Matthew 15 Cross References - Riverside

¹ THEN scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ² "Why do your disciples violate the tradition of our forefathers? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food." ³ He answered them, "And why do you violate the command of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'If any one speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.' ⁵ But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or to his mother, Whatever benefit you get from me is now dedicated to God, ⁶ he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So you have nullified the command of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said, ⁸ 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁹ In vain they worship me while they teach as precepts the commands of men.' " ¹⁰ Calling the crowd to him he said to them, "Hear and understand. ¹¹ Not what enters the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth — that defiles a man." ¹² Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked when they heard what you said?" ¹³ He replied, "Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Beware of them. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch." ¹⁵ Peter said, "Explain to us your figure." ¹⁶ Jesus answered, "Are even you without insight? ¹⁷ Do you not know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is cast out into the sewer? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words. ²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man." ²¹ Leaving that place, Jesus retired into the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² Here a Canaanite woman of those parts came out and cried, "Sir, have pity on me, Son of David. My daughter is terribly tormented by a demon." ²³ But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; she keeps calling out behind us." ²⁴ He replied, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." ²⁵ But she came and bowed before him and said, "Help me, Sir." ²⁶ He answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁷ But she said, "Yes, Sir; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." ²⁸ Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, great is your faith. Be it to you as you will." And her daughter was cured from that hour. ²⁹ On leaving there, Jesus came along by the lake of Galilee and went up on the mountain and sat down there. ³⁰ Then a great crowd came to him having with them lame men, maimed men, blind men, mutes, and many others, and they laid them at his feet and he healed them. ³¹ The crowd was astonished when they saw mutes talking, maimed men sound, lame men walking about, and blind men seeing, and they gave glory to the God of Israel. ³² Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, for they have now been with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting; they might faint on the road." ³³ The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this uninhabited place to feed such a crowd?" ³⁴ Jesus said, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fishes." ³⁵ Then he told the crowd to recline on the ground, ³⁶ and he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples distributed to the crowd. ³⁷ All ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets full of fragments that were left over. ³⁸ There were four thousand men that ate, besides women and children. ³⁹ Then after dismissing the crowd he got into a boat and came into the region of Magadan.

²⁰ For I say to you that, unless your righteousness far exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

² He said, "The scribes and Pharisees have seated themselves on Moses' seat.

¹⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is won you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. ¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.' ¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.' ¹⁹ You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰ He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it, ²¹ and he who swears by the Temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ²² and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. ²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel! ²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also. ²⁷ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness. ²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²² The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, "He has Beelzebul in him, and by the Chief of the demons he casts out demons."

¹ ONCE the Pharisees gathered about him with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, ² and they saw that some of his disciples were eating bread with "common," that is, unwashed, hands. ³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews never eat without first washing their hands up to the wrist, holding faithfully to the tradition of their forefathers, ⁴ and when they return from market they do not eat until they have washed. There are also many other traditions which they have been taught to hold tenaciously, such as washing cups and pitchers and copper vessels. ⁵ The Pharisees and scribes asked him, "Why do not your disciples live according to the tradition of our fore-fathers? Why do they eat their bread with common hands?" ⁶ He replied, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites when he wrote: 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁷ in vain they worship me, while they teach what are merely commandments of men.' ⁸ Neglecting the commands of God, you hold firmly to the traditions of men." ⁹ He said further to them, "How thoroughly you set aside the command of God so that you may keep your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.' ¹¹ But you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever benefit you enjoy from me is now Korban, that is, a gift to God,' — ¹² you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and many similar things you do." ¹⁴ Then, calling the crowd to him again, he said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. ¹⁵ There is nothing from outside a man that can go into him and defile him, but the things that come out of the man are the things that defile the man." ¹⁶ TEXT OMITTED ¹⁷ After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked about his figurative language. ¹⁸ He said, "Are you too so lacking in insight? Do you not know that everything from outside that goes into a man is unable to defile him, ¹⁹ for it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and passes out into the sewer?" Thus he pronounced all foods clean. ²⁰ "But," he said, "what comes out of a man is what defiles him; ²¹ for from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, unchastities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness — ²³ all these had things come out from within, and they defile the man."

