Luke 9 Cross References - Thomson

¹ When he, having called together the twelve disciples, gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases; ² and was sending them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the sick; ³ he said to them, Take nothing for the journey; neither staves, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money, nor two coats apiece. ⁴ And into whatever house you enter, abide there till you leave the place. ⁵ And wherever they will not receive you, when you are leaving that city, shake off the dust from your feet, for a testimony against them. ⁶ Accordingly, they departed and went through the villages, proclaiming the glad tidings, and performing cures every where. ⁷ When Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all that was done by him, he was perplexed; because it was said by some, that John was raised from the dead; ⁸ and by others, that Elias is plainly come; and by others, that one of the ancient prophets is risen up. ⁹ And Herod said, John I beheaded: but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. ¹⁰ Therefore, when the apostles returned, and told Jesus all that they had done, he took them apart, and withdrew to a solitary place, belonging to a city called Bethsaida. ¹¹ And as the people knew it, they followed him, and he received them, and spoke to them concerning the kingdom of God, and healed them who had need of healing. ¹² And when the day began to decline, the twelve came, and said to him, Dismiss the multitude, that they may go to the neighbouring towns and farms, for lodging and provisions; for we are here in a desert place. ¹³ But he said to them, Do you, yourselves, give them something to eat. Thereupon they said to him, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes. Must we then go and buy food for all this people? ¹⁴ For they were about five thousand men. Then he said to his disciples, Range them as at table, in companies, fifty in a company. ¹⁵ And they did so. And when they were all ranged, ¹⁶ he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, pronounced a blessing, and broke them and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷ And when they had all eaten, and were satisfied, there was taken up a surplusage of fragments which filled twelve panniers. ¹⁸ After that, when he was praying in a retired place, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying, Who do the people say that I am? ¹⁹ And they in reply, said, John the Baptist; but others say, Elias; and others, that one of the ancient prophets is risen up. ²⁰ Then he said to them, And who do you say that I am? In answer to this, Peter said, The Christ of God. ²¹ Thereupon he checked them, and ordered them to tell no one this; ²² adding, that the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and Scribes, and be put to death, and raised on the third day. ²³ Moreover he said to all, if any one desireth to come under my guidance, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever would save his life shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it. ²⁵ For what advantage is it to a man to have gained the whole world and destroyed himself, or be punished with the loss of life. ²⁶ For whoever shall be ashamed of me, or of my words, of him the son of man will be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory, and in that of the father, and the holy angels. ²⁷ Now I tell you of a truth, there are some of those standing here, who shall not taste death until they see the reign of God. ²⁸ About eight days after these discourses, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went up to the mountain to pray. ²⁹ And while he was praying, the form of his countenance was changed, and his raiment was dazzling white. ³⁰ And behold two men conversed with him. These were Moses and Elias, ³¹ who appeared in glory, and spoke of that departure of his which he was soon to accomplish at Jerusalem. ³² Now Peter, and they who were with him, had been overpowered with sleep; but awaking thoroughly, they saw his glory, and the two men who were standing with him. ³³ And as they were withdrawing from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is well that we are here. Let us make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, not knowing what he said. ³⁴ And while he was thus speaking, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And at entering the cloud, they were terrified. ³⁵ And there came a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my son, the Beloved; hearken to him. ³⁶ Now at the time of the voice, Jesus was alone. And they were silent and told no one in those days aught of what they had seen. ³⁷ And on the following day, when they were coming down from the mountain, a great multitude met him. ³⁸ And behold a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son; for he is mine only child. ³⁹ And behold a spirit seizeth him, and instantly he screameth; and it convulseth him with foam, and hardly departeth from him, when it hath bruised him. ⁴⁰ I indeed besought thy disciples to cast it out, but they could not. ⁴¹ In reply to this, Jesus said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you! how long shall I endure you! ⁴² Bring thy son hither. And as he was coming, the .demon dashed him on the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the child, and delivered him to his father. ⁴³ And all were astonished at the mighty power of God. And while they were expressing admiration at all that Jesus had done, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁴ Give diligent attention to these words; for the son of man will soon be delivered up into the hands of men. ⁴⁵ But they did not know the meaning of this. It was hid from them so that they did not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him the meaning of that expression. ⁴⁶ Now a surmise had crept in among them, which of them should be greatest. ⁴⁷ And as Jesus perceived the ill grounded reasoning of their heart, he took a child, and placed it by him, ⁴⁸ and said to them, Whoever will receive this child for my name, receiveth me; and whoever receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me. For he who is least among you all, even he shall be great. ⁴⁹ Then John addressing him, said, Master, we saw one casting out the demons in thy name, and we forbade him because he doth not follow [thee] with us. ⁵⁰ Thereupon Jesus said to him, Forbid not; for he who is not against us is for us. ⁵¹ Now when the days of his being received up were about to be completed, he resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem, ⁵² and sent messengers before him, who set out and came to a town of Samaritans to make preparation for him. ⁵³ But they would not receive him, because they perceived that he was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ Upon seeing this, his disciples, James and John, said, Master, Is it thy pleasure that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, as Elias did? ⁵⁵ Whereupon, turning about, he rebuked them, and said, You do not know what spirit you are of. ⁵⁶ For the son of man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. So they went to another village. ⁵⁷ It happened also in the course of their travels, that on the way one said to him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. ⁵⁸ Whereupon Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have roosts; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head. ⁵⁹ And to another he said, Follow me. And when he said, Master, suffer me first to go and bury my father; ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their own dead; but go thou, and proclaim the reign of God. ⁶¹ And when another said, Master I will follow thee; but let me first go and bid them farewell, who are at my house; ⁶² Jesus said to him, No man, who hath put his hand to the plough and looketh back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

¹ Then having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out; and to cure diseases and maladies of every kind. ² Now the names of the twelve disciples were these. First, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, James the son of Alpheus and Lebbeus called Thaddeus, ⁴ Simon the Chananite and Judas Iscariot, even he who delivered him up. ⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having given them a charge, saying, Go not away to the Gentiles, nor enter a city of the Samaritans;

¹⁹ And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatsoever thou shall bind on the earth, will be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on the earth, will be loosed in the heavens.

¹³ Then he goeth up to the mountain, and calleth to him whom he would, and they went up to him. ¹⁴ And he appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them to make proclamation; ¹⁵ and to have power to cure diseases, and expel demons; ¹⁶ namely, Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, ¹⁷ and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, [these he surnamed Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder] ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Chananite, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who delivered him up. Upon their going into a house,

⁷ he calleth to him the twelve, and began to send them forth, by two and two, and gave them power over the unclean spirits; ⁸ and ordered them to take nothing for the journey, but only a staff; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse; ⁹ but to be shod with sandals; and not to put on two coats. ¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever you enter a house, continue there till you leave that place. ¹¹ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hearken to you, when you depart thence shake off the dirt which is under your feet, as a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, the condition of Sodom and Gomorra will be more tolerable in a day of vengeance, than the condition of that city. ¹² So they went forth and proclaimed, that men should reform. ¹³ And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.

¹⁷ Now these signs shall accompany them who believe; by my name they will expel demons; they will speak with new tongues: ¹⁸ they will take up serpents: though they drink deadly poison, it shall not hurt them: upon sick persons they will lay their hands, and they shall recover.

¹³ And when it was day, he called together his disciples, and out of them chose twelve, whom he named Apostles ¹⁴ Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew, his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James, son of Alpheus, and Simon, surnamed Zelotes, ¹⁶ Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, even he who was a traitor.

¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you.

¹² Verily, verily, I say to you, He who believeth in me, even he shall do the works which I do; nay, works greater than these he shall do, because I am going to my Father,

⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth.

¹⁶ Now for the belief in his name, his name hath strengthened this man whom you see and know. Yes, the belief which is by him hath given this man this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

³⁰ when thou stretchest forth thy hand for healing; and signs and. wonders are done by the name of thy holy child, Jesus.

³⁴ And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus, The Christ, cureth thee. Arise and make thy bed." And he arose immediately.

² "Reform; for the reign of the heavens is at hand."

⁷ and as you go proclaim, saying, The reign of the heavens is at hand. ⁸ Heal the sick; cleanse lepers; raise the dead; cast out demons; freely you have received; give freely.

¹⁹ When any one heareth the doctrine of the kingdom and doth not mind it, the evil one cometh and snatcheth away what was sown in his heart. This is the meaning of that sown on the highway.

¹⁴ The good news of the kingdom shall indeed be proclaimed throughout the whole world for a testimony to all the nations. And then will come the end.

¹⁴ And after John's imprisonment, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the glad tidings of the reign of God, ¹⁵ and saying, The time is accomplished, and the reign of God is at hand. Reform and confide in this good news.

¹² So they went forth and proclaimed, that men should reform.

¹⁵ Then he said to them, Go to all the world, and proclaim the glad tidings to all mankind.

¹¹ And as the people knew it, they followed him, and he received them, and spoke to them concerning the kingdom of God, and healed them who had need of healing.

¹ After these things, the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them, two and two; before him, to every city and village whither he himself was soon to go;

⁹ And heal the sick therein, and say to them, The reign of God is come near to you.

¹¹ The very dust of this city of yours which cleaveth to us, we wipe off for you: nevertheless, know this, that the reign of God hath come nigh unto you.

¹⁶ the law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and into it every one is pressing.

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him, ⁴ God giving a joint testimony, by signs, and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of a holy spirit, according to his own will.

³ Trust in the Lord and exercise kindness; dwell in the land and thou shalt be fed with the riches thereof.

⁹ Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass for your purses; ¹⁰ nor a scrip for the journey; nor two coats; nor pairs of sandals; nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his sustenance. ¹¹ Therefore into whatever city or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and continue there till you leave the place. ¹² And when you enter the house, salute the family. ¹³ And if the family be worthy, the peace you wish them will come upon them; but if they be not worthy, the peace you wish will rebound upon your selves. ¹⁴ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, when you leave that house or that city shake off the dust of your feet.

⁸ and ordered them to take nothing for the journey, but only a staff; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse; ⁹ but to be shod with sandals; and not to put on two coats. ¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever you enter a house, continue there till you leave that place. ¹¹ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hearken to you, when you depart thence shake off the dirt which is under your feet, as a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, the condition of Sodom and Gomorra will be more tolerable in a day of vengeance, than the condition of that city.

¹¹ He in reply, said to them, Let him who hath two coats impart to him who hath none: and let him who hath provisions, do the same.

²⁹ And Levi made a great entertainment for him at his house; and there was a great company of publicans and others at table with him.

⁴ Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor sandals. And salute no one by the way. ⁵ And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if the son of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it; but if not, it will return to you. And ⁷ continue in the same family, eating and drinking such things as they have. For the labourer is worthy of his wages. Go not from one family to another. ⁸ And into whatever city you enter, when they entertain you eat such things as are set before you. ⁹ And heal the sick therein, and say to them, The reign of God is come near to you. ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, when they do not receive you, go out into the streets thereof and say, ¹¹ The very dust of this city of yours which cleaveth to us, we wipe off for you: nevertheless, know this, that the reign of God hath come nigh unto you. ¹² Now I say to you, the condition of Sodom will be more tolerable on that day than the condition of that city.

²² Then he said to his disciples, For this cause I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall wear.

²⁸ Now if God doth thus clothe the herbage, which is in the field today, and tomorrow is cast into a furnace, how much more will he clothe you, O distrustful men?

³⁵ Then he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did you want any thing? And when they said No;

⁴ No one going to war entangleth himself with worldly affairs, that he may please him who hath inlisted him.

¹¹ Therefore into whatever city or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and continue there till you leave the place.

¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever you enter a house, continue there till you leave that place.

⁵ And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if the son of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it; but if not, it will return to you. And ⁷ continue in the same family, eating and drinking such things as they have. For the labourer is worthy of his wages. Go not from one family to another. ⁸ And into whatever city you enter, when they entertain you eat such things as are set before you.

¹⁵ And when she and her household were baptized, she intreated us saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord come and lodge at my house. So she prevailed upon us.

¹³ I shook my lap and said, So may God shake every man who will not perform this promise, out of his house and from his labour, and let them be shaken out and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen; and praised the Lord, and the people executed the decree.

¹⁴ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, when you leave that house or that city shake off the dust of your feet. ¹⁵ Verily I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorra in a day of judgment, than for that city.

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations.

¹¹ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hearken to you, when you depart thence shake off the dirt which is under your feet, as a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, the condition of Sodom and Gomorra will be more tolerable in a day of vengeance, than the condition of that city.

³⁷ Whosoever shall receive one of such children on my account, receiveth me; and whoever shall receive me, receiveth him who sent me.

¹⁴ Then he charged him to tell no one; but go and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy purification, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

⁴⁸ and said to them, Whoever will receive this child for my name, receiveth me; and whoever receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me. For he who is least among you all, even he shall be great.

⁵³ But they would not receive him, because they perceived that he was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ Upon seeing this, his disciples, James and John, said, Master, Is it thy pleasure that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, as Elias did? ⁵⁵ Whereupon, turning about, he rebuked them, and said, You do not know what spirit you are of. ⁵⁶ For the son of man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. So they went to another village.

¹⁶ He who hearkeneth to you, hearkeneth to me: and he who rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he who rejecteth me, rejecteth him who sent me.

⁵¹ Upon which they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, went to Iconium.

⁶ And upon their setting themselves against this, and using abusive language, he shook his garments, and said to them, Your blood is on your own head. I am clear. Henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

²⁰ and they went forth and proclaimed the tidings every where, the Lord co-operating with them, and confirming the word with those concomitant signs.

