Luke Cross References - WPNT

¹ Given that many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those things that really did take place among us, ² just as those who became eyewitnesses, from the beginning, and ministers of the Word delivered them to us, ³ it seemed good to me also, most excellent Theophilus, having taken careful note of everything from Above, to write to you with precision and in sequence, ⁴ so that you may know the certainty of the things in which you were instructed. ⁵ In the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth. ⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. ⁷ But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren; and they both were well advanced in years. ⁸ Now it happened, as he was officiating as priest before God in the order of his division, ⁹ according to the custom of the priesthood, that his lot was to burn incense, upon entering the sanctuary of the Lord; ¹⁰ and the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. ¹¹ Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense; ¹² and upon seeing him Zacharias was shaken, and a fear fell upon him. ¹³ But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. ¹⁴ And you will have joy and exultation, and many will rejoice over his birth. ¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he must not drink either wine or strong drink; indeed, he will be filled with Holy Spirit already from his mother’s womb. ¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God; ¹⁷ in fact he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of fathers to children’ and the disobedient to the mind-set of the righteous, to prepare a people made ready for the Lord.” ¹⁸ But Zacharias said to the angel: “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.” ¹⁹ So in answer the angel said to him: “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; I was sent to speak to you and bring you this good news. ²⁰ Now look, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day in which these things happen, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.” ²¹ Now the people were waiting for Zacharias and wondering at his delay in the sanctuary. ²² But when he came out he was unable to speak to them, and they understood that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary—he kept gesturing to them while remaining mute. ²³ And so, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he took off for home. ²⁴ Well after those days his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and stayed in seclusion five months. She kept saying, ²⁵ “So that’s what the Lord has done for me in the days when He concerned Himself to take away my reproach among the people!” ²⁶ Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee named Natsareth, ²⁷ to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; the virgin’s name was Mary. ²⁸ So upon entering where she was the angel said, “Rejoice, recipient of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” ²⁹ But upon seeing him she was perplexed at his word and was trying to figure out what sort of greeting it might be. ³⁰ The angel said to her: “Do not be afraid, Mary, because you have found favor with God. ³¹ Now then, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS. ³² He will be great, and will be called ‘Son of the Most High’; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, ³³ and He will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages; indeed, of His kingdom there will be no end!” ³⁴ So Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I do not know a man?” ³⁵ In answer the angel said to her: “Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will hover over you; precisely for this reason the holy One who is to be born will be called ‘Son of God’! ³⁶ Furthermore, your relative Elizabeth, she has actually conceived a son in her old age and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren; ³⁷ because any word spoken by God will be possible.” ³⁸ So Mary said: “Yes, I am the Lord’s slave! Let it happen to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. ³⁹ Then Mary quickly got ready and went into the hill country in those days, to a town of Judah, ⁴⁰ and entered the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. ⁴¹ Well it happened that as Elizabeth heard Mary’s salutation the babe bounced up and down in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with Holy Spirit. ⁴² And she cried out with a great voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb! ⁴³ Why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴ Yes indeed, because as the sound of your salutation came into my ears the babe bounced up and down in my womb for joy. ⁴⁵ Blessed is she who believed, because there will be a fulfillment of the things that have been spoken to her from the Lord.” ⁴⁶ So Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, ⁴⁷ and my spirit has exulted over God my Savior, ⁴⁸ in that He paid attention to the humble station of His slave (f). Yes indeed, because from now on all generations will declare me to be highly favored, ⁴⁹ in that the Mighty One did sublime things for me, and Holy is His name. ⁵⁰ His mercy is for generations of generations to those fearing Him. ⁵¹ He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has dispersed the arrogant in the reasoning of their hearts. ⁵² He has dethroned rulers and exalted the lowly. ⁵³ He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. ⁵⁴ He has taken the part of His servant Israel, in remembrance of mercy, ⁵⁵ just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed while there is an age.” ⁵⁶ So Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house. ⁵⁷ Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth was completed and she bore a son. ⁵⁸ Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had used His great mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her. ⁵⁹ So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they started calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias. ⁶⁰ His mother reacted and said, “Absolutely not; he shall be called John!” ⁶¹ So they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name”. ⁶² So they started motioning to his father, as to what he would have him called. ⁶³ Asking for a writing tablet he wrote this: “His name is John!” They all marveled. ⁶⁴ Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed and he started to speak, blessing God. ⁶⁵ (Well a fear came on all who lived around them; and all these sayings kept being talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. ⁶⁶ All who heard kept them in their hearts saying, “What then will this child be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.) ⁶⁷ Now his father Zacharias was filled with Holy Spirit and prophesied saying: ⁶⁸ “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people; ⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of His servant David ⁷⁰ — just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from antiquity— ⁷¹ deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us; ⁷² to use mercy with our fathers, even to remember His Holy covenant, ⁷³ the oath that He swore to our father Abraham; ⁷⁴ to grant to us (having been rescued from the hand of our enemies) to serve Him without fear, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life. ⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, because you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, ⁷⁷ to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by the forgiveness of their sins, ⁷⁸ through the merciful compassions of our God, with which the divine Dawn has contemplated us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” ⁸⁰ So the child kept growing and being strengthened in spirit, and he stayed in uninhabited areas until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

³¹ but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life through His Name.

