¹The book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. ²Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers, ³and Judah begot Perez and Zarah by Tamar, and Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram, ⁴and Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon, ⁵and Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse, ⁶and Jesse begot David the king, and David the king begot Solomon by Uriah's wife, ⁷and Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa, ⁸and Asa begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Jehoram, and Jehoram begot Uzziah, ⁹and Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah, ¹⁰and Hezekiah begot Manasseh, and Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah, ¹¹and Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the Babylonian deportation. ¹²And after the Babylonian deportation, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel, ¹³and Zerubbabel begot Abihud, and Abihud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azzur, ¹⁴and Azzur begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Jachin, and Jachin begot Elihud, ¹⁵and Elihud begot Eleazar, and Eleazar begot Mattan, and Mattan begot Jacob, ¹⁶and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was conceived, who is called Christ. ¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David amount to fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian deportation there are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian deportation to Christ there are fourteen generations. ¹⁸But the begetting of Jesus Christ was as follows. Now then, when his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child, by holy spirit. ¹⁹But Joseph, her husband-to-be, being righteous, and not wishing to make an example of her, wanted to divorce her secretly. ²⁰But after he had reflected on these things, what should happen but the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife, for that which has been conceived in her is so by holy spirit. ²¹And she shall bear a son, and you will call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” ²²Now all this took place in order that that which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet should be fulfilled, where he says, ²³“Behold, a virgin will be with child and will bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which when translated is ‘God with us.’ ” ²⁴So when Joseph had woken up from the sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife, ²⁵but he did not know her until she had borne her firstborn son, and he called him Jesus.

Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.23 ↔ Isaiah 7:14.

¹Now after Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, it so happened that magi from the east came to Jerusalem, ²and they said, “Where is the king of the Jews who has just been born? For we have seen his star in the east, and we have come to worship him.” ³But when Herod the king heard of it, he was disturbed, as was all of Jerusalem with him, ⁴and when he had gathered all the senior priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where Christ was to be born. ⁵So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judaea. For it has been written as follows by the prophet: ⁷Then Herod called the magi privately and assiduously inquired from them the time when the star appeared, ⁸and he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make careful inquiries about the child, and when you find him, report back to me so that I too may go and worship him.” ⁹So when they had heard the king, they went, and they saw that the star which they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it had arrived, when it remained above the place where the child was. ¹⁰Indeed, when they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy, ¹¹and when they had come to the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshipped him, and they opened their treasure chests and offered him gifts: gold and frankincense and myrrh. ¹²Then having been oracularly warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their country by another route. ¹³When they had gone back, this happened: the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Get up and take the child and his mother with you, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod intends to seek the child in order to destroy him.” ¹⁴So he got up and took the child and his mother with him by night, and he withdrew to Egypt, ¹⁵and he stayed there until the death of Herod, in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he said, “I have called my son out of Egypt.” ¹⁶Then when Herod saw that he had been fooled by the magi, he became very angry, and he sent troops, and he had all the children in Bethlehem and in all its districts killed, from two years and under, according to the time which he had assiduously inquired about from the magi. ¹⁷Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, ¹⁹But when Herod had died, this is what happened: the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ²⁰and said, “Get up and take the child and his mother with you and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the life of the child have died.” ²¹So he got up and took the child and his mother with him and went to the land of Israel. ²²But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judaea in place of Herod his father, he was afraid to set off back there, but after he had been oracularly informed in a dream, he went back to the regions of Galilee, ²³and when he arrived, he settled in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he should be called a Nazarene.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.6 ↔ Micah 5:1^MT (Micah 5:2^AV) ● v.15 ↔ Hosea 11:1 ● v.18 ↔ Jeremiah 31:15 ● v.23 ↔ Isaiah 11:1.

¹Now in those days John the Baptist appeared on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ²and he would say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” ³For this man is the one spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, who said, ⁴Now John himself wore clothing made from camels' hair and a leather belt around his loins, while his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵Then Jerusalem and all of Judaea and all the region around Jordan came out to him, ⁶and they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who has intimated to you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸So produce fruit worthy of repentance, ⁹and do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have our father Abraham.’ For I say to you that God can raise children to Abraham from these stones, ¹⁰and the axe has already been laid at the root of the trees. For every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire. ¹¹Now I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than me, whose shoes I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with holy spirit ¹²– he whose winnowing fan is in his hand – and he will thoroughly clean his threshing floor, and he will gather his wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire.” ¹³Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John in order to be baptized by him, ¹⁴although John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, yet do you come to me?” ¹⁵But Jesus answered by saying to him, “Allow it right now, for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he allowed him. ¹⁶Then when Jesus had been baptized, straightaway he came up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and alighting on him. ¹⁷And there was a voice from the heavens, which said, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.3 ↔ Isaiah 40:3.

¹Next Jesus was led up to the desert by the spirit to be tempted by the devil, ²and having fasted for forty days and forty nights – after all that – he was hungry. ³Then the tempter came to him and said, “If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.” ⁴But he answered and said, “It stands written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word issuing through the mouth of God.’ ” ⁵Then the devil took him along to the holy city, and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶and he said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down. For it stands written: and, ⁷Jesus said to him, “Again, it stands written: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” ⁸Again, the devil took him along to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, ⁹and he said to him, “I will give you all these if you fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰Then Jesus said to him, “Be off behind me, Satan, for it stands written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” ¹¹Then the devil left him, and the next thing that happened was that angels came and took care of him. ¹²Now when Jesus had heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew to Galilee, ¹³and having left Nazareth, he came and settled in Capernaum, which is beside the sea in the territories of Zebulun and Naphtali, ¹⁴in order that that which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, where he says, ¹⁷From then on Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” ¹⁸While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a round net into the sea, for they were fishermen, ¹⁹and he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishermen of men.” ²⁰At this they immediately left their nets and followed him. ²¹Then going on from there, he saw another two brothers, James, the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them, ²²and they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him. ²³Then Jesus would go round all of Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and curing every sickness and every ailment among the people, ²⁴and his fame spread to the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all the sick with various diseases, and those afflicted with torments, and those possessed by a demon, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them. ²⁵And large crowds followed him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and beyond the Jordan.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.4 ↔ Deuteronomy 8:3 ● v.6 ↔ Psalm 91:11, Psalm 91:12 ● v.7 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:16 ● v.10 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:13 ● v.15 ↔ Isaiah 8:23^MT (Isaiah 9:1^AV) ● v.16 ↔ Isaiah 9:1^MT (Isaiah 9:2^AV).

¹But when he saw the crowds, he went up a mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him, ²and he opened his mouth and taught them and said,

³“Blessed are the poor in spirit,

For theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

⁴Blessed are those who mourn,

For they shall be comforted.

⁵Blessed are the meek,

For they shall inherit the earth.

⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

For they shall be satisfied.

⁷Blessed are the merciful,

For they shall be shown mercy.

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart,

For they shall see God.

⁹Blessed are the peacemakers,

For they shall be called sons of God.

¹⁰Blessed are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness,

For theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

¹¹Blessed are you whenever they reproach you and persecute you, and they speak all kinds of offensive words and lie about you on account of me. ¹²Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in the heavens is great, for it is like this that they persecuted the prophets who were before you. ¹³You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt becomes insipid, by what can it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by men. ¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hidden if it is located on a mountain, ¹⁵nor does one light a lamp and put it under a bushel of corn, but one puts it on a lampstand, and it gives light to all those in the house. ¹⁶Let your light shine like this before men, so that they see your fine works and glorify your father who is in the heavens. ¹⁷Do not think that I have come to annul the law or the prophets. I have not come to annul, but to fulfil, ¹⁸for truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will pass away from the law at all, until all has taken place. ¹⁹So whoever breaks any one of the least of these commandments, or who teaches men to do so, will be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens, whereas it is whoever carries out and teaches the commandments who will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁰For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you certainly will not go into the kingdom of the heavens. ²¹You have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not commit murder’, and whoever commits murder shall be liable to judgment, ²²but I say to you that everyone who becomes angry with his brother without reason will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin council, and whoever says, ‘You fool’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna. ²³So if you are bringing your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother holds something against you, ²⁴leave your gift there in front of the altar and go away, and first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. ²⁵Be well-disposed to your opponent quickly while you are on the way with him, in case your opponent delivers you to the judge, and the judge delivers you to the officer, and you are thrown in prison. ²⁶Truly, I say to you, you will certainly not come out of there until you have repaid the last quadrans. ²⁷You have heard that it has been said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’, ²⁸but I say to you that everyone who looks at a married woman intent on lusting after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹And if your right eye ensnares you, pluck it out and throw it away, for it is more profitable to you that one of your organs should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna. ³⁰And if your right hand ensnares you, cut it off and throw it away, for it is more profitable to you that one of your limbs should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna. ³¹And it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a deed of divorce’, ³²but I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, apart from by reason of fornication, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. ³³Again, you have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but you will perform your oaths to the Lord’, ³⁴but I say to you, do not swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God, ³⁵nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king. ³⁶And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black, ³⁷but let your speech be, ‘Yes, yes; no, no’, for any more than these is of evil. ³⁸You have heard that it has been said, ‘An eye for an eye’ and, ‘A tooth for a tooth’, ³⁹but I say to you, do not resist evil, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek – turn also the other cheek to him, ⁴⁰and as for him who wishes you to be judged and to take your tunic, let him have your coat as well, ⁴¹and whoever presses you to go one mile – go with him two. ⁴²Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away from him who wishes to borrow from you. ⁴³You have heard that it has been said, ‘You shall love your neighbour’, and, ‘You shall hate your enemy’, ⁴⁴but I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who treat you spitefully and persecute you, ⁴⁵so that you become sons of your father in the heavens, for he makes his sun rise on the wicked and the good, and he sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ⁴⁶For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same? ⁴⁷And if you only greet your friends, what do you do that is exceptional? Do not the tax collectors act in this way? ⁴⁸So be perfect, as your father in the heavens is perfect.

Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.5 ↔ Psalm 37:11 ● v.21 ↔ Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17 ● v.27 ↔ Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18 ● v.31 ↔ Deuteronomy 24:1 ● v.33 ↔ Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Numbers 30:3^MT (Numbers 30:2^AV), Deuteronomy 23:22^MT (Deuteronomy 23:21^AV) ● v.34 ↔ Isaiah 66:1 ● v.35 ↔ Isaiah 66:1 ● v.38 ↔ Exodus 21:24 ● v.43 ↔ Leviticus 19:18, Psalm 139:21, Psalm 139:22.

¹And take care not to give your alms in the presence of men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you do not have a reward from your father in the heavens. ²So when you give alms, do not blow a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order to be glorified by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. ³But when you give alms, let your left hand not know what your right hand is doing, ⁴so that your alms are given in secret, and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you in public. ⁵And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. ⁶But when you pray, go into your private room and shut the door and pray to your father who is hidden, and your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you in public. ⁷And when you pray, do not gabble like the Gentiles, for they think that they will be heard in their loquacity. ⁸So do not be like them. For your father knows what you need before you ask him. ⁹So then, pray like this:

Our father in the heavens,

May your name be sanctified.

¹⁰May your kingdom come;

May your will be done,

As in heaven, so also on the earth.

¹¹Give us our oncoming bread today,

¹²And cancel our debts,

As we also cancel the debts of our debtors.

¹³And do not lead us into temptation,

But rescue us from evil,

For yours is the kingdom,

And the power and the glory,

Throughout the ages. Amen.

¹⁴For if you forgive men their transgressions, so also will your heavenly father forgive you. ¹⁵But if you do not forgive men their transgressions, neither will your father forgive your transgressions. ¹⁶Now whenever you fast, do not be like the sullen-looking hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces in order for it to be obvious to men that they are fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. ¹⁷But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸so that it is not obvious to men that you are fasting, but it will be known to your father who is hidden, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. ¹⁹Do not save up treasures for yourself on the earth, where the moth and corrosion cause ruin, and where thieves break in and steal, ²⁰but save up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor corrosion cause ruin, and where no robbers break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be as well. ²²The light of the body is the eye. So if your eye is clear-sighted, the whole of your body will be bright. ²³But if your eye is ill-disposed, the whole of your body will be dark. So if the light which is in you is darkness, how great the darkness is! ²⁴No-one can serve two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will cling to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. ²⁵On account of this I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, about what you will eat and what you will drink, nor for your body, about what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds of the sky, how they do not sow or reap or gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly father feeds them; surely you are worth much more than they are? ²⁷And who of you can by being anxious add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the wild lilies – how they grow. Yet they neither toil nor spin thread. ²⁹But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. ³⁰Now if God so clothes the wild vegetation, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith? ³¹So do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘What will we wear?’ ³²For the Gentiles seek all these things. Well then, your heavenly father knows that you need all these things. ³³But first seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴So do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious about its own affairs. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.

¹Do not judge, in order that you may not be judged, ²for you will be judged with the judgment with which you judge, and by whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. ³Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but do not take notice of the joist in your own eye? ⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’, when all along there is a joist in your eye? ⁵You hypocrite! First take the joist out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶Do not give anything sacred to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, in case they trample them with their feet and turn and tear at you. ⁷Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks will receive, and he who seeks will find, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ⁹Or what man is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰And if he asks for fish, surely he will not give him a serpent? ¹¹So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in the heavens give good things to those who ask him! ¹²Whatever you would like men to do to you, do the same to them. For this is the law and the prophets. ¹³Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. ¹⁴How narrow the gate is and confined the way is which leads to life, and how few they are who find it! ¹⁵But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside are rapacious wolves. ¹⁶By their fruit you will recognize them. Does one really gather a bunch of grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷In this way every good tree produces fine fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit. ¹⁸A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. ¹⁹Every tree which does not produce fine fruit is cut down and thrown into fire. ²⁰Therefore, by their fruit you will recognize them. ²¹Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but rather, he who does the will of my father in the heavens. ²²Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and perform many deeds of power in your name?’ ²³And then I will confess to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ ²⁴So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them – I will liken him to a prudent man who built his house on rock, ²⁵and the rain came down and the torrents arrived, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for it had been founded on rock. ²⁶But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on sand, ²⁷and the rain came down, and the torrents arrived, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell down, and its fall was great.” ²⁸And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, that the crowds were astounded at his teaching, ²⁹for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

¹Then when he had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him, ²and it so happened that a leper came and worshipped him and said, “Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me.” ³At this Jesus held out his hand and touched him and said, “I will; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴Then Jesus said to him, “See to it that you tell no-one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, as a witness to them.” ⁵Subsequently, when he had gone to Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him, ⁶and saying, “Lord, my servant has become ill at home paralysed and is tormented terribly.” ⁷At this Jesus said to him, “I will go and cure him.” ⁸Then the centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but just pronounce with a word and my servant will be cured, ⁹for I am also a man under a system of authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go’, and he goes, and to another, ‘Come’, and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this’, and he does it.” ¹⁰When Jesus heard that, he was amazed and said to those following, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith. ¹¹But I say to you that many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens, ¹²whereas the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹³Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way, and as you have believed, so be it to you.” And his servant was cured at that hour. ¹⁴Then Jesus went to Peter's house, and he saw his mother-in-law lying ill with a fever, ¹⁵and he touched her hand, at which the fever left her, and she rose and waited on him. ¹⁶Then in the evening, they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits by a word, and he cured all those who were ill, ¹⁷in order that that which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled, where he says, ¹⁸But when Jesus saw large crowds around him, he ordered them to go further away, ¹⁹and a certain scribe came along and said to him, “Master, I will follow you wherever you go.” ²⁰At this Jesus said to him, “The foxes have dens, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the son of man does not have anywhere to lay his head.” ²¹Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ²²But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.” ²³Then his disciples followed him when he went on board a boat, ²⁴and what happened next was that a great storm arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But he was sleeping. ²⁵Then his disciples came to him, and they woke him up and said, “Lord, save us; we are not going to survive.” ²⁶But he said to them, “Why are you fearful, you of little faith?” Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm came about. ²⁷But the men were amazed, and they said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?” ²⁸Then when he had gone to the far side, to the region of the Gergesenes, two men possessed by demons met him, as they came out of the tombs. They were very dangerous, so that no-one could pass by that way. ²⁹And in this case they shouted, and they said, “What have you got to do with us, Jesus the son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the due time?” ³⁰Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them, ³¹so the demons pleaded with him and said, “If you cast us out, allow us to go off to the herd of pigs.” ³²And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the herd of pigs. And at this point the whole herd of pigs rushed headlong down the cliff into the sea, and they died in the waters. ³³But the herdsmen fled and went away to the city and reported everything, including the things concerning those possessed by demons. ³⁴Then it ensued that the whole city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they appealed to him to move from their districts.

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.17 ↔ Isaiah 53:4.

