Matthew 22 Cross References - YLT

¹ And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying, ² `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son, <sup>3</sup> and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come. <sup>4</sup> `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts; ⁵ and they, having disregarded it, went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise; ⁶ and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them . 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; <sup>8</sup> then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy, <sup>9</sup> be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts. <sup>10</sup> `And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining. ¹¹ `And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast, <sup>12</sup> and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless. <sup>13</sup> `Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth; ¹⁴ for many are called, and few chosen.'
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;' <sup>22</sup> and having heard they wondered, and having left him they went away.
<sup>23</sup> In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, <sup>24</sup> `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. 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; <sup>26</sup> in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh, <sup>27</sup> and last of all died also the woman; <sup>28</sup> therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife—for all had her?' <sup>29</sup> And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God; ³⁰ for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven. ³¹ `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, <sup>32</sup> 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.' <sup>33</sup> And having heard, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;
<sup>34</sup> and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him; <sup>35</sup> and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying, <sup>36</sup> `Teacher, which is the great command in the Law?' ³⁷ 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— <sup>38</sup> this is a first and great command; <sup>39</sup> and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; <sup>40</sup> on these—the two commands—all the law and the prophets do hang.'
<sup>41</sup> And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus did question them, <sup>42</sup> saying, `What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?' They say to him, `Of David.' <sup>43</sup> 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?' ⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, nor durst any from that day question him any more.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast. <sup>16</sup> `And no one doth put a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, for its filling up doth take from the garment, and a worse rent is made. ¹⁷ `Nor do they put new wine into old skins, and if not—the skins burst, and the wine doth run out, and the skins are destroyed, but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.'

⁴³ `And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find; ⁴⁴ then it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth; and having come, it findeth it unoccupied, swept, and adorned: 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.'

³ and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow, <sup>4</sup> and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them, <sup>5</sup> and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth, <sup>6</sup> and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through not having root, they withered, <sup>7</sup> and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them, <sup>8</sup> and others fell upon the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty. <sup>9</sup> He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.' <sup>10</sup> And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?' ¹¹ 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,

¹ `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, <sup>2</sup> and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard. <sup>3</sup> `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, ⁴ and to these he said, Go ye—also ye—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you; ⁵ and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner. <sup>6</sup> And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? <sup>7</sup> they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye—ye also—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive. <sup>8</sup> `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last—unto the first. ⁹ And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary. ¹⁰ `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary, <sup>11</sup> and having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, saying, <sup>12</sup> that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day—and the heat. <sup>13</sup> `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me? ¹⁴ take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; ¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

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.' <sup>29</sup> And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went. ³⁰ `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go, sir, and went not; <sup>31</sup> which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, <sup>32</sup> for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last—to believe him.
<sup>33</sup> `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. ³⁴ `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it, <sup>35</sup> and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. <sup>36</sup> `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner. ³⁷ `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son; <sup>38</sup> and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance; <sup>39</sup> and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him; <sup>40</sup> whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?' <sup>41</sup> 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.' 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. <sup>43</sup> `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; ⁴⁴ and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.' 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.

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.

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.

¹⁶ and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many,

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house, ¹¹ And the king doth desire thy beauty, Because he is thy lord—bow thyself to him, ¹² And the daughter of Tyre with a present, The rich of the people do appease thy face. ¹³ All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing. ¹⁴ In divers colours she is brought to the king, Virgins—after her—her companions, Are brought to thee. ¹⁵ They are brought with joy and gladness, They come into the palace of the king. ¹⁶ Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

²⁴ Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

³¹ Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field, <sup>32</sup> which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.' <sup>33</sup> Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field. <sup>45</sup> `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls, ⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it. ⁴⁷ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind,

² `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son, <sup>3</sup> and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come. <sup>4</sup> `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts; ⁵ and they, having disregarded it, went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise; ⁶ and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them . 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; <sup>8</sup> then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy, <sup>9</sup> be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts. <sup>10</sup> `And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining. ¹¹ `And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast, <sup>12</sup> and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless. <sup>13</sup> `Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth; ¹⁴ for many are called, and few chosen.'