¹ When he, having called together the twelve disciples, gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases; ² and was sending them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the sick;

¹⁵ so that in every street they brought out the sick and laid them on beds and couches, that the shadow of Peter as he went along might overshadow some of them.

¹¹ May surrounding sorrows destroy him, and many come round his foot in sore famine. ¹² For him indeed a direful destruction is prepared.

¹⁹ how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity!

⁵ For it is a day of trouble and destruction and treading down. There is indeed some wandering from the Lord of Hosts; in the valley of Sion they are wandering about; from the least to the greatest they are wandering on the mountains.

⁴ therefore I will take away their good things, like a consuming moth advancing regularly in the clay of visitation. [p] Alas! alas! thy punishments are come; now will their lamentations be;"

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch hearing of the fame of Jesus, ² said to his servants, This is John the Baptist. He is raised from the dead, and therefore miracles are performed by him. ³ [For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip: ⁴ for John had said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. ⁵ Upon which Herod would have put him to death, but he was afraid of the people, because they looked upon him as a prophet. ⁶ But when Herod's birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod. ⁷ Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. ⁸ And she at the instigation of her mother, said, Give me here in a basin the head of John the Baptist. ⁹ Though the king was sorry, yet from a regard to the oath and the guests, he ordered it to be given her. ¹⁰ So he sent and beheaded John in the prison. ¹¹ And his head was brought in a basin and given to the damsel, who carried it to her mother. ¹² And his disciples went and took up the body, and buried it, and came and told Jesus.

¹⁴ Now when king Herod heard of him, [for his name was become famous] he said, John the baptizer is risen from the dead, and therefore these miracles are performed by him. ¹⁵ Some said, It is Elias; and others said, It is a prophet, or a person like one of the prophets. ¹⁶ But when Herod heard of him, he said, This is John, whom I beheaded. He is risen from the dead. ¹⁷ For Herod had sent and apprehended John, and confined him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. ¹⁸ For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. ¹⁹ Therefore Herodias was enraged at him, and wished to kill him, but could not; ²⁰ for Herod revered John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man; and he protected him, and did many things by his advice, and heard him with pleasure: ²¹ At length a favourable opportunity occurred. When Herod, on his birth day, made an entertainment for the great officers of his court and army, and the chiefs of Galilee, ²² and the daughter of this same Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod and his guests, the king said to the damsel, Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee: ²³ nay, he swore to her, Whatever thou shalt ask of me, I will give, even to the half of my kingdom. ²⁴ Upon this she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist. ²⁵ So coming in immediately with all haste to the king, she made her request, saying, I desire thee to give me forthwith, in a basin, the head of John the baptist. ²⁶ Though the king was much grieved, yet from a regard to his oaths, and his guests, he would not refuse her. ²⁷ So the king immediately despatched a sentinel with orders to bring the head of the baptist. And he went and beheaded him in the prison, ²⁸ and brought his head in a basin, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea; and Herod, tetrarch of Galilee; and his brother Philip, tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis; and Lysanias, being tetrarch of Abilene

¹⁹ And they in reply, said, John the Baptist; but others say, Elias; and others, that one of the ancient prophets is risen up.

²⁵ There will indeed be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, anguish of desponding nations, while the sea is roaring and the billows thereof;

¹⁰ Then his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the Scribes say, that Elias must come first?

¹⁵ Some said, It is Elias; and others said, It is a prophet, or a person like one of the prophets.

²⁸ And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others say, One of the prophets.

²¹ Then they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not: art thou the prophet And he answered, No.

³¹ On that same day, some Pharisees came and said to him, Get away and depart hence; for Herod intendeth to kill thee. ³² Whereupon he said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold I cast out demons, and perform cures to day and to morrow, and on the third day I am perfected.

⁸ And when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad; for he had long desired to see him. Because he had heard much of him, therefore he hoped to see some miracle done by him,

¹⁰ Then the man who stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they whom the Lord sent to go round this land.

²¹ Alas for thee Chorazin! Alas for thee Bethsaida! For had the miracles, which have been performed in you, been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes.

¹³ When Jesus heard this he departed thence, in a vessel, privately, to a desert place; and the people, being informed, followed him by land out of the cities. ¹⁴ And when Jesus landed he saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick. ¹⁵ And towards evening his disciples accosted him, saying, This is a desert place and the hour is now past, dismiss the multitude that they may go to the villages and buy themselves victuals. ¹⁶ And Jesus said to them, They need not go. Give them, ye yourselves, something to eat. ¹⁷ And they said, We have here only five loaves and two fishes. ¹⁸ Whereupon he said, Bring them hither to me. ¹⁹ Then he ordered the multitude to arrange themselves, as at table, on the grass. And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and pronounced a blessing. Then he brake and gave the loaves to the disciples and the disciples [distributed] them to the multitudes. ²⁰ And they all ate and were satisfied. And there were carried away twelve panniers full of the fragments which remained. ²¹ Now they who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

⁷ "What! Doth this man thus utter blasphemies! Who can forgive sins but God only."

³⁰ Now the apostles come together again to Jesus, and when they had given him a full account both of what they had done, and what they had taught, ³¹ he said to them, Come by yourselves privately, to a solitary place, and rest yourselves a little while. For there were so many coming and going that they had not leisure even to eat. ³² So they went away by themselves, in the vessel, to a solitary place. ³³ And the multitudes saw them going, and many knew the place, and ran thither by land, in. crowds, from all the cities, and got there before them, and assembled to meet him. ³⁴ When Jesus landed and saw a great multitude, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep which have no shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. ³⁵ And the day being now far spent, his disciples came to him and said, This is a desert place, and the day is now far spent, ³⁶ Dismiss them, that they may go to the neighbouring farms and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat. ³⁷ And he in reply, said to them, Supply them ye yourselves. Thereupon they say to him, Must we go and buy bread to the amount of two hundred deniars for them to eat. ³⁸ He saith to them, How many loaves have you? Go and see. And having examined, they say, Five, and two fishes. ³⁹ Then he ordered them to make all the people place themselves as at table on the grass, in several companies. ⁴⁰ Accordingly they arranged themselves in rows, by hundreds and by fifties. ⁴¹ Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he pronounced a blessing. Then he broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them, and distributed the two fishes among them all. ⁴² And when they had all eaten, and were satisfied, ⁴³ there were carried away twelve panniers full of the fragments, and the remains of the fishes. ⁴⁴ Now they who had eaten of the loaves were about five thousand men. ⁴⁵ Immediately after this, he constrained his disciples to embark, and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida; while he dismissed the people.

¹⁰ Therefore, when the apostles returned, and told Jesus all that they had done, he took them apart, and withdrew to a solitary place, belonging to a city called Bethsaida. ¹¹ And as the people knew it, they followed him, and he received them, and spoke to them concerning the kingdom of God, and healed them who had need of healing. ¹² And when the day began to decline, the twelve came, and said to him, Dismiss the multitude, that they may go to the neighbouring towns and farms, for lodging and provisions; for we are here in a desert place. ¹³ But he said to them, Do you, yourselves, give them something to eat. Thereupon they said to him, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes. Must we then go and buy food for all this people? ¹⁴ For they were about five thousand men. Then he said to his disciples, Range them as at table, in companies, fifty in a company. ¹⁵ And they did so. And when they were all ranged, ¹⁶ he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, pronounced a blessing, and broke them and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷ And when they had all eaten, and were satisfied, there was taken up a surplusage of fragments which filled twelve panniers.

¹⁷ And when the seventy returned with joy, saying, Master, even the demons are subject to us through thy name;

⁴⁴ Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁵ Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming to him, saith to Philip, Whence can we buy bread to feed these people. ⁶ Now this he said to try him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered him, Two hundred deniars would not purchase bread enough for every one of them to take a morsel. ⁸ One of his disciples, namely Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him, ⁹ There is a lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? ¹⁰ Then Jesus said, Cause the men to arrange themselves on the ground. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore, to the number of about five thousand, arranged themselves on the ground. ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves and having given thanks, distributed to the disciples; and the disciples distributed to them who were on the ground; and in like manner of the fishes, as much as they chose. ¹² And when they were satisfied, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing may be lost. ¹³ So they gathered, and with the fragments, which the people after eating had left of the five barley loaves, they filled twelve panniers.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to them [for they are watching over your souls,[as they who must give an account] that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for this would be unprofitable for you.

¹ [M] THE SPIRIT of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are brokenhearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind:

¹⁴ And when Jesus landed he saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say to you, The publicans and the harlots lead the way for you to the kingdom of God.

⁴³ Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits thereof.

³³ And the multitudes saw them going, and many knew the place, and ran thither by land, in. crowds, from all the cities, and got there before them, and assembled to meet him. ³⁴ When Jesus landed and saw a great multitude, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep which have no shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

⁵³ He hath filled the hungry with good things; and sent away the rich empty.

³¹ In reply to which, Jesus said to them, They who are in health have no need of a physician; but they who are sick.

¹ Immediately after this he travelled through cities and villages, publishing and proclaiming the glad tidings of the reign of God, accompanied by the twelve,

¹⁰ he said, To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, which to others are couched under parables, so that they see and do not see, and they hear and do not understand.

² and was sending them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the sick;

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, It is my food to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

³⁷ All that the Father giveth me, will come to me. And him who cometh to me I will not reject.

³¹ proclaiming the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all freedom and without restraint.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a proclaimer?

¹⁷ The believing is indeed because of hearing, and what they heard is by the order of God.

³ For even the Christ did not consult his own gratification, but as it is written, "The reproaches of them who reproached thee fell upon me."

² proclaim the word; be intent thereon, in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find favour for seasonable assistance.

¹⁹ Nay, they spoke against God and said, "Can God provide a table in a desert? ²⁰ When he smote a rock, waters gushed out, and streams swelled to an overflowing flood. But can He also give bread, or provide a table for his people?"

²⁵ and with this David I will make a covenant of peace, and remove the wild beasts entirely out of the land; so that they may dwell in the desert and sleep in the Woods.

⁵ It was I who fed thee in the desert; in an uninhabited land.

²³ But he made her no answer. Then his disciples came near and intreated him, saying, Dismiss this woman, for she crieth after us.

³² Then Jesus called his disciples and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have attended me now three days, and have nothing to eat. I will not send them away fasting.

³⁵ And the day being now far spent, his disciples came to him and said, This is a desert place, and the day is now far spent, ³⁶ Dismiss them, that they may go to the neighbouring farms and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat. ³⁷ And he in reply, said to them, Supply them ye yourselves. Thereupon they say to him, Must we go and buy bread to the amount of two hundred deniars for them to eat. ³⁸ He saith to them, How many loaves have you? Go and see. And having examined, they say, Five, and two fishes. ³⁹ Then he ordered them to make all the people place themselves as at table on the grass, in several companies. ⁴⁰ Accordingly they arranged themselves in rows, by hundreds and by fifties. ⁴¹ Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he pronounced a blessing. Then he broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them, and distributed the two fishes among them all. ⁴² And when they had all eaten, and were satisfied, ⁴³ there were carried away twelve panniers full of the fragments, and the remains of the fishes. ⁴⁴ Now they who had eaten of the loaves were about five thousand men.

¹ After these things Jesus went away. On the coast of the sea, that of Galilee, that of Tiberias,

⁵ Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming to him, saith to Philip, Whence can we buy bread to feed these people. ⁶ Now this he said to try him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered him, Two hundred deniars would not purchase bread enough for every one of them to take a morsel. ⁸ One of his disciples, namely Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him, ⁹ There is a lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? ¹⁰ Then Jesus said, Cause the men to arrange themselves on the ground. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore, to the number of about five thousand, arranged themselves on the ground. ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves and having given thanks, distributed to the disciples; and the disciples distributed to them who were on the ground; and in like manner of the fishes, as much as they chose. ¹² And when they were satisfied, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing may be lost. ¹³ So they gathered, and with the fragments, which the people after eating had left of the five barley loaves, they filled twelve panniers. ¹⁴ When these men saw the miracle which Jesus had done, they said, This is certainly the prophet"He who is coming into the world. ¹⁵ Jesus therefore knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain himself alone.

²¹ Thereupon Moses said, The people among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, yet thou hast said, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat it a whole month. ²² Must the flocks and the herds be slaughtered for them? Will even these suffice? Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them, would this be sufficient for them? ²³ And the Lord said to Moses, Cannot the hand of the Lord furnish a sufficiency? Thou shalt now see whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.

⁴² After that there came a man from Baithariso and brought to the man of God, of the first fruits twenty loaves of barley bread and some fig cakes. And he said, Give these to the people and let them eat. ⁴³ And when his servant said, Why should I set this before a hundred men? He said, Give it to the people and let them eat; for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat and leave.

²⁴ There are some who scattering their substance make it more: and some who gather and make it less. ²⁵ A soul is blessed which is altogether sincere: but a passionate man is not respected.

¹⁶ And Jesus said to them, They need not go. Give them, ye yourselves, something to eat. ¹⁷ And they said, We have here only five loaves and two fishes.

³⁷ And he in reply, said to them, Supply them ye yourselves. Thereupon they say to him, Must we go and buy bread to the amount of two hundred deniars for them to eat. ³⁸ He saith to them, How many loaves have you? Go and see. And having examined, they say, Five, and two fishes.

⁵ Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming to him, saith to Philip, Whence can we buy bread to feed these people. ⁶ Now this he said to try him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered him, Two hundred deniars would not purchase bread enough for every one of them to take a morsel. ⁸ One of his disciples, namely Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him, ⁹ There is a lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many?

