the city a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house that he enters ¹¹ and say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, Where is the dining room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?' ¹² And he will show you an upper room, large and furnished. There make ready." ¹³ They went away and found everything just as he had said, and they prepared the Passover. ¹⁴ When the hour came, he reclined at table and the apostles with him. ¹⁵ He said to them, "I have strongly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶ For, I tell you, I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." ¹⁷ He took a cup and gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For, I say to you, I shall not again drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." ¹⁹ Then he took a loaf and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." ²⁰ He took the cup in the same manner after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you. ²¹ But, see, the hand of the traitor is with me on the table! ²² The Son of Man is going, as it is appointed, but alas for that man by whom he is betrayed!" ²³ They began to question among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do this. ²⁴ There was also a dispute among them as to which of them should be regarded as superior. ²⁵ He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those of them who exercise authority are called benefactors. ²⁶ But you are not to be so. The greatest among you is to be like the youngest and the leader like him who serves. ²⁷ For which is superior, he who reclines at table or he who serves? Is not he who reclines? But I am in the midst of you as the one who serves. ²⁸ You are those who have stood by me in my trials ²⁹ and I will assign to you, as my Father has assigned to me, a kingdom, ³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has begged to be allowed to sift all of you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers." ³³ Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death." ³⁴ Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you three times deny that you know me." ³⁵ He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, did you lack for anything?" They said, "We lacked for nothing." ³⁶ He said to them, "But now whoever has a purse must take it, and so with a bag, and he who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one. ³⁷ For I tell you that the prophecy must be fulfilled in me — the prophecy, 'He was numbered among the lawless.' For what concerns me is coming to an end." ³⁸ They said, "Master, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough." ³⁹ He went out and made his way, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. ⁴⁰ When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray not to enter into temptation." ⁴¹ He parted from them about a stone's throw and kneeled down and prayed, ⁴² "Father, if thou wilt, take away this cup from me. Yet not my will, but thine, be done." ⁴³ An angel from heaven appeared to him strengthening him. ⁴⁴ Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood failing upon the ground. ⁴⁵ Then he rose from prayer and came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow. ⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation." ⁴⁷ While he was still speaking there came a crowd, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came up to Jesus to kiss him. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Judas, is it with a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?" ⁴⁹ Those about Jesus, seeing what was going to happen, said, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?" ⁵⁰ One of them did strike the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹ But Jesus said, "Let me at least do this," and he touched his ear and healed it. ⁵² Jesus said to the high priests and officers of the Temple and elders who had come out against him, "You come out with swords and clubs, just as if after a robber. ⁵³ In the daytime while I was with you in the Temple courts you did not stretch out your hands to take me. But this is your hour and the power of darkness." ⁵⁴ After arresting him they led him away and brought him into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance. ⁵⁵ They lighted a fire in the center of the court and seated themselves around it, and Peter seated himself in the midst of them. ⁵⁶ A maid saw him sitting near the light, and, looking hard at him, said, "This man was with him too." ⁵⁷ But he denied, saying, "Woman, I do not know him." ⁵⁸ After a short space another — a man — saw him, and said, "You too are one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not." ⁵⁹ About an hour later, another man asserted positively, "Truly this man was with him too, for he is a Galilaean." ⁶⁰ But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately while he was speaking the cock crew, ⁶¹ and the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Master, how he had said to him, "Before the cock crows to-day you will disown me three times." ⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly. ⁶³ The men who had arrested Jesus made sport of him, beating him, ⁶⁴ and, after blindfolding him, they asked him, "Prophesy who it is that struck you." ⁶⁵ Many other insulting words they said to him. ⁶⁶ When daylight came, the eldership of the people assembled, both high priests and scribes, and they led him to their council, saying, ⁶⁷ "If you are the Christ, tell us." He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe. ⁶⁸ If I question you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹ But from this time the Son of Man will be seated at the powerful right hand of God." ⁷⁰ They all said, "You then are the Son of God?" He said to them, "I am what you say." ⁷¹ They said, "Why do we need any more testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth."

² "You know that after two days comes the Passover, and the Son of Man is to be betrayed to be crucified." ³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled at the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas, ⁴ and they plotted to seize Jesus by some trick and kill him. ⁵ But they said, "Not on the feast day, so that there may not be a riot among the people."

¹ THE Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to come after two days. The high priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize him by some stratagem and kill him. ² For they said, "Not at the feast; there might be a popular outbreak."

¹² On the first day of unleavened bread — when they sacrificed the Passover lamb — his disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

⁵⁵ The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" ⁵⁷ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.

⁷ Cleanse out the old yeast that you may be new dough, free from yeast, as indeed you are. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast nor with the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹⁴ The Pharisees went out and plotted against him how they could destroy him.

³⁸ But when the grape-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.'

⁴⁵ The high priests and the Pharisees listening to his illustrations knew that he was speaking about them. ⁴⁶ They were eager to seize him, but were afraid of the people, for the people held him for a prophet.

⁴⁷ He was teaching every day in the Temple courts. But the high priests and the scribes were bent on destroying him, and so were the first citizens. ⁴⁸ But they could find no way to do it; for all the people hung upon him listening.

¹⁹ The scribes and the high priests were eager to lay hands on him at that very time, for they knew that he had aimed the illustration at them; but they were afraid of the people.

⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation." ⁴⁹ One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything ⁵⁰ nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction." ⁵¹ He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide. ⁵³ From that day they plotted to kill him.

⁵⁷ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.

²⁷ for truly in this city Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered against thy holy servant Jesus,

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan, for it is written, 'To the Lord thy God alone shalt thou do homage, and him alone shalt thou serve.' "

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests ¹⁵ and asked, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶ And from that moment he kept seeking a favorable time to betray him.

²³ He answered, "He who dipped his band with me in the dish is the one who will betray me.

¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the high priests to betray him to them. ¹¹ They were glad to hear it and promised to give him money. He meanwhile was contriving how he could betray him at some favorable time.

¹⁸ As they were reclining and eating, he said, "I tell you truly one of you will betray me, one who is now eating with me." ¹⁹ They began to be sad and to say one to another, "It cannot be I?" ²⁰ He said, "It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping with me into the dish.

¹⁶ and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

²¹ But, see, the hand of the traitor is with me on the table!

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" ⁷¹ He was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For he was going to betray him, though he was one of the twelve.

⁶ He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and having the purse used to pilfer what was put into it.

² During supper, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

¹⁸ I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who is eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

²⁶ Jesus answered, "I will dip a piece of bread and give it to one. That is the man." When he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ After the piece of bread Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are doing do quickly."

³ Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land?

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests

⁵² Jesus said to the high priests and officers of the Temple and elders who had come out against him, "You come out with swords and clubs, just as if after a robber.

¹ WHILE they were speaking to the people, the priests and the commandant of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

²⁴ On hearing these words the commandant of the Temple and the high priests were at a loss as to what this would grow into.

²⁶ Then the commandant with his subordinates went and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

³ Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus had been condemned, was sorry and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the high priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I sinned in betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What is that to us? You must see to that." ⁵ Then throwing the silver into the Temple he left and went and hung himself.

¹⁸ (This man bought a piece of land with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst asunder and all his entrails were poured out.

²⁰ But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you because you have thought that you could buy the gift of God with money!

⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and injurious passions which plunge men into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

³ In covetousness they will make gain out of you by their cunning words. But their condemnation from of old has not been inactive, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

¹⁵ Leaving the straight path they have wandered away following the path of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

¹¹ Alas for them! for they have traveled in the path of Cain, and for hire have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and have perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.

⁵ But they said, "Not on the feast day, so that there may not be a riot among the people."

² For they said, "Not at the feast; there might be a popular outbreak."

¹⁷ On the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?" ¹⁸ He answered, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is near. I will keep the Passover with my disciples at your house.' ¹⁹ The disciples did as Jesus had instructed them and prepared the Passover.

¹² On the first day of unleavened bread — when they sacrificed the Passover lamb — his disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?" ¹³ So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him, ¹⁴ and wherever he goes in, say to the householder, 'The Teacher says, Where is the guest room for me where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?' ¹⁵ And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. There prepare for us." ¹⁶ The disciples went and entered the city and found everything as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

¹ THE Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

⁷ Cleanse out the old yeast that you may be new dough, free from yeast, as indeed you are. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

¹⁵ Jesus replied, "Permit it now, for so it is fitting for us to complete every righteous act." Then he permitted him.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord blameless.

¹ PETER and John were going up into the Temple courts at the hour of prayer, three o'clock,

¹¹ While he still clung to Peter and John, all the people ran crowding around them in what was called Solomon's Colonnade, greatly astonished.

¹³ Observing the fearless outspokenness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were common, uneducated men, they were astonished, and they recognized them as former companions of Jesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves.

¹⁴ When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the message of God, they sent to them Peter and John.

⁴ but, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the Law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons.

²⁹ When they approached Bethphage and Bethany at the mount called the Olive Orchard, he sent two of his disciples, ³⁰ telling them, "Go into the village across there, and as you enter it you will find a colt tied upon which no man has ever sat. Loose it and lead it here. ³¹ If any one asks you, 'Why are you loosing it?' say, 'The Master has need of it.' " ³² Those who were sent went and found everything just as he had said to them. ³³ While they were loosing the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?" ³⁴ They said, "The Master has need of it." ³⁵ They led it to Jesus and threw their cloaks on the colt and mounted Jesus on it. ³⁶ As he advanced, some spread their cloaks in the road, ³⁷ and as he approached the descent of the Mount of Olives all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen, ³⁸ saying: "Blessed be he who comes as king, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the heights above!" ³⁹ Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples." ⁴⁰ But he said, "I tell you if these become silent, the stones will cry out."

⁴ But these things I have told you in order that when their hour comes you may remember them — that I told you. These things I did not tell you from the beginning because I was with you.

²⁶ An angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Arise and go south-ward on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the road through the desert." ²⁷ He arose and went. Now there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of high rank under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over her treasury. He had been to Jerusalem to worship ²⁸ and was on his return, sitting in his chariot and reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ The Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."

³ If any one says anything to you, you will say, 'The Master has need of them,' and at once he will send them."

⁵ When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, make haste and come down; to-day I must stay at your house."

³¹ If any one asks you, 'Why are you loosing it?' say, 'The Master has need of it.' "

³⁴ They said, "The Master has need of it."

²⁸ Having said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying to her privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me.

²⁵ and had no need for any one to inform him about man, for he knew what was in man.

¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Master, you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

¹³ When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul. ¹⁵ When she had been baptized along with her household, she begged us, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay," and she insisted on our doing so.

⁸ There were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled.

³² Those who were sent went and found everything just as he had said to them.

³³ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"

⁸ By faith Abraham when called obeyed and came out into the place which he was to obtain for an inheritance. He came out not knowing where he was coming.

²⁰ When evening had come, he was reclining at table with the twelve disciples.

³⁰ The apostles gathered back to Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

¹⁷ In the evening Jesus came with the twelve.

⁵⁰ I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I distressed until it is accomplished!

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

¹ BEFORE the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that the hour had come for him to pass from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world loved them to the end.

¹ THESE words spoke Jesus, and lifted his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when he comes, will find watching! Truly I tell you he will gird himself and make them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.

¹⁵ On hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed will he be who eats bread in the kingdom of God!"

³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you. For him God the Father has sealed."

⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that any one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh: I will give it for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews disputed angrily with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ 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 in you. ⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I abide in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me and I am living because of the Father, so he who eats me — he will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven, not such as your fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

¹ FOR the Law with a shadow of the good things that are coming, but not the very likeness of the things, cannot, by the same sacrifices which they offer constantly every year, ever make perfect those who come, ² since would they not have ceased offering them? Because the worshipers, once for all cleansed, would have had no consciousness of sins. ³ But in the sacrifices these are called to mind every year. ⁴ For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore on coming into the world he says, "Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire: a body thou hast prepared for me. ⁶ Whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not delight in. ⁷ Then I said, 'Here I have come — in the roll of the book it is written of me — to do thy will, O God.' " ⁸ He first says, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not desire nor delight in," such as are offered according to the Law, ⁹ and then he says, "Here I have come to do thy will." He takes away the first to establish the second. ¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

⁹ Then he said to me, "Write: Blessed are they who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" He said to me, "These are the true words of God."

¹⁶ Taking the five loaves and the fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them and broke them and gave to the disciples to distribute to the crowd.

¹⁹ Then he took a loaf and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

⁶ He who regards the day regards it to the Lord and he who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving. ⁵ For it is made holy through God's message and through prayer.

¹⁸ And I tell you that you are Peter [which means Rock], and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

²⁹ I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it with you, new, in the kingdom of my Father."

¹ HE said further to them, "I tell you truly that there are some of those who are standing here, who will not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God already here in power."

²³ Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

²⁵ I tell you truly I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God."

²³ They gave him wine flavored with myrrh, but he did not take it.

²⁷ I tell you truly there are some of those standing here who will not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God."