¹ `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; <sup>2</sup> and five of them were prudent, and five foolish; <sup>3</sup> they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil; <sup>4</sup> and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps. <sup>5</sup> `And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping, ⁶ and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him. ⁷ `Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps, <sup>8</sup> and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out; <sup>9</sup> and the prudent answered, saying—Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves. <sup>10</sup> `And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut; ¹¹ and afterwards come also do the rest of the virgins, saying, Sir, sir, open to us; ¹² and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you. ¹³ `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.
<sup>14</sup> `For—as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

¹⁶ and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many, <sup>17</sup> and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready. <sup>18</sup> `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. ¹⁹ `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused: <sup>20</sup> and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. <sup>21</sup> `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither. ²² `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room. <sup>23</sup> `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled; ²⁴ for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

²⁹ he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. ³⁰ `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

² for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, ²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; ²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—himself he doth love; ²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly, ³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; ³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;' ³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

⁷ may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready; ⁸ and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.' ⁹ And he saith to me, `Write: Happy are they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These are the true words of God;'

¹³ At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'

¹¹ The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers are a numerous host.

¹⁰ I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it. ¹¹ But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. ¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

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. ³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

¹ Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars—seven. ² She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table. ³ She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:

¹⁵ For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

¹ Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk. ² Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.' <sup>17</sup> And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.'

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:

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.

² They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

⁷ And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

⁷ Hush! because of the Lord Jehovah, For near is a day of Jehovah, For prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath sanctified His invited ones.

² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

⁶ and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ `And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;

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

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.

⁷ and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits, ⁸ and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only—no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle, ⁹ but having been shod with sandals, and ye may not put on two coats. ¹⁰ And he said to them, `Whenever ye may enter into a house, there remain till ye may depart thence, ¹¹ and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

¹ And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses, ² and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing. ³ And he said unto them, `Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each; ⁴ and into whatever house ye may enter, there remain, and thence depart; ⁵ and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.' ⁶ And going forth they were going through the several villages, proclaiming good news, and healing everywhere.

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.

¹⁵ And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy is he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;' <sup>16</sup> and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many, ¹⁷ and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

²⁸ `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

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

⁴⁰ and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

⁴⁵ and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and speaking evil.

²¹ and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

²⁵ See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking—much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing—let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting—let him come; and he who is willing—let him take the water of life freely.

¹⁷ yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou art a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

⁵ For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

¹ Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars—seven. ² She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.

¹ I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

³⁶ `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

⁸ then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy,

¹ And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come, ² then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest. <sup>3</sup> `Go away; lo, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves; ⁴ carry no bag, no scrip, nor sandals; and salute no one on the way; ⁵ and into whatever house ye do enter, first say, Peace to this house; ⁶ and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back. ⁷ `And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house, <sup>8</sup> and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you, <sup>9</sup> and heal the ailing in it, and say to them, The reign of God hath come nigh to you. <sup>10</sup> `And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say, ¹¹ And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you; ¹² and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city. ¹³ `Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed; <sup>14</sup> but for Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in the judgment than for you. <sup>15</sup> `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down. ¹⁶ `He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

¹⁷ and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

⁴⁶ and he said to them—`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

⁵⁰ this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. ⁵¹ `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.' <sup>52</sup> The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?' ⁵³ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; <sup>54</sup> he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; <sup>55</sup> for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; <sup>56</sup> he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. <sup>57</sup> `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

⁸ but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

¹⁹ Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only; ²⁰ and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news—the Lord Jesus,

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;

¹⁷ And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I—having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers—a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans; <sup>18</sup> who, having examined me, were wishing to release me, because of their being no cause of death in me, <sup>19</sup> and the Jews having spoken against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar—not as having anything to accuse my nation of; <sup>20</sup> for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.' <sup>21</sup> And they said unto him, `We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee, ²² and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'
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;' ²⁹ and he having said these things, the Jews went away, having much disputation among themselves;
³⁰ and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired house, and was receiving all those coming in unto him, ³¹ preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness—unforbidden.

