Mark 12 Cross References - YLT

¹ And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad; <sup>2</sup> and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard, <sup>3</sup> and they, having taken him, did severely beat him, and did send him away empty. <sup>4</sup> `And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded him in the head, and sent away—dishonoured. ⁵ `And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing. <sup>6</sup> `Having yet therefore one son—his beloved—he sent also him unto them last, saying—They will reverence my son; ⁷ and those husbandmen said among themselves—This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance; ⁸ and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard. ⁹ `What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. <sup>10</sup> And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner: <sup>11</sup> from the Lord was this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.' <sup>12</sup> And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;
<sup>13</sup> and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse, <sup>14</sup> and they having come, say to him, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?' ¹⁵ And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;' <sup>16</sup> and they brought, and he saith to them, `Whose is this image, and the inscription?' and they said to him, `Caesar's;' <sup>17</sup> and Jesus answering said to them, `Give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' and they did wonder at him.
¹⁸ And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, ¹⁹ `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. <sup>20</sup> `There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed; ²¹ and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner, ²² and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all died also the woman; ²³ in the rising again, then, whenever they may rise, of which of them shall she be wife—for the seven had her as wife?' ²⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God? <sup>25</sup> for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens. <sup>26</sup> `And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; ²⁷ he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'
²⁸ And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?' <sup>29</sup> and Jesus answered him—`The first of all the commands is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength—this is the first command; ³¹ and the second is like it, this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; —greater than these there is no other command.' ³² And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He; <sup>33</sup> and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.' <sup>34</sup> And Jesus, having seen him that he answered with understanding, said to him, `Thou art not far from the reign of God;' and no one any more durst question him.
³⁵ And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, `How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David? <sup>36</sup> for David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on My right hand, till I place thine enemies—thy footstool; <sup>37</sup> therefore David himself saith of him Lord, and whence is he his son?' And the great multitude were hearing him gladly, <sup>38</sup> and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places, ³⁹ and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers, ⁴⁰ who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
⁴¹ And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much, ⁴² and having come, a poor widow did put in two mites, which are a farthing. ⁴³ And having called near his disciples, he saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath put in more than all those putting into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for all, out of their abundance, put in, but she, out of her want, all that she had put in—all her living.'

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands. ¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

⁶⁸ And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved, ⁶⁹ And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

⁸ A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it. ⁹ Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land, ¹⁰ Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God. ¹¹ It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings. ¹² Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it? ¹³ A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it. ¹⁴ God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine, ¹⁵ And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee, ¹⁶ Burnt with fire—cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

¹¹ Solomon hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings; ¹² My vineyard—my own—is before me, The thousand is for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!

¹ Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, ² And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones! ³ And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What—to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

²³ And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.

²¹ And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth—liveth by them. ¹² And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I am Jehovah their sanctifier.

¹⁸ And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled. ¹⁹ I am Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them, ²⁰ And My sabbaths sanctify, And they have been for a sign between Me and you, To know that I, Jehovah, am your God.

⁴⁹ And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

¹⁰ And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?' <sup>11</sup> And he answering said to them that—`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given, ¹² for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him. ¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, ¹⁴ and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, ¹⁵ for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them, ³⁵ that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

²⁸ `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

¹⁴ `For—as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

² and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

¹¹ and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done; <sup>12</sup> that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.' <sup>13</sup> And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

³³ And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear, ³⁴ and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

¹ And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad; <sup>2</sup> and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard, <sup>3</sup> and they, having taken him, did severely beat him, and did send him away empty. <sup>4</sup> `And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded him in the head, and sent away—dishonoured. ⁵ `And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing. <sup>6</sup> `Having yet therefore one son—his beloved—he sent also him unto them last, saying—They will reverence my son; ⁷ and those husbandmen said among themselves—This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance; ⁸ and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard. ⁹ `What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner: ¹¹ from the Lord was this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.' ¹² And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

³⁴ as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

¹⁰ And he said, `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

⁶ And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find; <sup>7</sup> and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless? <sup>8</sup> `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung; ⁹ and if indeed it may bear fruit—;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹² He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,

⁹ And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time, <sup>10</sup> and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send him away empty. <sup>11</sup> `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty; ¹² and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out. ¹³ `And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son—the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence; <sup>14</sup> and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours; <sup>15</sup> and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them? <sup>16</sup> He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!' ¹⁷ and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected—this became head of a corner? ¹⁸ every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.' ¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

⁹ and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'

¹ `I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; <sup>2</sup> every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit; <sup>3</sup> already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you; <sup>4</sup> remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me. <sup>5</sup> `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything; ⁶ if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; ⁷ if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you. ⁸ `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

³⁸ `This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

⁴⁶ who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; ⁴⁷ and Solomon built Him an house.