³¹ So, too, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

¹⁶ For, I tell you, I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

³⁰ But being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him an oath to place a descendant of his body upon his throne, ³¹ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it. ³³ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies your footstool.' ³⁶ Let all the house of Israel know surely that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ."

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing the harp heartily to the Lord,

¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

¹⁹ Then he commanded the crowd to recline on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fishes and looked up to heaven and asked a blessing. Then he broke up the loaves and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples distributed to the crowd.

²⁶ While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body." ²⁷ Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you; ²⁸ for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

²² While they were eating, he took a loaf and blessed it and broke it and gave to them, saying, "Take it; this is my body." ²³ Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. ²⁴ He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant which is shed for many.

¹⁷ He took a cup and gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves.

²⁰ He took the cup in the same manner after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.

³⁰ As he reclined at table with them, he took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them.

²³ (yet boats did come from Tiberias near to the place where they had eaten bread after the Master had given thanks) —

⁵¹ I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh: I will give it for the life of the world."

⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a fellowship in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a fellowship in the body of Christ?

²³ For I received from the Lord that which I passed on to you that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks he broke it and said, "This is my body which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." ²⁵ In like manner he took also the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me." ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the Lord's death, until he comes. ²⁷ Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For he who eats and drinks eats and drinks condemnation to himself, if he does not honor the Lord's body.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present wicked world according to the will of our God and Father!

²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She represents the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is God's will in Christ for you.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness.

²⁸ for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a fellowship in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a fellowship in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread we though many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat of the sacrifice partakers of the altar? ¹⁹ What then am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ But I say that what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I would not have you become partakers with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

²⁵ In like manner he took also the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me."

⁶ who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

⁶ But now Christ has obtained a ministry as much more excellent as the covenant of which he is mediator is better and based upon better promises. ⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless a place would not have been sought for a second. ⁸ But finding fault with it he says, "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant, ⁹ not in the manner of the covenant which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not abide by my covenant and I ceased to care for them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds and will write them upon their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹¹ They shall not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother saying, 'Know the Lord'; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them, ¹² and I will be merciful to their wrong-doings and their sins I will remember no more." ¹³ In saying "new" he has pronounced the first covenant old. But what grows old and decadent is near to disappearance.

¹⁵ For this reason he is the mediator of a better covenant that, a death having taken place for redemption from sins under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance promised to them.

¹⁷ For a will is valid in the case of the dead: it never has any force while the testator is living.

²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood which tells something better than the blood of Abel.

²⁰ May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an eternal covenant,

²¹ While they were eating, he said, "I tell you truly one of you will betray me." ²² Greatly grieved, they began to ask him, each in turn, "It is not I, Master?" ²³ He answered, "He who dipped his band with me in the dish is the one who will betray me. ²⁴ The Son of Man is going as it has been written of him, but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! For that man it would be good not to have been born."

¹⁸ As they were reclining and eating, he said, "I tell you truly one of you will betray me, one who is now eating with me." ¹⁹ They began to be sad and to say one to another, "It cannot be I?" ²⁰ He said, "It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping with me into the dish. ²¹ The Son of Man is going just as it has been written concerning him, but alas for that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! Well were it for that man if he had not been born!"

¹⁸ I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who is eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' ¹⁹ I am now telling you before it occurs that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.

²¹ After saying these things Jesus was disturbed in spirit and solemnly said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me." ²² The disciples looked at one another wondering whom he meant.

²⁶ Jesus answered, "I will dip a piece of bread and give it to one. That is the man." When he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot.

²⁴ The Son of Man is going as it has been written of him, but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! For that man it would be good not to have been born."

⁵³ Do you think that I cannot call on my Father and have him send to me now more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that so it must be?"

⁵ Then throwing the silver into the Temple he left and went and hung himself.

²¹ The Son of Man is going just as it has been written concerning him, but alas for that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! Well were it for that man if he had not been born!"

²⁵ Jesus said to them, "O men lacking insight and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! ²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?" ²⁷ Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things about himself.

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

¹² When I was with them I kept in thy name those whom thou hast given to me, and I guarded them, and none of them has perished but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁶ "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ For he was numbered among us and received a share in this service. ¹⁸ (This man bought a piece of land with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst asunder and all his entrails were poured out. ¹⁹ It became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, the Field of Blood.) ²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his dwelling become desolate and let there be no one living in it,' and, 'His overseership let another take.' ²¹ It is needful, therefore, that of the men who have been with us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² from the baptism of John down to the day that he was taken up from us — that one of these should become a witness with us of his resurrection." ²³ So they put forward two, Joseph who is called Barsabbas, surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴ In prayer they said, "O Lord, thou who knowest the hearts of all, show which one of these two thou has chosen ²⁵ to take the place in this service and apostleship which Judas deserted to go to his own place."

²³ But when he had been delivered up according to the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed him through the hands of lawless men.

²⁵ who through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say, 'Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers are gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ' — ²⁷ for truly in this city Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered against thy holy servant Jesus, ²⁸ to do all that thy hands and thy will had predetermined should take place —

²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, neither understanding him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled those utterances by condemning him. ²⁸ Although they found no ground for putting him to death they begged Pilate to have him killed.

²² But obtaining help from God I have continued until this day witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would be, ²³ that the Christ would suffer and that he first, by rising from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles."

³ For among the first things I passed on to you what I had received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures,

¹¹ inquired and searched, trying to find out what time, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them was disclosing when it witnessed beforehand regarding the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

²² Greatly grieved, they began to ask him, each in turn, "It is not I, Master?"

¹⁹ They began to be sad and to say one to another, "It cannot be I?"

²² The disciples looked at one another wondering whom he meant. ²³ One of his disciples was leaning on Jesus' breast — the one Jesus loved. ²⁴ Simon Peter nodded to him and said, "Say who it is that he is speaking of." ²⁵ He, leaning back on the breast of Jesus, said to him, "Master, who is it?"

²⁰ Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing down to him and making a request of him. ²¹ He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to him, "Give the command for these two sons of mine to sit one on your right and one on your left in your kingdom." ²² Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, 'We can?' ²³ He said to them, "My cup you will drink, but seats on my right and on my left are not mine to give. They will be given to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father." ²⁴ When the ten heard of this, they were indignant at the two brothers.

³⁴ They were silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves which was the greatest.

³⁷ They said, "Grant that one of us may sit on your right hand and the other on your left hand in your glory." ³⁸ Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" ³⁹ They said to him, "We can." Jesus said, "The cup that I drink you will drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; ⁴⁰ but to sit on my right or my left is not mine to give, but it will be for those for whom it has been prepared." ⁴¹ When the ten heard about this, they became indignant at James and John.

