Luke 3 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, while his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, ² during the high priesthood of Annas (also Caiaphas), the word of God came upon John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. ³ So he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins; 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.’” 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”. ¹⁵ Now as the people were expectant and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he just might be the Messiah, 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; ¹⁷ whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” ¹⁸ (Indeed, with many other exhortations as well he kept on preaching to the people; ¹⁹ but Herod the tetrarch—being reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother’s wife, as also about all the wicked things that Herod perpetrated — ²⁰ added this also to them all: he actually locked John up in his prison.) ²¹ Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus, having been baptized also, was praying, when the heaven was opened ²² and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove and rested upon Him, and a Voice came out of heaven saying, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am always well pleased.” ²³ (Beginning His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (so it was supposed) a son of Joseph, Jesus Himself was of Eli, ²⁴ of Matthan, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph, ²⁵ of Mattathiah, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai, ²⁶ of Maath, of Mattathiah, of Semei, of Joseph, of Judah, ²⁷ of Joannan, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shealtiel, of Neri, ²⁸ of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er, ²⁹ of Jose, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi, ³⁰ of Simeon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jonam, of Eliakim, ³¹ of Melea, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David, ³² of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahshon, ³³ of Amminadab, of Aram, of Joram, of Hezron, of Perez, of Judah, ³⁴ of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nahor, ³⁵ of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Eber, of Shela, ³⁶ of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech, ³⁷ of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, of Mahalaleel, of Cainan, ³⁸ of Enosh, of Seth, of Adam, of God.)

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus

³ For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

² And having bound Him they went and handed Him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

¹⁷ You see, Herod himself had ordered John arrested, and bound him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Phillip’s wife; because he had married her

¹ Now it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole inhabited world should be enrolled.

¹⁹ but Herod the tetrarch—being reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother’s wife, as also about all the wicked things that Herod perpetrated —

⁷ Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

¹ Then the whole crowd of them rose up and led Him to Pilate. ² And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, declaring himself to be Christ, a king”. ³ So Pilate questioned Him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” In reply He said to him, “You said it!” ⁴ Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man”.

⁶ When Pilate heard ‘Galilee’, he asked if the man was a Galilean. ⁷ Upon learning that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. ⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was really pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see Him, having heard so many things about Him; and he was hoping to see some miracle performed by Him. ⁹ He questioned Him with many words, but He gave him no answer. ¹⁰ On their part, the high priests and scribes stood by, vehemently accusing Him. ¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers, after ridiculing and mocking Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

²⁴ So Pilate decided to grant their demand.

²⁷ Well, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with Gentiles and peoples of Israel, were gathered together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,

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

²⁷ But after two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; so Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul in prison.

³⁰ Upon his saying this, the king stood up, along with the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them;

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. 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.

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?

³ Then the chief priests, the scribes and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, the one called Caiaphas,

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. ⁵ Well the whole Judean countryside and the Jerusalemites started going out to him, and were all being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

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.

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.

³ So he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins; 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.’” 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”. ¹⁵ Now as the people were expectant and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he just might be the Messiah, 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; ¹⁷ whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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.”

⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ Nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people, rather than the whole nation perish!” ⁵¹ (Now he did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;

¹³ They took Him to Annas first, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. ¹⁴ (Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.)

²⁴ (Annas had sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.)

⁶ along with Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, John and Alexander, and as many as were of high-priestly descent.

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.

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.

⁷⁷ to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by the forgiveness of their sins,

²⁸ These things happened in Bithabara, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

³¹ I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.” ³² And John testified saying, “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him. ³³ Now I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

²⁶ So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the One who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you have testified—well, here He is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!”

²⁴ John having heralded beforehand, in advance of His coming, a baptism of repentance to Israel.

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”.

¹⁶ And now why hesitate? Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking the name of the Lord.’

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’.”

³ “A voice calling out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight!’” —

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.”

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.”