¹ What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? ² much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, ⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

¹⁷ And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become— ¹⁸ do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! ¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right! ²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; ²¹ for if God the natural branches did not spare—lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee. ²² Lo, then, goodness and severity of God—upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. ²³ And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in; ²⁴ for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

⁸ that Jehovah sendeth a man, a prophet, unto the sons of Israel, and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I—I have brought you up out of Egypt, and I bring you out from a house of servants, ⁹ and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all your oppressors, and I cast them out from your presence, and I give to you their land, ¹⁰ and I say to you, I am Jehovah your God, ye do not fear the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling: —and ye have not hearkened to My voice.'

¹³ And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

¹⁵ And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers—rising early and sending—for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

¹¹ that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, is a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it—from mouth unto mouth—by their uncleanness;

³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

⁴ And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying: ⁵ `Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age,

¹⁵ And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.

⁴ `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated—

¹ My woe is to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul.

³ And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts. ⁴ Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me—an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁵ Your fathers—where are they? And the prophets—to the age do they live? ⁶ Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

⁷ `Are not these the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem's being inhabited, and in safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain—abiding?'

³⁴ `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

⁴⁸ and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

¹⁰ and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send him away empty.

¹ In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

⁴ and it cometh to pass, in Jezebel's cutting off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah taketh a hundred prophets, and hideth them, fifty men in a cave, and hath sustained them with bread and water—

¹³ `Hath it not been declared to my lord that which I have done in Jezebel's slaying the prophets of Jehovah, that I hide of the prophets of Jehovah a hundred men, fifty by fifty in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water?

¹⁰ And he saith, `I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant—Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life—to take it.'

¹⁴ And he saith, `I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life—to take it.'

²⁷ and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.'

¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for he is in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth some of the people at that time.

¹⁹ And He sendeth among them prophets, to bring them back unto Jehovah, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear; ²⁰ and the Spirit of God hath clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he standeth over-against the people, and saith to them, `Thus said God, Why are ye transgressing the commands of Jehovah, and prosper not? because ye have forsaken Jehovah—He doth forsake you.' ²¹ And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah,

¹⁶ and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people—till there is no healing.

²⁶ `And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

³⁰ In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

² and Pashhur smiteth Jeremiah the prophet, and putteth him unto the stocks, that are by the high gate of Benjamin, that is by the house of Jehovah.

²⁰ `And also there hath been a man prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath-Jearim, and he prophesieth against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah, ²¹ And the king Jehoiakim, and all his mighty ones, and all the heads, hear his words, and the king seeketh to put him to death, and Urijah heareth, and feareth, and fleeth, and goeth in to Egypt. ²² And the king Jehoiakim sendeth men to Egypt—Elnathan son of Achbor, and men with him unto Egypt— ²³ And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.' ²⁴ Only, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan hath been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death.

²⁶ Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks.

¹⁵ and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house—the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah hath entered into the house of the dungeon, and unto the cells, then Jeremiah dwelleth there many days,

⁴ And the heads say unto the king, `Let, we pray thee, this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war, who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its evil.' <sup>5</sup> And the king Zedekiah saith, `Lo, he is in your hand: for the king is not able for you in anything.' ⁶ And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that is in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire.

⁴ `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated— ⁵ and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other gods,

¹⁶ `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah—we are not hearkening unto thee;

¹⁰ and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets; ¹¹ and all Israel have transgressed Thy law, to turn aside so as not to hearken to Thy voice; and poured on us is the execration, and the oath, that is written in the law of Moses, servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

⁹ `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. ¹⁰ And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart. ¹¹ And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. ¹² And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts. ¹³ And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

³⁴ `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; <sup>35</sup> that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: <sup>36</sup> verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. <sup>37</sup> `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

⁴⁷ `Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs; ⁴⁹ because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

³³ but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem. ³⁴ `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

¹⁰ and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send him away empty. ¹¹ `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty; ¹² and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.

⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

¹⁵ who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins—being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

³⁰ `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

²⁵ Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending, ²⁶ And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers. ²⁷ And thou hast spoken unto them all these words, And they do not hearken to thee, And thou hast called unto them, And they do not answer thee. ²⁸ And thou hast said unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.

¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

³⁵ and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. ³⁶ `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

⁶ and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them .

³⁷ `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

¹³ But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

²² `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake— ²³ rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

² And He saith, `Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.'

¹² and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'

³ And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he is a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat;

¹¹ and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.
¹² And his brethren go to feed the flock of their father in Shechem, ¹³ and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, `Here am I;'

²⁰ and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

⁷ I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

¹ Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one—My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

²³ `Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted `With us he is God.'

¹⁷ and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son—the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

²⁷ `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .

⁵ While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, —the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

⁶³ and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ—the Son of God.'

¹¹ and a voice came out of the heavens, `Thou art My Son—the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

⁷ And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son—the Beloved, hear ye him;'

²² and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, `Thou art My Son—the Beloved, in thee I did delight.'