³² He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

⁷ cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed—Christ, ⁸ so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

¹⁴ And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

³⁴ and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

²⁴ And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. ²⁵ And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

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.

²² `And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

¹⁸ `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. <sup>19</sup> `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused: ²⁰ and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

²⁶ `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; <sup>27</sup> they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; <sup>28</sup> in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; <sup>29</sup> and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. <sup>30</sup> `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed; ³¹ in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward; ³² remember the wife of Lot.

¹³ and others mocking said, —`They are full of sweet wine;'

²⁵ and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

⁴ or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? —not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

⁶ for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, ¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

⁴ traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us,

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

¹⁰ `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake—because theirs is the reign of the heavens. <sup>11</sup> `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake— 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.

¹² And coming to the house salute it, ¹³ and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you. ¹⁴ `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet, <sup>15</sup> verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
<sup>16</sup> `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves. ¹⁷ And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, ¹⁸ and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

²² and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved. ²³ `And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come. <sup>24</sup> `A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord; ²⁵ sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

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. <sup>37</sup> `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son; ³⁸ and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance; ³⁹ and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him;

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.

¹⁹ if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you. ²⁰ `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

² out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God; ³ and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

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— ³ and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

⁴⁰ And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go; ⁴¹ they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye; <sup>52</sup> 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, <sup>53</sup> who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it .'
<sup>54</sup> And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him; <sup>55</sup> and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, <sup>56</sup> and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.' ⁵⁷ And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

¹ And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

¹⁴ for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews, 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,

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.'

⁵ Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation. ⁶ Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places. ⁷ And he—he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For—to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

² `On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles. ³ I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine excellency.' ⁴ A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle! ⁵ They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.

²⁰ An axe art thou to me—weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms, ²¹ And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer, ²² And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin, ²³ And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.

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.

¹¹ And Jehovah hath given forth His voice before His force, For very great is His camp, For mighty is the doer of His word, For great is the day of Jehovah—very fearful, And who doth bear it?

²⁵ And I have recompensed to you the years That consume did the locust, the cankerworm, And the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, My great force that I did send against you.

² Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance—Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.

¹ Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. ² And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

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.'

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.'

²¹ then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;

²⁴ and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner—where shall he appear?

¹¹ `And into whatever city or village ye may enter, inquire ye who in it is worthy, and there abide, till ye may go forth. ¹² And coming to the house salute it, ¹³ and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you.

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, ³⁸ and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

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 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

⁵ a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

⁴ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

¹⁴ `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

²⁰ Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, ²¹ At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: ²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

¹ Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice? ² At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood, ³ At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud, ⁴ `Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men. ⁵ Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

⁴ `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him, <sup>5</sup> `Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled. ⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

¹ Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk. ² Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness. ³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David—that are stedfast.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, ⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

²¹ For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; ¹⁶ he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

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.'

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,

³⁸ and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,

⁴⁷ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind, ⁴⁸ which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out,

¹¹ `And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast, ¹² and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

¹ `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; ² and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

¹⁰ `And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. ¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

²¹ lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

¹⁴ `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom; ¹⁵ so hast thou, even thou, those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans—which thing I hate.

²⁰ `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat; ²¹ and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform; ²² lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation—if they may not repent of their works, 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.

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,

⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

⁶ and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God—the Almighty!

²² And he saith to him who is over the wardrobe, `Bring out clothing to all servants of Baal;' and he bringeth out to them the clothing.

¹³ All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing. ¹⁴ In divers colours she is brought to the king, Virgins—after her—her companions, Are brought to thee.

¹ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem—the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.