¹Next he went on board the boat and crossed over and came to his own city, ²and along they came bringing a paralytic man to him lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic man, “Pluck up courage, my child. You have been forgiven your sins.” ³Then at this, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” ⁴Then Jesus, who had perceived their thoughts, said, “Why do you have evil thoughts in your hearts? ⁵For which is easier, to say, ‘You have been forgiven your sins’, or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? ⁶But in order that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then spoke to the paralytic man – “Arise, and pick up your bed and go to your home.” ⁷And he rose and went off to his home. ⁸And when the crowds saw it, they were amazed, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men. ⁹Then as Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax desk, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. ¹⁰And it came to pass, as he was reclining in his house, that there were many tax collectors and sinners who had come and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your master eat with the tax collectors and sinners?” ¹²But Jesus heard it and said to them, “Those who are in sound health have no need of a doctor, but rather those who are ill. ¹³But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ¹⁴Then John's disciples came to him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?” ¹⁵And Jesus said to them, “Surely the wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶And no-one puts a patch of uncarded flannel on an old garment, for its piece added will pull strands from the garment, and the tear will become worse, ¹⁷nor does one put new wine in old wineskins, or else the wineskins tear, and the wine leaks out, and the wineskins will be ruined. But one puts new wine in new wineskins, and both are preserved together.” ¹⁸While he was saying these things to them, it so happened that a certain governor came and worshipped him and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and put your hand on her, and she will live.” ¹⁹Then Jesus rose and followed him, as did his disciples, ²⁰and at this point a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhage for twelve years approached him from behind and touched the hem of his coat, ²¹for she said to herself, “If only I can touch his coat, I will be cured.” ²²But Jesus turned round and saw her and said, “Be of good courage, my daughter. Your faith has cured you.” And the woman was cured from that hour. ²³Then Jesus went to the house of the governor, and seeing the flute-players and the crowd wailing, ²⁴he said to them, “Leave the room. For the girl has not died but is asleep.” But they laughed at him. ²⁵Then when the crowd had been sent out, he went in and held her hand, and the girl arose. ²⁶And the account of this went around in the whole of that district. ²⁷Then as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David.” ²⁸And when he had come to the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” ²⁹Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, so let it be to you.” ³⁰And their eyes were opened, but Jesus admonished them sternly, and he said, “See that no-one gets to know of this.” ³¹But they went out and spread the account of him in all that district. ³²However, while they were going out, it so happened that they brought to him a mute man possessed by a demon, ³³and when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds were amazed and said, “Never before has anything like this been seen in Israel.” ³⁴But the Pharisees said, “He casts out the demons by the ruler of demons.” ³⁵Then Jesus went around all the cities and the villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and curing every sickness and every ailment among the people. ³⁶But when he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and tossed about, like sheep not having a shepherd. ³⁷Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few, ³⁸so entreat the Lord of the harvest that he sends out workers to his harvest.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 9: v.13 ↔ Hosea 6:6.

¹And when he had called his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every ailment. ²Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, ³Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus who is surnamed Thaddaeus, ⁴Simon the Kananite, and Judas Iscariot who for his part betrayed him. ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and he gave them orders and said, “Do not go off into the way of the Gentiles, and do not go into any city of the Samaritans, ⁶but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.’ ⁸Cure those who are ill, cleanse the lepers; cast out demons. You have received without charge; give without charge. ⁹Do not get gold or silver or bronze for your belts, ¹⁰nor a wallet for the way, nor two tunics, nor shoes, nor staffs, for the workman is worthy of his livelihood. ¹¹And in whatever city or village you enter, make careful inquiries as to who is worthy in it, and stay there until you leave. ¹²And when you go into the house, greet those of it, ¹³and if the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴And as for whoever does not receive you or hear your words – come out of that house or city, and shake the dust off your feet. ¹⁵Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that city. ¹⁶You see, I am sending you as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be prudent like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the Sanhedrin councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues, ¹⁸and you will be led to rulers and kings on account of me as a witness to them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to say, because what you will say will be given to you in that hour, ²⁰for it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your father speaking in you. ²¹Furthermore, brother will deliver up brother to death, and father a child, and children will rise up against parents and will have them put to death, ²²and you will be hated by everyone on account of my name, but it is he who endures to the end who will be saved. ²³And when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly, I say to you, you will certainly not have completed going round the cities of Israel until the son of man comes. ²⁴A pupil is not above the teacher, nor is a slave above his master. ²⁵It is sufficient for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! ²⁶So do not fear them. For nothing is hidden which will not be revealed, or secret which will not become known. ²⁷What I tell you in darkness, speak in daylight, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim from the rooftops, ²⁸and do not fear those who kill the body, but who cannot kill the soul, but fear rather him who can destroy both the soul and the body in Gehenna. ²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father's control. ³⁰But even all the hairs of your head are numbered. ³¹So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows. ³²So as for everyone who confesses me before men, I for my part will confess him before my father in the heavens. ³³But as for whoever denies me before men, I in turn will deny him before my father in the heavens. ³⁴Do not think I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. ³⁵For I have come to set a man apart against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, ³⁶and the enemies of the man will be those of his household. ³⁷He who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, ³⁸and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹He who finds his life shall lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. ⁴⁰He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ⁴¹He who receives a prophet on the grounds of his being a prophet will receive the reward of a prophet, and he who receives a righteous man on the grounds of his being righteous will receive the reward of a righteous man. ⁴²And whoever gives just a cup of cool water to drink to one of these little ones on the grounds of him being a disciple – truly, I say to you – he certainly will not lose his reward.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.35 ↔ Micah 7:6 ● v.36 ↔ Micah 7:6.

¹And it came to pass when Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, that he moved on from there in order to teach and preach in their cities. ²But when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples ³to say to him, “Are you the one who is coming, or are we to expect another?” ⁴And Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you hear and see. ⁵The blind see again and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor have the gospel preached to them, ⁶and blessed is he who does not stumble because of me.” ⁷Then as these went, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John and said, “What did you go out into the desert to see? A wind-swept reed? ⁸If not, what then did you go out to see? A man clothed in luxurious garments? Look, those who wear luxurious garments are in royal houses. ⁹If not, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one greater than a prophet. ¹⁰For this man is he of whom it stands written: ¹¹Truly, I say to you, there has not arisen among those born of women anyone greater than John the Baptist. But he who is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he. ¹²However, from the days of John the Baptist up to now the kingdom of the heavens has been suffering violence, and violent men are seizing it. ¹³For all the prophets and the law up to John have prophesied, ¹⁴and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. ¹⁵He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁶But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their companions, ¹⁷and saying,

‘We have played the flute to you,

But you did not dance;

We have lamented to you,

But you did not mourn.’

¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ ¹⁹The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by its children.” ²⁰Then he began to reproach the cities in which the majority of his mighty deeds took place, because they did not repent. ²¹“Woe to you, Chorazin, woe to you, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works which took place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²²However, I say to you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon than for you in the day of judgment. ²³And you, Capernaum, you which have been exalted up to heaven, you will be brought down to Hades, for if the mighty deeds which took place in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained intact up to this day. ²⁴However, I say to you that it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.” ²⁵At that time Jesus reacted and said, “I give thanks to you, father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent men and have revealed them to infants. ²⁶Indeed, father, because it was with good pleasure in your sight that it should be like this. ²⁷Everything has been handed over to me by my father. And no-one knows the son except the father, and neither does anyone know the father except the son and whoever the son wishes to reveal him to. ²⁸Come to me, all you who are toiling and are burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon yourselves, and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, ³⁰for my yoke is mild and my burden is light.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 11: v.5 ↔ Isaiah 35:5, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 61:1 ● v.10 ↔ Malachi 3:1.

¹At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on a Sabbath day, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears of corn and eat them. ²But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing something which it is not permitted to do on a Sabbath.” ³However, he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? ⁴– how he went into the house of God and ate the showbread loaves, which were not permitted for him or those with him to eat, except for the priests alone? ⁵Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, yet are guiltless? ⁶But I say to you that there is something greater than the temple here. ⁷And if you had known what ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’ means, you would not have condemned the innocent, ⁸for the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.” ⁹Then moving on from there, he came to their synagogue, ¹⁰and it so happened that there was a man with a withered hand, and they questioned him and asked, “Is it permitted to heal on a Sabbath?” in order to accuse him. ¹¹But he said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, he will not get hold of it and lift it out? ¹²Well then, how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is permitted to do good on Sabbaths.” ¹³Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored as sound as the other one. ¹⁴But the Pharisees went away and held a council against him, plotting how they might destroy him. ¹⁵However, Jesus, being aware of it, withdrew from there, and large crowds followed him, and he healed them all, ¹⁶and he charged them not to make him publicly known, ¹⁷in order that that which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, where he says, ²²Then a blind and mute man possessed by a demon was brought to him, and he healed him, so the blind and mute man could both speak and see, ²³and all the crowds were amazed and said, “Isn't this the son of David?” ²⁴But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.” ²⁵But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom which is divided against itself is reduced to desolation, and no city or household which is divided against itself will stand. ²⁶And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ²⁷And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people cast them out? On account of this, they themselves will be judges over you. ²⁸But if I cast the demons out by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. ²⁹Or how can anyone go into a strong man's house and plunder his belongings, if he does not first bind the strong man, so that then he can plunder his house? ³⁰He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. ³¹On account of this I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven men. ³²And whoever speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present age or in the one to come. ³³Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten. For by the fruit the tree is known. ³⁴You offspring of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. ³⁵A good man brings out good things from his good treasure, and an evil man brings out evil things from his evil treasure. ³⁶But I say to you that for every idle word which men may speak, they will give an account of it on the day of judgment, ³⁷for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” ³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered and said, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” ³⁹But he answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. ⁴⁰For as Jonah was in the stomach of the whale for three days and three nights, so the son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. ⁴¹The Ninevite men will rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah's preaching, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. ⁴²The queen of the south will rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. ⁴³And whenever an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest, but it does not find it. ⁴⁴Then it says, ‘I will go back to my house, from where I came out.’ And when it has gone back, it finds it unoccupied and swept clean and tidied up. ⁴⁵Then it goes out and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself with it, and when they have entered, they live there, and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will be with this evil generation as well.” ⁴⁶And while he was still speaking to the crowds, it so happened that his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. ⁴⁷Then someone said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” ⁴⁸But he answered and said to him who had spoken to him, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹And stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, “Behold my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰For it is whoever does the will of my father in the heavens who is my brother and sister and mother.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.7 ↔ Hosea 6:6 ● v.18 ↔ Isaiah 41:8, Isaiah 42:1 ● v.19 ↔ Isaiah 42:2 ● v.20 ↔ Isaiah 42:3 ● v.21 ↔ Isaiah 11:10 ● v.40 ↔ Jonah 2:1^MT (Jonah 1:17^AV).