¹ The first account I prepared, Theophilus [God-lover], concerned all that Jesus began to do and to teach ² until the day in which He was taken back, after He had given commandment, by Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He had chosen; ³ to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the nations might hear. Also, I was delivered out of a lion’s mouth;

¹⁶ Now then, we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather we were attentive eyewitnesses of His majesty ¹⁷ —because He received from God the Father honor and glory when that voice was directed to Him by the Magnificent Glory, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am always well pleased”— ¹⁸ yes, we heard this voice being uttered from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. ¹⁹ And so we have the most reliable prophetic Word, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

¹ A beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God!

¹⁴ The sower sows the Word.

⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things.

²⁷ And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

³ to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me —both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last part of the earth.”

²¹ So then, of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² beginning from the baptism of John until the day when He was taken up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”

³⁹ —yes, we are witnesses of all that He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem—whom they also killed, hanging Him on a tree. ⁴⁰ Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He arose out of the dead.

¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you,

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹ Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries.

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ,

²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and supplement in my flesh the things lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the Church, ²⁵ of which I became a servant according to the stewardship from God that was given to me towards you, to complete the Word of God,

³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0,

¹ The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ’s sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed:

¹⁶ Now then, we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather we were attentive eyewitnesses of His majesty

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have witnessed with our eyes, that which we contemplated and our hands handled with reference to the word of the Life ² —oh yes, the Life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and declare to you that eternal Life who was in the presence of the Father and was manifested to us— ³ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us; indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

¹ Given that many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those things that really did take place among us,

¹ The first account I prepared, Theophilus [God-lover], concerned all that Jesus began to do and to teach

⁴ So Peter began by explaining it to them in order, saying:

¹⁹ Therefore I judge that we should not create difficulty for those who are turning to God from among the ethnic nations,

²⁵ it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

²⁸ It seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to place no greater burden upon you than these necessary things:

²⁶ “Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

³ we recognize this, most noble Felix, with full gratitude, always and everywhere.

²⁵ So he said: “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus; rather I pronounce words of truth and reasonableness.

⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God’s Spirit.

¹² Now about brother Apollos: I repeatedly urged him to go to you with the brothers, but he just did not want to go at this time; he will go whenever he has an opportunity.

²⁵ This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

¹⁸ and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law.

¹⁹ but in the congregation I would rather speak five words with my understanding, precisely so as to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a ‘language’.

⁶ Let him who is taught the Word share all good things with him who teaches.

¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit. ¹⁶ Now then, we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather we were attentive eyewitnesses of His majesty

¹ Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men (magi) from the East came into Jerusalem,

¹⁵ So He said to them: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

¹ Then Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day”.

¹⁶ And this is why I apply myself to always have a clear conscience before both God and men.

⁹ What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. ¹⁰ Just as it is written: “No one is righteous, not even one; ¹¹ there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. ¹² All have turned aside, together they have been made useless; there is no one who shows kindness, no, not so much as one.” ¹³ “Their throat is an opened grave; they habitually deceive with their tongues.” “Viper’s venom is under their lips”; ¹⁴ “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” ¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, ¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known.” ¹⁸ “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” ¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world become accountable to God. ²⁰ It follows that no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now, apart from law, a righteousness from God has been revealed, being attested by the Law and the Prophets, ²² namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those who believe. There is no difference: ²³ all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins;

² Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and hold the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

¹² Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

⁶ with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless. ⁷ But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of the Christ. ⁸ Yes indeed, in fact I actually consider everything to be a loss for the sake of the excelling thing, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord —for His sake I have already lost everything (and consider it as trash), so that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in Him, not having as my righteousness that of the Law but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God based on faith;

²² by His physical body through His death, so as to present you before Him holy and blameless and above reproach —

¹³ so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His holy ones.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared for all men, ¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently, righteously and godly in this present age, ¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

³ Because we ourselves were also foolish at one time, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior God and His love toward mankind manifested itself, ⁵ He saved us—not because of righteous deeds that we ourselves had done but according to His mercy, by means of the bath of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁴ Therefore, dear ones, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, faultless and blameless;

³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

⁷ Dear children, let no one mislead you; he who keeps doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (being about a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

¹¹ By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, since she judged Him faithful who had promised.

⁵ In the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth.

⁶ Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests continually went into the first part, performing the divine services,

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession.

²⁴ For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf;

³ And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. He was given lots of incense so that he could offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne.

¹⁹ So in answer the angel said to him: “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; I was sent to speak to you and bring you this good news.

²⁸ So upon entering where she was the angel said, “Rejoice, recipient of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”

¹⁰ The angel said to them: “Do not be afraid because listen, I am announcing the most joyful news to you, which will be to all the people!