³⁵ and a voice came out of the cloud saying, `This is My Son—the Beloved; hear ye him;'

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁸ God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father—he did declare.

³⁴ and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; ¹⁸ he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

²³ that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

¹ In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, ² in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

⁶ and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him—all messengers of God;'

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

¹¹ and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this—the life—is in His Son; ¹² he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God—the life he hath not.

⁹ and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, <sup>10</sup> and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.' <sup>11</sup> And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders—and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands— <sup>12</sup> saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!' ¹³ and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, is the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might—to the ages of the ages!'

¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

²⁰ and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: ³ `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me, ¹³ They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring. ¹⁴ As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels. ¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

⁷ Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'

⁷ It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,

³ And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him, ⁴ and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born. ⁵ And they said to him, `In Beth-Lehem of Judea, for thus it hath been written through the prophet, <sup>6</sup> And thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.' <sup>7</sup> Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star, <sup>8</sup> and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, `Having gone—inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.'
⁹ And they, having heard the king, departed, and lo, the star, that they did see in the east, did go before them, till, having come, it stood over where the child was. ¹⁰ And having seen the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy, ¹¹ and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, ¹² and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.
¹³ And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

¹² And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

⁴⁷ the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs? <sup>48</sup> if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.' <sup>49</sup> and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, ⁵⁰ nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

²³ this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay;

²⁸ saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

²⁷ for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him —did fulfil, ²⁸ and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

³³ `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

³⁹ and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him;

¹⁵ and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?

¹¹ for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest—of these the bodies are burned without the camp. ¹² Wherefore, also Jesus—that he might sanctify through his own blood the people—without the gate did suffer; ¹³ now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

¹⁵ and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant— ¹⁶ I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it; ¹⁷ and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you. ¹⁸ `And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, —then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

²³ `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁴ then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

²⁷ `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

²⁶ I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed; ²⁷ and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

¹⁵ `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee: <sup>16</sup> `Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field. ¹⁷ `Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. <sup>18</sup> `Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. ¹⁹ `Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out. <sup>20</sup> `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me. ²¹ `Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it. <sup>22</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish ²³ `And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron; <sup>24</sup> Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land—dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed. <sup>25</sup> `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth; ²⁶ and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling. ²⁷ `Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed. <sup>28</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹ and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour. ³⁰ `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common; <sup>31</sup> thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee. <sup>32</sup> `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God! ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days; ³⁴ and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. ³⁵ `Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown. <sup>36</sup> `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone; ³⁷ and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee. ³⁸ `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; <sup>39</sup> vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; <sup>40</sup> olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off. <sup>41</sup> `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity; ⁴² all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess; ⁴³ the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; ⁴⁴ he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
⁴⁵ `And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee; <sup>46</sup> and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed—to the age. <sup>47</sup> `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things— ⁴⁸ thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard, <sup>50</sup> a nation—fierce of countenance—which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour; <sup>51</sup> and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee. <sup>52</sup> `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee; ⁵³ and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee. ⁵⁴ `The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate—his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth, <sup>55</sup> against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates. <sup>56</sup> `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter, ⁵⁷ and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates. ⁵⁸ `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name—Jehovah thy God— <sup>59</sup> then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed—great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. <sup>60</sup> `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee; ⁶¹ also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed, ⁶² and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God. ⁶³ `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it; <sup>64</sup> and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone. <sup>65</sup> `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; ⁶⁶ and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life; ⁶⁷ in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest. ⁶⁸ `And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'

¹⁵ `And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, ²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, ²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. ²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

⁵ And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place. ⁶ And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain. ⁷ Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

¹⁷ Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?

¹⁵ Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned. ¹⁶ And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.

¹⁵ And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.

³ O My mountain in the field—thy strength, All thy treasures—for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.

²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations. ²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many—one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

⁷ Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero—My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones. ⁸ And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off—they expire, And the third is left in it. ⁹ And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it is,' And it saith, `Jehovah is my God!'

¹¹ For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great is My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great is My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁹ and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, ¹⁰ and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast. ¹¹ `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, ¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

¹¹ and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens, ¹² but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness—there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.' ¹³ And Jesus said to the centurion, `Go, and as thou didst believe let it be to thee;' and his young man was healed in that hour.

⁴⁵ then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'

⁴⁰ whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?' ⁴¹ They say to him, `Evil men—he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

⁴³ `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

⁷ `And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

³⁴ `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; <sup>35</sup> that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: <sup>36</sup> verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. <sup>37</sup> `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will. ³⁸ Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

²⁷ but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'

⁴¹ And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying—`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes. <sup>43</sup> `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side, ⁴⁴ and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

¹⁵ and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'

⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; ⁴⁷ for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations—for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.' ⁴⁸ And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe—as many as were appointed to life age-during;

²³ and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening, ²⁴ and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing. ²⁵ And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—`Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, <sup>26</sup> saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, <sup>27</sup> for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them. <sup>28</sup> `Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

³⁰ What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith, ³¹ and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; ³² wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, ³³ according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

²⁰ and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'

²² A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner. ²³ From Jehovah hath this been, It is wonderful in our eyes,

¹⁶ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone—a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.