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

¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

⁴ Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited,

³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself. ⁴ Do not be each intent on his own interests, but also on the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

⁵ Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

⁵ In the same way you younger men must be subject to your elders. You all must put on the apron of humble service for one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁶ Humble yourselves, then, under the mighty hand of God so that he may lift you up at the right time.

²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones wield power over them. ²⁶ It is not so among you. But whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave; ²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

⁴¹ When the ten heard about this, they became indignant at James and John. ⁴² Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that those who are thought to rule the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ⁴³ It is not so among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you wishes to be first shall be the slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many."

³ and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like the little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ He who humbles himself like this little child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵ Whoever receives one such little child for my name receives me;

⁸ But do not you be called Rabbi. For one is your Teacher and all of you are brothers. ⁹ And do not call any one on earth Father, for one is your Father in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be called guides, for your Guide is one alone — the Christ. ¹¹ The greatest of you will be your servant. ¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

³⁵ Taking a seat he called the twelve, and said, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

⁴⁸ Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me. For he who is least among you all, he is great."

² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

³ not lording it over your charges, but becoming examples to the flock.

⁵ In the same way you younger men must be subject to your elders. You all must put on the apron of humble service for one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

⁹ I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who desires to be first among them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ Therefore, if I come I will bring to mind the works that he is doing, accusing us with wicked words, and not satisfied with that, neither does he receive the brethren, and he hinders those who wish to do so and expels them from the church.

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

⁷ "Who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come quickly and recline at table'? ⁸ On the contrary, will he not say to him, 'Make ready something for my dinner and gird yourself and wait on me while I eat and drink, and after that you may eat and drink yourself'? ⁹ Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?

⁵ Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel he had around him. ⁶ He came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, "Master, are you washing my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now; but you will know hereafter." ⁸ Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." ⁹ Simon Peter said to him, "Master, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed has no need to be washed, except his feet, but is all clean. And you are clean, though not all." ¹¹ For he knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "You are not all clean." ¹² When he had washed their feet and had taken his upper garments and lain down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am. ¹⁴ If then I, the Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I tell you, the servant is not superior to his master nor the messenger superior to him who sent him.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor, that you by his poverty might become rich.

⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and coming into the likeness of men, ⁸ and when found in the condition of a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death — death on the cross.

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, he will be saved.

⁶⁷ Jesus said to the twelve, "Will you also go away?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Sir, to whom shall we go? You have the words of life eternal,

³¹ Jesus said to the Jews that had believed him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,

²⁵ to take the place in this service and apostleship which Judas deserted to go to his own place."

¹⁸ For since he himself has suffered when tempted he is able to help those who are tempted.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, for he has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

⁴⁷ I tell you truly that he will place him over all that he owns.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

³² Never fear, little flock! For it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

¹⁷ He said, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in the least you shall be ruler over ten cities.'

²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one.

⁷ Our hope is strong regarding you, since we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings so you are of the encouragement.

¹² if we endure we shall also be kings with him; if we disown him, he will disown us;

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory.

¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations and upon them were twelve names, the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹¹ I tell you many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁶ For, I tell you, I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." ¹⁷ He took a cup and gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For, I say to you, I shall not again drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

² Do you not know that the holy are going to judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit for the most trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life?

²⁶ He who conquers and keeps my commands to the end — I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as earthenware is broken to pieces, just as I also have received from my Father.

²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

⁴ Around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones and on these thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white garments and with golden crowns on their heads.

⁴¹ But the Master answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things,

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "Now has come the salvation and power and kingship of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brethren has been hurled down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

³ and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like the little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

⁷⁵ Peter remembered what Jesus had said, "Before the cock crows you will disown me three times," and he went out and wept bitterly.

⁷² Immediately, for the second time, the cock crew and Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me three times," and when he thought of it he wept aloud.

⁷ But go tell his disciples and Peter, He has gone before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you."

¹³ Those on the rock are those who, though they receive the message with joy, yet have no root, who for a while believe, but in the time of trial desert.

⁶¹ and the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Master, how he had said to him, "Before the cock crows to-day you will disown me three times." ⁶² And he went out and wept bitterly.

¹⁹ After a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I am living you too will live.

⁹ "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine. ¹⁰ All mine are thine and thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹ Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given to me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹⁵ I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Make them holy through the truth. Thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou didst send me into the world, so have I sent them into the world, ¹⁹ and for them I consecrate myself, that they may be consecrated through the truth. ²⁰ "I pray not for them alone, but also for those who believe in me through their word, ²¹ that all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

¹⁵ When they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep." ¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Master, you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

¹⁹ Therefore, repent and turn about, that your sins may be wiped away and the gracious face of the Lord may bring times of refreshing,

⁹ Much more then, now that we have been pronounced righteous through his blood, shall we be saved from wrath by him. ¹⁰ For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things?

³⁴ Who is there to condemn? Christ Jesus died, or rather was raised, and he is on the right hand of God interceding for us.

⁴ who encourages us in every distress so that we may be able to encourage those who are in every distress by the encouragement by which we ourselves have been encouraged by God. ⁵ Because as the sufferings of Christ are abundant in our case, so through Christ our encouragement is abundant. ⁶ But if we are in distress, it is for your encouragement and salvation. If we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost. ¹⁶ But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might show all of his long-suffering for an example for those who are to believe in him and gain life eternal.

¹⁸ They have gone astray as to the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they are overthrowing the faith of some.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion,

²⁵ And so he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, since he is forever living to intercede for them.

¹² So raise the relaxed hands and straighten the unstrung knees ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint but rather cured.

¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained,

¹ PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the Chosen Ones of the scattered Jews in foreign lands who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia —

⁵ who are guarded by the power of God through faith for the salvation which is ready to be revealed on the last day.

¹³ Therefore brace up your minds, be calm and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour. ⁹ Resist him firm in the faith and knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being completed in your brotherhood throughout the world. ¹⁰ The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little will equip, establish and strengthen you.

¹⁰ Therefore endeavor more earnestly, brethren, to make sure that you have been called and chosen. For while doing these things you will never stumble. ¹¹ For so entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you. ¹² For this reason I shall always keep reminding you of these things, although you know them and are steadfast in the truth that you have.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless,

¹⁷ You, then, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, be on your guard not to be led away by the error of the lawless and fall from your own steadfastness, ¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

¹ MY children, I am writing this to you in order that you may not sin. Even if any one sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is righteous. ² And he is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but for those of the whole world.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be plainly seen that not all are of us.

²² Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, 'We can?'