¹⁹ But, during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out he said,

³ About the ninth hour of the day, in a vision, he saw clearly an angel of God entering his presence and saying to him, “Cornelius!” ⁴ Well, staring at him and being frightened he said, “What is it, Lord?” So he said to him: “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits being sent to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

³ And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. He was given lots of incense so that he could offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne. ⁴ And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

¹³ So the sixth angel trumpeted, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God

⁵ Upon entering the tomb they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

²⁹ But upon seeing him she was perplexed at his word and was trying to figure out what sort of greeting it might be.

⁹ When wow, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ The angel said to them: “Do not be afraid because listen, I am announcing the most joyful news to you, which will be to all the people!

⁴ Well, staring at him and being frightened he said, “What is it, Lord?” So he said to him: “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

¹⁷ And when I saw Him I fell at His feet as if dead. And He placed His right hand upon me saying, “Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,

²¹ And she will give birth to a Son and you will call His name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

²⁷ But immediately Jesus spoke to them saying: “Courage! It is I; don’t be afraid!”

⁵ Now the angel spoke up and said to the women: “Do not be afraid! I know that you are looking for the Jesus who was crucified.

⁶ But he said to them: “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Natsarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He isn’t here! See, the place where they laid Him.

³⁰ The angel said to her: “Do not be afraid, Mary, because you have found favor with God.

⁶⁰ His mother reacted and said, “Absolutely not; he shall be called John!” ⁶¹ So they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name”. ⁶² So they started motioning to his father, as to what he would have him called. ⁶³ Asking for a writing tablet he wrote this: “His name is John!” They all marveled.

²¹ When eight days were completed so as to circumcise Him, His name was indeed called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

³⁶ As they were saying these things, indeed, Jesus Himself stood in their midst, and He said to them, “Peace to you”. ³⁷ But they, terrified, supposed they were seeing a ghost, and were becoming fearful. ³⁸ And He said to them: “Why are you troubled?” and “Why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Look at my hands and feet; it is I myself! Feel me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” ⁴⁰ And saying this He showed them His hands and His feet.

³¹ and said: ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms are remembered before God.

⁵⁸ Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had used His great mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

⁹ But really, what did you go out to see, a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ¹⁰ For this is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way ahead of you.’ ¹¹ Assuredly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen a greater than John the Baptizer; but he who is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he. ¹² But from the days of John the Baptizer until now the kingdom of the heavens is being aggressive and aggressive people are seizing upon it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John, ¹⁴ and if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come. ¹⁵ He who has ears to hear, let him hear! ¹⁶ “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in a marketplace and calling to their friends ¹⁷ and saying, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we mourned for you and you did not lament’. ¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a demon’; ¹⁹ the Son of the Man came eating and drinking and they say, ‘Just look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Indeed, wisdom is vindicated by her children.”

²⁸ Further, I tell you that among those born of women there is no greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”

³³ Because John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

³⁵ That man was a burning, shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to be glad in his light.

⁴ And they were all filled with Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages, as the Spirit was granting to them to speak out.

¹⁴ So Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and proclaimed to them: “Men—Jews and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem—let this be known to you; indeed, listen to my speech! ¹⁵ Because these are not drunk, as you suppose (since it’s only the third hour of the day), ¹⁶ but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ ‘It will be in the last days, says God: I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your young men will see visions; your old men will dream a dream. ¹⁸ In those days I will indeed pour out from my Spirit upon my male slaves and upon my female slaves, and they will prophesy.

¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved

¹⁸ And don’t get drunk on wine, which can be harmful and wasteful; rather be filled with the Spirit,

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist began preaching in the wilderness of Judea ² and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near!” ³ For this is he who was referred to by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “A voice crying-out, ‘Prepare in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make His paths straight’.” ⁴ Now John actually used clothes made from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; while his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem, all Judea and all the region of the Jordan went out to him, ⁶ and were being baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, yet when you saw it you did not afterward repent, so as to believe him.

⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, because you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

⁴ Now John actually used clothes made from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; while his food was locusts and wild honey.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: “Brood of vipers! Who tipped you off to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance, ⁹ and don’t even think to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father’, for I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰ Indeed, already the ax is being laid to the root of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ “I baptize you with water unto repentance, but the One coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit. ¹² His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

¹⁴ and if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.

⁴ For John would say to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her”.

¹¹ In answer Jesus said to them: “Elijah is indeed coming first, and he will restore all things. ¹² But I say to you that ‘Elijah’ has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. Thus also the Son of the Man is about to suffer at their hands.”

²⁹ But in answer he said, ‘I don’t want to’ (but later he changed his mind and went). ³⁰ And going to the other he said likewise. And in answer he said, ‘I go, Sir’; yet he did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say to Him, “The first”. Jesus says to them: “Assuredly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you do. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, yet when you saw it you did not afterward repent, so as to believe him.

¹¹ And they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” ¹² So in answer He said to them: “Elijah indeed does come first, and restores all things; also how it is written concerning the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt. ¹³ Still, I say to you that ‘Elijah’ has also come, and they did to him as they wished, as it is written about him.”

¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God;

⁷ Then he said to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him: “You sons of poisonous snakes! Who tipped you off to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Well then, produce fruits befitting repentance, and don’t even begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father’, because I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! ⁹ But even now the axe is being laid to the root of the trees; so then, every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” ¹⁰ So the people started asking him, “What then must we do?” ¹¹ In answer he said to them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food should do likewise”. ¹² Well even tax collectors came to be baptized by him and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?” ¹³ So He said to them, “Don’t charge more than what was determined to you”. ¹⁴ So the soldiers started asking him too: “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Don’t extort or harass anyone, and be content with your wages”.

¹³ who were begotten, not by blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the will of a man, but by God .

²¹ So they asked him, “What then, are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.” “Are you ‘the Prophet’?” “No,” he answered. ²² So they said to him, “Who are you?—so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” ²³ He said, “I am ‘the voice of one calling out: “Make the LORD’s road straight in the wilderness”,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.” ²⁴ Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees. ²⁵ So they asked him saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor ‘the Prophet’?” ²⁶ John answered them saying, “I baptize with water, but among you stands One whom you do not know. ²⁷ He is the One coming after me who is now ahead of me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.” ²⁸ These things happened in Bithabara, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. ²⁹ The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰ This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did.’

³⁴ So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

²⁸ You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’

³³ So I sent to you at once, and you did well to come. Now then, we are all present before God to hear all the things commanded you by God.”

²³ just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely. ¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

¹² Nor have we stopped giving thanks joyfully to the Father who has qualified us for the share in the inheritance of the saints in the Light;

²¹ So if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

⁹ But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a private-property people, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, ¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise. ¹⁴ Therefore, dear ones, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, faultless and blameless;

²⁸ And now, dear children, do abide in Him, so that whenever He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

⁷ But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren; and they both were well advanced in years.

³⁴ So Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I do not know a man?”

¹⁰ “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father, who is in the heavens.

²⁶ Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee named Natsareth,

¹⁹ But He answered him by saying: “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me!”

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

²² But when he came out he was unable to speak to them, and they understood that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary—he kept gesturing to them while remaining mute.

⁴⁵ Blessed is she who believed, because there will be a fulfillment of the things that have been spoken to her from the Lord.”

³ So, what if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?

¹³ if we are faithless, He remains faithful—He is incapable of denying Himself.

² in hope of eternal life —which life God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time

¹⁸ so that by two unalterable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us;

¹⁹ As many as I love I rebuke and discipline; so be zealous and repent!

⁶² So they started motioning to his father, as to what he would have him called.

²⁴ So Simon Peter motions to him to inquire whom it might be that He was referring to.

¹⁷ Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he said, “Tell these things to James and the brothers”. And going out he went off to a different place.

³³ Then the Jews pushed Alexander forward, out from the crowd. So Alexander motioned with his hand and would have made a defense to the people.

⁴⁰ So when he had given him permission, Paul stood on the stairs and motioned to the people with his hand. When there was a great silence, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying:

¹³ But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

²³ And upon arriving he settled in a city called Natsareth [Branch-town], so that what was spoken through the prophets should be fulfilled, that He would be called a Natsorean [Branch-man].

⁴ So Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of Natsareth town, into Judea to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because he was of David’s ‘house’, that is, line of descent,

⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the One of whom Moses in the Law—and also the prophets—wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph, from Natsareth.” ⁴⁶ So Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Natsareth ?” Philip says to him, “Come and see!”

⁴¹ Others were saying, “This One is the Christ!” Others were saying, “Surely the Christ isn’t coming out of Galilee, is He?

¹⁶ then Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom was begotten Jesus, who is called Christ.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they joined together, she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ But while he pondered these things, wow, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying: “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to receive Mary as your wife, because that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will give birth to a Son and you will call His name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

²³ “Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel”, which being translated is, ‘God with us’.

⁴ So Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of Natsareth town, into Judea to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because he was of David’s ‘house’, that is, line of descent, ⁵ to enroll himself with Mary, the woman who had been betrothed to him, who was pregnant.

⁴⁸ But in answer He said to the one who told Him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”

⁴² And she cried out with a great voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb!

²⁷ And then, as He was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” ²⁸ But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

¹⁰ because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;

⁴⁹ but they saw Him walking on the water, supposed He was a ghost, and yelled! ⁵⁰ Because they all saw Him and were terrified. Immediately He spoke with them and said: “Have courage! It is I; don’t be afraid.”

⁵ Upon entering the tomb they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. ⁶ But he said to them: “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Natsarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He isn’t here! See, the place where they laid Him.

¹² and upon seeing him Zacharias was shaken, and a fear fell upon him.

⁶⁶ All who heard kept them in their hearts saying, “What then will this child be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.)

¹⁹ As for Mary, she treasured all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

⁵¹ Then He went down with them and came to Natsareth, and continued subordinating Himself to them; His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

¹⁷ Now as Peter was really perplexed within himself as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, well the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having inquired and found Simon’s house, stood before the gate,

³² “Do not fear, little flock, because it pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom.