³ And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him—

⁴ And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,

¹⁶ and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'

⁴² Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

³¹ `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

²⁵ And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

²⁶ `And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

¹⁴ `And when ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;

³ And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

¹⁷ and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected—this became head of a corner? ¹⁸ every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

¹¹ `This is the stone that was set at nought by you—the builders, that became head of a corner; ¹² and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

³³ according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

²⁰ being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-stone, ²¹ in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, ²² in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

⁷ to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner, ⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, —to which also they were set;

²³ For no enchantment is against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel, At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, What hath God wrought!

²³ From Jehovah hath this been, It is wonderful in our eyes,

⁵ Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.

¹² And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'

³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ³³ at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear; ³⁴ for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make thy foes thy footstool; ³⁶ assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him—this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

¹² and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? <sup>13</sup> `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him, ¹⁴ and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man—a murderer—to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses; ¹⁶ and on the faith of his name, this one whom ye see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that is through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.

⁴⁰ see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets: ⁴¹ See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I—I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare it to you.'

⁸ to me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ, ⁹ and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, ¹¹ according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

²⁷ to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

¹⁶ and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety—God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

⁷ And Nathan saith unto David, `Thou art the man! Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; <sup>8</sup> and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such things . <sup>9</sup> `Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. ¹⁰ `And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife; <sup>11</sup> thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; <sup>12</sup> for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.' <sup>13</sup> And David saith unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Jehovah.' And Nathan saith unto David, `Also—Jehovah hath caused thy sin to pass away; thou dost not die; ¹⁴ only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'
¹⁵ And Nathan goeth unto his house, and Jehovah smiteth the lad, whom the wife of Uriah hath born to David, and it is incurable;

³⁸ and the prophet goeth and standeth for the king on the way, and disguiseth himself with ashes on his eyes. ³⁹ And it cometh to pass—the king is passing by—that he hath cried unto the king, and saith, `Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle, and lo, a man hath turned aside and bringeth in unto me a man, and saith, Keep this man; if he be at all missing, then hath thy life been for his life, or a talent of silver thou dost weigh out; ⁴⁰ and it cometh to pass, thy servant is working hither and thither, and he is not!' and the king of Israel saith unto him, Right is thy judgment; thou hast determined it .' ⁴¹ And he hasteth and turneth aside the ashes from off his eyes, and the king of Israel discerneth him, that he is of the prophets,

¹⁷ And the word of Jehovah is unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ¹⁸ `Rise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, —lo, in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he hath gone down to possess it, <sup>19</sup> and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.' <sup>20</sup> And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; <sup>21</sup> lo, I am bringing in unto thee evil, and have taken away thy posterity, and cut off to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in Israel, <sup>22</sup> and given up thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which thou hast provoked Me, and dost cause Israel to sin. <sup>23</sup> `And also of Jezebel hath Jehovah spoken, saying, The dogs do eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel; ²⁴ him who dieth of Ahab in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat; ²⁵ surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved, ²⁶ and he doth very abominably to go after the idols, according to all that the Amorite did whom Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.' ²⁷ And it cometh to pass, at Ahab's hearing these words, that he rendeth his garments, and putteth sackcloth on his flesh, and fasteth, and lieth in sackcloth, and goeth gently.

²⁶ and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

⁴⁵ And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh, ⁴⁶ and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

²² and having heard they wondered, and having left him they went away.

¹⁸ And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

³² But if we may say, From men,' —they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;

⁶ and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

²⁵ Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?

³⁰ They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,

⁴⁴ And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

¹² And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

⁵ All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil, ⁶ They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

⁵ The proud hid a snare for me—and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

²¹ Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words, ¹⁶ and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men; <sup>17</sup> tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?' <sup>18</sup> And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites? ¹⁹ show me the tribute-coin?' and they brought to him a denary; ²⁰ and he saith to them, `Whose is this image and the inscription?' <sup>21</sup> they say to him, `Caesar's;' then saith he to them, `Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' ²² and having heard they wondered, and having left him they went away.

⁶ and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.

¹⁵ and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

²⁰ And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor, ²¹ and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach; <sup>22</sup> Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?' <sup>23</sup> And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt? ²⁴ shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:' <sup>25</sup> and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' ²⁶ and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

² `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside; <sup>3</sup> and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife. <sup>4</sup> `When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him; ⁵ when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it—thou dost certainly leave it with him. ⁶ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

¹⁹ Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹ Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep. ¹⁰ They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

¹³ And Micaiah saith `Jehovah liveth, surely that which my God saith, it I speak.'

⁷ and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

¹² Be it known to the king, that the Jews who have come up from thee unto us, have come in to Jerusalem, the rebellious and base city they are building, and the walls they have finished, and the foundations they join. ¹³ `Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length to the kings it doth cause loss.