¹And on that day, Jesus went out from the house and sat by the sea, ²and large crowds gathered together around him, so he went on board a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd was standing on the shore. ³And he told them many things in parables, and he said, “A sower once went out to sow, ⁴and as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵Other seed fell on stony ground, where it did not have much soil, and it quickly sprang up through not having depth of soil, ⁶but when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it did not have a root, it withered. ⁷And other seed fell in the thorn bushes, and the thorn plants came up and smothered it. ⁸But other seed fell on good ground, and it yielded produce: some a hundredfold return, some a sixtyfold, and some a thirtyfold. ⁹He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” ¹⁰Then the disciples came to him and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹He answered and said to them, “To you it is granted to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not granted. ¹²For whoever has something, to him will be given more, and it will be in abundance, but whoever does not have anything, even that which he has will be taken from him. ¹³This is why I speak to them in parables, because although seeing, they do not see, and although hearing, they do not hear, nor do they understand. ¹⁴And the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled in them, which says, ¹⁶But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷For truly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, but they did not see, and to hear what you hear, but they did not hear. ¹⁸So hear the meaning of the parable of the sower. ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of the kingdom but does not understand, the evil one comes and seizes what was sown in his heart. This is he who was sown by the wayside. ²⁰But he who was sown on the stony ground is he who, hearing the word immediately receives it with joy, ²¹but he does not have root in himself, but is for a season, and when tribulation or persecution comes on account of the word, he quickly stumbles. ²²And as for him who was sown in the thorn bushes, this is he who hears the word, but for whom the care of this age and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³But he who was sown on the good ground is the one who hears the word and understands it – one who indeed bears fruit – and one produces a hundredfold, while another sixtyfold, and another thirtyfold.” ²⁴He put another parable to them and said, “The kingdom of the heavens is comparable to a man who sows good seed in his field. ²⁵But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away again, ²⁶and when the grains sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares appeared as well. ²⁷Then when the servants of the master of the house went to him, they said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then is it infested with tares?’ ²⁸So he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ Then the servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go out, and we will gather them up?’ ²⁹But he said, ‘No, don't, in case when gathering the tares you uproot the wheat together with them. ³⁰Leave both to grow up together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, «Gather first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up, but gather the wheat into my storehouse.» ’ ” ³¹He put another parable to them and said, “The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, ³²which is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows, it is bigger than other vegetables, and it becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and settle on its branches.” ³³He told them another parable: “The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sack measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” ³⁴Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and he didn't speak to them without a parable, ³⁵in order that that which was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he said, ³⁶Then Jesus left the crowds and went to the house. And his disciples came to him and said, “Explain the parable of the tares in the field to us.” ³⁷So he answered and said to them, “The sower of the good seed is the son of man. ³⁸The field is the world; the good seed is what represents the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil one. ³⁹The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the consummation of the age; the harvesters are the angels. ⁴⁰So just as the tares are gathered and burned in a fire, so it will be at the consummation of this age. ⁴¹The son of man will send his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all causes of offence, and those who commit iniquity, ⁴²and they will throw them into the fiery furnace. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ⁴⁴Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid, and for the joy of it went away and sold everything he had and bought that field. ⁴⁵Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking good quality pearls, ⁴⁶who, finding one very expensive pearl, went away and sold everything he had and bought it. ⁴⁷Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a dragnet which was cast in the sea and caught all sorts of species, ⁴⁸which, when it was full, they brought to land on the shore and sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but they threw the rotten fish out. ⁴⁹So will it be in the consummation of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil ones from the midst of the righteous, ⁵⁰and they will throw them into the fiery furnace. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ⁵¹Jesus said to them, “Did you understand all these things?” And they said to him, “Yes, Lord.” ⁵²But he said to them, “On account of this, every scribe who has been schooled in the kingdom of the heavens is like a master of a house who brings out of his storehouse new things and old.” ⁵³And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that he moved on from there, ⁵⁴and he came to his native district, and he taught them in their synagogue, in consequence of which they were amazed and said, “Where does this man get this wisdom and these powers from? ⁵⁵Isn't he the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses, Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶And are not his sisters all in our company? Where then does this man get all these things from?” ⁵⁷And they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour except in his native district and in his house”, ⁵⁸and he did not perform many miracles there, because of their unbelief.

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.14 ↔ Isaiah 6:9 ● v.15 ↔ Isaiah 6:10 ● v.35 ↔ Psalm 78:2.

¹At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard of Jesus's fame, ²and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, which is why there are powers at work in him.” ³For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, ⁴because John had kept on saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her”, ⁵and although he wished to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they regarded him as a prophet. ⁶Then when Herod's birthday was celebrated, Herodias's daughter danced in their presence and pleased Herod, ⁷with the result that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for. ⁸But she, being so induced by her mother, said, “Give me here the head of John the Baptist on a dish.” ⁹At this the king was grieved, but on account of his oaths and those reclining with him, he ordered it to be given, ¹⁰and he sent an executioner and had John beheaded in the prison. ¹¹So his head was brought on a dish, and it was given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. ¹²Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and they came and reported it to Jesus. ¹³But when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place privately. Then when the crowds heard about it, they followed him on foot from the cities, ¹⁴and when Jesus went out, he saw a large crowd, and he felt compassion for them and cured their infirm. ¹⁵When it was evening, his disciples came to him and said, “The place is desolate, and the hour has already passed. Dismiss the crowds, so that they can go back to their villages and buy food for themselves.” ¹⁶But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them food to eat.” ¹⁷Then they said to him, “We haven't got anything here except five loaves and two fish.” ¹⁸But he said, “Bring them here to me.” ¹⁹Then he commanded the crowds to recline on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and he looked up to heaven and offered a blessing, and he broke the bread and gave it to the disciples, while the disciples gave it to the crowds. ²⁰And they all ate and were filled, and they gathered up the excess pieces – twelve basketsful. ²¹Now those who ate were about five thousand men, excluding women and children. ²²Then straightaway Jesus made his disciples go on board the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. ²³Then when he had dismissed the crowds, he went up a mountain privately to pray. It was evening, and he was there alone. ²⁴But the boat was already in the middle of the sea, being buffeted by waves, for the wind was against them. ²⁵Now then, at the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea, ²⁶and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were disturbed, saying, “It is a ghost”, and they shouted for fear. ²⁷But Jesus immediately spoke to them and said, “Be of good courage – it is me – do not be afraid.” ²⁸Then Peter replied to him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.” ²⁹And he said, “Come.” So Peter went down from the boat and walked on the water to go to Jesus. ³⁰But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and as he was beginning to sink, he called out and said, “Lord, save me.” ³¹Then Jesus immediately stretched out his hand and held on to him, and he said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” ³²Then when they had gone on board the boat, the wind abated, ³³and those in the boat came and worshipped him and said, “Truly, you are the son of God.” ³⁴Then when they had crossed over, they came to the district of Gennesaret, ³⁵and when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word out to the whole of that region, and they brought all those who were unwell to him, ³⁶and they pleaded with him that they might only touch the hem of his coat. And any who touched it recovered.

¹Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus and said, ²“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” ³But he replied saying to them, “Why do you for your part transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ⁴For God gave commandment, saying, ‘Honour your father and your mother’, and, ‘He who speaks ill of his father or mother must certainly die.’ ⁵But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, «That by which you might have been benefitted from me is a dedicatory gift», is acting correctly’, and he does not honour his father or his mother at all. ⁶So you invalidate the commandment of God by your tradition. ⁷You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well concerning you, saying, ¹⁰Then he called the crowd and said to them, “Listen to this and understand: ¹¹it is not that which goes into the mouth which defiles a man, but that which comes out of his mouth – that defiles a man.” ¹²Then his disciples came to him and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees take offence when they hear the word?” ¹³But he answered and said, “Every plant which my heavenly father did not plant will be uprooted. ¹⁴Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall in a pit.” ¹⁵Then Peter responded and said to him, “Explain this parable to us.” ¹⁶And Jesus said, “Are you too still lacking in understanding? ¹⁷Do you not yet understand that everything that goes into the mouth proceeds into the stomach and is discharged into the latrine? ¹⁸But the things which come out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those things defile a man. ¹⁹For out of the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. ²⁰These are the things which defile a man. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.” ²¹Then Jesus went out from there and withdrew to the districts of Tyre and Sidon, ²²and it so happened that a Canaanite woman from those territories came out and cried aloud to him saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” ²³But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and appealed to him and said, “Send her away, because she is shouting after us.” ²⁴But he answered and said, “I have not been sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” ²⁵But she came and worshipped him and said, “Lord, help me.” ²⁶But he answered and said, “It is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.” ²⁷But she said, “Indeed, Lord. But even the dogs eat from the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.” ²⁸Then Jesus answered and said to her, “Madam, great is your faith. Let it be to you as you wish.” And her daughter was cured from that hour. ²⁹Then Jesus moved on from there and went beside the sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, and he sat there, ³⁰and large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed and many others, and they laid them down at the feet of Jesus, and he cured them, ³¹so that the crowds were amazed, seeing the mute speaking, the maimed restored, the lame walking and the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel. ³²Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because it has been three days already that they have stayed with me and have not had anything to eat. And I do not want to dismiss them fasting, in case they faint on the way.” ³³Then the disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough loaves to feed so large a crowd in such a desolate place?” ³⁴At this Jesus said to them, “How many loaves have you got?” Then they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.” ³⁵Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the ground, ³⁶and he took the seven loaves and the fish, and he gave thanks, and he broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, while the disciples gave it to the crowd. ³⁷And they all ate and were filled, and they gathered up the excess pieces – seven hampers full. ³⁸Now those who ate were four thousand men, excluding women and children. ³⁹Then he dismissed the crowds and went on board the boat and went to the regions of Magdala.