¹⁷ It happened on one of those days that he was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal.

²¹ The scribes and Pharisees began to argue, saying, "Who is this man who speaks profane words? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

³⁰ The Pharisees and their scribes grumbled to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

⁹ So a great uproar arose, and some of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees arose and contended, saying, "We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel?"

² and they saw that some of his disciples were eating bread with "common," that is, unwashed, hands.

⁵ The Pharisees and scribes asked him, "Why do not your disciples live according to the tradition of our fore-fathers? Why do they eat their bread with common hands?"

³⁸ The Pharisee, seeing this, wondered that he had not first washed before dinner.

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

²⁰ If you died with Christ to the elementary teachings of the world, why do you, as if still living in the world, have such rules as, ²¹ "Do not touch," "Do not taste," "Do not handle" ²² referring to things that perish when used? ²³ These rules follow the commandments and teachings of men. They have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed ceremonial and excessive humility and severity to the body, but have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹⁸ for you know that you were not ransomed with perishable things, silver or gold, from your purposeless life handed down from your forefathers,

³ Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, while you do not perceive the beam in your own eye? ⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, 'Let me get out the speck from your eye,' when there is a beam in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first get the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶ He replied, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites when he wrote: 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁷ in vain they worship me, while they teach what are merely commandments of men.' ⁸ Neglecting the commands of God, you hold firmly to the traditions of men."

¹³ thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and many similar things you do."

²³ These rules follow the commandments and teachings of men. They have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed ceremonial and excessive humility and severity to the body, but have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth.

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.' "

¹⁷ "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to fill them full. ¹⁸ I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or part of a letter will pass away from the Law, until all is done. ¹⁹ Whoever breaks one of these commandments, the least of them, and teaches men to do so, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever does them and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

¹⁹ Honor thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

³¹ Do we then by faith nullify the Law? Never. On the contrary we establish the Law.

¹ CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.' ¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.'

¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.' ¹¹ But you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever benefit you enjoy from me is now Korban, that is, a gift to God,' — ¹² you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and many similar things you do."

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.

²⁹ Peter, answering for the apostles, said, "God must be obeyed rather than men.

³ Honor widows if they are really widows. ⁴ If any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to act piously toward their own family and to repay what they owe to their parents and grandparents. For this is pleasing in the sight of God.

⁸ If any one does not provide for his own, and especially those of his own household, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁶ If any woman who is a believer has widows, she must provide for them and the church must not be burdened, so that it may provide for those who are really widows.

⁵ You hypocrite, first get the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel! ²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also. ²⁷ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness. ²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous

⁶ He replied, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites when he wrote: 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

²⁵ They dispersed, disagreeing with one another, after Paul had said one word, "Well said the Holy Spirit through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers, ²⁶ 'Go to this people and say, You will hear plainly but you will not understand, and you will see plainly but you will not perceive. ²⁷ For the heart of this people has grown fat and with their ears they are hard of hearing and their eyes they have shut, so that they may never see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their heart and repent, so that I may heal them.'

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, "See, here is a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

²¹ You have no part or lot in this matter. For your heart is not right before God.

¹² See to it, brethren, that there shall not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart ready to forsake the living God,

¹⁰ For "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

⁷ in vain they worship me, while they teach what are merely commandments of men.'

² through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast the message that I announced to you, unless your faith was thoughtless.

¹⁸ Let no one as umpire defraud you of your prize, if he delights in excessive humility and ceremonial worship of the angels, searching into his own visions, emptily puffed up by his fleshly mind ¹⁹ and not holding to the Head, from whom the whole body, supplied and held together by joints and bands, grows as God gives it growth. ²⁰ If you died with Christ to the elementary teachings of the world, why do you, as if still living in the world, have such rules as, ²¹ "Do not touch," "Do not taste," "Do not handle" ²² referring to things that perish when used?