⁷ This man came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

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.’ ³¹ I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.” ³² And John testified saying, “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him. ³³ Now I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ ³⁴ So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.” ³⁵ Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples. ³⁶ And seeing Jesus walking by he says, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

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. 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.”

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.

¹² Therefore strengthen the listless hands and weakened knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame not be turned aside but rather be healed.

⁹ Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position,

¹⁵ Then He said to them: “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to all creation.

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

³⁰ because my eyes have seen Your salvation, ³¹ which You have prepared before the face of all peoples: ³² a light for revelation to Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

¹² because there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him;

¹⁸ But I say, did they really not hear? Indeed yes: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.”

³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell?

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying .

¹⁰ said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹⁰ and to wait for His Son coming out of the heavens (whom He raised from among the dead) —Jesus, who preserves us from the coming wrath.

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;

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.

¹¹ And I say to you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens; ¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness farthest away. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

⁴³ Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. ²⁹ They will even come from the east, the west, the north and the south, and recline in the Kingdom of God.

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. ²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone from there cross over to us.’ ²⁷ Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, ²⁸ because I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment’. ²⁹ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them’. ³⁰ So he said to him, ‘Oh no, father Abraham—if someone from the dead should go to them, they will repent!’ ³¹ He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone should rise from the dead’.”

⁴⁰ In answer He said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the very stones would cry out!”

³³ They answered and said to Him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus says to them: “If you were children of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham,

²⁰ —first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance’.

¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

⁷ Neither are they all ‘children’ because they are Abraham’s descendants; but, “in Isaac will your seed be called”.

¹⁰ Now godly sorrow produces repentance into salvation without regret, but the world’s sorrow produces death. ¹¹ Just consider your own being caused to sorrow in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you—what self-defense, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have demonstrated yourselves to be clear in the matter.

²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus — ²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁷ Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God; ⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

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.

¹⁹ So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

⁷ So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’

⁹ in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down’.”

²⁹ Because indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, even the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ ³⁰ Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ ³¹ For if they do these things in the ‘green tree’, what will happen in the ‘dry’?

⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.

²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ because our God is indeed a consuming fire.

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!

¹² Well even tax collectors came to be baptized by him and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

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”.

³⁷ Now upon hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?!”

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

³⁰ He then brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

⁵ It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they started censuring her. ⁶ But Jesus said: “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done something useful to me. ⁷ You will always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do them good; but you will not always have me. ⁸ She did what she could. She has perfumed my body for the burying before the fact.

⁴¹ Nevertheless, give what is possible as alms; then indeed all things are clean to you.

²² Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

⁸ Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Indeed, Lord, I herewith give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold”.

²⁹ Since Judas had the moneybox, some supposed that Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

² devout and fearing God with all his household, both giving alms generously to the people and praying to God about everything.

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.

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

³ Because according to their ability, I bear witness, even beyond that ability, of their own accord, ⁴ they begged us with much entreaty to receive the gift, the sharing in the ministry to the saints ⁵ —and more than we had hoped, they first gave themselves to the Lord (and due to God’s will, to us). ⁶ So we urged Titus that as he had made a beginning so he should also bring to completion in you this grace as well; ⁷ that as you excel in everything—in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—that you excel in this grace too. ⁸ I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. ¹⁰ So here is my advice in this (since already a year ago you began to give and to plan, this is to your advantage): ¹¹ now you must really finish the doing—not only of the enthusiastic planning but also of the completing—out of what you have ¹² (because when the intention is presented, it is acceptable according to what one may have, not what he doesn’t have). ¹³ Now this is not to distress you so as to relieve others, ¹⁴ but by way of balance—at this juncture your surplus alleviates their lack, so that later their surplus may alleviate your lack—yes, that there be balance;

¹⁸ they are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous sharers

¹⁰ Because God is not unjust so as to ignore your work, even the labor of love you have invested in His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity; to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is actually naked, and is destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and someone among you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you (pl) do not give them the things needed for the body, what is the benefit? ¹⁷ Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being by itself. ¹⁸ (But someone will say: “You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith by your works and I, by my works will show you my faith [what he believes].” ¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder!) ²⁰ But you need to know, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is dead! ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You can see that faith was acting together with his works, and the faith was made complete by the works. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “So Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called ‘friend of God’. ²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. ²⁵ Similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different way? ²⁶ For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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?