³⁷ and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. ³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things, ⁴ Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

² O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

²³ Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart.
²⁴ By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit, ²⁵ When his voice is gracious trust not in him, For seven abominations are in his heart. ²⁶ Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.

⁷ And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed. ⁸ Near is He who is justifying me, Who doth contend with me? We stand together, who is mine opponent? Let him come nigh unto me. ⁹ Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who is he that declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A moth doth eat them.

¹⁹ Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They—they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them. ²⁰ And I have made thee to this people For a wall—brazen—fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee am I to save thee, And to deliver thee—an affirmation of Jehovah, ²¹ And I have delivered thee from the hand of evil doers, And I have ransomed thee From the hand of the terrible!

² and they say unto Jeremiah the prophet, `Let, we pray thee, our supplication fall before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant; for we have been left a few out of many, as thine eyes do see us; ³ and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.'

²⁰ for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done it;

⁶ `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they are a rebellious house, ⁷ And thou hast spoken My words unto them, whether they hear or whether they forbear, for they are rebellious.

⁸ And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

²⁵ And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, `What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth—from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?' <sup>26</sup> Peter saith to him, `From the strangers.' Jesus said to him, `Then are the sons free; ²⁷ but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'

¹⁷ tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?'

⁴⁵ and having come, immediately, having gone near him, he saith, `Rabbi, Rabbi,' and kissed him.

²² Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?'

² and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

¹⁸ `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

⁶ for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;

² for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

¹⁷ for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity—but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

¹ Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

¹¹ having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

¹⁶ So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

¹⁰ for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please—Christ's servant I should not be.

⁶ And from those who were esteemed to be something—whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me—the face of man God accepteth not, for—to me those esteemed did add nothing,

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, ¹² for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ¹³ and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

² `Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,

¹⁸ And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

² And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

²³ And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?

²⁴ and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you—to each—according to your works.

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness—every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

¹² He who is overcoming—I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God—also my new name.

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

²¹ Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

⁴ When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest—complete. ⁵ Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.

⁶ A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I am a father, where is Mine honour? And if I am a master, where is My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?'

³³ And having heard, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, nor durst any from that day question him any more.

³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength—this is the first command;

¹⁹ and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye; ²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

¹³ neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

¹ I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice—living, sanctified, acceptable to God—your intelligent service;

⁷ render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

¹⁹ Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, ²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

²⁴ and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, ²⁵ and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

²³ In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, ²⁴ `Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother. <sup>25</sup> `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother; ²⁶ in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh, ²⁷ and last of all died also the woman; ²⁸ therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife—for all had her?' ²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God; <sup>30</sup> for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven. <sup>31</sup> `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.' ³³ And having heard, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;

²⁷ And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him, ²⁸ saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless—that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother. <sup>29</sup> `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, ³⁰ and the second took the wife, and he died childless, ³¹ and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven—they left not children, and they died; ³² and last of all died also the woman: ³³ in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? —for the seven had her as wife.' ³⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, <sup>35</sup> but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage; <sup>36</sup> for neither are they able to die any more—for they are like messengers—and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again. <sup>37</sup> `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; ³⁸ and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'
³⁹ And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;' ⁴⁰ and no more durst they question him anything.

¹ And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees— ² being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead—

⁶ and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee—son of a Pharisee—concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.' <sup>7</sup> And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided, <sup>8</sup> for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both. <sup>9</sup> And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;'

¹³ and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen; ¹⁴ and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith, ¹⁵ and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise; ¹⁶ for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen, ¹⁷ and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins; ¹⁸ then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

¹⁸ who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

⁸ And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

⁵ `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother; <sup>6</sup> and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel. <sup>7</sup> `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother; ⁸ and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her; ⁹ `Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother; ¹⁰ and his name hath been called in Israel—The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

¹¹ And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands? ¹² Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons: ¹³ for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath gone out against me.'

⁵ And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead, thou hast bought it, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance.'

²⁵ `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother; ²⁶ in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh, ²⁷ and last of all died also the woman; ²⁸ therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife—for all had her?'

²⁹ `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, ³⁰ and the second took the wife, and he died childless, ³¹ and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven—they left not children, and they died; ³² and last of all died also the woman: ³³ in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? —for the seven had her as wife.'

¹⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why is this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really—I bear—and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'

²⁵ That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. ²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God: ²⁷ Whom I—I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

⁸ He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁹ `Thy dead live—My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

⁷ Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And—My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah. ⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes. ⁹ Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what—have they?