⁴ nor give attention to myths and endless genealogies, which promote disputes rather than God's plan in the faith, so I beg you now.

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences, ³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth.

⁶ In teaching this to the brethren you will be a noble servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and of the excellent teaching which you have followed. ⁷ But avoid profane and old-womanish myths. Exercise yourself in godliness.

⁹ Do not be carried away with all sorts of foreign teachings. It is well to have the heart strengthened by grace, not by special kinds of food. Those who live in that way are not profited.

²⁰ Are you willing to learn, O vacant-minded man, that faith without works is useless?

¹⁸ I testify to every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any one adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book,

¹⁹ When any one hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the man who receives seed by the roadside.

¹⁵ "So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place [Let the reader understand],

¹⁴ Then, calling the crowd to him again, he said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. ¹⁵ There is nothing from outside a man that can go into him and defile him, but the things that come out of the man are the things that defile the man."

⁴⁵ While all the people were listening, he said to the disciples, ⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market-places and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at dinners, ⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses and in pretense make long prayers. These will receive unusual condemnation."

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself,

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him.

³⁴ Brood of vipers, how can you who are evil speak good things? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of his good treasury pours out good things, and the bad man out of his bad treasury pours out bad things. ³⁶ I tell you, for every idle word that men speak they will give full account in the day of judgment, ³⁷ for from your words you will be justified and from your words you will be condemned."

¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words. ²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

¹⁵ There is nothing from outside a man that can go into him and defile him, but the things that come out of the man are the things that defile the man."

³⁸ The Pharisee, seeing this, wondered that he had not first washed before dinner. ³⁹ The Master said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but the inside of you is full of rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ You foolish men, did not he who made the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹ But give the things inside as gifts of mercy and at once all will be clean for you.

¹⁴ But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unclean or impure." ¹⁵ A second time the voice came to him, "What God has cleansed you must not think unclean."

⁸ I said, 'By no means, Lord, for never has anything common or unclean entered my mouth.' ⁹ The voice spoke again from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not think common.'

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they deceive; the poison of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong.

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.

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are polluted.

⁵ Just so the tongue is a small member, but boasts of great things. Think how small a fire may be and yet how vast the forest that it may set ablaze. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna. ⁷ For every kind of wild beasts and birds and reptiles and animals from the sea is tamed and has been tamed by human kind, ⁸ but the tongue no man is able to tame. It is a restless evil; it is full of deadly poison.

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error.

²⁷ But in order that we may not mislead them, go to the lake and throw in a hook and take the first fish that comes up. When you open his mouth you will find a coin. Take that and give it to them for me and yourself.

³² Cause no offense either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God, ³³ as I also in all things accommodate myself to all men, not seeking my own interest but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

³ We give no occasion for stumbling to any one that our service may not be blamed,

⁵ But we did not yield in subjection to them even for an hour, that the truth of the good news might continue with you.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere.

⁴⁰ As the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather up from his kingdom all stumbling-blocks and those who practice lawlessness,

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit.

⁶ If any one does not abide in me, he is cast out like a branch and withers, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned.

⁹ We are God's fellow workers: you are God's farm God's building.

¹² If any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, straw — ¹³ every one's work will become manifest. For the day will show it, because it will be revealed in fire and the fire will test each one's work, of what quality it is. ¹⁴ If the work which any one has built stands he will get a reward. ¹⁵ If any one's work burns up he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.' ¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.' ¹⁹ You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰ He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it, ²¹ and he who swears by the Temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ²² and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. ²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel!

³⁹ He gave them an illustration: "The blind cannot lead the blind, can he? Will not both fall into the ditch?

⁵ and wranglings of men of depraved minds who are destitute of the truth. They think of religion as a source of gain.

¹ BUT false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, and they will craftily bring in deadly heresies, even disowning the Lord who bought them and bringing on themselves quick ruin.