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.4 ↔ Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 5:16 ● v.8 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.9 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.31 ↔ Isaiah 35:5, Isaiah 35:6.

¹Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, putting him to the test, and they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. ²But he answered and said to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fine weather, for the sky is fiery red’, ³and in the morning, you say, ‘Today there will be a storm, for the sky is fiery red and overcast.’ You hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to discern the signs of the times. ⁴An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.” Then he left them and went away. ⁵Then his disciples came to the far side, but they had forgotten to take bread with them. ⁶However, Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ⁷But they reasoned among themselves and said, “It is because we have not taken any bread with us.” ⁸But Jesus knew about it and said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, in that you did not take bread with you? ⁹Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many basketsful you picked up? ¹⁰Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many hampers full you picked up? ¹¹How come you do not understand that it was not about bread that I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?” ¹²Then they understood that he had not said to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ¹³Now when Jesus went to the districts of Caesarea Philippi, he questioned his disciples and said, “Who do men say that I, the son of man, am?” ¹⁴And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” ¹⁵Then he said to them, “But who do you say I am?” ¹⁶And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.” ¹⁷Then Jesus replied and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my father in the heavens. ¹⁸And I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail over it. ¹⁹And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind on the earth will be bound in the heavens, and whatever you loosen on earth will be loosened in the heavens.” ²⁰Then he charged his disciples not to tell anyone he was Jesus the Christ. ²¹From then Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to go away to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and senior priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to rise on the third day. ²²At this Peter took him aside and began to reprove him saying, “Goodness gracious, Lord! This will certainly not happen to you.” ²³But he turned round and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan. You are a snare to me, because you do not set your mind on the affairs of God, but on the affairs of men.” ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me”, ²⁵for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶For in what way is a man profited if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? ²⁷For the son of man is going to enter into the glory of his father with his angels, and then he will render to each person according to his deeds. ²⁸Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the son of man coming into his kingdom.

¹Then six days later Jesus took Peter and James and John his brother with him, and he took them up a high mountain privately, ²and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white like light. ³Then the next thing that happened was that Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him, ⁴and Peter reacted and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, let us make three booths here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ⁵While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them, and there was a voice from the cloud, which said, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased. Hear him.” ⁶And when the disciples heard it, they fell face down and were very afraid. ⁷Then Jesus came and touched them, and he said, “Get up and do not be afraid.” ⁸But when they lifted up their eyes, they did not see anyone except Jesus alone. ⁹Now as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them and said, “Do not tell anyone about the vision until the son of man rises from the dead.” ¹⁰Then his disciples questioned him and asked, “Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” ¹¹And Jesus answered and said to them, “Elijah comes first and will restore all things, ¹²but I say to you that Elijah has already come, but they did not recognize him but did to him what they wished. In this way the son of man is also going to suffer at their hands.” ¹³Then the disciples understood that it was about John the Baptist that he spoke to them. ¹⁴Then when they went to the crowd, a man came to him kneeling to him, ¹⁵and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and is suffering badly. For he often falls into fire, and often into water, ¹⁶and I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.” ¹⁷Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him here to me.” ¹⁸And Jesus rebuked it, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was healed from that hour. ¹⁹Then the disciples went to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn't we cast it out?” ²⁰Jesus said to them, “On account of your unbelief. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will be able to say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. ²¹But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.” ²²And as they turned back to Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The son of man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, ²³and they will kill him, and on the third day, he will be raised.” At this they were greatly grieved. ²⁴Then when they came to Capernaum, those who receive the two drachmas tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher does not pay the two drachmas.” ²⁵He said, “Indeed.” And when he went into his house, Jesus had got there before him, and he said, “What do you think, Simon? The kings of the earth – from whom do they take tax or registration duty? From their sons or from outsiders?” ²⁶Peter said to him, “From outsiders.” Jesus said to him, “Consequently then, the sons are exempt. ²⁷But in order that we do not cause them offence, go to the sea and cast a fish-hook, and take the first fish which comes up, and open its mouth, and you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

¹At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?” ²Then Jesus called a child to himself and placed him at the focus of their attention, ³and he said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you change your ways and become like children, you certainly will not enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴So it is whoever humbles himself like this child who is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens, ⁵and whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. ⁶But whoever causes offence to one of these little ones who believe in me – it would be more profitable for him for an ass-driven millstone to be hung around his neck and for him to be drowned in the wide open sea. ⁷Woe to the world because of its snares! For it is necessary that snares come, but woe to that man through whom the snare comes. ⁸But if your hand or your foot ensnares you, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the age-abiding fire. ⁹And if your eye ensnares you, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into fiery Gehenna. ¹⁰See that you don't despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens continuously see the face of my father in the heavens. ¹¹For the son of man came to save that which was lost. ¹²What do you think? If a certain man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek the one which is going astray? ¹³And if it should happen that he finds it, truly, I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray. ¹⁴In this way it is not the will of your father in the heavens that one of these little ones should be lost. ¹⁵But if your brother sins against you, go and remonstrate with him as a matter between you and him alone. If he heeds you, you have won your brother over. ¹⁶But if he does not heed you, take one or two people with you in order that by the attestation of two or three witnesses, every matter may be established. ¹⁷And if he refuses to heed them, tell the assembly. And if he refuses to heed the assembly, let him be to you like the Gentile and the tax collector. ¹⁸Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven. ¹⁹Again, truly, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter which they ask about, it will be done for them by my father in the heavens. ²⁰For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst.” ²¹Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times should I forgive my brother if he sins against me? Up to seven times?” ²²Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times, seven times over. ²³This is why the kingdom of the heavens is like a man who was a king, who wished to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴As he started to settle them, a certain debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him. ²⁵But as he did not have the means to repay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and everything he had, and for repayment to be made. ²⁶So the servant fell down and prostrated himself before him, and he said, ‘My lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you everything.’ ²⁷At this, that servant's master had compassion on him, and he released him and cancelled his debt. ²⁸But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denaries, and when he had seized him, he choked him and said, ‘Repay me what you owe.’ ²⁹So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and pleaded with him and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’ ³⁰But he refused and instead went away, and he had him thrown him in prison until he should pay what was owed. ³¹But when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were very grieved, and they went and explained to their master everything that had happened. ³²Then his master called for him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt for you, since you appealed to me. ³³Should not you too have shown your fellow servant mercy, as I for my part showed you mercy?’ ³⁴And his master became angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should repay everything owed to him. ³⁵In this manner my upper-heavenly father will also deal with you, if you do not all forgive your brother his trespasses from your hearts.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 18: v.16 ↔ Deuteronomy 19:15.

¹Now it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words that he moved on from Galilee and went to the territories of Judaea beyond the Jordan, ²and large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. ³Then the Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying to him, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” ⁴But he answered and said to them, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning, made them male and female, ⁵and he said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? ⁶Consequently, they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has paired together, therefore, let no man separate.” ⁷Then they said to him, “Why, then, did Moses give commandment to give a deed of divorce and to divorce her?” ⁸He said to them, “Moses, in view of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not so, ⁹and I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, it not being for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” ¹⁰His disciples said to him, “If this is the situation of a man with a woman, it is not expedient to marry.” ¹¹But he said to them, “Not all can accept this saying; only those to whom it is given. ¹²For there are eunuchs who were born as such from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who can accept it, let him accept it.” ¹³Then some children were brought to him, in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴However, Jesus said, “Leave the children alone and do not prevent them from coming to me. For the kingdom of the heavens consists of such ones.” ¹⁵Then he laid his hands on them and moved on from there. ¹⁶And the next thing that happened was that a certain person came up and said to him, “Good teacher, what good thing am I to do in order that I may have age-abiding life?” ¹⁷And he said to him, “Why do you call me good? No-one is good except one: God. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” ¹⁸He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “I quote, ‘You shall not commit murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. ¹⁹Honour your father and your mother’, and, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ ” ²⁰The young man said to him, “I have observed all these things from my youth. In what respect do I still come short?” ²¹Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go and sell your belongings and give the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me.” ²²But when the young man heard those words, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions. ²³Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you that it is with difficulty that a rich man can enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁴And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” ²⁵When his disciples heard this, they were exceedingly amazed, and they said, “Who, then, can be saved?” ²⁶Then Jesus looked straight at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God everything is possible.” ²⁷Then Peter replied and said to him, “Look, we have abandoned everything and followed you. What then will we have?” ²⁸Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the son of man sits on his glorious throne, you too will be seated on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, ²⁹and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name's sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit age-abiding life. ³⁰But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Reference(s) in Chapter 19: v.5 ↔ Genesis 2:24 ● v.7 ↔ Deuteronomy 24:1 ● v.18 ↔ Exodus 20:13-16, Deuteronomy 5:17-20 ● v.19 ↔ Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Leviticus 19:18.