³³ Peter answered him, "Though all stumble and fail you, I never will stumble and fail." ³⁴ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly that to-night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times." ³⁵ Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will not disown you." And so said all of the disciples.

⁴⁰ Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So you could not watch one hour with me! ⁴¹ Watch and pray so as not to enter into temptation. Your spirit is eager, but your flesh is weak."

²⁹ Peter said to him, "Though all should fail, yet I will not."

³¹ But he kept saying more earnestly, "Though I have to die with you, I will not disown you." Just so they all said.

³⁷ Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak."

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now; but you will follow me later." ³⁷ Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city that chains and trials are waiting for me. ²⁴ But I do not hold my life as of any account if only I may finish my race and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of the grace of God.

¹³ Paul answered, "What are you accomplishing by weeping and breaking my heart? For I hold myself ready not only to be bound, but to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

³⁴ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly that to-night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times."

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man." Immediately the cock crew, and

³⁰ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly that to-day, this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me."

⁷¹ But he began to curse and swear, "I do not know this man you are speaking of." ⁷² Immediately, for the second time, the cock crew and Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me three times," and when he thought of it he wept aloud.

³⁸ Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I tell you, the cock will not crow before you have disowned me three times."

²⁷ Again Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.

³¹ So do not be anxious, saying, What are we to eat? or, What are we to drink? or, What are we to wear? ³² For all these things the pagans seek after. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But you must seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be supplied to you.

⁹ Provide no gold nor silver nor copper in your belts, ¹⁰ no bag for the road, nor two tunics nor shoes nor stick, for the workman has a right to his food.

⁸ and instructed them not to take anything for their journey but just a stick; no bread, no bag, no coppers in their belts, ⁹ to be shod with sandals, and not to have two tunics.

³ He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no stick, no bag, no bread, no money, nor have so much as two tunics.

⁴ Carry no purse, no bag, no shoes, and salute no one by the way.

²⁹ Do not seek after something to eat and something to drink, and do not be agitated by cares. ³⁰ For these things all the nations of the world are seeking after. ³¹ But strive for his kingdom and these things will be provided for you.

²² And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. He who endures to the end, that one will be saved. ²³ "When they persecute you in one city, flee to another. I tell you truly, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. ²⁴ The scholar is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master. ²⁵ It is sufficient for the scholar to fare like his teacher and for the servant to fare like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, 'The servant is not superior to his Master.' If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."

¹⁴ For you became imitators, brethren, of the churches of God that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus, because you too suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen that they did from the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out and do not please God and are enemies to all men,

⁴ For when we were with you we told you in advance, "We shall soon have trouble." And so it came to pass, as you know.

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

⁵⁴ But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that so it must be?" ⁵⁵ Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to seize me as if against a robber, with swords and clubs? Every day I sat in the Temple teaching and you did not arrest me. ⁵⁶ But all this has happened that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.

²⁷ With him were crucified also two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

³¹ Taking the twelve aside, he said to them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things written through the prophets will be fully done to the Son of Man.

²² The Son of Man is going, as it is appointed, but alas for that man by whom he is betrayed!"

³² There were also two others, criminals, led with him to be put to death.

⁴⁴ He said to them, "This is what I said to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ is to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came Gods — and the authority of Scripture cannot be denied —

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth by completing the work that thou gavest me to do.

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that now all things had been completed, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled said, "I am thirsty." ²⁹ A pitcher was standing there full of sour wine. Putting a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop stem, they raised it to his mouth. ³⁰ When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and bowing his head gave up his spirit.

²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, neither understanding him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled those utterances by condemning him. ²⁸ Although they found no ground for putting him to death they begged Pilate to have him killed. ²⁹ When they had completely done all that had been predicted about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

²¹ Him who knew no sin God made sin for our sake that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for our sake, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree,"

⁵² Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

⁴⁹ Those about Jesus, seeing what was going to happen, said, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?"

³⁶ Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my subordinates would be fighting to prevent my being delivered up to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here."

³ For although living in the flesh we do not carry on our warfare according to the flesh, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses.

¹⁰ To conclude: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the complete armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the cunning arts of the Devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights. ¹³ Therefore take the complete armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, after going through everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand, then, belted with truth, wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ shod with the readiness of the good news of peace. ¹⁶ In every event take up the shield of faith by which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One, ¹⁷ and accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy

⁸ But let us who are of the day be sober. Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation. ⁹ Resist him firm in the faith and knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being completed in your brotherhood throughout the world.

¹ WHEN they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

³⁰ After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

³⁶ Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray yonder." ³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. ³⁸ He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sad, even to death. Stay here and watch with me."

¹¹ He entered Jerusalem and came into the Temple courts. After inspecting everything, because it was already late he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

¹⁹ When evening came, Jesus and his disciples used to go out of the city.

³ Then, when he was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the Temple buildings, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

²⁶ After singing a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives.

³² They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." ³³ He took Peter and James and John with him and began to be in terror and distress. ³⁴ He said to them, "My soul is in anguish, to the point of death. Stay here and watch."

³⁷ During the days he continued to teach in the Temple courts, but every night he went out and stayed on the mount called Olive Orchard.

¹ WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron to a place where there was a garden. Into this he entered with his disciples. ² Judas who was betraying him knew the place, for Jesus often met with his disciples there.

¹³ And bring us not into trial, But save us from evil.'

³⁶ Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray yonder." ³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. ³⁸ He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sad, even to death. Stay here and watch with me." ³⁹ Then he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as thou wilt." ⁴⁰ Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So you could not watch one hour with me! ⁴¹ Watch and pray so as not to enter into temptation. Your spirit is eager, but your flesh is weak." ⁴² Again a second time he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done." ⁴³ He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. ⁴⁴ So he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, saying again the same words. ⁴⁵ Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "You are sleeping on and resting! Now has come the hour when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. ⁴⁶ Up, let us be going. Here comes my betrayer."

³² They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." ³³ He took Peter and James and John with him and began to be in terror and distress. ³⁴ He said to them, "My soul is in anguish, to the point of death. Stay here and watch." ³⁵ Then he went forward a little and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. ³⁶ He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee. Take away this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt." ³⁷ Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak." ³⁹ Then he went away again and prayed, saying the same words. ⁴⁰ Again he returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to answer him. ⁴¹ He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you sleeping on? Are you resting? That is enough. The hour has come. Now the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of the sinners. ⁴² Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand."

⁴ And forgive us our sins; For we ourselves forgive every one who fails toward us. And bring us not into trial."

⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

⁷ and because of the surpassing nature of the revelations. For this reason, that I should not be puffed up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to torment me, so that I should not be puffed up. ⁸ Regarding this I three times begged the Lord that it might leave me. ⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy ¹⁹ and in my behalf, that words may be given to me when I open my month to make known with fearlessness the mystery of the good news,

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour. ⁹ Resist him firm in the faith and knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being completed in your brotherhood throughout the world.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

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

³⁵ Then he went forward a little and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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

⁴⁴ So he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, saying again the same words.

³⁶ He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee. Take away this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

¹⁷ He took a cup and gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For, I say to you, I shall not again drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." ¹⁹ Then he took a loaf and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." ²⁰ He took the cup in the same manner after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.

³⁰ "I cannot of myself do anything. As I hear I judge and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁸ for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me;

²⁷ Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this I have come to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" There came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it and will again glorify it."

¹¹ Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath. The cup that my Father has given me — shall I not drink it?"

⁶ and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, 'To his angels he will give charge of you, and on their hands they will bear you lest you strike your foot against a stone.' "

¹¹ Then the Devil left him, and angels came and waited upon him.

⁵³ Do you think that I cannot call on my Father and have him send to me now more than twelve legions of angels?

¹⁰ for it is written, 'He will command his angels to guard you,' ¹¹ and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you shall not strike your foot against a stone.' "

³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers."

²³ After spending some time there he set out and went through the Galatian country and Phrygia, place by place, strengthening all the disciples.

¹⁶ Confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: "Who was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory."

⁶ And again when he brings his first-born into the world of men he says, "And let all the angels of God bow down to him."

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service in behalf of those who are to inherit salvation?

¹⁷ And for that reason he had to be made like his brethren in everything, so as to be a compassionate and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

²⁷ Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this I have come to this hour.

⁷ Christ, in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, with strong outcries and tears, and was heard and saved from his terrors.

⁴⁰ Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So you could not watch one hour with me!

⁴³ He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

³⁷ Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?

⁴⁰ Again he returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to answer him. ⁴¹ He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you sleeping on? Are you resting? That is enough. The hour has come. Now the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of the sinners.

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come on all who dwell on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

⁴⁰ When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray not to enter into temptation."

⁴⁵ Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "You are sleeping on and resting! Now has come the hour when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. ⁴⁶ Up, let us be going. Here comes my betrayer." ⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, sent by the high priests and elders of the people. ⁴⁸ The traitor had given them a sign, saying, "The one I kiss is he. Arrest him." ⁴⁹ Immediately he came up to Jesus and said, "Good evening, Rabbi," and kissed him affectionately. ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you are here for." Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and arrested him. ⁵¹ Suddenly one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear. ⁵² Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. ⁵³ Do you think that I cannot call on my Father and have him send to me now more than twelve legions of angels?

¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the high priests to betray him to them.

⁴¹ He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you sleeping on? Are you resting? That is enough. The hour has come. Now the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of the sinners. ⁴² Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand." ⁴³ Immediately, even while he was speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, was there and with him a crowd with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the high priests and the scribes and the elders. ⁴⁴ The traitor had given them a sign, "The man I kiss, that is he. Seize him and take him safely away." ⁴⁵ So when he came, he immediately advanced to Jesus and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him affectionately. ⁴⁶ They laid their hands on him and held him. ⁴⁷ But one of those who stood near drew his sword and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to them, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs as you would a robber? ⁴⁹ Every day I was with you in the Temple courts teaching and you did not lay hands on me. But this is so that the Scriptures may be fulfilled." ⁵⁰ Then all his friends left him and fled.

³ But Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve, ⁴ and he went away and talked over with the high priests and officers how he could betray him. ⁵ They were delighted and agreed to give him money. ⁶ He promised, and was on the lookout for an opportunity to betray him to them when the crowd was not with him.

² Judas who was betraying him knew the place, for Jesus often met with his disciples there. ³ So Judas, getting a battalion of soldiers and some subordinate officers of the high priests and the Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons. ⁴ Jesus, knowing all things that were coming upon him, came forward and said to them, "Whom are you seeking?" ⁵ They answered him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am he." Judas the traitor was standing with them. ⁶ When he said to them, "I am he," they moved backward and fell to the ground. ⁷ Again he questioned them, "Whom are you seeking?" They said, "Jesus the Nazarene." ⁸ Jesus answered, "I have told you that I am he. If then you are seeking for me, let these go." ⁹ He said this that the word might be fulfilled which he had spoken, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have lost none." ¹⁰ Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. ¹¹ Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath. The cup that my Father has given me — shall I not drink it?"

¹⁶ "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ For he was numbered among us and received a share in this service. ¹⁸ (This man bought a piece of land with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst asunder and all his entrails were poured out.

⁴⁸ The traitor had given them a sign, saying, "The one I kiss is he. Arrest him." ⁴⁹ Immediately he came up to Jesus and said, "Good evening, Rabbi," and kissed him affectionately. ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you are here for." Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and arrested him.

⁴⁴ The traitor had given them a sign, "The man I kiss, that is he. Seize him and take him safely away." ⁴⁵ So when he came, he immediately advanced to Jesus and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him affectionately. ⁴⁶ They laid their hands on him and held him.

³⁸ They said, "Master, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."

⁵¹ Suddenly one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear.

⁴⁷ But one of those who stood near drew his sword and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear.

¹⁹ Do not revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord."

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses.

⁸ Jesus answered, "I have told you that I am he. If then you are seeking for me, let these go." ⁹ He said this that the word might be fulfilled which he had spoken, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have lost none."

²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹ I MYSELF, Paul, beg you by the gentleness and sweet reasonableness of Christ — I who "to your face am humble when among you, but when absent am bold toward you" —

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps. ²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

⁵⁵ Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to seize me as if against a robber, with swords and clubs? Every day I sat in the Temple teaching and you did not arrest me.

⁴⁸ Jesus said to them, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs as you would a robber? ⁴⁹ Every day I was with you in the Temple courts teaching and you did not lay hands on me. But this is so that the Scriptures may be fulfilled."

⁴ and he went away and talked over with the high priests and officers how he could betray him.

¹² Jesus went into the Temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling doves, ¹³ and he said, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a den of robbers." ¹⁴ Then blind men and lame men came to him in the Temple courts and he healed them. ¹⁵ When the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting, "God save the Son of David!" they were angry

²³ When he had gone into the Temple courts, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing this, and who gave you this authority?"

³⁷ During the days he continued to teach in the Temple courts, but every night he went out and stayed on the mount called Olive Orchard. ³⁸ All the people came early every morning to him in the Temple courts to listen to him.