¹⁷ These men are springs without water, storm-driven mists for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.

²⁰ And the Beast was captured and with him the False Prophet who did miracles in his presence and thereby misled those who received the mark of the Beast and who worshiped his image. The two were flung alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the unchaste and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loves and makes a lie.

³⁶ Then leaving the crowds he came into the house, and his disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the illustration of the weeds of the field."

³⁴ but except in figures of speech he did not talk to them. Privately to his own disciples he explained all things.

¹⁷ After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked about his figurative language.

²⁹ His disciples said, "See, now you are speaking plainly and are using no figures.

⁵¹ Have you understood all these things?" They said, "Yes."

¹⁰ Calling the crowd to him he said to them, "Hear and understand.

⁹ Do you not yet know? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many basketfuls you picked up?

¹¹ How is it that you do not perceive that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

⁵² for they had not grasped the miracle of the loaves because their minds were dull.

¹⁸ He said, "Are you too so lacking in insight? Do you not know that everything from outside that goes into a man is unable to defile him,

¹⁷ He perceived it, and said to them, "Why are you talking about your lack of bread? Do you not yet know or understand? Have you dull minds? ¹⁸ You have eyes; can you not see? You have ears; can you not hear? Do you not remember

³² But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to question him.

⁴⁵ But they did not understand this remark, and it was hidden from them so that they did not take it in, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

³⁴ But they understood none of these things, and what he said was hidden from them. They did not grasp the meaning of his words.

¹² For when, considering the time, you ought to be teachers you need to have some one teach you again the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk and not solid food.

¹⁹ Every tree that does not yield fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ So then, from their fruits you will know them.

⁴⁵ A good man from the good treasury of his heart brings forth what is good, and the evil man from his evil treasury brings forth what is evil. Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

³⁴ Brood of vipers, how can you who are evil speak good things? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹¹ Not what enters the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth — that defiles a man."

²² He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow?

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna. ⁷ For every kind of wild beasts and birds and reptiles and animals from the sea is tamed and has been tamed by human kind, ⁸ but the tongue no man is able to tame. It is a restless evil; it is full of deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless the Lord our Father and with it we curse the men who are made in the image of God. ¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This, my brethren, should not be so.

⁵ There was given to him a mouth speaking boasts and profanities, and there was given to him power to act for forty-two months. ⁶ He opened his mouth to insult God, to speak profanely of his name and of his Tent and of those who tent in heaven.

⁴ Jesus knew their thoughts and said, "Why are you thinking evil thoughts in your hearts?

²² Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

¹⁰ as it is written, "There is not even one righteous; ¹¹ there is none that seeks God. ¹² All have turned away; together they have become worthless; there is none who does what is useful, not even one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they deceive; the poison of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; ¹⁵ their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ ruin and misery are in their paths. ¹⁷ The path of peace they do not know. ¹⁸ There is no reverence for God before their eyes." ¹⁹ We know that all that the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world may come under the condemnation of God.

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⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be. ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ YOU also God raised to life when you were dead in misdeeds and sins ² in which you once walked, following the ways of this age of the world, led by the Ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest.

² to speak abusively to no one, to be peaceable, to be fair, showing all gentleness toward all men. ³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

¹³ No one must say when tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.

² "Why do your disciples violate the tradition of our forefathers? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also.

³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews never eat without first washing their hands up to the wrist, holding faithfully to the tradition of their forefathers, ⁴ and when they return from market they do not eat until they have washed. There are also many other traditions which they have been taught to hold tenaciously, such as washing cups and pitchers and copper vessels.

³⁸ The Pharisee, seeing this, wondered that he had not first washed before dinner. ³⁹ The Master said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but the inside of you is full of rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ You foolish men, did not he who made the outside make the inside too?

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any one mars the temple of God, God will mar him, for the temple of God is holy, and you are the temple.

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁸ Shun unchastity. Every other sin that a man does is apart from the body, but the unchaste sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought with a price. Glorify God then in your bodies.