³⁹ Then he ordered them to make all the people place themselves as at table on the grass, in several companies. ⁴⁰ Accordingly they arranged themselves in rows, by hundreds and by fifties.

⁶ Then he ordered the multitude to place themselves on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, and given thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed to the multitude.

⁴⁰ Let all things be done in a becoming and orderly manner.

¹ A Song of the steps. I Have lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, from which my help is to come. ² My help is from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

¹⁹ Then he ordered the multitude to arrange themselves, as at table, on the grass. And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and pronounced a blessing. Then he brake and gave the loaves to the disciples and the disciples [distributed] them to the multitudes.

³⁶ he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and having given thanks, he broke and gave to his disciples; and the disciples [distributed] to the people.

³⁴ Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

¹⁹ Then having taken a loaf, he gave thanks, and brake and gave to them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a remembrance of me.

³⁰ And when he was at table with them, he took the loaf, and blessed, and brake, and distributed to them.

¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves and having given thanks, distributed to the disciples; and the disciples distributed to them who were on the ground; and in like manner of the fishes, as much as they chose.

²³ Other vessels however came from Tiberias, nigh to the place where they had eaten bread after the Lord gave thanks

³⁵ And having said this he took bread, and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all, and having broken it began to eat.

⁶ He who regardeth the day, regardeth it for the Lord; and he who regardeth not the day, refraineth from regarding it, for the Lord. He who eateth, eateth for the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he who eateth not, refraineth from eating, for the Lord, and he giveth God thanks.

³⁰ But why is my liberty to be judged by another's conscience? And if I partake with thankfulness, why am I ill spoken of for what I give thanks?

²⁴ and having given thanks, broke it, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you. Do this in commemoration of me."

⁴ that every thing which God created is good, and nothing to be rejected; for when taken with thankfulness ⁵ it is sanctified by the permission of God and prayer.

⁴⁴ So they ate and left according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁶ Better is the little which a righteous man hath, than the abundant wealth of sinners.

⁹ because he hath satisfied the longing soul; and filled the hungry with good things.

²⁵ A righteous man eateth and satisfieth his soul; but the souls of the wicked are insatiate.

³⁷ And when they had all eaten and were satisfied, there were carried off seven baskets full of the fragments left. ³⁸ Now they who had eaten were about four thousand men, besides women and children.

⁹ Have you yet no reflection? Or do ye not remember the five loaves among the five thousand, and how many panniers you carried off; ¹⁰ nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets you carried off?

⁸ And when they had eaten, and were satisfied, the fragments which remained were carried off in seven baskets. ⁹ Now they who had eaten were about four thousand.0 And when he had dismissed them

¹⁹ When I brake the five loaves for the five thousand, how many panniers full of fragments did you carry off? They say to him, Twelve. ²⁰ And when I brake the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you carry off? They said, Seven.

¹⁸ Now I have all things and abound. I am fully supplied, having received your presents by Epaphroditus, a fragrant odour, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will supply all your wants, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹³ When Jesus was going to Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I, the son of man, am? ¹⁴ And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; and some, Elias; and some Jeremias, or one of the prophets. ¹⁵ He saith to them, And who do ye say that I am? ¹⁶ Upon this Peter, in reply, said, Thou art The Christ, the son of the living God.

³⁶ Then Jesus goeth with them to a place called Gethsemane, and saith to the disciples, Stay here while I go yonder to pray.

²⁷ Then Jesus went forth, with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea-philippi. And by the way he asked his disciples, saying, who do men say that I am? ²⁸ And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others say, One of the prophets. ²⁹ Then he saith to them, And who do you say that I am? Peter answering, saith to him, Thou art the Christ. ³⁰ Then he charged them to tell no one this concerning him,

¹ It came to pass also when he was at a certain place, praying, that soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.

³⁹ Then he went out and retired as usual to the mount of olives; and his disciples followed him. ⁴⁰ And when he came to the place, he said to them, Pray, that you may not come to trial. ⁴¹ Then having withdrawn about a stone's throw from them, he kneeled down and prayed,

⁵ Now behold I will send you Elias the Thesbite before that great and awful day of the Lord cometh;

² said to his servants, This is John the Baptist. He is raised from the dead, and therefore miracles are performed by him.

⁷ When Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all that was done by him, he was perplexed; because it was said by some, that John was raised from the dead; ⁸ and by others, that Elias is plainly come; and by others, that one of the ancient prophets is risen up.

²⁵ Then they asked him and said to him, Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

⁴⁰ Hereupon many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, This is certainly the prophet,

¹⁷ They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him for opening thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

⁴⁷ And if you salute your brethren only, wherein do ye excel? Do not even the publicans do the same?

¹⁵ He saith to them, And who do ye say that I am? ¹⁶ Upon this Peter, in reply, said, Thou art The Christ, the son of the living God. ¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee, but my father who is in heaven.

⁴² saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he? They say to him, David's.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. Then the chief priest addressing him, said, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the son of God.

²⁹ Then he saith to them, And who do you say that I am? Peter answering, saith to him, Thou art the Christ.

⁶¹ But Jesus was silent, and made no reply. Then the chief priest interrogated him, and saith to him, Art thou the Christ, the son of the Blessed?

⁶⁷ Art thou the Christ? Tell us. Whereupon he said to them, If I tell you, you will not believe me.

⁴¹ He first findeth his brother Simon, and saith to him, We have found the Messias, [the meaning of which is the Christ] [the anointed]

⁴⁹ In answer to this, Nathaniel said to him, Rabbi, thou art the son of God. Thou art the king of Israel.

²⁹ Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Is this the Christ?

⁴² and they said to the woman, It is not now on account of thy talk that we believe; for we ourselves have heard and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world, the Christ.

⁶⁸ Whereupon Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of an everlasting life, ⁶⁹ and we believe and know that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. But others said', Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

²⁷ She saith to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.

³¹ But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life by his name.

³⁶ And as they continued the journey, they came to a certain water. Whereupon the eunuch said, Behold! here is water. What hindereth my being baptized?

²² But Saul was strengthened more and more, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this person is the C H R I S T .

³ opening and stating that the Christ was to suffer .and rise from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I announce to you is The Christ.

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and every one who loveth him who begat, loveth him also who is begotten of him;

²⁰ Then he charged his disciples not to tell anyone that he, Jesus, is the Christ.

⁹ And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell no one what you have seen, until the son of man shall have risen from the dead.

³⁰ Then he charged them to tell no one this concerning him, ³¹ and began to inform them that the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and put to death, and after three days rise again.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and between thy seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel."

¹ For the conclusion. On the help of the morning. A Psalm by David. God, my God! attend to me! why hast thou forsaken me? have the acts of my transgressions [removed thee] far from saving me? ² my God, shall I cry to thee by day, and thou not listen, and by night, and thou not hear me? ³ Thou indeed dwellest in a holy place; thou art the praise of Israel. ⁴ In thee our fathers placed their trust; they trusted and thou didst deliver them. To thee they cried and they were saved; ⁵ in thee they trusted and were not put to shame. ⁶ As for me, I am a Worm, and no man; the scorn of men and the people's contempt. ⁷ All that see me have laughed me to scorn; they said with their lips while they shaked their head, ⁸ "He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him; let him save him, since he delighteth in him." ⁹ Because thou art he, who drew me forth from the womb: my hope, when at the breasts of my mother; ¹⁰ I was cast on thy care from my very birth; from my mother's womb thou art my God; ¹¹ stand not at a distance from me; for trouble is near; for there is no helper. ¹² Many bulls have encompassed me; fat bulls have beset me around. ¹³ Against me they have opened their mouth, like a ravening and roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are torn asunder: my heart within me is melted like wax. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; thou hast indeed brought me to the dust of death. ¹⁶ Because many dogs have encompassed me, an assembly of wicked men have beset me; have pierced my hands and my feet; ¹⁷ have counted all my bones, and have stared and looked at me; ¹⁸ they have parted my garments among them, and for my vesture have cast lots; ¹⁹ Therefore, Lord, delay not thou my help, draw near to my assistance; ²⁰ rescue my soul from the sword; this only begotten of mine from the paw of a dog. ²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion, and this lowliness of mine from the unicorn's horns. ²² I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of a congregation I will sing praise to thee. ²³ Praise him, ye who fear the Lord praise him, all ye seed of Jacob. Let all the seed of Israel fear him; ²⁴ for he hath not slighted, nor abhorred the prayer of the distressed; nor turned away his face from me: but hearkened to me when I cried to him. ²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in a great congregation: I will pay my vows before them who fear him. ²⁶ The needy shall eat and be satisfied: and they who seek the Lord will praise him. Their heart shall be forever alive. ²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him: ²⁸ for the kingdom is the Lord's and he ruleth the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: before him shall bow all that go down to the dust. Let my soul therefore live for him. ³⁰ My seed indeed will serve him: a generation which is coming shall be announced for the Lord: ³¹ and they will proclaim his saving mercy to a people that shall be born, whom the Lord made.

¹ For the conclusion. Respecting them who are to be changed. By David. Save me, God; for waters have broken in on my soul. ² I am sunk down into deep mire, and there is no support beneath. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me. ³ I am weary with crying; my throat is hoarse; and mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. ⁴ They who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. Mine enemies who persecute me wrongfully are become strong. I have made compensation on the spot for what I did not take by violence. ⁵ Thou, O God, knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from thee. ⁶ Let not them who wait for thee, Lord of hosts, be put to shame on my account. Let not them be put to confusion for my sake, who are seeking thee, God of Israel. ⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, confusion hath covered my face. ⁸ To my brethren I am become an alien, and a stranger to the children of my mother. ⁹ For my zeal for thy house hath consumed me; and on me have fallen the reproaches of them, who reproached thee. ¹⁰ When I bowed down my soul with fasting; it furnished occasion for reproaching me. ¹¹ When I clothed myself with sackcloth, I became to them a proverb; ¹² they who sat in the gate spoke against me; and they who drank wine, made me their song. ¹³ But to thee, Lord, I, in my prayer, applied: it was a time of favour. God, in the multitude of thy mercy; in the truth of thy salvation, hearken to me. ¹⁴ Save me from mire that I may not sink down. Let me he delivered from them who hate me and out of this depth of waters. ¹⁵ Let not a flood of water overwhelm me, nor a whirlpool swallow me up, nor a pit shut its mouth upon me. ¹⁶ Hear me, Lord, for thy loving kindness is good; according to thine abundant mercy, look down upon me. ¹⁷ Turn not away thy face from thy servant; because I am in distress, hear me speedily. ¹⁸ Draw near to my soul and redeem it; deliver me, because of mine enemies. ¹⁹ For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my confusion; all mine adversaries are before thee. ²⁰ My soul expected reproach and misery. I waited for a condoler, but there was none; for a comforter, but none could I find. ²¹ They indeed have given me gall for my food, and for my thirst, have made me drink vinegar. ²² Let their table before them become a snare and a recompence and a stumbling block. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their neck continually. ²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful ire take hold of them. ²⁵ Let their fold be desolate, and in their dwellings no inhabitant. ²⁶ Because him, whom thou smotest, they persecuted, and have added to the pains of my Wounds; ²⁷ add thou iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be enrolled with the righteous. ²⁹ I am afflicted; I am full of pain; but the salvation of thy countenance hath upheld me. ³⁰ I will praise the name of my God with an Ode: I will magnify him with thanksgiving; ³¹ this indeed will be more pleasing to God than a young bull with horns and hoofs. ³² Let the afflicted behold and rejoice: seek God diligently and you shall live. ³³ For the Lord hath hearkened to the needy, and hath not despised his prisoners. ³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea and all that move therein. ³⁵ For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be rebuilded, and the seed of his servants shall dwell there. ³⁶ They shall inherit it and possess it; and they who love his name shall dwell therein.

¹ [c] Lord, who bath believed this report of ours, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been made manifest? ² We have made proclamation as a child before him: as a root in a thirsty soil, he hath no appearance, nor glory. We have seen him; and he hath neither appearance nor beauty: ³ but his appearance is mean and defective beyond the sons of men. Being a man in affliction and acquainted with grief, because his countenance was dejected, he was despised and disesteemed. ⁴ This man beareth away our sins; and for us he is in sorrow: And we considered him as being in trouble and under a stroke and in affliction. ⁵ But he was wounded for our sins, and afflicted for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; by his bruises we are healed. ⁶ We all like sheep had strayed; every man wandered in his way: and the Lord delivered him up for our sins: ⁷ and he, on account of his affliction, openeth not his mouth. He was led as a sheep to be slaughtered. And as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ In this humiliation his legal trial was taken away. Who will declare his manner of life. [J] Because his life is taken from the earth; for the transgressions of my people he is led to death; ⁹ therefore for his funeral I will give up the wicked, and the rich for his death. Because he committed no iniquity, nor practised guile with his mouth, ¹⁰ and the Lord determined to purify him from this stroke: when his soul shall be given up for a sin offering; of you he shall see a seed which shall prolong their days. ¹¹ More over it is the determination of the Lord to remove him from the trouble of his soul; to shew him light and fashion him for knowledge; to justify the Righteous One who is serving many well, when he shall bear away their sins; ¹² therefore he shall inherit many and divide the spoils of the strong. [p] Because his soul was delivered up to death and he was numbered among transgressors and bore away the sins of many and on account of their iniquities was delivered up;

²⁶ and after the sixty two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, though there is no crime in him; and he, with the ruler who is coming, will destroy the city and the sanctuary. They shall be destroyed with a deluge, and even to the end of the war determined on in course, with desolations.