²⁵ Some of the Jerusalem people were saying, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill? ²⁶ See, he is talking freely and they say nothing to him. It cannot be that the rulers know for truth that this is the Christ?

³⁰ They tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, for his hour had not yet come.

⁴⁵ The officers came to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

³⁰ I shall no longer speak much with you, for the Ruler of this world is coming and he has no part in me.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will change into joy. ²¹ A woman when she is bringing forth has grief because her hour has come. But when she has borne the child, she no longer remembers her anguish for the joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² And you have grief now, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'

³ If our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are going to ruin, ⁴ in whom the god of this world has blinded the thinking of the unbelieving so that the light of the glorious good news of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine in. ⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ Because it is the God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts bringing the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights.

⁹ Then was hurled down the great Dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, who misleads the whole world — he was hurled to the earth and his angels were hurled with him. ¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "Now has come the salvation and power and kingship of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brethren has been hurled down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. ¹¹ But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of testimony to him, and they loved not their lives even to death. ¹² Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you who tent in them! Alas for the land and the sea! For the Devil has gone down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time."

⁵⁷ The men who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had assembled. ⁵⁸ Peter followed him at a distance as far as the court of the High Priest, and went in and sat among the attendants to see the end.

⁵³ They led Jesus away to the High Priest, and all the high priests and elders and scribes assembled. ⁵⁴ Peter followed him at a distance and came inside the court of the High Priest and sat with the attendants, and warmed himself in the light of the fire.

³³ Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death." ³⁴ Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you three times deny that you know me."

¹² So the battalion and the Tribune and the Jewish policemen arrested Jesus and bound him ¹³ and took him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year. ¹⁴ Caiaphas was the man who had advised the Jews that it was best that one man should die for the people. ¹⁵ Simon Peter was following Jesus and so was another disciple. That disciple was known to the High Priest and he went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest. ¹⁶ Peter stood by the gate outside. The other disciple, who was known to the High Priest, went out and spoke to the girl at the door and brought in Peter. ¹⁷ The girl at the door said to Peter, "You are not one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" He said, "I am not."

²⁴ Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled at the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas,

⁶⁹ Peter was sitting outside in the court. A maid came up to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean." ⁷⁰ But he denied it before all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." ⁷¹ When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Then again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the man." ⁷³ After a little those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for your accent proves it." ⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man." Immediately the cock crew, and ⁷⁵ Peter remembered what Jesus had said, "Before the cock crows you will disown me three times," and he went out and wept bitterly.

⁶⁶ While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the High Priest came, ⁶⁷ and when she saw Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, this Jesus." ⁶⁸ But he denied it and said, "I do not know nor understand what you are saying." Then he went out into the outer courtyard. ⁶⁹ There the maid saw him and began again to say to those who stood around, "This man is one of them." ⁷⁰ But he again denied. Again after a little the men who were standing by said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for you are a Galilaean."

⁴⁴ Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood failing upon the ground.

¹⁶ Peter stood by the gate outside. The other disciple, who was known to the High Priest, went out and spoke to the girl at the door and brought in Peter. ¹⁷ The girl at the door said to Peter, "You are not one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" He said, "I am not." ¹⁸ The servants and policemen were standing there. They had made a fire, for it was cold, and were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

²⁵ Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not." ²⁶ One of the servants of the High Priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" ²⁷ Again Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.

³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals."

¹⁵ or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what share has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the Temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore come out from the midst of them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch an unclean thing, and I will receive you

⁶⁹ Peter was sitting outside in the court. A maid came up to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."

⁶ But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

⁶⁶ While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the High Priest came, ⁶⁷ and when she saw Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, this Jesus." ⁶⁸ But he denied it and said, "I do not know nor understand what you are saying." Then he went out into the outer courtyard.

¹⁷ The girl at the door said to Peter, "You are not one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" He said, "I am not."

³³ Every one who shall disown me before men I too will disown before my Father in heaven.

⁷⁰ But he denied it before all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."

⁹ And he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

²⁵ Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not."

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him. ¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.

¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹ Trustworthy is the saying, "For if we have died with him we shall also live with him; ¹² if we endure we shall also be kings with him; if we disown him, he will disown us;

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness:

⁷¹ When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Then again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the man."

⁶⁹ There the maid saw him and began again to say to those who stood around, "This man is one of them." ⁷⁰ But he again denied. Again after a little the men who were standing by said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for you are a Galilaean."

⁷³ After a little those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for your accent proves it." ⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man." Immediately the cock crew, and

³⁴ Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you three times deny that you know me."

³⁰ Jesus was at once conscious that power had gone from him, and turned in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

¹³ When the Master saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep,"

³¹ God has exalted him as Leader and Savior at his own right hand to give to Israel change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

¹¹ Therefore remember that once you were Gentiles in the flesh and were called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands,

⁵ Remember then from where you have fallen, and repent and do your former works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will move your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

⁴ "Blessed are they that mourn! For they will be comforted.

¹² So let him who thinks that he is standing beware of falling.

⁹ but I am glad now, not that you were grieved, but that your grief led to a change of heart. You were grieved as God approves so that you should in nothing suffer loss from us. ¹⁰ For such grief as God approves works a change of heart leading to salvation and is never to be regretted. But the grief of the world results in death. ¹¹ Notice this very grieving as God approves, how great earnestness resulted from it in your case, what effort to defend yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what just punishment! In everything you showed yourselves blameless in the matter.

⁵⁹ The high priests and the whole council sought for false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death. ⁶⁰ But they did not find any, although many false witnesses came. Finally, two came forward ⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I can pull down the Temple of God and in three days build it up again.' " ⁶² The High Priest rose and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is it that these are testifying to against you?" ⁶³ But Jesus kept silence. The High Priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." ⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "I am he. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven." ⁶⁵ Then the High Priest rent his garments, saying, "Impious words! Why do we any longer need witnesses? See, you have now heard his impious words. ⁶⁶ What do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death." ⁶⁷ Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Some slapped him, ⁶⁸ saying, "Act the prophet for us, you Christ! Who was it that struck you? "

²⁸ They stripped him and put on him a crimson cloak, ²⁹ twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, put a reed into his right hand, and, going down on their knees before him, made sport of him, shouting, "Hail, King of the Jews!" ³⁰ They spit on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. ³¹ After they had finished making sport of him, they took off from him the crimson cloak and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucifixion.

³⁹ The people who went by insulted him, shaking their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, "You who can pull down the Temple and in three days build it up, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ In the same way the high priests, making sport of him, along with the scribes and elders, kept saying, ⁴² "He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' " ⁴⁴ In the same way even the robbers who were crucified with him insulted him.