³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people; ⁴ nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person — who is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

⁸ But the timid and faithless and abominable and murderers and the unchaste and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars will have their lot in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

²⁷ But there will not enter into it anything unholy or any one who makes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and directed them: "Do not go into any way of the Gentiles. Do not enter into any city of the Samaritans. ⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²¹ "Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if in Tyre and Sidon the miracles had been done which were done in you, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. ²² But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, Capernaum! No, you will not be exalted to heaven. You will be abased to Hades. Because if those miracles which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

²⁴ Leaving that place, Jesus went into the borders of Tyre. He entered a house and did not wish any one to know it, but he could not escape notice. ²⁵ At once a woman whose daughter was afflicted by an impure spirit heard about him, and she came and fell at his feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But he said, "Let the children be well fed first. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ She answered, "Yes, Sir, even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs." ²⁹ Then he said to her, "For this answer, go. The demon has gone out of your daughter." ³⁰ She returned to her house and found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.

¹ THE ancestral line of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:

⁸ Produce fruit fitting for a change of heart, ⁹ and do not think of saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

²⁴ His fame spread out into all Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and those suffering from acute pain, demoniacs, lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

²⁷ As Jesus was going along from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Have pity on us, Son of David."

¹⁵ "Sir, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and is in a very bad way. For often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

³⁰ Two blind men were sitting at the side of the road, and when they heard that Jesus was passing, they cried out, "Sir, have pity on us, Son of David!" ³¹ The crowd rebuked them and told them to be silent. But all the more they cried, "Sir, have pity on us, Son of David!"

⁴² "What do you think in regard to the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "David's." ⁴³ He said, "How then does David by inspiration call him 'Lord,' saying, ⁴⁴ 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet'? ⁴⁵ If David calls him 'Lord,' how is he his son?"

²⁵ At once a woman whose daughter was afflicted by an impure spirit heard about him, and she came and fell at his feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

¹⁷ One of the crowd answered, "Teacher, I have brought my son to you. He has a dumb spirit, ¹⁸ and whenever it attacks him it convulses him and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they had not the power." ¹⁹ Jesus answered, "O faithless generation! how long must I be with you? How long must I bear with you? Bring him to me." ²⁰ They brought him to him. As soon as the spirit saw Jesus, he convulsed the boy so that he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Jesus asked the father, "How long is it since this came on him?" He said, "From early childhood. ²² Often it has thrown him into the fire or into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us."

¹³ and, raising their voices, called, "Jesus, Master, have compassion on us."

¹³ But the tax collector stood far off and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

³⁸ Then he shouted, "Jesus, son of David, have pity on me!" ³⁹ Those who were in front rebuked him and told him to be still. But he kept crying out much louder, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Christ." Others said, "The Christ is not coming out of Galilee, is he? ⁴² Does not the Scripture say that the Christ comes of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

¹⁵ When evening had come on, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an uninhabited place and the time is already late; send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."

⁴⁷ When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Son of David, Jesus, pity me!" ⁴⁸ TEXT OMITTED

³⁶ Seeing the crowds, he was touched with compassion for them, for they were torn and flung down like sheep that have no shepherd.

⁴ "What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he has found it? ⁵ And when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders with joy, ⁶ and when he comes home he calls together his friends and neighbors and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!'

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham, 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.' ²⁶ To you first God, when he raised up his servant, sent him, to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas said with fearless plainness, "The message of God had to be spoken first to you. But since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of life eternal — now, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁸ For I say that Christ became a servant of circumcision for the sake of God's truth, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers

² And a leper came up and bowed before him, and said, "Sir, if you have the will, you have power to make me clean."

³³ Then the men in the boat bowed down to him and said, "Truly you are the Son of God."

³¹ The crowd rebuked them and told them to be silent. But all the more they cried, "Sir, have pity on us, Son of David!"

²² Often it has thrown him into the fire or into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us."