⁷ Awake, sword, against my shepherds, and against my chief citizen, saith the Lord Almighty; I will smite the shepherds and the sheep shall be scattered and I will bring my hand on the little ones.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to point out to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and raised again on the third day. ²² Upon which Peter, taking him aside, began to check him, saying, Mercy on thee, O my Lord! This cannot befal thee. ²³ But he, turning, said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an obstacle in my way. For thou hast not thy mind bent on the things of God; but on the things of those men. ²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever wisheth to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. ²⁶ For what will a man be profited, if he should gain the whole world, and be punished with the forfeit of his life? Or, what will not a man give as a ransom for his life? ²⁷ For the son of man will come in the glory of his father, with his angels, and will then render to every one according to his actions. ²⁸ Verily I say to you, there are some of them standing here who shall not taste death until they see the son of man coming in his kingdom.

¹² Now I say to you, Elias is already come and they did not know him, but have treated him as they pleased. In the same manner also the son of man will soon suffer by them.

²² Now while they remained in Galilee Jesus said to them, The son of man will soon be delivered into the hands of men,

³¹ and began to inform them that the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and put to death, and after three days rise again.

³¹ for he was teaching his disciples. And he said to them, The son of man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death. And being put to death, he will rise again on the third day.

³³ Behold, said he, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests, and the Scribes; and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him up to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will insult him, and scourge him, and spit upon him, and put him to death; and on the third day he will rise again.

⁴⁴ Give diligent attention to these words; for the son of man will soon be delivered up into the hands of men.

³¹ Then having taken the twelve aside he said to them, Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and all that the prophets have written concerning the son of man, will be accomplished. ³² For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted, and spit upon. ³³ And when they have scourged him, they will put him to death. And on the third day he will rise again. ³⁴ But they understood nothing of these things. This matter indeed was hid from them, so that they did not comprehend the meaning of what was spoken.

⁷ saying, The son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.

²⁶ Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?

²⁵ who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, "Why did nations rage, and tribes meditate vain things?" ²⁶ The kings of the earth combined, and the chiefs assembled together against the Lord and against his Anointed." ²⁷ For indeed against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and the tribes of Israel, were gathered together, ²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their chiefs, not knowing him, have indeed by condemning him fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath day. ²⁸ Though they found no cause of death, they demanded of Pilate that he should be executed. ²⁹ And when they had accomplished all that was written concerning him, he was taken down from the cross and laid in a tomb.

⁴ and that he was buried; and that he was raised up the third day according to the scriptures;

¹¹ and search, trying to find to what time, and what manner of time, the spirit of Christ within them pointed, when it testified before hand the sufferings which were for Christ, and the glories which should succeed them:

³⁸ And he who doth not take up his cross and follow me, is not worthy of me. ³⁹ He who hath found his life shall lose it. But he, who shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

²² Upon which Peter, taking him aside, began to check him, saying, Mercy on thee, O my Lord! This cannot befal thee. ²³ But he, turning, said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an obstacle in my way. For thou hast not thy mind bent on the things of God; but on the things of those men. ²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever wisheth to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

³⁴ Then, having called to him the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whosoever hath a mind to come under my guidance, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ³⁵ For whosoever would save his life, shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for the sake of me, and the glad tidings, he shall save it. ³⁶ For what will it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? ³⁷ Or what will not a man give as a ransom for his life? ³⁸ For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the son of man will be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his father, with his holy angels.

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whosoever doth not take up his cross and follow me, he cannot be my disciple.

²⁵ He who loveth his life, will lose it: but he who slighteth his life in this world, shall keep it for an everlasting life. ²⁶ If any one would wait upon me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall this attendant of mine also be. And if any one wait upon me my Father will reward him.

¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you are dying; but if you by the spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

³⁰ and why are we every hour incurring danger ³¹ I dying daily? I swear by that boasting of yours" [meaning that which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord]

⁵ Mortify, therefore, with regard to your members which are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate passions, wicked desire, and that licentiousness, which is idolatry,

¹² Indeed all who wish to live holy in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹² teaching us in order that we, renouncing impiety and worldly lusts, may live soberly and righteously and piously in this present world,

³³ One, though he may seek to save his life, shall lose it. And another, though he may expose his life, shall save it.

²⁵ He who loveth his life, will lose it: but he who slighteth his life in this world, shall keep it for an everlasting life.

²³ save only that the Holy spirit testifieth in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

³⁵ Women received their dead children, by a restoration of them to life. As for others, some were tortured, not expecting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

¹⁰ Be not terrified at what thou art about to suffer. Behold the devil will soon cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and ye will have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹¹ and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and have not spared to expose their life even to death.

⁶ Some put confidence in their power: and some boast of the abundance of their wealth. ⁷ A brother is not redeemed. Is a man to redeem himself? ⁸ He cannot give to God an atonement for himself; and the price for the redemption of his life:

⁴⁸ which, when it was full, they dragged to the shore; and then sitting down, gathered the good into vessels and threw the bad away.

⁵⁰ and cast them into the fiery furnace. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

²⁶ For what will a man be profited, if he should gain the whole world, and be punished with the forfeit of his life? Or, what will not a man give as a ransom for his life?

³⁶ For what will it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

⁴³ Therefore, if thy hand cause thee to fall, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter maimed into life, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire which is unextinguishable; ⁴⁴ "Where their worm dieth not; and the fire is not extinguished! ⁴⁵ And if thy foot cause thee to fall, cut it off, it b better for thee to enter lame into life, than, having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire which is unextinguishable; ⁴⁶ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye causeth thee to fall, pluck it out; it is better for thee to enter one eyed into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes, to be cast into the hell of that fire; ⁴⁸ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.

⁵ Now the devil having taken him up to a high mountain, had shewed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited land, in a moment of time, ⁶ and the devil said to him, To thee I will give all this dominion and the glory of these; for to me it is delivered over, and I give it to whom I please. ⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided? ²¹ Thus let every one [say] to himself who is heaping up treasure and is not rich for God.

²⁴ Whereupon he cried and said, Father, Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

¹⁸ [Now this man indeed had purchased! a field with the reward of his iniquity, and, falling on his face, had burst asunder, and all his bowels gushed out;

²⁵ to take the share of this ministration and apostleship which Judas abandoned to go to his own place,"

²⁷ but I buffet my body and subdue it, lest having proclaimed the glad tidings to others I myself should be disapproved.

¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.] ¹⁷ They are wells without water; clouds impelled by a whirlwind, for whom is reserved in the bowels of the earth the gloom of everlasting darkness.

⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty.

⁶ As for me, I am a Worm, and no man; the scorn of men and the people's contempt. ⁷ All that see me have laughed me to scorn; they said with their lips while they shaked their head, ⁸ "He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him; let him save him, since he delighteth in him."

³ but his appearance is mean and defective beyond the sons of men. Being a man in affliction and acquainted with grief, because his countenance was dejected, he was despised and disesteemed.

¹⁰ A river of fire rolled before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him and myriads of myriads waited on him. The court sat and books were opened.

²² Many will say to me on that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many miracles, ²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity.

³² Whosoever therefore will acknowledge me before men, him I will acknowledge before my father, who is in heaven: ³³ but whosoever shall disown me before men, him I will disown before my father who is in heaven.

²⁷ For the son of man will come in the glory of his father, with his angels, and will then render to every one according to his actions.

³⁰ And then, all the tribes of the land will mourn: and they shall see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his messengers with a loud sounding trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds; from one extremity of heaven to the other.

³¹ So when the son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him; he will then sit on the throne of his glory.

⁶⁴ Jesus saith to him, It is as thou hast spoken. Moreover I say to you, Hereafter you shall see the son of man sitting at the right hand of that Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

³⁸ For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the son of man will be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his father, with his holy angels.

⁸ Now I say to you, Whosoever will acknowledge me before men, him the son of man will acknowledge before the angels of God: ⁹ but he who hath denied me before men shall be disowned before the angels of God.

²⁵ When the master of the house is raised up, and shall have shut the door and you begin to stand without and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, he will Answer and say to you, I do not know you, whence you are. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ But he will say, I tell you I do not know you whence you are. Depart from me all you workers of iniquity.

⁴⁴ How can you believe while you court honour one from another, and do not seek the glory which is from God alone?

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

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to every one who believeth, to the Jew in the first place, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁴ But far be it from me to boast, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ These shall suffer punishment, an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, ¹⁰ on the day when he shall come to be glorified by his saints, and to be admired by all those who believe that he was intrusted with this testimony of ours to you:

¹² For which cause also I suffer these things, but am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have trusted, and am persuaded, that he is able to keep that which I have deposited with him till that day.

¹² If we suffer, we shall indeed reign with him. If we deny him, he will deny us.

²⁶ accounting the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had an eye to the reward.

¹³ Let us then go out to him, without the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or a malefactor, or as a usurper of authority; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this respect.

¹⁴ Now to such as these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold the Lord is coming with his holy myriads

⁷ Behold he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him; and for him all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. Yes, be it so.

⁵ He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat thereon from whose presence the earth and the heaven fled away and there was no place found for them.

⁸ but the cowards and the unbelieving and abominable and murderers and prostitutes, and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.

²⁸ Verily I say to you, there are some of them standing here who shall not taste death until they see the son of man coming in his kingdom.

¹ Then he said to them, Verily I say to you, There are some of those standing here, who shall not taste death till they see the reign of God come with power.

²⁵ Verily I say to you, I will no more drink of the product of the vine, until the day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.

²⁶ Now it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit, that he should not see death until he had seen the Christ of the Lord;

¹⁸ For I say to you, I will not drink of the product of the vine until the reign of God come.

⁵¹ Verily, verily, I say to you, If any one will keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never see death. ⁵² Thereupon the Jews said to him, Now we know that thou art possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead and the prophets; yet thou sayest, I any one keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never taste death.

⁵⁹ Upon this they took up stones to throw at him. But Jesus concealed himself and went out of the temple, passing through the midst of them, and thus withdrew.

² In my Father's house there are many mansions. If there were not, would I have said to you, I am going to prepare a place for you?

⁷ But, I tell you this truth, it is to your advantage that I go away: for if I do not go, the monitor will not come to you; but when I go I will send him to you.

²² Jesus saith to him, If I will that he stay till I come, what is that to thee? ²³ Follow thou me. This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that this disciple should not die. But Jesus did not say to him, he should not die; but, If I will that he stay till I come, what is that to thee?

⁹ But we see him who was made a little lower than angels [namely] Jesus, on account of suffering death crowned with glory and honour, that so he by the favour of God might taste death for every man.

⁴ They traduced me for my love; but I prayed,

¹ And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up privately to a high mountain, ² and was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun: and his raiment became white as the light. ³ And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias, conversing with him. ⁴ Whereupon Peter, addressing Jesus, said, Master, it is well that we are here. if thou pleasest let us make here three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. ⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. ⁶ Upon hearing this the disciples fell on their face and were greatly affrighted. ⁷ But Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, Be not afraid. ⁸ And having lifted up their eyes they saw none but Jesus only. ⁹ And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell no one what you have seen, until the son of man shall have risen from the dead. ¹⁰ Then his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the Scribes say, that Elias must come first? ¹¹ In reply to which, Jesus said to them, Elias indeed cometh first and is to finish and begin all anew. ¹² Now I say to you, Elias is already come and they did not know him, but have treated him as they pleased. In the same manner also the son of man will soon suffer by them. ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he spake to them of John the Baptist.

³⁷ And having taken with him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be in an agony of grief and distress. ³⁸ Whereupon he saith to them, My soul is overwhelmed with anguish 9 even to death. Stay here and watch with me. ³⁹ Then, advancing a little further, he fell prostrate on his face, and prayed, saying, O my father, if it be possible, let this cup be removed from me. Nevertheless not as I would, but as thou wiliest.

³⁵ And in the morning, when the night was far advanced, he arose and went out, and retired to a solitary place, and there prayed;

⁴⁶ And when he had sent them away, he retired to the mountain to pray.

² Six days after this, Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up, privately by themselves, to a high mountain, and was transfigured in their presence. ³ And his raiment became glittering white like snow, to such a degree as no fuller on earth could whiten. ⁴ And there appeared to them Elias with Moses, who were conversing with Jesus. ⁵ Whereupon Peter, addressing Jesus, said, Rabbi, It is well that we are here. Let us make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. ⁶ For he did not know what to say; for they were terrified. ⁷ Then there came a cloud which overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved; hearken to him. ⁸ And instantly looking about, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with them. ⁹ And as they were coming down from the mountain, he strictly charged them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the son of man is risen from the dead. ¹⁰ This expression they laid hold on, questioning among themselves what this rising from the dead could mean. ¹¹ Then they asked him, saying, Why do the Scribes say that Elias must first come? ¹² In reply to which, he said to them, Elias indeed having come first, finisheth and beginneth all anew, in a manner conformable to what is written of the son of man, that he may suffer many things, and be treated with contempt. ¹³ But I say to you, that Elias hath actually come; and they have done to him what they pleased, as it is written of him.

³³ Then he taketh with him Peter, and James and John, and being seized with agonizing horror and distress of mind, ³⁴ he saith to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even to death. Stay here and watch. ³⁵ Then having advanced a little further, he prostrated himself on the ground, and prayed, that if it were possible this hour might pass from him. ³⁶ And he said, Abba, father, all things are possible to thee. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.

²¹ Now, while all the people were receiving baptism, Jesus also being baptized, and praying; the heaven was opened,

¹² Now about that time he went out to the mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in a place set apart for prayer to God.

⁵¹ And when he entered the house, he permitted none to go .in, but Peter and James and John, and the father and the mother of the child.