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God”, while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he hasn’t seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen?

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.

²⁹ (When all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

¹ Then all the tax collectors and ‘sinners’ were getting close to Him to hear Him. ² Well the Pharisees and the scribes started complaining, saying, “This man welcomes ‘sinners’ and eats with them”.

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!’

¹² So then, whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.

²⁸ The one who steals must steal no longer, but rather let him work, doing something good with his hands, that he may have something to share with someone in need.

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,

¹ So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares,

⁵ As He entered Capernaum a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him

⁷ So when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who were faithful to him,

⁹ Because—“You shall not commit adultery”, “You shall not murder”, “You shall not steal”, “You shall not bear false witness”, “You shall not covet”, and whatever further commandment—everything is summed up in this word, namely: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰ Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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,

¹¹ I am not saying this because of lack, since I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

⁸ So having food and clothing we will be content with that. ⁹ But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires, that plunge people into ruin and loss; ¹⁰ because the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; in their greediness some have been led away from the faith and have impaled themselves on many distresses.

³ similarly older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good

⁵ Your way of life should be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, because He Himself has said: “I absolutely will not desert you; I most certainly will not abandon you.” ⁶ So we can say with confidence: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in the heaven saying: “Now the salvation and the power have come, even the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night.

¹⁹ Now this is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” ²⁰ He confessed, he did not deny but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 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.

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.

²⁴ Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

⁷ And he was proclaiming: “After me my Superior is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. ⁸ I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with Holy Spirit.”

²⁶ John answered them saying, “I baptize with water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

³³ Now I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

³⁸ The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”

⁵ John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now”.

³ Fiery tongues appeared and were distributed to them, and it [a tongue] landed on each one of them. 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.

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.

³³ Therefore, having been exalted to God’s right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear.

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were hearing the message.

¹⁵ Well as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning. ¹⁶ I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit’.

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’.

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”. ⁵ So upon hearing this they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹³ For we also were all baptized into one body by one Spirit—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and were all given to drink into one 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.”

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn”’.”

⁴³ Further, if your hand is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life maimed than having both hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁴ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁵ And if your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life lame than having both feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁶ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁷ And if your eye is causing you to fall, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than having both eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire— ⁴⁸ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁹ “Further, everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

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’.”

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!

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

⁴⁰ With many different words he both testified and kept exhorting, saying, “Escape from this perverse generation!”

² But John, hearing in prison about the works of the Messiah, sent two of his disciples

³ For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. ⁴ For John would say to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her”.

¹⁷ You see, Herod himself had ordered John arrested, and bound him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Phillip’s wife; because he had married her ¹⁸ —John had kept saying to Herod, “It isn’t lawful for you to have your brother’s wife”.

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

³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’. ³⁸ But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’ ³⁹ And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” ⁴¹ They say to Him: “He will miserably destroy those miserable men! And he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

⁶ But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them! ⁷ So when that king heard about it he was furious; and sending his troops he destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

³¹ Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² So fill up the measure of your fathers’ guilt! ³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell?

³¹ On that same day some Pharisees approached saying to Him, “Get out of here and go away, because Herod wants to kill you”. ³² He said to them: “Go tell that ‘fox’, ‘Take note, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third I will be perfected’. ³³ Nevertheless I must keep going today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not credible that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem! ³⁴ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

²⁴ for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

¹⁵ (the ones who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, who have persecuted us, who do not please God and are hostile to everybody, ¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

⁶ Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!”

¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. ¹⁴ But John tried to dissuade Him saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and You are coming to me?” ¹⁵ But in answer Jesus said to him, “Permit it now, because thus it is appropriate to us to fulfill all righteousness”. Then he permitted Him. ¹⁶ And having been baptized Jesus came up directly from the water, when wow, the heavens were opened to Him, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and alighting upon Him. ¹⁷ And wow, a Voice from the heavens saying, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am always well pleased!”