²⁴ At once the father of the child cried out, "I believe; help my unbelief."

⁸ I tell you, even if he will not rise and give them to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him all that he needs. ⁹ So I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one who asks obtains, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.

¹ HE gave them an illustration that they ought always to pray and not to lose courage. ² He said, "There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God or regard man. ³ And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' ⁴ For a time he would not. Later he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow is annoying me I will do her justice so that she may not keep coming and mauling me forever.' ⁶ The Master said, "Hear what the wicked judge says; ⁷ and will not God do justice for his elect, who are calling to him day and night, even though he is long-suffering with their adversaries? ⁸ I tell you, he will do justice for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

⁶ "Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor east your pearls before swine, for they may trample them under their feet and turn and tear you.

²⁷ But he said, "Let the children be well fed first. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ She answered, "Yes, Sir, even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs."

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to Gentiles.' ²² They listened up to this point, but now they broke out, shouting, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought never to have lived!"

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises;

¹⁵ We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles,

¹² and that you were then apart from Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the bad workmen, beware of the excision.

⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the bad and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.

⁸ The Centurion answered, "Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but just speak the word and my servant will be cured.

⁶ Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the Centurion sent friends to say to him, "Do not trouble yourself, Sir, for I am not fit to have you come under my roof. ⁷ On that account I did not think myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and have my servant cured.

¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. ¹⁹ I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.'

²¹ and longing to be fed from what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him and said, "Have you no fear of God, since you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ And we are here justly, for we are receiving our due for our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong." ⁴² Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

⁴ Never. Let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, "That thou mayest be proved right in thy words and triumph when thou art judged."

¹⁹ We know that all that the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world may come under the condemnation of God.

²⁹ Does God belong to the Jews only? Does he not belong also to the Gentiles? Yes, to the Gentiles,

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. For there is the same Lord of all, rich toward all who call upon him.

⁸ Last of all, as if to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

⁸ To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ

¹⁹ yes, to know the love of Christ, which yet surpasses knowledge, and may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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.

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said, "Truly I tell you, I have not found so great faith on the part of any one in Israel.

¹³ Then Jesus said to the Centurion, "Go. As you have believed, so be it to you." His servant was healed that very hour.

²² But Jesus turned and, seeing her, said, "Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you." The woman was cured from that hour.

²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith be it to you." ³⁰ And their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly commanded them, "Be sure and let no one know of this."

³¹ At once Jesus stretched out his hand and grasped him and said, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?"

³⁴ He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be well of your trouble."

²³ Jesus said, " 'If you can'! All things are possible for one who believes." ²⁴ At once the father of the child cried out, "I believe; help my unbelief."

⁹ When Jesus heard this, he wondered, and, turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, in Israel I have not found such faith."

⁵⁰ He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

⁵ The apostles said to the Master, "Increase our faith."

⁴² Jesus said to him, "See. Your faith has healed you." ⁴³ Immediately he received sight and followed him, giving glory to God. All the people upon seeing this gave praise to God.

⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Go. Your son is living." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and went. ⁵¹ Even while he was going down, his servants met him with the word that his son was living. ⁵² He inquired of them the hour when he was better. They said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at that hour at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son is living," and he believed, himself and his whole household.

¹⁹ and without being weakened in faith he recognized his own body as dead, when he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ Still he did not hesitate through want of faith in the promise of God, but was strong in faith, thus giving glory to God,

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

¹⁸ As he was walking along the shore of the lake of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen;

¹ SEEING the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he had seated himself his disciples came to him.

² Great crowds gathered to him so that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the crowd stood on the shore.