¹⁸ After that, when he was praying in a retired place, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying, Who do the people say that I am?

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is to' be established.

⁷ He, [who in the days of his flesh, having, with a strong cry and tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being hearkened to, did, from a reverential awe notwithstanding his being a son, learn obedience from what he suffered;

²⁹ And when Moses came down from the mount with the two tables in his hands, he did not know, while he was coming down from the mount, that the skin of his face had been irradiated with glory by his talking with him; ³⁰ but when Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses, and that the skin of his face was irradiated with glory, they were afraid to approach him. ³¹ Whereupon Moses called them; and Aaron and all the chiefs of the congregation turned to him and Moses spoke to them. ³² And after that all the sons of Israel came to him; and he enjoined upon them all that the Lord had given him in charge on mount Sina. ³³ And when he had done speaking to them he put a veil on his face. ³⁴ But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak to him he took off the veil until he came out, and when he came out and rehearsed to all the children of Israel what the Lord commanded him ³⁵ [as the children of Israel saw that Moses' face was irradiated with glory therefore] Moses put the veil on his face until he should go in to speak to him.

¹⁷ [p] You shall see a king with glory; your eyes shall see a far distant land;

² We have made proclamation as a child before him: as a root in a thirsty soil, he hath no appearance, nor glory. We have seen him; and he hath neither appearance nor beauty:

² and was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun: and his raiment became white as the light.

² Six days after this, Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up, privately by themselves, to a high mountain, and was transfigured in their presence. ³ And his raiment became glittering white like snow, to such a degree as no fuller on earth could whiten.

¹² After that, he appeared in another form, to two of them as they were walking into the country.

¹⁴ Now the Word became incarnate, and dwelt as in a tent among us, and we beheld his glory; a glory as of an only begotten from the father. He was full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ And all who sat in the Sanhedrim, looking stedfastly at him, beheld his countenance, like the countenance of an angel.

⁷ yet what were gain to me these I have counted refuse on account of the Christ ⁸ nay more, I do therefore indeed count all things but refuse, on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have given up all and account them but dregs, that I may gain Christ

¹⁶ For we indeed did not follow artfully contrived fables when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but were ourselves eye witnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ For he was receiving honour and glory from God the Father, when a voice was uttered to him, from the transcendent glory, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased." ¹⁸ This voice we ourselves actually heard uttered from heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

¹³ and in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to the feet, and girded about the breast with a golden girdle; ¹⁴ and as for his head, the hairs like wool were glittering white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire; ¹⁵ and his feet were like fine brass, as if they were glowing in a furnace; and his voice was like the sound of many waters. ¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword. And his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

³ And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias, conversing with him. ⁴ Whereupon Peter, addressing Jesus, said, Master, it is well that we are here. if thou pleasest let us make here three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

⁴ And there appeared to them Elias with Moses, who were conversing with Jesus. ⁵ Whereupon Peter, addressing Jesus, said, Rabbi, It is well that we are here. Let us make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. ⁶ For he did not know what to say; for they were terrified.

¹⁷ He will go before in his presence, with the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and prepare disobedient persons, by a deep sense of righteous things, to be for the Lord a well disposed people.

²⁷ Then beginning with Moses and proceeding through all the prophets, he explained to them, by all those writings, the things concerning himself.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, This is what I told you while I was yet with you, That all the things written concerning me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, must needs be accomplished.

¹⁷ Because the law was given by Moses grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

²¹ now therefore, independency of law, there is made manifest a justification of God's appointment, attested by the law and the prophets ²² even a justification, of God's appointment, by faith in Jesus Christ, for all and upon all who believe; for there is no distinction; ²³ for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

⁷ [Now if the ministration of death engraven in letters, on stones, was attended with such glory, that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses, because of the temporary glory of his countenance; ⁸ shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more attended with glory? ⁹ For if that ministration of condemnation was attended with glory, much more doth this ministration of justification abound in glory. ¹⁰ For that indeed which was glorious, is in this respect not glorious because of this super-excellent glory. ¹¹ For if that which was temporary was with glory, much more shall this which is permanent be attended with glory.

³ For he hath been counted worthy of as much greater honour than Moses, as he who hath builded a house hath more honour than the house. ⁴ For every house hath some builder, but he who builded all things is God. ⁵ Now Moses was faithful in this whole house of his as a servant for a testimony of those things to be spoken; ⁶ but Christ as a son over his own house, whose house we are, if we stedfastly maintain this confidence, and the boast of this hope, firm to the end.

¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like ourselves. In one prayer he prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land during three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land bloomed with its productions.

²² adding, that the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and Scribes, and be put to death, and raised on the third day.

³² Whereupon he said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold I cast out demons, and perform cures to day and to morrow, and on the third day I am perfected. ³³ But I must continue my course to day and to morrow, and the day following; for it is not to be supposed that a prophet will be destroyed any where but in Jerusalem. ³⁴ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! How often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen doth her brood under her wings; and ye would not.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming towards him, and saith, Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!

²³ as for us, we proclaim a crucified Christ; to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; ²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;

²¹ who will transform the body of this our humble state, that it may be made conformable to his glorious body, according to the energy of his power to subject all to himself.

⁴ When the Christ, our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

¹¹ and search, trying to find to what time, and what manner of time, the spirit of Christ within them pointed, when it testified before hand the sufferings which were for Christ, and the glories which should succeed them: ¹² to whom it was revealed that it was not for themselves, but for us, that they dispensed those things which have now been announced to you by them who proclaimed to you the glad tidings with a holy spirit sent from heaven; into which things angels have an earnest desire to look narrowly.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all favour, who hath invited us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when we have suffered a little may he himself fit, support, strengthen and establish you!

¹⁵ and I will use all diligence that you may be able, every one of you, to recollect these things after my departure.

⁶ Then I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four animate beings and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as if it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. ⁷ And he went and took the book out of the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne. ⁸ And when he took the book, the four animate beings and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having, every of them, kitharas and golden cups full of incense which is the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou hast been slain and hast purchased us for God with thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ and hast made us kings and priests for our God, and we shall reign on the earth." ¹¹ And I looked and heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the animate beings and the elders and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing."

¹⁴ And I said to him, "Sir, thou knowest" Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of great affliction and have washed their robes and made them white by the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁸ Upon which Moses said, Manifest thyself to me. ¹⁹ And he said, I will go before thee with my glory and I will call by my name The Lord, before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I please to have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I compassionate; ²⁰ but, said he, thou canst not see my face; for no man can see my face and live. ²¹ Then the Lord said, Behold there is a place near me. Thou shalt stand upon the rock, ²² and when my glory is passing by, I will place thee in a cleft of the rock and cover thee with my hand over thee, until I pass by, ²³ then I will withdraw my hand and then thou shalt see what are behind me but my face cannot be seen by thee.

¹ Be enlightened: be enlightened, Jerusalem! for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold darkness will cover the earth and thick darkness the nations: but upon thee the Lord will shine and his glory over thee will be conspicuous. ³ And kings will walk by thy light: and nations by thy splendour.

¹⁹ And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day nor shall the rising of the moon enlighten thy night; but the Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; and thy God will be thy glory.

¹⁸ And while he was speaking to me, I fell flat with my face on the ground. Then he touched me and set me on my feet,

⁹ but I heard the sound of his words. And when I heard him, I was struck with awe, and my face was on the ground.

⁴⁰ Then he cometh to the disciples, and finding them asleep, he saith to Peter, So, could you not watch one hour with me? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not come to a trial. The spirit indeed is willing; but the flesh is weak. ⁴² Again he went away the second time, and prayed, saying, O my father! If this cup cannot be removed from me, without my drinking it; thy will be done. ⁴³ Then coming, he findeth them again sleeping; for their eyes were weighed down.

⁴⁵ Then he arose from prayer, and went to his disciples, and found them asleep, oppressed with grief. ⁴⁶ And he said to them, What! Are you asleep! Rise and pray that you may not come to trial.

²⁴ O Father, with respect to them whom thou hast given me, my desire is that where I am, they may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁶ For we indeed did not follow artfully contrived fables when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but were ourselves eye witnesses of his majesty.

² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

⁴ and see his face; and his name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵ And there shall be no night there; nor have they any need of a lamp or of the light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign for the ages of the ages.

⁶ Many say, Who will shew us good things? On us, Lord, is marked the light of thy countenance: ⁷ thou hast put gladness in my heart. Because of the increase of their corn and wine and oil they are filled;

⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple.

² Thus have I appeared to thee in the sanctuary; that I might see thy power and thy glory. ³ Because thy kindness is better than life; my lips shall continually praise thee. ⁴ Thus will I bless thee while I live: and in thy name I will lift up my hands. ⁵ Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: that my joyful lips may praise thy name.

²⁸ It is therefore good for me to cleave to God; to place my hope upon the Lord: that I may publish all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹⁴ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a man, who falling on his knees, said,

³⁸ Thereupon Jesus said to them, You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup which I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am about to be baptized?

⁵ Upon which Simon, answering, said to him, Master, we have been toiling all night, and have caught nothing. However, at thy word, I will let down the net.

⁸ Philip saith to him, Master shew us the Father, and it sufficeth.

⁶ Because it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who hath shined in our hearts, to give a lustre of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ;

¹⁹ Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the rear. ²⁰ And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not intermix one with the other during that whole night.

³⁴ the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord ³⁵ so that Moses could not go into the tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled. ³⁶ Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the Israelites prepared to march with their baggage. ³⁷ But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day when the cloud ascended. ³⁸ For there was a cloud on the tabernacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.

²² When Gideon saw that it was an angel of the Lord, he said, Alas! alas! Lord, my lord! For have I seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

²² whereupon he said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God.

⁹ And he bowed the heaven and came down, and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ He mounted on cherubs and flew; he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air.

¹ A vision concerning Egypt. Behold the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them.

⁸ so I was left alone. And when I beheld this great vision, there was no strength left in me. Even my comeliness was changed into corruption and I retained no strength;

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. ⁶ Upon hearing this the disciples fell on their face and were greatly affrighted. ⁷ But Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, Be not afraid.

⁷ Then there came a cloud which overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved; hearken to him. ⁸ And instantly looking about, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with them.

¹⁷ And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead. Whereupon he laid his right hand on me, and said to me, "Fear not. I am the first and the last,

¹⁸ I will raise up for them, from among their brethren, a prophet like thee, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them as I command him: ¹⁹ and whosoever will not hearken to what that prophet shall speak in my name, I will execute vengeance on him.

¹ [J] JACOB is my servant, I will uphold him, Israel is my chosen one, my soul hath embraced him; I have put my spirit upon him; he will publish judgment to the nations. [[J] Jehovah, [p] the prophet]

³ Incline your ears and follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live on good things; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant; the gracious promises to David which are faithful. ⁴ Behold for a testimony to nations I gave him, a chief and a lawgiver to nations.

¹⁷ and lo! a voice from heaven said,"This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased."

²² and the Holy Spirit, in a bodily form, came down like a dove upon him, and there came a voice from heaven, saying, "Thou art my son, the Beloved; in thee I am well pleased."

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have everlasting life.

³⁵ The father loveth the son, and hath given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He who believeth in the son, hath an everlasting life; but he who disbelieveth the son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God will abide on him.

²² For the Father judgeth no one, but hath committed the whole act of judging to his Son, ²³ that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father, who sent him. ²⁴ Verily, verily I say to you, He who heareth my word, and believeth on him who sent me, hath an everlasting life, and doth not incur condemnation, but hath passed from death to that life.

²² for Moses indeed said to the fathers, "The Lord your God will raise up for you from among your brethren a prophet like me. To him you must hearken according to all that he shall speak to you; ²³ and whoever the person be who will not hearken to that prophet, he shall be cut off front among the people.

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him,

⁷ Wherefore as the Holy Spirit saith, "Today since you have heard his voice, ⁸ Let not your hearts be refractory as at Bitterness as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness;

¹⁵ exhort one another daily by its being said, "Today since you have heard his voice let not your hearts be refractory as at Bitterness."

⁹ and being consecrated became the author of everlasting salvation to all who obey him,]

²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also."

⁷ a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak;

⁶ For he did not know what to say; for they were terrified.

⁹ And as they were coming down from the mountain, he strictly charged them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the son of man is risen from the dead. ¹⁰ This expression they laid hold on, questioning among themselves what this rising from the dead could mean.

¹⁴ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a man, who falling on his knees, said, ¹⁵ O sir, have pity on my son; for he is afflicted with an epilepsy, and suffereth grievously. For he often falleth into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to thy disciples, but they could not cure him. ¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you"? How long shall I endure you? Bring him hither to me. ¹⁸ Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it went out of him, and from that hour the child was cured. ¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus in private, and said, Why could not we cast it out? ²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For verily I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to that mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it would remove; and nothing would be impossible to you:

¹⁴ And as he was coming to his disciples, he saw a great crowd about them, and the Scribes disputing with them. ¹⁵ And all the people when they saw him, were instantly struck with awe, and ran to salute him. ¹⁶ Then he asked the Scribes, About what are you disputing with them? ¹⁷ And one of the multitude answering, said, O! Teacher, I brought to thee this my son, who hath a dumb spirit. ¹⁸ And whenever it seizeth him, it convulseth him; and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and is shrivelled up. I spoke indeed to thy disciples to cast it out, but they could not. ¹⁹ Thereupon Jesus, in reply to him, saith, O faithless generation! How long shall I be with you? How long am I to endure you! Bring him to me. ²⁰ So he was brought to him. And soon as he saw Jesus, the spirit threw him into convulsions; and, falling on the ground, he rolled about and foamed. ²¹ And Jesus asked his father, How long since this befel him? And he said, From his childhood. ²² And oft times it hath cast him into fire, and into waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us. ²³ Thereupon Jesus said to him, With regard to this canst thou believe? All things are possible for him who believeth. ²⁴ Upon which the father of the child immediately cried out, and with tears said, I do believe: Help, O sir, my unbelief. ²⁵ And when Jesus saw that the people were crowding upon him, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee; Go out of him; and enter no more into him; ²⁶ and the demon having screamed, and severely convulsed him, went out. And he was like one dead. So that many said, He is dead. ²⁷ But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up. ²⁸ And when he went into a house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast it out? ²⁹ And he said to them, This kind [of power*] can go forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting,

²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father an old man; and he hath a younger son of his old age. His brother is dead, and as he is the only one of his mother left; his father loveth him.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

²² And lo! a Chananitish woman from those quarters came out and cried with a loud voice, saying to him, Have pity on me, O my lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon.