¹⁷ `Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:

¹ There hath been upon me a hand of Jehovah, and He taketh me forth in the Spirit of Jehovah, and doth place me in the midst of the valley, and it is full of bones, ² and He causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many are on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry. ³ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, do these bones live?' And I say, `O Lord Jehovah, Thou—Thou hast known.' ⁴ And He saith unto me, `Prophesy concerning these bones, and thou hast said unto them: O dry bones, hear a word of Jehovah: <sup>5</sup> Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived, <sup>6</sup> and I have given on you sinews, and cause flesh to come up upon you, and covered you over with skin, and given in you a spirit, and ye have lived, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.' <sup>7</sup> And I have prophesied as I have been commanded, and there is a noise, as I am prophesying, and lo, a rushing, and draw near do the bones, bone unto its bone. <sup>8</sup> And I beheld, and lo, on them are sinews, and flesh hath come up, and cover them doth skin over above—and spirit there is none in them. <sup>9</sup> And He saith unto me: `Prophesy unto the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and thou hast said unto the Spirit: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: From the four winds come in, O Spirit, and breathe on these slain, and they do live.' ¹⁰ And I have prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit cometh into them, and they live, and stand on their feet—a very very great force. ¹¹ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves. ¹² Therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am opening your graves, And have brought you up out of your graves, O My people, And brought you in unto the land of Israel. ¹³ And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In My opening your graves, And in My bringing you up out of your graves, O My people. ¹⁴ And I have given My Spirit in you, and ye have lived, And I have caused you to rest on your land, And ye have known that I Jehovah, I have spoken, and I have done it, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

² `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches—to abhorrence age-during.

² He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

⁶ For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

¹² I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

¹⁴ From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

²⁷ And Jesus, having looked upon them, saith, `With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.'

³⁷ because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

⁹ for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

²¹ who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

³⁰ for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

³⁵ but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage; ³⁶ for neither are they able to die any more—for they are like messengers—and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

⁴² So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; ⁴³ it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body; ⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit, <sup>46</sup> but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual. <sup>47</sup> The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven; <sup>48</sup> as is the earthy, such are also the earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are also the heavenly; <sup>49</sup> and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly. <sup>50</sup> And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
<sup>51</sup> lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; <sup>52</sup> in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we—we shall be changed: <sup>53</sup> for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; <sup>54</sup> and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory;

²² But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers, ²³ to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

² beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; ⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

²⁴ and Jehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, `I am the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I am with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;'

¹³ and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, `I am Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;

⁴² unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

⁹ And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee:

²⁰ and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God—the God of Israel.

² and there appeareth unto him a messenger of Jehovah in a flame of fire, out of the midst of the bush, and he seeth, and lo, the bush is burning with fire, and the bush is not consumed. ³ And Moses saith, `Let me turn aside, I pray thee, and I see this great appearance; wherefore is the bush not burned?' <sup>4</sup> and Jehovah seeth that he hath turned aside to see, and God calleth unto him out of the midst of the bush, and saith, `Moses, Moses;' and he saith, `Here am I.' <sup>5</sup> And He saith, `Come not near hither: cast thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou art standing is holy ground.' ⁶ He saith also, `I am the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob;' and Moses hideth his face, for he is afraid to look towards God.

¹⁶ `Go, and thou hast gathered the elders of Israel, and hast said unto them: Jehovah, God of your fathers, hath appeareth unto me, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have certainly inspected you, and that which is done to you in Egypt;

⁸ —And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover, ⁹ Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou art, I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.
¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

³¹ `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

¹⁰ And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

³⁷ `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

³⁰ and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush, ³¹ and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him, ³² I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,

²⁷ Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.

²⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

¹⁷ who is father of us all (according as it hath been written—`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

⁹ for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

¹⁰ wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

¹⁹ `Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands—the least—and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

¹⁸ He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

³⁴ and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him; ³⁵ and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying, ³⁶ `Teacher, which is the great command in the Law?' <sup>37</sup> And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding— ³⁸ this is a first and great command; ³⁹ and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; ⁴⁰ on these—the two commands—all the law and the prophets do hang.'

²³ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law—the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect.

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' <sup>26</sup> And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?' ²⁷ And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.' <sup>28</sup> And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

⁴² `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

³⁹ And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'

⁴ `Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;

¹² `And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

⁶ `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

⁹ and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

³² And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He; ³³ and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

²⁷ And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

³⁰ yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

⁴ Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

²⁰ and the mediator is not of one, and God is one—

⁵ And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

⁵ for one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

¹⁹ thou—thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

¹³ `Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

¹⁸ `Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.

¹² `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁸ He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

³⁹ and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

³⁶ `Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?' <sup>37</sup> and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'

⁸ To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other—law he hath fulfilled, ⁹ for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, ⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
⁸ The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

¹⁴ for all the law in one word is fulfilled—in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' —ye do well; <sup>9</sup> and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; <sup>10</sup> for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all; <sup>11</sup> for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law; ¹² so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged, ¹³ for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! ¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

⁷ Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; ⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

²¹ and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

³⁵ Thou, thou hast been shewn it, to know that Jehovah He is God; there is none else besides Him.

³⁹ `And thou hast known to-day, and hast turned it back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He is God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath—there is none else;

⁷ `Thou hast no other gods in My presence.