²⁹ On leaving there, Jesus came along by the lake of Galilee and went up on the mountain and sat down there. ³⁰ Then a great crowd came to him having with them lame men, maimed men, blind men, mutes, and many others, and they laid them at his feet and he healed them. ³¹ The crowd was astonished when they saw mutes talking, maimed men sound, lame men walking about, and blind men seeing, and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

¹⁶ As he passed along by the lake of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

³¹ Again leaving the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the lake of Galilee into the midst of the region of Decapolis. ³² They brought to him a deaf man who stammered, and begged him to lay his hand on him. ³³ He took him aside from the crowd, put his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue with spit. ³⁴ Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said, "Ephphatha" (that is, Be opened), ³⁵ and his ears were opened, and immediately his tongue was freed and he talked plainly. ³⁶ Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell any one. But the more he forbade them the more widely they spread it, ³⁷ for they were astonished beyond all bounds and said, "He has done everything well. He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."

¹ IT happened that, as the crowd was pressing upon him and listening to the word of God, he was standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret,

¹ AFTER this Jesus went away beyond the Lake of Galilee (the Lake of Tiberias).

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

¹ AFTER this, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Lake of Tiberias. He showed himself in this way.

²³ Jesus went around through the whole of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people. ²⁴ His fame spread out into all Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and those suffering from acute pain, demoniacs, lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

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.

³⁵ When the men of that place recognized him, they sent into all that neighborhood and brought to him all the sick ³⁶ and begged him that they might touch merely the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched were cured.

³² When evening came and the sun had set, they brought to him all the sick and those who were afflicted with demons; ³³ and the whole city was gathered before the door. ³⁴ He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons, not allowing the demons to talk, because they knew him.

⁵⁴ As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus ⁵⁵ and hurried over all that region and brought in the sick on pallets wherever they heard that he was. ⁵⁶ Whenever he went into villages or towns or among the farms they would lay the sick in the streets and beg him to let them touch at least the tassel of his cloak. And all who touched were healed.

¹⁷ He went down with them and stood on a level spot where were gathered a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and the sea-coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. ¹⁸ Those who were troubled by impure spirits were healed. ¹⁹ The whole crowd tried to touch him, because power went out from him and healed all.

²¹ At that very time he was curing many of diseases and pains and wicked spirits, and to many blind people he was giving sight. ²² He answered them, "Go and relate to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men see, lame men walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf men hear, dead men are raised, poor men hear good news.

²² Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene was a man proved to be sent to you from God by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know.

¹⁵ so that they carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on couches and pallets with the hope that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some one of them. ¹⁶ A crowd was coming too from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were troubled by impure spirits, and these were all being healed.

¹¹ Through the hands of Paul, God did miracles of no ordinary kind, ¹² so that handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched his body were carried to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits departed.

⁸ The crowds that saw it were astonished and gave glory to God, who had given such power to men.

³³ After the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. The crowd wondered and said, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel."

⁸ If your hand or your foot is a snare to you, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be cast into the fire eternal.

¹⁴ Then blind men and lame men came to him in the Temple courts and he healed them.

¹² Immediately the man rose and took up his pallet and went out before all, so that they were astounded and gave praise to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

³⁷ for they were astonished beyond all bounds and said, "He has done everything well. He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."

⁴³ If your hand is a snare to you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.

¹⁶ All were awe-struck, and they gave praise to God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us and God has visited his people."

¹³ But when you hold a reception, invite poor men, maimed men, lame men, blind men.

²¹ The servant came back and told his master these things. Then the householder, becoming angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and lead in here the poor and maimed and blind and lame.'

¹⁵ One of them, seeing that he had been cured, turned back with a loud shout giving glory to God, ¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus, thanking him. He was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? But the nine — where are they? ¹⁸ Was there none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?"

⁴³ Immediately he received sight and followed him, giving glory to God. All the people upon seeing this gave praise to God.

²⁴ They called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

² when a man lame from his birth was being carried along. This man used to be placed every day near the gate of the Temple courts — the one called the Beautiful Gate — to beg of those who were entering. ³ Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple courts, he begged to receive something. ⁴ But Peter fixing his eyes on him, along with John, said, "Look at us." ⁵ He gave attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶ But Peter said, "Silver and gold I have not; but what I have I will give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk." ⁷ Grasping his right hand he lifted him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong, ⁸ and he sprang up and stood and walked and entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God. ⁹ All the people saw him walking about and praising God, ¹⁰ and when they recognized that it was he who had sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple court, they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. 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.