³ To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah—to be beautified.'
<sup>4</sup> And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation. <sup>5</sup> And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers. <sup>6</sup> And ye are called `Priests of Jehovah,' `Ministers of our God,' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And in their honour ye do boast yourselves. ⁷ Instead of your shame and confusion, A second time they sing of their portion, Therefore in their land A second time do they take possession, Joy age-during is for them. ⁸ For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them. ⁹ And known among nations hath been their seed, And their offspring in the midst of the peoples, All their beholders acknowledge them, For they are a seed Jehovah hath blessed.
¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

⁶ And we are as unclean—all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

²² For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us—exceedingly?

¹² And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.

³ And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger. ⁴ And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: `Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.' And he saith unto him, `See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.'

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.'

³⁰ suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

³¹ `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; ³² and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

²² and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, —for there is no difference,

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

³ if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

²⁷ for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

²⁴ and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

¹⁰ and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him; ¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in all—Christ.

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; 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.

⁴ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. ⁵ He who is overcoming—this one—shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹⁵ `lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' —

⁸ and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

²³ How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

²⁶ As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,

²⁰ `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

¹³ `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

⁵⁰ and Jesus said to him, `Comrade, for what art thou present?' Then having come near, they laid hands on Jesus, and took hold on him.

² and did keep back of the price—his wife also knowing—and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid it . ³ And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place? <sup>4</sup> while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why is it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;' <sup>5</sup> and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things, <sup>6</sup> and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried him . <sup>7</sup> And it came to pass, about three hours after, that his wife, not knowing what hath happened, came in, <sup>8</sup> and Peter answered her, `Tell me if for so much ye sold the place;' and she said, `Yes, for so much.' <sup>9</sup> 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;' ¹⁰ and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried her by her husband; ¹¹ and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

²⁰ And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee—may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money; ²¹ thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God; ²² reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee, ²³ for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

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;

¹¹ having known that he hath been subverted who is such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

²⁰ and to certain mighty men who are in his force he hath said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the burning fiery furnace.

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.'

²⁹ `Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.

⁴² and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

⁵⁰ and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

³⁰ and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

²⁸ `There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

¹⁸ verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry thee whither thou dost not will;'

⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

¹¹ and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, `Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle—so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver him up to the hands of nations.'

⁹ who shall suffer justice—destruction age-during—from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

⁴ For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

⁶ messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

¹³ wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

²⁷ and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but—those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; ¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

²³ and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them, <sup>24</sup> `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

¹⁴ these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'

² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

⁶ And if he came to see—vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out—at the street he speaketh.

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. ⁷ By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

⁶ A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

³ For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

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.

¹⁰ For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

¹³ and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse, ¹⁴ 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?' <sup>15</sup> And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;' ¹⁶ and they brought, and he saith to them, `Whose is this image, and the inscription?' and they said to him, `Caesar's;' ¹⁷ 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.

⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, 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.

³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.

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.

¹⁴ And Micaiah saith, `Jehovah liveth; surely that which Jehovah saith unto me—it I speak.'

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, ²² For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

⁹ For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

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 .

⁵ A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

¹³ Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood. ¹⁴ And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, ¹⁵ And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

³ And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! ⁴ Each of his friend—beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, ⁵ And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

³⁰ And thou, son of man, the sons of thy people who are speaking about thee, By the walls, and in openings of the houses, Have spoken one with another, each with his brother, Saying: Come in, I pray you, And hear what is the word that cometh out from Jehovah. ³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee—My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. ¹⁰ Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.' ¹² Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!

⁶ The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

⁹ And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread—to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?' ¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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.

²⁶ in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

¹⁸ and he said, `Go away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;'

⁴⁹ and immediately, having come to Jesus, he said, `Hail, Rabbi,' and kissed him;

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,'

¹⁷ And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, `Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'

¹⁴ 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?'

⁴⁰ And Jesus answering said unto him, `Simon, I have something to say to thee;' and he saith, `Teacher, say on.'

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;

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 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

³⁷ Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

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.

² but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

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,

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,

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

¹⁴ `When thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast possessed it, and dwelt in it, and thou hast said, Let me set over me a king like all the nations which are round about me, — ¹⁵ thou dost certainly set over thee a king on whom Jehovah doth fix; from the midst of thy brethren thou dost set over thee a king; thou art not able to set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.