⁸ Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused thee to hear, and declared? And ye are My witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.

⁵ I am Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me. ⁶ So that they know from the rising of the sun, And from the west, that there is none besides Me, I am Jehovah, and there is none else,

¹⁴ Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim—men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee is God, And there is none else, no other God.

¹⁸ For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it—not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: `I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me. ²² Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I am God, and there is none else.

⁹ Remember former things of old, For I am Mighty, and there is none else, God—and there is none like Me.

¹⁰ And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation. ¹¹ Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens. ¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

²⁹ and Jesus answered him—`The first of all the commands is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;

²² And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

⁸ Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually. ⁹ I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats. ¹⁰ For Mine is every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. ¹¹ I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me. ¹² If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine is the world and its fulness. ¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats? ¹⁴ Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. ¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

²³ He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

³ To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

¹¹ `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired. ¹² When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts? ¹³ Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense—an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity—and a restraint! ¹⁴ Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. ¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
¹⁶ Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good. ¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

⁵ Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man's afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day—to Jehovah? ⁶ Is not this the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off? ⁷ Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

²¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh. ²² For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice, ²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye—ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

²¹ I have hated—I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints. ²² For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not. ²³ Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not. ²⁴ And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

⁶ With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves—sons of a year? ⁷ Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born for my transgression? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except—to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

¹³ but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

⁷ and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice—ye had not condemned the blameless,

¹ If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; ² and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; ³ and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

⁸ saying above—`Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' —which according to the law are offered—

¹⁵ (They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words. ¹⁶ And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)

²⁰ a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,

⁴⁰ and no more durst they question him anything.

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; ²⁰ wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

¹⁹ for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

⁶ your word always in grace—with salt being seasoned—to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

⁹ holding—according to the teaching—to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; ¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially they of the circumcision— ¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

²⁷ And Jesus passing on thence, two blind men followed him, calling and saying, `Deal kindly with us, Son of David.'

⁴¹ And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus did question them, ⁴² saying, `What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?' They say to him, `Of David.' ⁴³ He saith to them, `How then doth David in the Spirit call him lord, saying, ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool? ⁴⁵ If then David doth call him lord, how is he his son?'

⁵⁵ In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, `As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;

²⁷ And they come again to Jerusalem, and in the temple, as he is walking, there come unto him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,

⁴⁷ And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him—also the chiefs of the people—

¹ And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him,

⁴¹ And he said unto them, `How do they say the Christ to be son of David, ⁴² and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ⁴³ till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool; ⁴⁴ David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'

³⁷ And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;

⁴² Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem—the village where David was—the Christ doth come?'

²⁰ Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;

² The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word is on my tongue.

¹ A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

¹⁶ `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

²⁵ And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—`Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

²⁵ for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet—

¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,

¹³ And unto which of the messengers said He ever, `Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear— ⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁷ again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

¹² And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered—to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, — ¹³ as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool,

¹¹ searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

⁵ blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

⁴⁶ and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

⁴⁸ and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

³⁸ and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

⁴⁶ The officers answered, `Never so spake man—as this man.' <sup>47</sup> The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray? ⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

⁹ A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

¹⁶ `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!

⁵ `And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places—standing—to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

¹⁷ And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you,

¹ Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, ² saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees; <sup>3</sup> all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not; <sup>4</sup> for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them. <sup>5</sup> `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments, ⁶ they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁴³ `Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

⁷ And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, ⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him, <sup>9</sup> and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place. <sup>10</sup> `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee; ¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁴⁵ And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ `Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers, ⁴⁷ who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them—Diotrephes—doth not receive us;

² for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou—sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou—stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' —

²⁵ A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.

² And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

¹ And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment? ² Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, ³ And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread them out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron. ⁴ Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

⁷ `And—praying—ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

²² but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than for you. ²³ `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day; ²⁴ but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

¹³ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

⁴⁷ `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, ⁴⁸ and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

⁴⁷ who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

⁶ for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

⁹ and Jehoiada the priest taketh a chest, and pierceth a hole in its lid, and putteth it near the altar, on the right side, as one cometh in to the house of Jehovah, and the priests keeping the threshold have put there all the money that is brought in to the house of Jehovah.

⁶ And the chief priests having taken the silverlings, said, `It is not lawful to put them to the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood;'

¹ And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury—rich men, ² and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites, ³ and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all; ⁴ for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

²⁰ These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

²¹ and they come in—every man whom his heart hath lifted up, and every one whom his spirit hath made willing—they have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²² And they come in—the men with the women—every willing-hearted one—they have brought in nose-ring, and ear-ring, and seal-ring, and necklace, all golden goods, even every one who hath waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah. ²³ And every man with whom hath been found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, have brought them in; ²⁴ every one lifting up a heave-offering of silver and brass have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah; and every one with whom hath been found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it in. ²⁵ And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen; ²⁶ and all the women whose heart hath lifted them up in wisdom, have spun the goats' hair . ²⁷ And the princes have brought in the shoham stones, and the stones for settings, for the ephod, and for the breastplate, ²⁸ and the spices, and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the spice perfume; ²⁹ every man and woman (whom their heart hath made willing to bring in for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) of the sons of Israel brought in a willing-offering to Jehovah.