¹² And as he approached the gate of the city, behold the people were carrying out a dead man to be buried; the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And there was a great multitude of the city with her.

⁴¹ And behold there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, who prostrating himself at the feet of Jesus, besought him to go to his house; ⁴² because he had a daughter, an only child, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. And as he was going, the people crowded him;

⁴⁷ This person, upon hearing that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went to him and intreated him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

⁴ For he had often been bound with fetters and chains; but he burst the chains and broke in pieces the fetters, so that none could tame him. ⁵ And he was continually, night and day, on the mountains and in the tombs, screaming, and cutting himself with stones.

²⁰ So he was brought to him. And soon as he saw Jesus, the spirit threw him into convulsions; and, falling on the ground, he rolled about and foamed.

²⁶ and the demon having screamed, and severely convulsed him, went out. And he was like one dead. So that many said, He is dead.

³⁵ Thereupon Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and go out of him. And the demon having thrown the man in the midst, went out of him without hurting him.

²⁹ For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For it had often seized him. And when he was bound with chains and fastened with fetters, bursting the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the wilderness.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and bent upon executing the desires of your father. He was a manslayer from the beginning, and did .not abide in the truth. Because there is no truth in him, when he speaketh falsehood he speaketh what is. natural to him, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,

¹¹ and they have a king over them the angel of the bottomless gulf, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

³¹ Now Giezi had gone before her and laid the staff on the child's face; but there was no voice, nor attention. So when he came back and met him he said to him, The child is not awaked.

²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For verily I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to that mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it would remove; and nothing would be impossible to you:

¹ When he, having called together the twelve disciples, gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases;

¹⁷ And when the seventy returned with joy, saying, Master, even the demons are subject to us through thy name; ¹⁸ he said to them, I beheld Satan falling like lightning from heaven: ¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you.

¹³ Upon this some of the strolling Jewish exorcists attempted to name the name of the Lord Jesus, over them who had these evil spirits, saying, "We adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul proclaimeth" ¹⁴ Now there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. ¹⁵ Upon which the evil spirit in reply said, Jesus I know, and I have some knowledge of Paul: but who are ye? ¹⁶ Then the man, in whom was the evil spirit, springing upon them, and getting a mastery over them, prevailed against them so that they fled out of his house naked and wounded.

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews. How long wilt thou refuse to reverence me? Send away my people that they may serve me.

²⁸ Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to my commandments and my law?

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the miracles which I have done among them?

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this wicked congregation? I have heard what they murmur before me; the murmuring of the Israelites which they have uttered concerning you,

⁵ They have sinned! blemished children are not his. Crooked and perverse generation!

⁸ But when Elisha heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes he sent to him saying, Why hast thou rent thy clothes? Let Naiman come to me and know that there is a prophet in Israel.

⁸ that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

⁷ And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them," Brood of vipers! who hath prompted you to flee from the impending wrath.

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest.

³⁹ In reply to which he said to them, an evil, and an adulterous generation demand a sign, but no sign shall be given them, save the sign of the prophet Jonas.

⁴⁵ Then it goeth and bringeth with it seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter and dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus also will it be with this wicked generation.

⁴ An evil and adulterous generation demand a sign, but no sign shall be given them, save that of the prophet Jonas. So leaving them he departed.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you"? How long shall I endure you? Bring him hither to me.

³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

¹⁹ Thereupon Jesus, in reply to him, saith, O faithless generation! How long shall I be with you? How long am I to endure you! Bring him to me.

¹⁴ But Jesus, observing this, expressed displeasure, and said to them, Suffer the children to come to me, and do not hinder the; for of such is the kingdom of God.

⁴⁹ There upon Jesus, stopping, ordered him to be called. So they call the blind man, Saying to him, Take courage; arise; he calleth thee.

²⁵ And he said, to them, Where is your faith? And they being terrified, expressed admiration, saying one to another, Who in reality is this, that he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him!

⁹ Jesus saith to him, Am I so long a time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He who hath seen me hath seen the Father: how then sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

²⁷ Then he saith to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands! and reach thy hand and put it in to my side; and be not an unbeliever, but a believer.

⁴⁰ And with many other words he obtested and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this depraved generation."

¹⁸ and for the space of about forty years bore with their behaviour in the wilderness.

⁴ Or dost thou contemn the riches of his gentleness and forbearance and long suffering, not considering that the gentleness of God is leading thee to a reformation?

⁹ Where your fathers tried me; they proved me, though they saw my works. Forty years. ¹⁰ For which cause I was incensed with that generation; And said, They do always err with the heart, And have not known my ways: ¹¹ So in mine indignation I solemnly said, "They shall not enter into my rest."

¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

² For we have had the glad tidings proclaimed to us, as they also had; but the word which they heard did not profit them; as it was not mixed up with belief by the hearers.

¹¹ Let us therefore use all diligence to enter into This Rest, that none may fall short by a like example of disobedience.

²⁵ So that he is completely able to save them, who come to God by him, as he is ever alive to intercede for them.

²³ Then Elias brought it down from the upper chamber, and delivering him to his mother, said, See, thy son liveth.

³⁶ Whereupon Elisha called Giezi and said, Call the Somanite. So he called her. And when she came to him, Elisha said, Take up thy son.

²⁶ And the unclean spirit, having convulsed the man, and screamed with a loud voice, went out of him. ²⁷ At which all were so amazed, that they asked one another, saying, What is this? What new teaching is this? For with authority he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.

²⁶ and the demon having screamed, and severely convulsed him, went out. And he was like one dead. So that many said, He is dead. ²⁷ But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.

¹⁵ Thereupon he who had been dead, sat up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

³⁹ And behold a spirit seizeth him, and instantly he screameth; and it convulseth him with foam, and hardly departeth from him, when it hath bruised him.

⁴¹ Then Peter giving her his hand, helped her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her alive.

¹² Therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye who dwell in them. Alas! for the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! for the devil is gone down to you in great wrath knowing that he hath but a little time.

¹⁴ I will adore thee, for thou art awfully wonderful. Thy works are wonderful; as my soul well knoweth.

⁶ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If this shall appear impossible in the view of the remnant of this people in these clays; shall it also be impossible in my view, saith the Lord Almighty?

⁵¹ and went on board to them. And the wind ceased. At which they were still more excessively astonished and expressed admiration.

³⁰ Having left that place, they travelled through Galilee, and he did not desire that any should know; ³¹ for he was teaching his disciples. And he said to them, The son of man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death. And being put to death, he will rise again on the third day. ³² But they did not comprehend the meaning of this, and were afraid to ask him.

³⁶ And they were all amazed, and said to one another, What is the meaning of this, that with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they go out?

⁹ For he, and all that were with him, were seized with amazement at the draught of fishes which they had taken.

²⁶ And amazement seized all; and they glorified God, and were filled with awe, saying, We have seen wonderful things to day.

⁴³ And all were astonished at the mighty power of God. And while they were expressing admiration at all that Jesus had done, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁴ Give diligent attention to these words; for the son of man will soon be delivered up into the hands of men. ⁴⁵ But they did not know the meaning of this. It was hid from them so that they did not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him the meaning of that expression.

¹⁰ and recollected that he was the man who used to sit begging at the Beauty-gate of the temple, they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him. ¹¹ And while the lame man who was cured, kept hold of Peter and John, all the people in amaze crowded to them in the portico called Solomon's. ¹² Now when Peter saw this he thus addressed the people. "Men of Israel, why wonder ye at this? Or why do ye fix your eyes on us, as if we by our own power or piety had made this man walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; the God of our fathers hath glorified his servant Jesus whom ye delivered up. Yes, you renounced him in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him:

¹⁴ Thereupon David said to Gad, I am in great straits on every side. Pray let me fall into the hands of the Lord; for very many and great are his mercies. But let me not fall into the hands of men.

⁹ [p] Arise ye rich women and hear my voice, hearken to my words ye daughters of hope! ¹⁰ make mention of a day of a year in sorrow, with hope. The vintage is destroyed; it hath failed! must it never come again any more?

²¹ From that time Jesus began to point out to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and raised again on the third day.

²² Now while they remained in Galilee Jesus said to them, The son of man will soon be delivered into the hands of men, ²³ and they will put him to death; and on the third day he will be raised up. And they were exceedingly grieved.

¹⁸ Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and Scribes; and they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹ and deliver him up to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and on the third day he will rise again.

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance. ³⁹ So, seizing him, they turned him out of the vineyard and slew him.

² You know that two days hence is the passover, when the son of man is to be delivered up to be crucified.

³¹ and began to inform them that the son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and put to death, and after three days rise again.

⁶⁶ And all who heard laid them up in their mind, saying, What will this child be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.

¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her mind.

⁵¹ Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and continued subject to them. And his mother kept all these things in her mind.

³¹ Then having taken the twelve aside he said to them, Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and all that the prophets have written concerning the son of man, will be accomplished.

⁶ He is not here; but is risen. Remember how he spake to you, while he was yet in Galilee, ⁷ saying, The son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.

¹⁹ In reply to which Jesus said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Thereupon the Jews said, This temple was forty six years a building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹ But he spake of the temple of his body: ²² therefore, when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them; and they believed the scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

⁴ But I have spoken these things to you, that, when that time cometh, you may remember that I mentioned them to you. I did not tell you them from the beginning, because I was with you.

¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, if it were not given thee from above; therefore he who delivered me up to thee hath the greater sin.

²³ Him, being surrendered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken; and by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

¹³ The God of Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; the God of our fathers hath glorified his servant Jesus whom ye delivered up. Yes, you renounced him in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him: ¹⁴ you indeed renounced the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you. ¹⁵ You indeed killed him who is the conductor to life, whom God hath raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

³ that none of you might be staggered by those afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. ⁴ For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we should soon be afflicted, as it hath actually come to pass, and you know;

¹ For this cause we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we, through negligence, let them slip.

² looking forward to Jesus, the leader and perfecter of this faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who bore such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you may not grow weary, nor faint in your minds. ⁴ You have not yet in your contest with sin resisted to blood. ⁵ And have you forgotten this exhortation which speaketh to us as to children, "My son slight not the correction of the Lord, Nor faint when reproved by him;

²² Upon which Peter, taking him aside, began to check him, saying, Mercy on thee, O my Lord! This cannot befal thee.

¹⁶ Thereupon they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have not bread. ¹⁷ Jesus, perceiving this, saith to them, Why do you imagine that it is because you have not bread? Are you yet so void of sense and understanding? Have you hearts still callous? ¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see? And having ears do you not hear? And have you no memory?

³² And he spake this so plainly, that Peter, taking him aside, began to rebuke him. ³³ Whereupon, turning about and looking on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan! For thou hast thy mind bent, not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

¹⁰ This expression they laid hold on, questioning among themselves what this rising from the dead could mean.

³² But they did not comprehend the meaning of this, and were afraid to ask him.

⁵⁰ But they did not comprehend the meaning of what he said to them.

⁴⁶ Now a surmise had crept in among them, which of them should be greatest.

³⁴ But they understood nothing of these things. This matter indeed was hid from them, so that they did not comprehend the meaning of what was spoken.

¹⁶ These things his disciples did not understand at the time; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written concerning him; and that they had done them for him.

³⁴ The multitude answered him, We have heard out of the law that "The Christ remaineth forever." How then dost thou say, That the son of man must be lifted up? Who is this son of man?

⁵ Thomas saith to him, Master, We do not know whither thou art going, how then can we know the way?

¹⁷ Upon this some of his disciples said to one another, What is this which he saith to us, "A little while and you do not see me; and again a little while and you shall see me;" and, "because I am going to the Father." ¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this little while of which he speaketh? We do not comprehend what he saith.

¹⁴ Their minds were indeed blinded, for even to this day that very veil at the reading of the old covenant remaineth. That which is abolished by Christ is not unveiled, ¹⁵ but even at this day when Moses is read there is a veil upon their heart, ¹⁶ but when ever it shall turn to the Lord that veil will be taken away.

¹ At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is to be greatest in the kingdom of the heavens? ² Whereupon Jesus, having called to him a little child, placed it in the midst of them ³ and said, Verily I say to you, Unless you be changed, and be like children you shall never enter the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is of higher dignity in the kingdom of the heavens. ⁵ And whoever shall receive one such child in my name, receiveth me.

²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee's children came to him with her sons, and, prostrating herself, asked a favour of him. ²¹ Whereupon he said to her, What is thy desire? She said to him, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left in thy kingdom. ²² In reply to which Jesus said, You do not know what you ask. Can you drink the cup which I shall soon drink and be baptized with the baptism, with which I am baptized? They say to him, We can.