⁸ In Lystra there was a man sitting who was powerless in his feet. He had been lame from his mother's womb and never had walked. ⁹ He was listening to Paul as he was speaking. Paul fixed his eyes on him, and, seeing that he had faith to be healed, ¹⁰ said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet." He sprang up and walked about.

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.

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

¹⁴ As he got out of the boat, he saw a great crowd and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. ¹⁵ When evening had come on, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an uninhabited place and the time is already late; send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food." ¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. Give them food yourselves." ¹⁷ They said to him, "We have here nothing but five loaves and two fishes." ¹⁸ He said, "Bring them to me." 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. ²⁰ All ate and had abundance, and they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces that remained over. ²¹ Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

³⁴ Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and at once they regained sight and followed him.

⁶³ and said, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was alive, 'After three days I shall be raised up.'

¹ IN those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called together his disciples and said to them, ² "I have compassion on the crowd because they have already spent three days with me and they have nothing to eat. ³ If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way. Some of them are from a long way off." ⁴ His disciples answered, "Where will any one be able to get bread to supply these people here in the uninhabited country?" ⁵ He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven." ⁶ He told the people to recline on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and, after giving thanks, broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed to the people. ⁷ They had also a few small fishes. These he blessed and told the disciples to distribute them. ⁸ All ate and were satisfied, and they picked up of the fragments that were left over seven basketfuls. ⁹ There were about four thousand men. Then he dismissed them. ¹⁰ At once he got into a boat with the disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

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

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.

³³ Until day began to dawn, Paul kept urging all to take food. He said, "To-day is the fourteenth day that you have been on the watch fasting, not taking anything.

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.

³⁷ But Jesus answered, "Give them something to eat yourselves." They said, "Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings worth of bread and feed them?"

⁴ His disciples answered, "Where will any one be able to get bread to supply these people here in the uninhabited country?" ⁵ He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven."

¹³ He said to them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." They replied, "We have not more than five loaves and two fishes. We cannot go and buy food for all this crowd, can we?"

⁵ He lifted up his eyes and saw that a great crowd was coming to him, and he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these to eat?" ⁶ This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered him, "Two hundred shillings worth of bread would not be enough for them each to have a little piece." ⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, ⁹ "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these for so many?"

⁹ Do you not yet know? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many basketfuls you picked up? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many basketfuls you picked up?

⁴¹ While they still were doubting for joy and wondering, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

⁹ When they had gotten out on land, they saw a fire of coals and fish laid on it and bread. ¹⁰ Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught."

³⁹ Then he told them to have all the people recline in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰ They lay down in rows by hundreds and by fifties.

¹⁴ There were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Have them recline in rows of fifty." ¹⁵ They did so, and made all recline. 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.

¹⁰ Jesus said, "Make the people recline on the ground." There was much grass in the place. So the men, about five thousand in number, reclined on the ground.

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;

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

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."

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

¹¹ Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks and divided them to those who were reclining, and in the same way the fishes, as much as they wanted.

³⁵ Saying this he took a loaf and gave thanks to God before all and broke it and began to eat.

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.

³¹ Therefore, if you eat or if you drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving.

³³ The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this uninhabited place to feed such a crowd?"

⁸ All ate and were satisfied, and they picked up of the fragments that were left over seven basketfuls. ⁹ There were about four thousand men. Then he dismissed them.

¹⁹ when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of fragments you picked up?" They said, "Twelve." ²⁰ "And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand how many basketfuls of fragments you picked up?" They said, "Seven." ²¹ He said, "Do you not understand even yet?"

⁵³ The hungry he fills with good things and the affluent he sends away empty.

²² Then he made his disciples get into the boat and go on across while he was dismissing the crowd.

¹⁰ At once he got into a boat with the disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.