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.

²⁴ `And to you we are making known, that upon any of the priests and Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and servants of the house of God, tribute and custom there is no authority to lift up.

⁴ And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards;

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 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;

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?'

¹ And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled—

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

¹² From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.' <sup>13</sup> Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without—and he sat down upon the tribunal—to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha; ¹⁴ and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!' <sup>15</sup> and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'

³⁷ `After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;

⁷ whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king—Jesus.'

⁸ he making defence—`Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar—did I commit any sin.'

²² and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'

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

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, ² and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red, <sup>3</sup> and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red—gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able! <sup>4</sup> `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

³ And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

⁸ And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

⁵ `And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing.

²² And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?

⁴⁷ and Jesus having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a child, set him beside himself,

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

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

²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

⁶ and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

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;'

²⁸ `And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

² and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

⁶ and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'

²⁴ shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'

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

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee. ¹⁷ Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. ¹⁸ And lo—not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'

¹⁰ And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing it before this.
¹¹ Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and entreating grace before his God;

²⁰ and at his coming near to the den, to Daniel, with a grieved voice, he crieth. The king hath answered and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God, whom thou art serving continually, is He able to deliver thee from the lions?' ²¹ Then Daniel hath spoken with the king: `O king, to the ages live: ²² my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king, injury I have not done.' ²³ Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God.

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?' <sup>7</sup> Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?' In your saying: `The table of Jehovah—it is despicable,' <sup>8</sup> And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, `There is no evil,' And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, `There is no evil;' Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor—Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁸ Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! ⁹ With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it. ¹⁰ Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

¹⁰ Then saith Jesus to him, `Go—Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

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.'

³⁷ 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—

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.'

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;

²⁹ And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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.

¹³ Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest, ¹⁴ whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good; ¹⁵ because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God; ¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him—even thou. ⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

¹⁶ `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

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.

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;

¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;

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

⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

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

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.'

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—

¹⁷ And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him—being the sect of the Sadducees—were filled with zeal,

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.' ⁷ And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided, ⁸ for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.

¹² And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons? 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,

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;'

¹¹ And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, `Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, `Lest he die—even he—like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

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?

²¹ `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

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;

³⁶ `Teacher, which is the great command in the Law?'

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.

⁴⁶ `And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

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.

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?'

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.'

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this—judgment,

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.

⁹ Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently: ¹⁰ For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

¹⁵ I—in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

¹⁴ As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.
¹⁵ Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

²⁵ Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. ²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

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.

¹ The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. ² He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.

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:

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. ³ And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

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.

³⁷ because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.' ⁴⁵ Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

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

⁸ why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

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.

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.

²⁰ Bless Jehovah, ye His messengers, Mighty in power—doing His word, To hearken to the voice of His Word.

⁷ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: If in My ways thou dost walk, And if My charge thou dost keep, Then also thou dost judge My house, And also thou dost keep My courts, And I have given to thee conductors among these standing by.

⁴³ `Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.

¹⁰ `Beware! —ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

²⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God? ²⁵ 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.

²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

³⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, 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.

²⁸ `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

²⁹ And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened—that both those having wives may be as not having; ³⁰ and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; ³¹ and those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

¹ See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; 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;

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, ¹⁰ and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.' ¹¹ 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—

¹⁰ and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See—not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

¹⁵ And God saith again unto Moses, `Thus dost thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name—to the age, and this My memorial, to generation—generation.
<sup>16</sup> `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;

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; ³⁸ and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to 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,

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.

²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, ²⁹ for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

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

² and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?

¹⁷ 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.

⁴⁷ and all those hearing him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

²² and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'

⁴⁶ The officers answered, `Never so spake man—as this man.'

⁵ Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come. ⁶ Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.' <sup>7</sup> And strengthen doth an artisan the refiner, A smoother with a hammer, Him who is beating on an anvil, Saying, `For joining it is good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

¹⁴ And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

³ they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil; ⁴ and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps. ⁵ `And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

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.'

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.'