¹For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man who is a master of a household who went out at dawn to hire workers for his vineyard, ²and after agreeing with the workers a rate of a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³Then he went out at about the third hour and saw some other men standing idle in the market place, ⁴and he said to those, ‘You too, go to the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ ⁵So they went off. Again he went out, at about the sixth and ninth hour, and he did likewise. ⁶And at about the eleventh hour he went out and found some more men standing idle, and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here the whole day idle?’ ⁷They said to him, ‘Because no-one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too, go to the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’ ⁸Then when evening came, the landlord of the vineyard said to his estate manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last, working towards the first.’ ⁹And those of the eleventh hour came, and they received a denary each. ¹⁰And when those who were first came, they thought they would receive more, but they too received a denary each. ¹¹And when they had received it, they complained to the proprietor, ¹²saying, ‘These last ones worked for one hour, and you treated them as equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ ¹³But he replied and said to one of them, ‘My friend, I am not doing you any wrong. Did you not agree a denary with me? ¹⁴Take what is yours and go. But I wish to give to this last one the same as you. ¹⁵Or is it not permitted for me to do what I want with my own money? Are you jealous because I am good?’ ¹⁶In this way the last will be first and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.” ¹⁷Then as Jesus went up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately on the way, and he said to them, ¹⁸“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be delivered to the senior priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹and they will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify him, and on the third day he will rise again.” ²⁰Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshipping him and asking him for a certain thing. ²¹So he said to her, “What is it that you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine will sit one on your right hand side and one on your left hand side in your kingdom.” ²²But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink from the cup which I am about to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We can.” ²³Then he said to them, “You can drink from my cup and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized, but to sit on my right hand side and on my left hand side is not for me to give, but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my father.” ²⁴And when the ten heard it, they were annoyed about the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus called them to himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and the high-ranking people exercise authority over them, ²⁶but it will not be like this among you; rather, whoever among you wishes to be great will be your servant. ²⁷And whoever among you wishes to be first must be your servant, ²⁸just as the son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister and give his life as a ransom for many.” ²⁹Then as they left Jericho, a large crowd followed him. ³⁰And they came across two blind men sitting at the side of the road, who having heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out and said, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.” ³¹But the crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, and they said, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.” ³²And Jesus stood still and called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” ³³They said to him, “Lord, that our eyes be opened.” ³⁴And Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes recovered their sight, and they followed him.

¹Then when they approached Jerusalem and had gone to Bethsphagé, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ²and he said to them, “Go to the village opposite you, and straightaway you will find a female donkey bound and a foal with her. Untie them and bring them to me, ³and if anyone says anything to you, say, ‘The Lord needs them’, and straightaway he will despatch them.” ⁴Now all of this took place in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, where he says, ⁵“Say to the daughter of Zion, ⁶Then the disciples went off and did what Jesus had commanded them, ⁷and they brought the donkey and the foal, and they put their coats on them, and he sat on them. ⁸And a very large crowd strewed their own clothes in the way, whereas others would cut branches from the trees and strew them in the way. ⁹And the crowds which went in front and those following kept shouting and saying,

“Hosanna to the son of David.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest realms!”

¹⁰Then when he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city became agitated, saying, “Who is this?” ¹¹And the crowds would say, “This is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.” ¹²Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the chairs of those selling doves, ¹³and he said to them, “It stands written: ¹⁴Then the lame and blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them, ¹⁵but when the senior priests and the scribes saw the wonders which he performed, and the children in the temple shouting and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!”, they were indignant, ¹⁶and they said to him, “Do you hear what these people are saying?” Then Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read that

You have furnished praise’?”

¹⁷Then when he had left them, he went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there, ¹⁸and early in the morning as he returned to the city, he was hungry, ¹⁹and when he saw a certain fig tree on the way, he went to it, but he did not find anything on it except just leaves. And he said to it, “Let no fruit ever be produced from you any more.” And immediately the fig tree dried up. ²⁰Then when the disciples saw it, they were amazed, and they said, “How quickly the fig tree dried up!” ²¹But Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will be able to perform not only the feat of the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and deposited into the sea’, it will take place, ²²and everything you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive.” ²³Then when he had come to the temple, as he was teaching, the senior priests and elders of the people came to him, and they said, “By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?” ²⁴But Jesus replied and said to them, “I for my part will ask you one thing, and if you tell me, I in turn will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵From where was the baptism of John? From heaven, or from men?” Then they debated among themselves, and they said, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, he will say to us, ‘Why, then, did you not believe him?’ ²⁶But if we say, ‘From men’, we fear the crowd, for all hold John to be a prophet.” ²⁷So they replied and said to Jesus, “We do not know.” He in turn said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁸But what do you think of this? A man had two children, and he went to the first and said, ‘My child, go and work in my vineyard today.’ ²⁹But he replied and said, ‘I refuse.’ But later, he had a change of heart and went. ³⁰Then he went to the second and spoke similarly. Now he replied and said, ‘I will go, sir’, but he did not go there. ³¹Which of the two did the will of the father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes go before you into the kingdom of God. ³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you did not believe him. However, the tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. But when you had seen him, you did not repent later so as to believe him. ³³Listen to another parable. A certain man was a landlord who planted a vineyard and erected a fence round it, and he dug a wine vat in it and built a tower, and he put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad. ³⁴But when the time of the fruit-harvest approached, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive its fruit. ³⁵But the farmers took his servants, and they flogged one, and they killed another, and they stoned another. ³⁶Next he sent more servants, more numerous than the first, and they did likewise to them. ³⁷And lastly he sent his son to them, and he said, ‘They will respect my son.’ ³⁸But when the farmers saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ ³⁹And they took him, and they threw him out of the vineyard, and they killed him. ⁴⁰Now when the landlord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” ⁴¹They said to him, “He will put such bad men to a bad kind of death, and he will put the vineyard out under hired labour with other farmers, who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” ⁴²Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

And it is wondrous in our eyes’?

⁴³Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing its fruits. ⁴⁴And whoever falls on this stone will be shattered. But on whomever it falls, it will crush to powder.” ⁴⁵And when the senior priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them, ⁴⁶and although they looked for a way to lay hold of him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.

Reference(s) in Chapter 21: v.5 ↔ Zechariah 9:9 ● v.9 ↔ Psalm 118:25, Psalm 118:26 ● v.13 ↔ Isaiah 56:7, Jeremiah 7:11 ● v.15 ↔ Psalm 118:25 ● v.16 ↔ Psalm 8:3^MT (Psalm 8:2^AV) ● v.42 ↔ Psalm 118:22, Psalm 118:23.

¹Then Jesus reacted and spoke to them again in parables, and he said, ²“The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who is a king who arranged a wedding reception for his son. ³And he sent out his servants to invite the guests to the wedding, but they would not come. ⁴Again, he sent out some more servants, and he said, ‘Say to the guests, «Look, I have prepared my banquet-meal. My bulls and fatted cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding.» ’ ⁵But they did not care for it and went off, one to his own field, another to his merchant business, ⁶and the remainder seized his servants and dealt with them spitefully, and they killed them. ⁷And when that king heard it, he became angry, and he sent his army, and he destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but the guests were not worthy. ⁹So go to the arterial roads and invite whoever you find to the wedding.’ ¹⁰So those servants went out to the roads and gathered everyone they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with diners. ¹¹Then the king came to see the diners and saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, ¹²and he said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you have come here not having wedding dress?’ And he was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him by the feet and hands and remove him and cast him into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.” ¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel as to how to trap him in his speech, ¹⁶and they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, who said, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not concern yourself with the opinion of anyone, for you do not regard the status of men. ¹⁷So tell us, what do you think? Is it permitted to pay census-tax to Caesar or not?” ¹⁸But Jesus, having become aware of their wickedness, said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the official coin of the census-tax.” So they brought a denary to him. ²⁰Then he said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” ²¹They said to him, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are of Caesar, and to God the things that are of God.” ²²And when they heard this, they were amazed, and they left him and departed. ²³On that day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him, ²⁴saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife in the capacity of the deceased's brother and raise seed to his brother.’ ²⁵Now there were seven brothers in our community. And the first married, and he died, and not having any seed, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶Likewise also the second, and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷And last of all, the woman died too. ²⁸In the resurrection then, to whom of the seven will she be wife? For all of them had her.” ²⁹Then Jesus answered and said to them, “You are going astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. ³⁰For in the resurrection, they do not marry nor are given in marriage, but they are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, where he says, ³²‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not a God of the dead, but of the living.” ³³And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching. ³⁴But the Pharisees, having heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered right there together, ³⁵and one of them, a scholar in the law, asked him a question, testing him, and he said, ³⁶“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the law?” ³⁷And Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. ⁴⁰In these two commandments hang the whole of the law and the prophets.” ⁴¹Then when the Pharisees had gathered together, Jesus questioned them, ⁴²and he said, “What do you think about Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David's.” ⁴³He said to them, “How come then David calls him Lord in the spirit, saying,

Until I make your enemies your footstool» ’?