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul by a vision at night: “Do not be afraid; rather speak and do not keep silent, ¹⁰ because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

²⁴ and said: ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Furthermore, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us?

⁶ So we can say with confidence: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

²⁵ but did not know her until she had given birth to her son, the firstborn. And he called His name JESUS.

²⁷ to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; the virgin’s name was Mary.

⁴ But at just the right time God sent out His Son, born of a woman, born under law,

¹ A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

¹¹ “I baptize you with water unto repentance, but the One coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit.

⁴² The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here.

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

⁷ and with a loud cry he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, don’t torment me!”

⁶¹ But He remained silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned Him and said to Him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he must not drink either wine or strong drink; indeed, he will be filled with Holy Spirit already from his mother’s womb.

³⁵ In answer the angel said to her: “Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will hover over you; precisely for this reason the holy One who is to be born will be called ‘Son of God’!

¹⁶ John anticipated them all saying: “I indeed am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire;

³⁵ “So, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind toward the ungrateful and wicked.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. ³⁶ The one believing into the Son has eternal life, but the one disobeying the Son will not see the life, but the wrath of God will remain upon him.”

²¹ Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. ²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life. ²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live. ²⁶ Because just as the Father has life in Himself just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man . ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.

⁶⁹ Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

³⁴ The people answered Him, “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah remains forever; and so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

³⁰ So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,

³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified!”

⁴⁸ However, the Most High does not dwell in handmade sanctuaries, just as the prophet says:

¹⁷ Following Paul and Silas this girl kept calling out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to us the way of salvation!”

⁴ who was established to be God’s powerful Son (according to His spirit of holiness) by resurrection from the dead —Jesus Christ our Lord—

²⁰ which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him\up6 [S]\up0 from among the dead and seated Him at His\up6 [F]\up0 right, in the heavenly realms, ²¹ far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion —even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next. ²² In short, He\up6 [F]\up0 placed everything under His\up6 [S]\up0 feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church, ²³ which is His body, the complement of Him who fills everything in every way.

⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages; ³ who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His\up6 [S]\up0 own power, when He had by Himself provided purification for our sins He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right, ⁴ having become so much superior to the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they have. ⁵ For to which of the angels did He\up6 [F]\up0 ever say, “You are my Son, today I begot you”, and again, “I will be ‘Father’ to Him, and He will be ‘Son’ to me”? ⁶ Again, when He introduces the Firstborn into the inhabited earth He says, “Let all God’s angels worship Him\up6 [S]\up0 ”. ⁷ Further, about the angels He\up6 [F]\up0 says, “Who makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire”; ⁸ while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; ‘Scepter of Uprightness’ is the scepter of Your kingdom.

⁷ “And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy, the True, He who has the key of David, who opens and no one can shut it, except He who opens, and no one can open:

⁶ However, it is not as though the Word of God has failed! For not all who have descended from Israel are ‘Israel’.

²⁴ then the end, when He hands over the Kingdom to the God and Father, whenever He puts an end to every ruler and all authority and power. ²⁵ Because it is necessary that He reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.

²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

¹⁶ Now as for those who conform to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

³ For it is we who are the circumcision, the ones who worship by God’s Spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in flesh

⁸ while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; ‘Scepter of Uprightness’ is the scepter of Your kingdom.

¹⁵ So the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ (Now the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is the one having a part in the first resurrection; upon such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

³ There will be no accursed thing there, but the throne of God and of the Lamb are in her, and His slaves will minister to Him. ⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads. ⁵ Night will not exist there and they will need neither lamp nor sunlight, because the Lord God illuminates them. And they will reign forever and ever.

⁶ but get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

²⁰ But while he pondered these things, wow, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying: “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to receive Mary as your wife, because that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

³ And coming to Him the tempter said, “Since you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread”.

³³ Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped Him saying, “Truly you are the Son of God!”

⁶³ But Jesus kept silent. So reacting the high priest said to Him, “I put you under oath by the Living God so that you tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God!” ⁶⁴ Jesus says to him: “You said it. Furthermore, I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of the Man sitting at the Power’s right, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

⁵⁴ Now when the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened they were scared stiff and said, “This Man really was the Son of God!”

²⁴ saying: “Hey, what do you want with us, Jesus Natsarene?! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

³¹ Now then, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS. ³² He will be great, and will be called ‘Son of the Most High’; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

⁴⁹ In answer Nathanael says to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

³⁶ Now as they were going down the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch said: “Look, water! What is keeping me from being baptized?”

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; what I now live in this body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself in my place.

³ among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens— ²⁷ who, unlike those high priests, does not need to offer up daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; because He did this once for all when He offered up Himself. ²⁸ The Law appoints as high priest men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, that came after the Law, appointed Son, forever perfect.

²⁶ So looking at them Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”.

²⁷ But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; because all things are possible with God.”

²⁷ And He said, “The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.”

²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

²⁰ He did not waver at God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform

⁶⁵ (Well a fear came on all who lived around them; and all these sayings kept being talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

⁴⁴ Yes indeed, because as the sound of your salutation came into my ears the babe bounced up and down in my womb for joy.