²³ And having dismissed the crowds He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. So when night came He was alone there.

⁹ Well it happened in those days that Jesus came from Natsareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. ¹⁰ And immediately upon coming up from the water He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon Him. ¹¹ And a Voice came from the heavens: “You are my Son, the beloved, in whom I am well pleased!”

¹⁶ So He Himself would withdraw into deserted places and pray.

¹⁸ Now it happened, as He was alone praying, that the disciples joined Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the crowds say I am?”

²⁸ Now about eight days after these words, it happened that He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹ And as He prayed, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing dazzling white.

³² And John testified saying, “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him. ³³ Now I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ ³⁴ So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

²⁷ “Now my soul is distressed, and what should I say—‘Father, rescue me from this hour’? But this is why I came to this hour— ²⁸ ‘Father, glorify your name!’” Then a Voice came out of Heaven, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again!”

¹⁷ And wow, a Voice from the heavens saying, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am always well pleased!”

¹⁸ “Behold my Servant whom I chose, my Beloved in whom my soul is well pleased! I will put my Spirit upon Him, and He will declare justice to the nations.

⁵ While he was still speaking a brilliant cloud overshadowed them and, double wow, a Voice came out of the cloud saying: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am always well pleased. Hear Him!”

⁴³ “He trusted in God; let Him rescue him now, if He wants him; for he said that he was the Son of God.”

²¹ and He began by saying to them, “Today, this Scripture in your ears has been fulfilled”.

³⁴ But as he was saying this a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they became afraid as they entered the cloud. ³⁵ And a Voice came out of the cloud, saying: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to Him!”

³² And John testified saying, “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him.

³⁸ Jesus of Natsareth, how God anointed Him with Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and healing all those being oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him

¹³ who delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

⁴ Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected indeed by men but chosen by God, precious—

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.

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

⁶ then Jesse begot David the king. Then King David begot Solomon by her who had been of Uriah,

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

¹⁷ From then on Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near.”

⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joses and Simon and Jude?

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.

²³ (Beginning His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (so it was supposed) a son of Joseph, Jesus Himself was of Eli, ²⁴ of Matthan, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph, ²⁵ of Mattathiah, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai, ²⁶ of Maath, of Mattathiah, of Semei, of Joseph, of Judah, ²⁷ of Joannan, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shealtiel, of Neri,

³¹ of Melea, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David,

²² (All were bearing witness to Him and were marveling at the gracious words that were coming out of His mouth; and they started saying, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”)

⁴² And they were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, ‘I have come down out of Heaven ’?”

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

¹² After the Babylonian captivity Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, then Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel;

³ then Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, then Perez begot Hezron, then Hezron begot Ram; ⁴ then Ram begot Amminadab, then Amminadab begot Nahshon, then Nahshon begot Salmon; ⁵ then Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, then Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, then Obed begot Jesse; ⁶ then Jesse begot David the king. Then King David begot Solomon by her who had been of Uriah,

²² And removing him He raised up for them David as king, about whom He gave witness and said: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will’. ²³ God, from this man’s seed, according to promise, has brought Salvation to Israel,

² Abraham begot Isaac, then Isaac begot Jacob, then Jacob begot Judah and his brothers; ³ then Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, then Perez begot Hezron, then Hezron begot Ram; ⁴ then Ram begot Amminadab, then Amminadab begot Nahshon, then Nahshon begot Salmon;

² Abraham begot Isaac, then Isaac begot Jacob, then Jacob begot Judah and his brothers;

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.

²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight, souls were brought safely through water.

⁵ and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,

²⁶ And from one blood He made every ethnic nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, ²⁷ so that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ because in Him we live and move and have our being. As also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring’. ²⁹ Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold or silver or stone—something shaped by human skill and imagination.

⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord from heaven.