⁶ and love the uppermost places at entertainments; and the first seats in the synagogues; ⁷ and salutations in places of public resort; and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

³³ And when he came to Capernaum, and was in the house, he asked them. What was that, about which you were debating among yourselves on the road. ³⁴ And they were silent. For on the road they had debated among themselves, Who should be greatest. ³⁵ Then sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them, If any one desireth to be first, let him be last of all, and servant of all. ³⁶ Then having taken a child, he placed it in the midst of them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷ Whosoever shall receive one of such children on my account, receiveth me; and whoever shall receive me, receiveth him who sent me.

⁷ Then observing how eager the guests were for the first places at table, he addressed them in a parable, and said, ⁸ When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not take the uppermost place, lest a person of greater distinction than thou be invited by him. ⁹ In which case he who invited thee and him will come and say to thee, Give place to this man. Then thou, with confusion, must take the lower place. ¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go and take the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then thou wilt have honour in the sight of them who are at table with thee. ¹¹ For whoever exalteth himself, shall be humbled, and he who humbleth. himself, shall be exalted.

²⁴ Now there had been a contest among them in respect to this, which of them should be the greatest. ²⁵ Therefore he said to them, The kings of the nations exercise dominion over them. And they who tyrannise over them are stiled benefactors. ²⁶ But with you it must not be so. But let the elder among you be as the younger; and the leader as he who waiteth at table. ²⁷ For which is greater; he who is at table; or he who waiteth? Is not he, who is at table? But I am among you as he who waiteth.

³ For by virtue of the favour which is granted to me, I charge every one who is among you not to have an overweening opinion of himself, but to bend his thoughts to the attaining of a sober and modest demeanour, as God hath distributed a portion of faith to every one.

¹⁰ in brotherly love be tenderly affectionate one to another: in honour prefer one another;

²⁰ idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like, of which I forewarn you, as I have indeed before declared that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God:

²⁵ If we live by spirit let us walk by spirit. ²⁶ Let us not be vain glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

³ upon nothing out of a spirit of contention or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind esteeming one another better than yourselves,

¹⁴ For this good pleasure do you all things without murmurings and surmises,

⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who affecteth a preeminence among them, doth not regard us.

² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts.

²³ Try me, O God, and know my heart: examine me and know my ways;

¹⁰ [J] I the Lord search hearts and try reins, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

⁴ But Jesus knowing their thoughts, said, Why do ye harbour evil thoughts in your hearts?

² Whereupon Jesus, having called to him a little child, placed it in the midst of them ³ and said, Verily I say to you, Unless you be changed, and be like children you shall never enter the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is of higher dignity in the kingdom of the heavens.

¹³ Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them; and his disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ Whereupon Jesus said, Let the children alone, and do not hinder them to come to me; for of such is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹⁵ And when he had laid his hands on them he departed thence.

¹⁴ But Jesus, observing this, expressed displeasure, and said to them, Suffer the children to come to me, and do not hinder the; for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵ Verily I say to you, Whosoever will not, like a child, receive the kingdom of God, he shall in no wise enter it.

²² Thereupon Jesus, knowing their surmises, addressed them, saying, Why reason ye in your hearts?

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said within himself, if this man were a prophet, he would know what sort of a woman this is, who toucheth him; that she is a sinner. ⁴⁰ Thereupon Jesus addressing him, said; Simon, I have something to say to thee. And he saith, Teacher, say it.

²⁵ And because he had no need that any one should testify of man, for he himself knew what was in man;

³⁰ Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any should ask thee questions. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said to him, the third time, "Lovest thou me," and he said to him, Lord thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in your understandings; but be infants in malice; and in your understandings full grown men.

¹³ There is indeed no creature concealed from his sight. All things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

¹ Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and every kind of hypocrisy, envy and slander, ² like newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word that by it you may thrive.

²³ and I will slay her children with death; and all the congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of reins and hearts, and will give to every one of you according to your works.

¹² Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, and before honour it is humble.

⁴⁰ He who receiveth you, receiveth me; and he who receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receiveth a prophet on the account of his being a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receiveth a righteous man on the account of his being a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

⁵ And whoever shall receive one such child in my name, receiveth me. ⁶ But whoever shall occasion the stumbling of one of such little ones who believe in me, better were it for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were whelmed in the depth of the sea.

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, Their angels in heaven do continually behold the face of my father who is in heaven.

¹⁴ Thus it is not the will of your father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

²⁸ Thereupon Jesus said to him, Verily I say to you, With respect to you who have followed me, at the renovation, when the son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹¹ Let then the greatest among you be your attendant. ¹² For who soever exalteth himself, shall be humbled, but he who humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

⁴⁰ And the king in reply will say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done this to one of these my brethren, even the least, you have done it to me.

⁴⁵ And he will answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have not done this to any, the least of these, you have not done it to me.

²⁸ For I say to you, Among those who are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the baptist, but the least in the kingdom of God is a greater than he.

¹¹ For whoever exalteth himself, shall be humbled, and he who humbleth. himself, shall be exalted.

²⁶ But with you it must not be so. But let the elder among you be as the younger; and the leader as he who waiteth at table.

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

⁴⁴ therefore Jesus raised his voice and said, He who believeth in me, believeth not merely in me, but in him who sent me. ⁴⁵ And he who beholdeth me, beholdeth him who sent me.

²⁰ Verily, verily I say to you, He who receiveth whomsoever I shall send, receiveth me; and he who receiveth me receiveth him who sent me.

²¹ He who hath my commandments and keepeth them; he. it is who loveth me. And he who loveth me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

⁸ He therefore who rejecteth [these instructions] rejecteth not man, but God, even him who hath given us his holy spirit.

³ not as exercising dominion over the lots, but as being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

⁶ therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may in due time exalt you.

²¹ To him who overcometh I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I have overcome, and sit with my Father on his throne.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations on which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

²⁷ there ran a young man, who told Moses, saying, Eldad and Modad are prophesying in the camp. ²⁸ Upon which Joshua the son of Nave, who was the chosen attendant of Moses, addressing him said, My lord Moses, forbid them. ²⁹ But Moses said to him, Thou shouldst not envy, on my account. that the people of the Lord had all been made prophets when the Lord put his spirit on these!

³⁸ Then John addressed him, saying, Teacher, we saw one who doth not accompany us, casting out demons in thy name, and we forbade him, because he doth not accompany us. ³⁹ Whereupon Jesus said, Forbid him not, for there is no one who will do a miracle in my name, and be readily able to speak evil of me. ⁴⁰ For whoever is not against us is for us.

¹³ Then children were brought to him, that he might touch them; and his disciples rebuked those who brought them. ¹⁴ But Jesus, observing this, expressed displeasure, and said to them, Suffer the children to come to me, and do not hinder the; for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ So having called them in, they gave them this general charge, not to make solemn addresses, nor teach, for the name of that Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John in reply to them, said, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye.

²⁸ saying, Did we not strictly charge you not to teach for this name"? Yet behold you have filled Jerusalem with this doctrine of yours and wish to bring that man's blood upon us.

¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations that they may be saved; thus, filling up the measure of their sins continually: but the wrath is at last coming upon them,]

⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who affecteth a preeminence among them, doth not regard us. ¹⁰ For this cause, when I come I will take notice of his works which he doth, talking lightly of us with malicious words, and not content with this, he doth not entertain the brethren himself, and them who would, he hindereth, and casteth them out of the congregation.

¹⁴ Then the rulers took some of their provisions, and did not consult the Lord.

⁵ Trust in God with thy whole heart; and be not elated for thine own wisdom. ⁶ Shew it in all thy ways, that it may make thy paths straight.

³⁰ He who is not for me is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth.

²⁸ And he said to them, An enemy hath done this. Then the servants said to him, Is it thy pleasure then that we go and weed it out? ²⁹ And he said, no. Perhaps in weeding out the darnel you may pull up the wheat with it. ³⁰ Let them both grow together till the harvest. And at the season for reaping I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.

²⁴ And when they were come to Capernaum, the receivers of the assessments for the Temple came to Peter, and said, Doth your teacher pay the didrachm?

²⁶ Peter saith to him, Of others. Jesus saith to him, The sons then surely are free.

⁴¹ For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink on my account, because you belong to Christ, verily I say to you, He shall not lose his reward.

²³ He who is not with me is against me. And he who doth not gather with me scattered!

¹³ No servant can serve two masters; for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will attach himself to one, and despise the other: you cannot serve God and worldly prudence.

³ Therefore I certify to you that none speaking by a spirit of God saith that Jesus is an Anathema; and that none can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by a holy spirit.

¹⁵ Some indeed proclaim the Christ out of envy and contention, but others do it out of good will ¹⁶ the former for the sake of strife proclaim the Christ not in a pure manner, thinking to add affliction to my bonds; ¹⁷ but the latter for love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. ¹⁸ What then? Still in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. At this therefore I rejoice and will rejoice.

¹ Now when the Lord was about to take up Elias as it were with a whirlwind into heaven, Elias went with Elisha from Galgala. ² Now Elias had said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee, for God hath sent me to Baithel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went to Baithel. ³ And the sons of the prophets who were at Baithel, came to Elisha and said to him, Dost thou know that the Lord will take thy master to-day from over thy head? And he said, I know it. Hold your peace.

¹¹ And as they proceeded on conversing as they went, behold a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, made a separation between them; and Elias was carried up with a whirlwind as it were into heaven.

⁵ And the instruction of the Lord, Lord openeth mine ears and I am not rebellious, nor do I gainsay. ⁶ My back I have given to scourges, and my cheeks to be slapped with an open hand, and I turned not my face from the shame of spittles. ⁷ Indeed the Lord Lord was my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but kept my countenance firm as a rock. I knew indeed that I should not be confounded, ⁸ because he who justified me is near at hand. Who is he that contendeth with me? Let him stand up with me face to face. Yes, let my accuser, whoever he be, come near me. ⁹ Behold the Lord, Lord will be my advocate; who can do {[a] An objection stated. [b] The answer.} me any evil? Behold you shall all wax old like a mantle, and the moth shall consume you.

¹⁹ So after the Lord had spoken to them, he was taken up to heaven, and sat at the right hand of God;

⁵⁰ I have also a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straightened until it be accomplished.

²² When he was passing through cities and towns, teaching, and continuing his journey to Jerusalem,

¹¹ . Now as he was going to Jerusalem, he passed along the confines of Samaria and Galilee.

¹¹ And as this engaged their attention, he continued his discourse and spake a parable. Because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the reign of God would commence immediately;

²⁸ Having spoken this, he proceeded on in his journey up to Jerusalem.

⁵¹ and while he was blessing them, he was parted from them and carried up into heaven;

⁶² What if you see the son of man ascending up where he was before.

¹ . Now before this festival of the passover, as Jesus knew that his time was come that he should remove from this world to the father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the last.

⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going.

²⁸ I came forth from the Father and am come into the world. Again I leave the world and am going to the Father.

¹¹ and am no longer in this world, but these are in this world, and I am coming to thee: Holy Father, keep in thy name them whom thou gavest me that they may be one as we are.

² till the day when he was taken up, after giving a charge by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen,

⁹ And having said this, while they were beholding [him] he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

²² Now behold I am going up to Jerusalem, bound by the spirit, not knowing the things which shall befal me there,

¹¹ who coming to us and taking Paul's girdle, bound his own hands and feet and said, Thus saith the holy spirit, So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man, whose girdle this is, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. ¹² Upon hearing this both we and they of that place in treated him not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁴ So, as he could not be prevailed on, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

²⁰ of his which he exerted in the Christ: Having raised Him from the dead, he set him at his right hand, in the heavenly kingdom,

⁸ Therefore it is said, "Having ascended on high, he hath led captivity captive, and "he hath given gifts to men." ⁹ Now this expression, "He ascended" what doth it infer, but that he had first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the same who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all; ¹¹ and he hath given some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some pastors, and teachers,

¹⁴ I press forward to the mark, for the prize of the call of God from above by Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ [and unquestionably great is the mystery of this religion,] God hath been manifested in flesh, justified by spirit, hath appeared to messengers, been proclaimed among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

²⁰ whither a forerunner hath entered for us, namely Jesus, made a chief priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

² looking forward to Jesus, the leader and perfecter of this faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

²² who, having gone to heaven, is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

²⁴ the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon and from Chutha and from Aia and from Aimath and Seppharuim, and planted them in the cities of Samaria, in stead of the children of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof. ²⁵ But as they did not, at the beginning of their settlement, fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them. And when they were making havock among them, ²⁶ some spoke to the king of Assyria saying, The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the ritual of the God of that land; therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold they are killing them, because they do not know the ritual of the God of that land. ²⁷ Thereupon the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Take some who came from that country, and let them go and dwell there, that they may teach them the rites of the God of that land. ²⁸ So they brought one of the priests whom they had transported from Samaria, and he settled at Baithel. And while he was instructing them how they should fear the Lord, ²⁹ they were making, every nation, their own gods, which they set up in the house of the high places which the Samaritans had erected; every nation in the cities where they dwelt. ³⁰ Thus the men of Babylon made Sokchoth-benith; and the men of Chuth made Ergal; and the men of Aimath made Asimath; ³¹ and the Evites made Eblazer and Tharthak; and the Seppharuims made Adramelech and Anemelech, because they of Seppharuim burned their children to these gods. ³² Though they feared the Lord, yet they set up their own abominations, in the houses of the high places which they had made in Samaria, every nation in the city where they dwelt. Though they feared the Lord, yet they made for themselves priests of the high places, and sacrificed for themselves in the house of the high places. ³³ They both feared the Lord and served their own gods, according to the ritual of the nations from which they had been transplanted.