⁶⁷ Now his father Zacharias was filled with Holy Spirit and prophesied saying:

¹ Then Jesus, full of Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

⁸ Then Peter, full of Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

³ Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint over this need.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of Holy Spirit and looking intently into the heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on God’s right,

¹⁰ I was in spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard a voice behind me, loud as a trumpet,

⁴⁸ in that He paid attention to the humble station of His slave (f). Yes indeed, because from now on all generations will declare me to be highly favored,

³⁸ saying: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope, ²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸ You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’

⁵ The patriarchs are theirs, and from them came the Christ (the physical part), who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.

² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁴ But John tried to dissuade Him saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and You are coming to me?”

¹¹ You see, today, in David’s city, a Savior was born to you, who is Lord Christ!

⁷ In fact I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. Just say a word and my servant will be healed;

⁴² Why David himself affirms in the book of Psalms, ‘The LORD said to my Lord: sit at my right hand ⁴³ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ ⁴⁴ Since David calls Him ‘Lord’, how then is He his Son?”

⁵ Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel with which He was wrapped. ⁶ So He comes to Simon Peter, and he says to Him, “Lord, you wash my feet?!” ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you don’t understand now, but you will know [by experience] after this.” ⁸ Peter says to Him, “You will never ever wash my feet!!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.”

¹³ You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’, and you speak correctly, because I am.

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves.

⁸ Yes indeed, in fact I actually consider everything to be a loss for the sake of the excelling thing, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord —for His sake I have already lost everything (and consider it as trash), so that I may gain Christ

²⁰ Now look, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day in which these things happen, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

⁴⁰ Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”

²⁹ Jesus says to him: “Because you have observed me, you have believed. Blessed are those who believe without seeing!”

¹¹ No wonder we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation!

³¹ so that, as it is written: “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.”

¹⁴ Now thanks be to the God who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!

⁸ —whom not having understood you love, into whom believing (not yet seeing) you exult with joy inexpressible, already glorified,

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the command of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

³ Because this is good and pleasing to our Savior God,

³ but has manifested by a proclamation of His Word at chosen times, which word was entrusted to me by the command of our Savior God;

¹⁰ not pilfering but showing total trustworthiness, so as to adorn the doctrine of our Savior God in everything.

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior God and His love toward mankind manifested itself, ⁵ He saved us—not because of righteous deeds that we ourselves had done but according to His mercy, by means of the bath of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

²⁵ to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, power and authority, both now and throughout all the ages! Amen.

²⁷ And then, as He was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”

²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame; ²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’;

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into courts?

¹³ And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea.

²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to the power that is working in us,

⁸ And the four living beings, each one of them, having six wings apiece, were full of eyes around and within. And they take no rest, day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy; Holy, holy, holy; Holy, holy, holy; The Lord God Almighty; He who was and who is and who is coming.”

⁴ Who could not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy, because all the nations will come and do obeisance before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested.”

⁵ And a voice came from the Throne saying, “”Praise our God, all you His slaves and those who fear Him, small and great!”

²¹ precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened.

⁵ demolishing sophistries and every arrogance that sets itself up against the knowledge of God; taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ;

⁵ Similarly, you younger ones, submit to elders. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, submitting to one another, because ‘God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones’.

⁸ Therefore her plagues will come in one day —death and sorrow and famine—and she will be burned up with fire; because the Lord God who has judged her is strong .

³ Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they took offense at Him.

¹⁴ I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

⁹ Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position, ¹⁰ but the rich brother in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass.

¹⁰ Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you.

⁶ Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for they will be filled.

²¹ Blessed are you who hunger now, because you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, because you will laugh.

²⁴ “But woe to you who are rich! because you have already received your comfort.

¹⁶ Then He told them a parable, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man produced well. ¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸ Then he said: ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’ ²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’ ²¹ Just like that is he who accumulates treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

¹⁹ “Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate, ²¹ just wanting to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table—why even the dogs would come and lick his sores! ²² In due time the beggar died and was carried away to Abraham’s bosom by the angels. “The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham at a distance, and Lazarus very close to him. And being in torment, ²⁴ he called out, saying, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; because I am tormented by this flame!’ ²⁵ But Abraham said: ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus had bad things; but now he is being comforted, and you tormented.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and started praying to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like all the rest—robbers, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week; I tithe all that I get.’ ¹³ The tax collector, staying a good ways off, did not even venture to look up to heaven, but started beating on his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ ¹⁴ I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

²⁴ When Jesus saw that he became sad, He said: “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is actually easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹² So when they were full He says to His disciples, “Collect the leftover fragments so that nothing be wasted.” ¹³ So they collected and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that were left over from those who had eaten.

³⁵ So Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of the life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger and whoever believes into me will never thirst.

²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards;

⁸ You are already stuffed! You are already rich! You have become ‘kings’ without us! I could wish that you really did reign, so that we might be kings with you too!