⁴⁵If, then, David calls him Lord, how is it that he is his son?” ⁴⁶And no-one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare to question him any longer from that day.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.24 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.32 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.37 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5 ● v.39 ↔ Leviticus 19:18 ● v.44 ↔ Psalm 110:1.

¹Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, ²and he said, “The scribes and Pharisees have sat down on Moses' seat, ³so whatever they tell you to keep, you are keeping to and doing, but do not do according to their works, for they say things, but they do not do them. ⁴For they bind heavy burdens and things hard to bear, and they put them on the shoulders of men, but they are not willing to move them with their finger. ⁵But they do all their works to be seen by men, and they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the fringes of their coats, ⁶and they love the privileged couches at dinners and the prime seats in the synagogues, ⁷and the greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, rabbi.’ ⁸But do not you be called ‘rabbi’. For you have one guide: Christ. And you are all brothers. ⁹And do not call anyone your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one father, who is in the heavens. ¹⁰And do not be called ‘guides’. For you have one guide: Christ. ¹¹And the greatest among you will be your servant. ¹²And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹³But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretence you say long prayers. On account of this you will receive greater judgment. ¹⁴Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for you do not go in, nor do you let those who are on the road to going in actually go in. ¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when it has taken place, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourselves. ¹⁶Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is a debtor.’ ¹⁷Fools and blind men, for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary which sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸And: ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift which is on it is a debtor.’ ¹⁹Fools and blind men, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? ²⁰So he who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it, ²¹and he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ²²and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. ²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you pay the tithe of mint and dill and cumin but have omitted the weightier aspects of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. You should have done these things, while not omitting the former things. ²⁴You blind guides, you strain off a gnat, but you swallow a camel. ²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice. ²⁶You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of them may also become clean. ²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed sepulchres, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness. ²⁸In this way, you for your part appear righteous to men on the outside, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and you adorn the sepulchres of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, ‘If we had been around in the days of our fathers, we would not have been party with them to the shed blood of the prophets.’ ³¹So you witness to yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets. ³²You too, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna? ³⁴On account of this, look, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ³⁵so that all righteous blood shed on earth should come upon you from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶Truly, I say to you that all this will come upon this generation. ³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I wished to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, but you have not been willing. ³⁸Behold, your house is being left to you desolate. ³⁹For I say to you, you certainly will not see me from now until you say,

Reference(s) in Chapter 23: v.39 ↔ Psalm 118:26.

¹Then Jesus went out and left the temple, and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple. ²But Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly, I say to you, there will not be a stone left on a stone here, which will not be demolished.” ³And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us when these things will be, and what the sign of your coming is, and of the consummation of the age.” ⁴Then Jesus replied and said to them, “See that no-one leads you astray, ⁵for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ’, and they will lead many astray. ⁶But you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Watch out and do not be troubled, for all things must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places. ⁸But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. ⁹Then they will deliver you into tribulation and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name. ¹⁰And then many will stumble and will deliver each other up and will hate each other. ¹¹And many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. ¹²And on account of lawlessness being increased, the love of many will go cold. ¹³But it is he who remains until the end who will be saved. ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. ¹⁵So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place – may the reader understand – ¹⁶then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷Let him who is on the roof not come down to take his belongings out of his house. ¹⁸And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes. ¹⁹But woe to those with child and to those breastfeeding in those days. ²⁰And pray that your flight may not take place in winter or on a Sabbath, ²¹for then there will be a great tribulation, the like of which has not taken place since the beginning of the world up until now, nor ever will take place, ²²and if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be shortened. ²³Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ’, or, ‘There’, do not believe it, ²⁴for false Christs will arise, and false prophets, and they will produce great signs and miracles, so as to lead astray, if it is possible, even those chosen. ²⁵Behold, I have foretold you. ²⁶So if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the desert’, do not go out, or, ‘Look, he is in the private offices’, do not believe it, ²⁷for as lightning comes out from the east and shines as far as the west, so also shall the coming of the son of man be, ²⁸for wherever the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered. ²⁹But immediately after the tribulation of those days, ³⁰And then the sign of the son of man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹And he will send his angels, with a loud sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the skies to the other. ³²But learn the parable from the fig tree. When its branches become supple and it produces leaves, know that the harvest is near. ³³In this way, you too, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors even. ³⁴Truly, I say to you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place. ³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away. ³⁶But concerning that day and hour, no-one knows it – not even the angels of the heavens – except my father alone. ³⁷But as the days of Noah were, so also the coming of the son of man will be. ³⁸For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark, ³⁹and they did not know until the flood came and eliminated them all – so the coming of the son of man will be too. ⁴⁰At that time there will be two men in the field; one will be taken aside and one will be left behind. ⁴¹Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken aside and one will be left behind. ⁴²So be watchful, for you do not know at what time your Lord will come. ⁴³But know this, that if the master of a house had known in which watch the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴On account of this, you too, be prepared, because at a time when you do not expect it, the son of man will come. ⁴⁵Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom his master appointed over his domestic staff to give them food at the proper time? ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁷Truly, I say to you that he will appoint him over all his property. ⁴⁸And if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying in coming’, ⁴⁹and he begins to strike his fellow servants and to eat and drink with those who get drunk, ⁵⁰then that servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect it and at an hour which he is unaware of, ⁵¹and he will cut him in two and will consign his portion with the hypocrites. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Reference(s) in Chapter 24: v.7 ↔ Isaiah 19:2 ● v.10 ↔ Isaiah 8:15 ● v.15 ↔ Daniel 9:27, Daniel 11:31, Daniel 12:11 ● v.21 ↔ Daniel 12:1 ● v.29 ↔ Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 34:4 ● v.30 ↔ Daniel 7:13, Zechariah 12:12 ● v.31 ↔ Deuteronomy 30:4.

¹Then the kingdom of the heavens will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. ²Now five of them were prudent and five foolish, ³and the foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them, ⁴but the prudent ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps. ⁵But when the bridegroom took a long time, they all dozed off and were asleep. ⁶Then in the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming. Come out and meet him.’ ⁷Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. ⁸Then the foolish ones said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps keep going out.’ ⁹But the prudent ones answered and said, ‘No, in case there is not sufficient for us and you. Go rather to those who sell, and buy some for yourselves.’ ¹⁰But while they were going off to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him to the wedding, and the door was closed. ¹¹Then later the other virgins also came and said, ‘Lord, lord, open up to us.’ ¹²But he answered and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ ¹³So be watchful, because you do not know the day or the hour when the son of man will come. ¹⁴For these things are like a man who went abroad and called his personal servants and handed over his property to them, ¹⁵and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one – to each according to his own capacity – and straightaway went off abroad. ¹⁶Now the one who had received five talents went and did business with them and made another five talents. ¹⁷Similarly, he who had two talents also gained another two. ¹⁸But he who had received one went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. ¹⁹After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled his accounts with them. ²⁰And the one who had received five talents came and brought another five talents and said, ‘Master, you handed me five talents. Look, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’ ²¹And his master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a little, so I will appoint you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ ²²Then the one who had received two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. Look, I have gained another two in addition to them.’ ²³His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a little, so I will appoint you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ ²⁴Then the one who had received one talent also came and said, ‘Master, I know that you are a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter. ²⁵And, being afraid, I went away and hid your talent in the ground. Look, here you have what is yours.’ ²⁶But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter. ²⁷Therefore you should have placed my money with the bankers so that when I came, I would have received what was mine with interest. ²⁸So take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents. ²⁹For to everyone who has, more will be given, and it will be made to abound, but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken. ³⁰And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ³¹But when the son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne, ³²and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³And he will place the sheep on his right hand side, but the goats on his left hand side. ³⁴Then the king will say to those on his right hand side, ‘Come, my father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you after the overthrow of the world. ³⁵For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; ³⁶naked, and you clothed me; ill, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’ ³⁷Then the righteous will reply to him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸And when did we see you a stranger and take you in? Or naked and clothe you? ³⁹When did we see you ill or in prison and come to you?’ ⁴⁰And the king will reply and say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you have done this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you have done it to me.’ ⁴¹Then he will say in turn to those on the left hand side, ‘Depart from me, you cursed people, to the age-abiding fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴²For I was hungry, but you did not give me anything to eat; I was thirsty, but you did not give me anything to drink; ⁴³I was a stranger, but you did not take me in; naked, but you did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, but you did not visit me.’ ⁴⁴Then they too will reply and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger or naked, or ill or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ ⁴⁵Then he will answer them and say, ‘Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me.’ ⁴⁶And these will go away to age-abiding punishment, but the righteous to age-abiding life.”