²⁴ And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come; ²⁵ and coming near, a certain one told them, saying—`Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'
<sup>26</sup> then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned; <sup>27</sup> and having brought them, they set them in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them, <sup>28</sup> 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.'

²³ And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way, ²⁴ for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little, ²⁵ whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth; <sup>26</sup> and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands; <sup>27</sup> and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.' <sup>28</sup> And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

²⁸ crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;' ²⁹ for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple. ³⁰ All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

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,

³⁰ but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

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.' ²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?' <sup>30</sup> and Jesus having taken up the word, said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead. ³¹ `And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side; <sup>32</sup> and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side. <sup>33</sup> `But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion, ³⁴ and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him; ³⁵ and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee. 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.'

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;' <sup>46</sup> and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

⁵² `Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

³ and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

¹³ Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

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

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. <sup>20</sup> `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

⁶ and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

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. <sup>24</sup> `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

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; 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.'

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.

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

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;

²⁹ 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;

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.'

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

¹⁶ `This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,' <sup>17</sup> and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

² in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep; ³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome; ⁴ because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world—our faith; ⁵ who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.
¹⁹ honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

³¹ and the second is like it, this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; —greater than these there is no other command.'

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;' ¹⁰ the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

² for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

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

¹⁰ therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' —ye do well;

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.

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

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. ²¹ And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,

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;'

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

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. 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; ¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

¹⁹ we—we love him, because He—He first loved us; ²⁰ if any one may say—`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God—whom he hath not seen—how is he able to love? ²¹ and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

³⁴ and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;

³⁵ And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, `How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David? ³⁶ 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; ³⁷ therefore David himself saith of him Lord, and whence is he his son?' And the great multitude were hearing him gladly,

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?'

¹³ And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

⁶ For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

¹ And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful. ² Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. ³ To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth. ⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

²³ And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them—my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd, ²⁴ And I, Jehovah, I am their God, And My servant David prince in their midst, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

¹¹ In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.

¹ A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

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, ⁶ 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.'

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

³³ and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, `Truly—God's Son art thou.'

¹³ And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, `Who do men say me to be—the Son of Man?' <sup>14</sup> and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.' ¹⁵ He saith to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' <sup>16</sup> and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' ¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

⁹ and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'

⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, ⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;

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

⁶⁸ Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during; ⁶⁹ and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

⁴¹ others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come? 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?'

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

²² and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will. ²³ `Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour—Jesus,

⁹ wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; ⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith, ¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in all—Christ.

⁴ to whom coming—a living stone—by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious, ⁵ and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;' 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,

¹² 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!' <sup>13</sup> 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!' ¹⁴ and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.

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

³⁶ 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;

²⁶ and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit—not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him,

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,

³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ³¹ having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear—

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

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

² and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is one sitting,

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.'

⁸ Ask of Me and I give nations—thy inheritance, And thy possession—the ends of earth. ⁹ Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

⁹ Thou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.

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

¹ `Who is this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' —`I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.' ² `Wherefore is thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?' <sup>3</sup> —`A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come. ⁵ And I look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to me doth mine own arm. And my wrath—it hath supported me. ⁶ And I tread down peoples in mine anger, And I make them drunk in my fury, And I bring down to earth their strength.

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;

² to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place—both theirs and ours:

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

⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

³ who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might—through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

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

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,

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them; ¹² and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls—according to their works; ¹³ and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; ¹⁴ and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire—this is the second death; ¹⁵ and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming—I am;'

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.

⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God, ⁷ but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, ⁸ and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross,

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!

¹⁴ Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death—that is, the devil—

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!

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.)

² Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst. ³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones. ⁵ The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not—backward I moved not. ⁶ My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting. 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.

²⁷ And answering Jesus they said, `We have not known.' He said to them—he also—`Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

³⁴ 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.

¹⁷ And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

⁶ and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.

⁴⁰ and no more durst they question him anything.

⁷ and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you—let him first cast the stone at her;' ⁸ and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground, ⁹ and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders—unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁴ and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it,