¹ Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you! ² Your wealth has decayed and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire—you stored it up for the last days. ⁴ Look, the wages of the workers who cut your fields, that were unjustly held back by you, cry out, and the loud cries of the reapers have entered the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have lived on the earth in self-indulgence and luxury, you fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You condemned, you murdered the righteous—he offers you no resistance.

¹⁷ Because you say, “I am rich, even become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are the most wretched—yes, the most pitiable and poor and blind and naked— ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy gold from me, refined by fire, so that you may become rich; and white garments, so that you may be clothed, and your nakedness not be shamefully exposed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

⁷⁰ — just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from antiquity— ⁷¹ deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us; ⁷² to use mercy with our fathers, even to remember His Holy covenant, ⁷³ the oath that He swore to our father Abraham; ⁷⁴ to grant to us (having been rescued from the hand of our enemies) to serve Him without fear, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

²⁸ On the one hand, regarding the Gospel, they are enemies because of you; on the other, regarding the election, they are beloved on account of the forefathers. ²⁹ Because God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

¹⁶ But to Abraham were spoken the promises, and to his Seed. He doesn’t say “and to seeds”, as about many, but “and to your seed”, as about one, who is Christ. ¹⁷ Further, I say this: a covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ cannot be annulled by the law that came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the promise of no effect.

⁶ So it happened that when they got there the days for her to give birth were completed; ⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn Son, wrapped Him in pieces of cloth and laid Him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the lodging place.

¹⁴ And you will have joy and exultation, and many will rejoice over his birth.

²⁵ “So that’s what the Lord has done for me in the days when He concerned Himself to take away my reproach among the people!”

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

²⁶ and if one member suffers, all the members should suffer along, or if one member is honored, all the members should rejoice along.

⁸ And He gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so he begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac did the same to Jacob, and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the Law, a Pharisee;

⁶³ Asking for a writing tablet he wrote this: “His name is John!” They all marveled.

⁶⁰ His mother reacted and said, “Absolutely not; he shall be called John!”

³³ And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the crowds marveled saying, “Never was it seen like this in Israel!”

³² Then they brought to Him a deaf man with thick speech and begged Him to place His hand on him. ³³ After taking him aside, away from the crowd, He put His fingers in his ears; He also spat and touched his tongue. ³⁴ Then looking up to heaven He sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” ³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he began to speak clearly. ³⁶ Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He would command them, so much the more they would proclaim it. ³⁷ People were astonished beyond measure, saying: “He has done everything well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

³⁹ Then Mary quickly got ready and went into the hill country in those days, to a town of Judah,

¹⁶ Fear took hold of all, and they began glorifying God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited His people!”

⁴³ Fear came upon every soul—many wonders and signs were taking place through the Apostles.

⁵ Well upon hearing these words Ananias fell down and expired! (Great fear came on all who heard these things.)

¹¹ So great fear came on the whole assembly and on all who heard these things.

¹⁷ Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being exalted.

¹¹ And after three-and-a-half days the breath from God entered them and they stood on their feet, and a great fear fell on those who were watching them.

⁸⁰ So the child kept growing and being strengthened in spirit, and he stayed in uninhabited areas until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

⁴⁰ And the Child kept growing and being strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom; yes, the grace of God was upon Him.

⁴⁴ “Let these words sink into your ears, because the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men”.

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

⁴¹ Well it happened that as Elizabeth heard Mary’s salutation the babe bounced up and down in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with Holy Spirit.

²¹ for no Prophecy ever came by the will of man, rather holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

³⁸ Well she, having come up at that very moment, started praising the Lord, and kept on speaking of Him to all those in Jerusalem who were looking for redemption.

⁴⁴ And they will raze you, and your children within you, to the ground—they will not leave in you one stone upon another—all because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through His\up6 [S]\up0 blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His\up6 [F]\up0 grace,

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has given us another birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

¹⁰ “Blessed is the Kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

² which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures: ³ concerning His Son, who became a physical descendant of David,

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you, in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning Star.

³⁶ Because David himself said by the Holy Spirit: ‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet”.’

²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?” ²⁷ And beginning from Moses, and then all the Prophets, He explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

⁴⁴ Then He said to them, “These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”

²¹ whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which times God spoke long ago by the mouth of all His holy prophets. ²² “For example, Moses said to the fathers: ‘The Lord our God will raise up for you a Prophet, like me, from among your brothers. You must listen to Him, in all that He may say to you. ²³ It will be that every person who will not listen to that Prophet will be extirpated from among the people.’ ²⁴ “Yes and all the prophets, from Samuel on down, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.

²⁵ So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet,

² which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures:

⁷ Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you would hear His voice,

¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he says to me, “Don’t! I am your fellow slave and among your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

⁷⁴ to grant to us (having been rescued from the hand of our enemies) to serve Him without fear,

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works.

⁵⁴ He has taken the part of His servant Israel, in remembrance of mercy, ⁵⁵ just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed while there is an age.”

²⁵ You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Yes, in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed’. ²⁶ God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.”