⁵⁵ The high priests and all the council tried to get testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they could not find any. ⁵⁶ Many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. ⁵⁷ Then some rose and testified falsely against him, ⁵⁸ "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this Temple made by hands and in three days I will build another not made by hands.' ⁵⁹ But their testimony did not agree even regarding this. ⁶⁰ Then the High Priest rose and came forward into the midst and questioned Jesus, "Have you no answer? What about this evidence against you?" ⁶¹ But he was silent and did not answer a word. Again the High Priest questioned him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" ⁶² Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven." ⁶³ Then the High Priest rent his garments and said, "Why do we any longer have need of witnesses? ⁶⁴ You have heard his impious words. How does it appear to you?" They all condemned him as deserving of death. ⁶⁵ Then some began to spit on him and to blindfold him and to strike him with their fists and say, "Prophesy," and the attendants slapped him as they took him in charge.

¹⁶ The soldiers led him away inside the courtyard of the castle and called together the whole battalion. ¹⁷ Then they dressed him in purple and put on him a crown of thorns which they had twisted together, ¹⁸ and they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" ¹⁹ They kept striking him on the head with a reed and spitting on him, and bending their knees they did homage to him. ²⁰ After making sport of him, they took off the purple and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

²⁷ With him were crucified also two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. ²⁸ TEXT OMITTED ²⁹ The people who passed by scoffed at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Ha, you who can pull down the Temple and build it up in three days, ³⁰ save yourself by coining down from the cross." ³¹ In the same way the high priests, jesting with one another, and the scribes said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. ³² Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross so that we may see and believe." Even the men who were crucified along with him reviled him.

²² When he said this, a policeman, who was standing by, gave Jesus a slap, saying, "Do you answer the High Priest that way?"

² looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

³¹ Therefore I say to you, every sin and profane word will be forgiven to men, but any profane word against the Spirit will not be forgiven. ³² Whoever says a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this world or in the world to come.

³⁹ The people who went by insulted him, shaking their heads

¹⁰ Every one who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who says profane words against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

¹¹ In all the synagogues and often I punished them and compelled them to say profane words. Being excessively mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

²² But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall answer for it to the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'Raca' [empty-head], shall answer for it to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool' shall answer for it in the Gehenna of fire.

¹ WHEN morning came all the high priests and the elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put him to death.

¹ PROMPTLY at dawn the high priests, after holding a consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole council, bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.

²⁸ They led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Castle. It was early morning. The Jews did not enter the Castle, wishing to avoid defilement, so that they might eat the Passover.

⁵ as the High Priest and all the eldership can testify for me. From them I received letters to the brethren and was journeying to Damascus in order to bring back in chains to Jerusalem for punishment those who had gone there.

³ "Are you 'the Coming One' or are we to expect some other?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see. ⁵ Blind men recover sight, lame men walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf men hear, dead men are raised, and poor men have the good news proclaimed to them.

⁶¹ But he was silent and did not answer a word. Again the High Priest questioned him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" ⁶² Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven." ⁶³ Then the High Priest rent his garments and said, "Why do we any longer have need of witnesses? ⁶⁴ You have heard his impious words. How does it appear to you?" They all condemned him as deserving of death. ⁶⁵ Then some began to spit on him and to blindfold him and to strike him with their fists and say, "Prophesy," and the attendants slapped him as they took him in charge. ⁶⁶ While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the High Priest came,

³¹ Abraham replied, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rises from the dead.'

³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that you have in them life eternal, and it is they that testify of me, ⁴⁰ and yet you will not come to me to have life. ⁴¹ I do not accept honor from men, ⁴² but I know that you have not the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept honor from one another and do not seek honor from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. You have an accuser, Moses in whom you trust. ⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

⁴³ Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks out of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But me — because I tell you the truth — me you do not believe.

²⁷ He answered them, "I have told you already and you did not listen, why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples?" ²⁸ They flouted him and said, "You are that man's disciple; we are Moses' disciples.

²⁴ The Jews came in a circle around him and said to him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us frankly." ²⁵ Jesus answered them, "I have told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name — these witness for me. ²⁶ But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep.

³⁷ But, though he had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him, ³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled. Isaiah said, "Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" ³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them." ⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and he spoke of him. ⁴² Nevertheless, even of the rulers many did believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

³ He answered them, "I too will ask you a question and you must tell me: ⁴ the baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men?" ⁵ They conferred among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' ⁶ and if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." ⁷ So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

⁴¹ He said to them, "How do they say that the Christ is the son of David? ⁴² David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right ⁴³ until I make your enemies your footstool.' ⁴⁴ So David calls him 'Lord'; how is he then his son?"

⁴⁴ 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet'?

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "I am he. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

⁶² Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

¹⁹ Then the Lord Jesus, after talking with them, was taken up into heaven and sat down on the right hand of God.

⁵⁵ But he being full of the Holy Spirit looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand, ⁵⁶ and he said, "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"

²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. ²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

⁸ Therefore it says, "He ascended on high; he led away captives; he gave gifts to men." ⁹ What does "he ascended" mean, except that he had descended into the lowest parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also he who "ascended" high above all the heavens to fill all things.

¹ IF then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

³ who is the reflection of his glory and the expression of his nature and sustains all things by his word of power, and who, when he had made purification from sins, took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

¹ THE chief point of what I have been saying is this: we have such a High Priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

²² Now that he has gone into heaven he is at the right hand of God, and angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him.

¹ THEN he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

¹⁷ A voice from the heavens said, "This is my Son, the beloved in whom I delight."

³ Then the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to turn into loaves of bread."

¹¹ Jesus stood before the Governor. The Governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "I am."

⁴³ He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' "

⁵⁴ The Centurion and his men who were guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that happened, were greatly terrified and said, "Truly this man was a son of God!"

² Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "I am."

⁴¹ Demons came out of many, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and did not permit them to speak, for they knew that he was the Christ.

³ Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered him, "I am."

³⁴ And I saw it and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel!"

³⁰ I and my Father are one."

³⁶ do you say to him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, 'You speak profane words,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

³⁷ Pilate said to him, "Are you not a king then?" Jesus answered, "I am a king, as you say. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth listens to my voice."

⁷ The Jews answered, "We have a law and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

⁶⁵ Then the High Priest rent his garments, saying, "Impious words! Why do we any longer need witnesses? See, you have now heard his impious words. ⁶⁶ What do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death."

⁶³ Then the High Priest rent his garments and said, "Why do we any longer have need of witnesses? ⁶⁴ You have heard his impious words. How does it appear to you?" They all condemned him as deserving of death.