⁴² and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

²⁹ and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

¹² for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

⁶ `None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.

² and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for those of silver, and the brass for those of brass, the iron for those of iron, and the wood for those of wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all kinds of precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance. ³ `And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have—a peculiar treasure of gold and silver—I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: <sup>4</sup> three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses, <sup>5</sup> even gold for things of gold, and silver for those of silver, and for all the work by the hand of artificers; and who is he that is offering willingly to consecrate his hand to-day to Jehovah?' <sup>6</sup> And the heads of the fathers, and the heads of the tribes of Israel, and the heads of the thousands, and of the hundreds, even to the heads of the work of the king, offer willingly. <sup>7</sup> And they give for the service of the house of God, of gold—talents five thousand, and drams a myriad; and of silver—talents ten thousand, and of brass—a myriad and eight thousand talents; and of iron—a hundred thousand talents; <sup>8</sup> and he with whom stones are found hath given to the treasury of the house of Jehovah, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. <sup>9</sup> And the people rejoice because of their offering willingly, for with a perfect heart they have offered willingly to Jehovah; and also David the king hath rejoiced—great joy.
<sup>10</sup> And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age. ¹¹ To Thee, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, is the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head; ¹² and the riches, and the honour are from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand is power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name; <sup>14</sup> yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee; <sup>15</sup> for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding. <sup>16</sup> `O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, is out of Thy hand, and of Thee is the whole. ¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

¹⁰ And all the heads, and all the people rejoice, and they bring in, and cast into the chest, unto completion. ¹¹ And it cometh to pass, at the time one bringeth in the chest for the inspection of the king by the hand of the Levites, and at their seeing that the money is abundant, that a scribe of the king hath come in, and an officer of the head-priest, and they empty the chest, and take it up and turn it back unto its place; thus they have done day by day, and gather money in abundance. ¹² And the king and Jehoiada give it unto the doers of the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and they are hiring hewers and artificers to renew the house of Jehovah, and also—to artificers in iron and brass to strengthen the house of Jehovah. ¹³ And those doing the business work, and there goeth up lengthening to the work by their hand, and they establish the house of God, by its proper measure, and strengthen it. ¹⁴ And at their completing it, they have brought in before the king and Jehoiada the rest of the money, and they make it vessels for the house of Jehovah, vessels of serving, and of offering up, and spoons, even vessels of gold and silver; and they are causing burnt-offerings to ascend in the house of Jehovah continually, all the days of Jehoiada.

⁵ and at the spreading forth of the thing have the sons of Israel multiplied the first-fruit of corn, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field, and the tithe of the whole in abundance they have brought in. ⁶ And the sons of Israel and Judah, those dwelling in cities of Judah, they also a tithe of herd and flock, and a tithe of the holy things that are sanctified to Jehovah their God, have brought in, and they give—heaps, heaps; ⁷ in the third month they have begun to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they have finished. ⁸ And Hezekiah and the heads come in and see the heaps, and bless Jehovah and His people Israel, ⁹ and Hezekiah inquireth at the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps, ¹⁰ and Azariah the head priest, of the house of Zadok, speaketh unto him, and saith, `From the beginning of the bringing of the heave-offering to the house of Jehovah, there is to eat, and to be satisfied, and to leave abundantly, for Jehovah hath blessed His people, and that left is this store.'

⁷ And Josiah lifteth up to the sons of the people a flock of lambs and young goats, the whole for passover-offerings, for every one who is found, to the number of thirty thousand, and oxen three thousand: these are from the substance of the king. ⁸ And his heads, for a willing-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites, have lifted up; Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Jehiel, leaders in the house of God, to the priests have given for passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred, and oxen three hundred;

⁶⁸ And some of the heads of the fathers in their coming in to the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem, have offered willingly for the house of God, to establish it on its base; ⁶⁹ according to their power they have given to the treasure of the work; of gold, drams six myriads and a thousand, and of silver, pounds five thousand, and of priests' coats, a hundred.

⁷⁰ And from the extremity of the heads of the fathers they have given to the work; the Tirshatha hath given to the treasure, of gold, drams a thousand, bowls fifty, priests' coats thirty and five hundred. ⁷¹ And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred. ⁷² And that which the rest of the people have given is of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand, and of priests coats, sixty and seven.

⁸ what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

⁴³ and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

¹² and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to me, and he divided to them the living.

³⁰ but when thy son—this one who did devour thy living with harlots—came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality; ³ because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

¹⁰ And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity; ¹¹ not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am—to be content; ¹² I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. ¹³ For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me; ¹⁴ but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation; ¹⁵ and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only; ¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent; ¹⁷ not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?