¹ and when they who afflicted Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a house for the Lord God of Israel, ² they came to Zorobabel and to the chiefs of the families, and said, Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek our God, and we sacrifice to him, from the days of Asaradan, king of Assur, who brought us here. ³ But Zorobabel and Jesus, and the other chiefs of the families of Israel, said to them, It is not allowable for us, and you, to build a house to our God, for we ourselves assembling together are to build for the Lord our God, as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us. ⁴ Upon this the people of the land began to weaken the hands of the people of Juda, and they impeded their building, ⁵ and counsellors were hired to frustrate their design, all the days of Cyrus king of the Persians, and even to the reign of Darius king of Persia.

¹ Behold I am about to send my messenger and he will examine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek; even the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come suddenly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having given them a charge, saying, Go not away to the Gentiles, nor enter a city of the Samaritans;

²⁷ This is he, of whom it is written, "Behold I send my messenger before thee, who shall prepare thy way for thee."

³³ But a certain Samaritan, who was on a journey, came where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion

¹⁶ and prostrating himself at the feet of Jesus, gave him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.

⁴⁸ Thereupon the Jews answered, and said to him, Are we not right in saying, Thou art a Samaritan, and possessed by a demon?

⁹ thereupon the woman of Samaria saith to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? [For the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.]

⁴⁰ Therefore, when these Samaritans came, they intreated him to tarry with them. So he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed, because of what he himself spake, ⁴² and they said to the woman, It is not now on account of thy talk that we believe; for we ourselves have heard and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world, the Christ.

² Now the Gabaonites are not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought occasion to smite them, when he was courting popularity with the children of Israel and Juda.

¹⁰ Elias, in reply, said to the captain, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. So there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. ¹¹ But the king persisted, and sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And the captain spoke to him and said, Man of God, thus saith the king, Come down quickly. ¹² Whereupon Elias in reply, said to him, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. Accordingly there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. ¹³ Still the king persisted, and sent another captain and his fifty. But when the third captain came he fell upon his knees before Elias, and with entreaties addressed him, saying, man of God, let my life and the lives of thy servants, these fifty, be precious in thy sight. ¹⁴ Behold, fire hath come down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty; but now let my life, I beseech thee, be precious in thy sight.

¹⁶ and said, Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. So he caused him to take a seat in the chariot.

³¹ yet Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with his whole heart. He did not refrain from following the sins of Jeroboam who had caused Israel to sin.

²⁹ Now with regard to present occurrences, look down, O Lord, on their threatenings, and enable thy servants to speak thy word with all freedom ³⁰ when thou stretchest forth thy hand for healing; and signs and. wonders are done by the name of thy holy child, Jesus.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad. ¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

³ And I saw one of its heads as if wounded to death; and this deadly wound of it was healed; and the whole earth followed this beast with admiration.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation, at some distance over against the rock, and he said to them, Hear me, ye rebels! Can we bring water for you out of this rock? ¹¹ Then Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock twice with the staff, and there gushed out much water, so that the congregation, and their cattle, drank. ¹² Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore you shall not lead this congregation into the land which I have given them.

⁴ So David's men said to him, Behold this is the day, which the Lord mentioned to thee, that he would deliver thine enemy into thy hands, that thou mayst do to him what seemeth good in thine eyes. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's cloak privily. ⁵ And after this David's heart smote him, because he had cut off the skirt of Saul's cloak. ⁶ And David said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the anointed of the Lord, to lift up my hand against him; for he is the Lord's anointed. ⁷ So David prevailed on his men by these words, and did not permit them to rise, and kill Saul. And when Saul arose and went on his way,

⁸ Whereupon Abessa said to David, The Lord hath this day delivered thine enemy into thy hands, now therefore let me smite him with my spear, to the ground, at one stroke, and I will not repeat the blow. ⁹ But David said to Abessa, Thou must not humble him: for who can lift up his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless? ¹⁰ Then David said, As the Lord liveth, either the Lord will smite him, or his time shall come, and he will go down to battle and fall. ¹¹ The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the anointed of the Lord. Now therefore take, I pray thee, the spear from his pillow, and the cup of water, and let us go.

²² But David said, What have you to do with me, ye sons of Saruia, that you are now laying snares for me? There shall not a man of Israel be this day put to death. For I do not yet know whether I am king over Israel.

¹⁰ Whereupon he looking stedfastly at her said, Like one of the women without understanding hast thou spoken? If we have received good things at the hand of the Lord, shall we not bear up under afflictions? In all these things which befel him, Job transgressed not with his lips against God.

⁴ For whom hast thou announced dictates? And whose breath is it which proceeded from thee?

²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the downfall of mine enemies, and my heart hath said, Aha! ³⁰ Let mine ear hear myself cursed, and let me be a by-word among the people, when I am afflicted. ³¹ If my maid servants have often said, that we had some of his flesh meat to eat! while I was living luxuriously:

⁴ Let us take upon us the right of judging: Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵ For Job hath said, "I am righteous: the Lord hath removed from me the trial; ⁶ and hath disappointed me of my trial. My wound is grievous without transgression." ⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water; ⁸ who hath neither sinned, nor been guilty of impiety; nor associated with the workers of iniquity to walk with impious men? ⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

² What thinkest thou of this in thy pleading? Who art thou that thou shouldst say, "I am righteous before the Lord?" ³ Or wilt thou say, "What can I do if I sin?" ⁴ I will answer thee and these three friends of thine.

⁶ therefore I abhor myself, and am ready to drop into dissolution, and account myself as dust and ashes.

⁸ the ungodly will blemish himself. Rebuke not the wicked, lest they hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

⁹ [p] The heart is deep beyond all things; so also is a man, who then can know Him?

²³ But he, turning, said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an obstacle in my way. For thou hast not thy mind bent on the things of God; but on the things of those men.

³³ Thereupon Peter addressing him, said, Though all should be stumbled at thee; as for me, I will never be stumbled.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not come to a trial. The spirit indeed is willing; but the flesh is weak.

⁵¹ Upon which one of them who were with Jesus, stretching forth his hand, drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

⁹ in respect to sin, because they do not believe in me;

³ Whereupon Paul said to him, God is about to smite thee, thou whited wall! Dost thou sit to judge according to the law, and in defiance of the law order me to be smitten? ⁴ Upon this the bystanders said. Dost thou revile the chief priest of God? ⁵ And Paul said. Brethren, I was not aware that he is chief priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

⁹ as for me I indeed myself thought that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ And this I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received this authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave assent. ¹¹ And in all the synagogues many a time did I, by torments, urge them to blaspheme. And being transported to madness against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, revile for revile; but on the contrary, blessing; knowing that you have been called for this, that you may inherit a blessing.

¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.

³⁹ But I say to you, Contend not with the injurious: but if one smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

²⁸ even as the son of man came not to be waited on, but to wait, and to give his life a ransom for many.

²⁷ But I charge you, my hearers, Love your enemies. Do good to them who hate you. ²⁸ Bless them who curse you; and pray for them who spitefully abuse you. ²⁹ To him who smiteth thee on one cheek, present also the other. And from him who taketh thy mantle, withhold not thy coat. ³⁰ Give to every one who asketh thee. And from him who taketh away thy goods, do not demand them back. ³¹ And as you wish men to do to you, do ye even so to them.

¹⁰ for the son of man came to seek and save what was lost.

⁵¹ Thereupon Jesus interposing, said, Permit thus long; and having touched his ear, healed him.

³⁴ Whereupon Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. Then dividing his garments in shares they cast lots.

¹⁷ For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world may be saved by him.

¹⁰ The thief cometh only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that the sheep may have life and that they may have it superabundantly.

⁴⁷ Now if any one hear my words and believe not; it is not I who condemn him; for I did not come to condemn the world, but to save the world.

²¹ Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

¹⁵ This is a faithful word and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am a chief;

²¹ For to this you have been called, because Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps, ²² "Who committed no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth"; ²³ who when he was reviled, did not revile again, when he suffered, did not threaten; but committed himself to him who judgeth righteously;

⁸ And all the people with one consent answered and said, All that God hath said we will do and we will be obedient. And Moses carried up these words to God.

¹⁹ whereupon a certain scribe accosting him, said, Teacher, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. ²⁰ Jesus saith to him, the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have roosts; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head. ²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, Master, permit me to go first and bury my father. ²² And to him Jesus said, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.

⁵¹ Now when the days of his being received up were about to be completed, he resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem,

⁵⁷ It happened also in the course of their travels, that on the way one said to him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. ⁵⁸ Whereupon Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have roosts; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head. ⁵⁹ And to another he said, Follow me. And when he said, Master, suffer me first to go and bury my father; ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their own dead; but go thou, and proclaim the reign of God.

³⁷ Peter saith to him, Master, Why can not I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You may not be able to serve the Lord, because he is the Holy God, and will be zealous. He will not bear with your sins and your iniquities. ²⁰ When you forsake the Lord, and serve other gods, he will come and afflict you; and consume you, proportionally to the good he hath done you. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, Nay, we will serve none but the Lord. ²² Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him.

³ For a sparrow hath found for itself a house: and a ring dove a nest for itself, where to place its young; [Even I] these altars of thine, Lord of hosts. my king and my God,

²⁰ Jesus saith to him, the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have roosts; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whosoever doth not take up his cross and follow me, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ Which of you, intending to build a tower, doth not first sit down and calculate the cost, to know whether he hath sufficient to finish it? ²⁹ Lest, having laid the foundation, and not being able to complete the work; he become the scoff of all who see it, ³⁰ who will say, This man began to build, but was not able to finish. ³¹ Or, what king marching out to encounter another in battle, doth not first sit down and consult, whether he with ten thousand men, is able to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if not: doth he not, while the other is yet at a great distance, send an embassy, and sue for peace? ³³ In like manner, therefore, let every one of you do. He who doth not give up all his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

²² Upon hearing this, Jesus said to him, There is still one thing wanting to thee. Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me. ²³ At hearing this he was very sorrowful; for he was very rich.

⁶⁰ Many of his disciples, therefore, when they heard them, said, This is harsh doctrine, who can hearken to it? ⁶¹ Thereupon Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring at this, he said to them, Doth this offend you? ⁶² What if you see the son of man ascending up where he was before. ⁶³ It is the spirit which giveth life, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I speak to you are spirit, they are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe; [for Jesus knew from the beginning who they are who do not believe, and who it is that will deliver him up] ⁶⁵ and [said he] for this cause I said to you, that none can come to me unless it be given him by my Father. ⁶⁶ From this time many of his disciples withdrew and walked no more with him,

⁹ For you know the bounty of our Lord Jesus Christ, that rich as he was, he for your sakes became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him?

²⁰ Whereupon Elisha left the cattle and ran after Elias and said, Let me salute my father and I will follow thee. And Elias said, Return; for I have done with thee.

² Thus saith the Lord Almighty, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.

¹⁹ and he said to them, Follow me and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰ Thereupon they immediately left their nets and followed him. ²¹ And passing on he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the vessel with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. ²² Whereupon they immediately left the vessel and their father, and followed him.

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

⁹ When Jesus was going thence he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the custom house; and he saith to him, Follow me. Whereupon he arose and followed him.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

³² But we ought to feast and rejoice because this thy brother was dead and is come to life. He was indeed lost and is now found.

¹⁵ So when they had breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord, Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ Again he saith to him a second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Tend my sheep. ¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said to him, the third time, "Lovest thou me," and he said to him, Lord thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

¹⁶ For though I publish the glad tidings I have no cause of boasting; for I am under an obligation and woe is for me if I do not publish the glad tiding

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more. ¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold! all those things are made new. ¹⁸ And all this is of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of this reconciliation.

¹ And with respect to you, when you were dead in those trespasses, and those sins,

⁵ even when we were dead in those trespasses, did bring us to life with the Christ, [by grace you are saved]

⁶ but she, who indulgeth herself in sensuality, is dead, though she liveth.

³ Do thou therefore endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one going to war entangleth himself with worldly affairs, that he may please him who hath inlisted him.

⁵ Be thou therefore watchful on all occasions. Endure hardships: perform the work of a publisher of the glad tidings. Discharge thy ministerial office completely.

¹ And to the angel of the congregation at Sardis write, "Thus saith he, who hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive, though thou art dead.

⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.

³⁷ He who loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me. And he who loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. ³⁸ And he who doth not take up his cross and follow me, is not worthy of me.

¹⁸ they all, from one [motive] began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. I pray thee make my excuse. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them: I pray thee make my excuse. ²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot go.

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

⁸ that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. ⁹ The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, were turned back in the day of battle.

³¹ On that day, whoever shall be on the house top, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to carry them away. And in like manner let not him who shall be in the field turn back to what is behind him. ³² Remember Lot's wife.

³⁷ And Barnabas advised to take along with them, John surnamed Mark. ³⁸ But Paul did not think it proper to take along with them one who had quitted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

¹³ Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold on it, but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and intent on the things before,

¹⁰ For Demas, from a love for this world, hath forsaken me, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens, to Galatia; Titus, to Dalmatia.

³⁸ now the just shall live because of faith; but if he, through fear, draw back; my soul hath no pleasure in him."

⁶ But let him ask with faith, without wavering, for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea, raised by the wind and tossed about. ⁷ Let not therefore such a man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. ⁸ A man unsteady in his mind, is unstable in all his ways.

²⁰ For if alter fleeing from the pollutions of the world by an acknowledgment of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, any are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog is returned to his vomit," and "the washed hog to its wallowing slough."