²⁸ On the one hand, regarding the Gospel, they are enemies because of you; on the other, regarding the election, they are beloved on account of the forefathers.

¹⁵ Brothers: as a man I speak a covenant; though only of a man, once it has been ratified no one annuls or adds to it.

¹³ Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself ¹⁴ saying, “Indeed, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” ¹⁵ And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute, ¹⁷ similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath, ¹⁸ so that by two unalterable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us;

¹³ Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself

¹⁶ Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute, ¹⁷ similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath,

⁷¹ deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us;

²² But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

⁷ Because God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁰ Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer: Take note, the devil is really about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have an affliction of ten days. Stay faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.

⁴ just as He\up6 [F]\up0 chose us in Him\up6 [S]\up0 before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him\up6 [F]\up0, in love,

¹⁰ You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

²⁴ and put on the new man, created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

¹ Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: as you received from us how you ought to behave and please God, do so even more

⁷ Because God did not call us for uncleanness, but by holiness.

¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth,

⁹ —the One who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but just as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your way of life, ¹⁶ because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

⁴ through which He has granted to us such precious and extraordinary promises, so that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the depravity that is in the world because of lust. ⁵ So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge, ⁶ and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness, ⁷ and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love. ⁸ Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ For this is he who was referred to by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “A voice crying-out, ‘Prepare in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make His paths straight’.”

⁹ But really, what did you go out to see, a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ¹⁰ For this is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way ahead of you.’

⁵ And although he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they counted him as a prophet.

²⁶ But if we say, ‘From men’, we fear the crowd, for all consider John as a prophet.”

² As it is written in the prophets —“Take note, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.” ³ “A voice calling out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight!’” —

³² But if we say, ‘From men’ . . .”—they feared the people, for everyone held John to really be a prophet.

¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God; ¹⁷ in fact he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of fathers to children’ and the disobedient to the mind-set of the righteous, to prepare a people made ready for the Lord.”

³² He will be great, and will be called ‘Son of the Most High’; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “A voice calling out: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, make His paths straight. ⁵ Every ravine will be filled up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the crooked parts of the roads will be straightened out, and the rough parts will be smoothed out; ⁶ and all flesh will see the salvation of God.’”

²⁷ This is he about whom it is written: ‘Take note, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you’. ²⁸ Further, I tell you that among those born of women there is no greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”

²³ He said, “I am ‘the voice of one calling out: “Make the LORD’s road straight in the wilderness”,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”

²⁷ He is the One coming after me who is now ahead of me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”

²⁴ John having heralded beforehand, in advance of His coming, a baptism of repentance to Israel. ²⁵ Well as John was fulfilling his course, he said: ‘Whom do you suppose me to be? No I’m not—but indeed He comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie’.

³ “A voice calling out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight!’” — ⁴ John started baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

³ So he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins;

⁶ and all flesh will see the salvation of God.’”

⁴⁷ For this reason, I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.” ⁴⁸ Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven”. ⁴⁹ The other recliners began to say within themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” ⁵⁰ Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go into peace.”

⁷ This man came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ He himself was not the Light but was to testify about the Light— ⁹ the true Light which illumines everyone who comes into the world.

¹⁵ John testified about Him and called out saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘The One coming after me is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did’.” ¹⁶ Now we have all received from His fullness, yes, grace upon grace. ¹⁷ Because the Law was given through Moses; the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

²⁹ The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

²⁷ John answered and said: “A person can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’ ²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom’s voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled. ³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹ “He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all. ³² And to what He has seen and heard He testifies, yet no one receives His testimony. ³³ The one who receives His testimony certifies that God is true. ³⁴ For He whom God sent speaks God’s words, because God does not give the Spirit by measure.

³⁸ So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Repent therefore, and turn around, so that your sins may be erased, in order that times of refreshing may come from the Lord’s face

³¹ Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

⁴³ To Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive forgiveness of sins.”

³⁸ Therefore, let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; ³⁹ and by Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses.

⁴ So Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into the One who would come after him, that is, into Jesus, the Christ”.

²⁵ whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins;

⁶ Just as David speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: ⁷ “Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered up. ⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not impute sin!”

¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life.

⁴ But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

¹⁴ Therefore He says: “Wake up, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.”

⁸ God is my witness how I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and acts of compassion,

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience;

¹⁹ And so we have the most reliable prophetic Word, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him?

⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁶ The people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and upon those sitting in the place and shadow of death light has dawned.”

²⁸ Come to me all you who are laboring and are loaded down, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls;

³² a light for revelation to Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

⁹ the true Light which illumines everyone who comes into the world.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but will have the light of the life.”

⁵ While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

⁴⁶ I, Light, have come into the world so that everyone who believes into me will not remain in the darkness.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known.”

⁸ —even though you were once darkness, you are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this Day should come upon you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.

⁵ Now this is the message that we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and there is no darkness at all in Him. ⁶ If we claim that we have fellowship with Him while walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light just as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist began preaching in the wilderness of Judea

⁷ So as they departed Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see, a reed shaken by the wind?

⁵² And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

³¹ I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.”