¹And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples, ²“You know that in two days' time the Passover takes place, and the son of man will be handed over to be crucified.” ³Then the senior priests and the scribes and the elders of the people gathered together in the hall of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, ⁴and they took counsel as to how to lay hold of Jesus by trickery and kill him. ⁵But they said, “Not during the festival, so that no uproar takes place among the people.” ⁶Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷a woman came to him with an alabaster box of very costly ointment, and she poured it over his head as he reclined. ⁸But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, and they said, “For what purpose is this waste? ⁹For this ointment could have been sold for much money and the proceeds given to the poor.” ¹⁰But Jesus was aware of it, and he said to them, “Why do you give the woman trouble? For she has done me a good deed. ¹¹For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. ¹²For when she poured this ointment on my body, she did it with my embalming in view. ¹³Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be recounted as a memorial to her.” ¹⁴Then one of the twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the senior priests, ¹⁵and he said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” And they stipulated thirty pieces of silver for him. ¹⁶So from then on he sought a good opportunity to betray him. ¹⁷On the first day of the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said to him, “Where do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” ¹⁸And he said, “Go to the city, and to our good friend, and say to him, ‘The teacher says, «My time is near. At your house I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples.» ’ ” ¹⁹So the disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover. ²⁰By the time evening had come, he was reclining at table with the twelve, ²¹and while they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me.” ²²Then being very grieved, each one of them went on to say to him, “Surely I am not the one, Lord?” ²³And he replied and said, “It is the one who dips his hand with me in the bowl who will betray me. ²⁴The son of man goes as it stands written about him, but woe to that man through whom the son of man is betrayed. It would have been better for him if that man had not been begotten.” ²⁵And Judas, who would betray him, responded and said, “Surely I am not the one, Master?” He said to him, “You have said it.” ²⁶As they ate, Jesus took the bread, and he gave thanks, and he broke it and gave some to the disciples and said, “Take it and eat it. This is my body.” ²⁷And he took a cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, and he said, “Drink from it, all of you, ²⁸for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins. ²⁹But I say to you, I will certainly not drink from this produce of the vine from now until that day when I drink it with you anew in the kingdom of my father.” ³⁰Then they sang hymns and went away to the Mount of Olives. ³¹Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will stumble at me this very night. For it stands written: ³²but after I have been raised up, I will go on ahead of you to Galilee.” ³³However, Peter answered and said to him, “Even if all stumble at you, nevertheless I will never stumble at you.” ³⁴Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you that tonight before the cock crows you will deny me three times.” ³⁵Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I certainly will not deny you.” And all the disciples also spoke likewise. ³⁶Then Jesus went with them to a locality called Gethsemané, and he said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go away and pray over there.” ³⁷And he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, and he began to be grieved and sorely troubled. ³⁸Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death. Remain here and be watchful with me.” ³⁹Then when he had come a little nearer, he fell face down and prayed and said, “My father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. But not as I wish, but as you do.” ⁴⁰And he went to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “So did you not have strength to be on the watch for one hour with me? ⁴¹Be watchful and pray that you do not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” ⁴²Again, he went a second time and prayed, and he said, “My father, if this cup cannot pass from me, unless I drink it, your will be done.” ⁴³Then he came back and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were weighed down. ⁴⁴And he left them and went away again and prayed for a third time, saying the same thing. ⁴⁵Then he went to his disciples and said to them, “Sleep from now on and have a rest. Behold, the hour has drawn near when the son of man will be delivered into the hands of sinners. ⁴⁶Get up and let's go. Look, he who will betray me has made his way here.” ⁴⁷And while he was still speaking, along came Judas, one of the twelve, and with him there was a large crowd with swords and sticks, coming from the senior priests and elders of the people. ⁴⁸Now he who would betray him had given them a sign and had said, “He whom I kiss is the one. Lay hold of him.” ⁴⁹And immediately he went to Jesus and said, “Hello, master”, and he kissed him profusely. ⁵⁰But Jesus said to him, “My friend, what are you here for?” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. ⁵¹And what happened next was that one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and unsheathed his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and took off his ear. ⁵²Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its holder. For all who take up the sword will die by the sword. ⁵³Or do you think that I could not now call on my father to supply me with more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴But how then are the scriptures to be fulfilled if that is the way it must come about?” ⁵⁵At that hour, Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and sticks, to lay hold of me? I used to sit with you every day, teaching in the temple, but you did not seize me.” ⁵⁶But all this took place so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. ⁵⁷But those who had seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered. ⁵⁸However, Peter followed him from a distance, as far as the hall of the high priest, and he went in and sat with the attendants to see how this would end. ⁵⁹Now the senior priests and elders and the whole of the Sanhedrin council were looking for a false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death. ⁶⁰But they did not find any. Even with many false witnesses coming forward, they did not find any. ⁶¹But eventually two false witnesses came forward and said, “He said, ‘I can demolish the sanctuary of God and build it within three days.’ ” ⁶²And the high priest stood up and said to him, “Do you not give any answer? What is it that these men testify against you?” ⁶³But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest reacted and said to him, “I adjure you by the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the son of God.” ⁶⁴Jesus said to him, “It is as you have stated. But I say to you, in the future you will see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ⁶⁵Then the high priest tore his coat apart and said, “He has blasphemed. Why do we still need witnesses? Look, you have now heard his blasphemy. ⁶⁶What do you think?” They answered and said, “He is liable to the death penalty.” ⁶⁷Then they spat in his face and beat him, and some struck him on the face, ⁶⁸and they said, “Prophesy to us, O Christ, who is it that struck you?” ⁶⁹But Peter was sitting outside in the hall, and a certain maidservant came up to him and said, “You too were with Jesus of Galilee.” ⁷⁰But he denied it in the presence of all of them and said, “I don't know what you are saying.” ⁷¹And when he had gone out to the gate, another maidservant saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was also with Jesus the Nazarene.” ⁷²And again he denied it under an oath and said, “I do not know the man.” ⁷³And after a short while, those who were standing around came forward and said to Peter, “Truly, you too are one of them. For even your dialect gives you away.” ⁷⁴Then he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the cock crowed. ⁷⁵And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, who had said to him: “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

Reference(s) in Chapter 26: v.31 ↔ Zechariah 13:7 ● v.64 ↔ Psalm 110:1, Daniel 7:13.

¹When it was early morning, all the senior priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death. ²And they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. ³Then Judas, who betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, and he felt regret, and he returned the thirty pieces of silver to the senior priests and the elders, ⁴and he said, “I have sinned, betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.” ⁵Then he threw the silver coins into the sanctuary, and he departed and went away and hanged himself. ⁶But the senior priests took the silver coins and said, “It is not permitted to put them in the temple treasury, because they are the price of blood.” ⁷So they took counsel and bought the potter's field with them, as a cemetery for foreigners, ⁸which is why that field is called “The Field of Blood” up to this day. ⁹Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, “And they took thirty silver coins, the price of him who was valued – him from the sons of Israel whom they valued. ¹⁰And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.” ¹¹And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” ¹²And while he was being accused by the senior priests and elders, he did not answer anything. ¹³Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” ¹⁴But he did not even answer him as much as one word, so that the governor was very surprised. ¹⁵Now at each festival the governor had a custom of releasing one prisoner to the crowd, whomever they wished. ¹⁶And they had at that time a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. ¹⁷So when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you, Barabbas or Jesus, who is called Christ?” ¹⁸For he knew that it was through envy that they had delivered him up. ¹⁹And while he was sitting on the podium, his wife sent word to him, as follows: “Have nothing to do with that just man. For I have suffered a lot today in a dream on account of him.” ²⁰But the senior priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, whereas they should have Jesus put to death. ²¹And the governor responded and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” ²²Pilate said to them, “What should I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Have him crucified.” ²³However, the governor said, “But what wrong has he done?” But they shouted all the more and said, “Have him crucified.” ²⁴And when Pilate saw that it was to no avail, but rather a tumult was arising, he took some water and washed his hands facing the crowd, and he said, “I am innocent of the blood of this just man. You see to it.” ²⁵And all the people answered and said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children.” ²⁶Then he released Barabbas to them, but he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified. ²⁷Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus with them to the governor's residence, and they gathered the whole cohort against him, ²⁸and they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak on him, ²⁹and they plaited a crown from thorns and put it on his head, and they put a reed in his right hand, and they knelt before him, and they kept mocking him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews.” ³⁰And they spat at him, and they took the reed, and they kept striking his head. ³¹And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him and put his clothes on him, and they led him away to crucify him. ³²Then as they were going out, they came across a Cyrenian man by name of Simon, and they pressed him into carrying his cross. ³³And they went to a place called Golgotha, which means “The Place of the Skull”, ³⁴where they gave him vinegar mixed with gall to drink. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it. ³⁵And when they had started the crucifixion, they shared out his clothes, ³⁶Then they sat down and guarded him there, ³⁷and they put above his head the accusation against him, which read,

“This is Jesus

The king of the Jews.”

³⁸Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. ³⁹But those who passed by blasphemed against him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰and saying, “You who would destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the son of God, come down from the cross.” ⁴¹And the senior priests mocked him similarly, together with the scribes and elders and Pharisees, and they kept saying, ⁴²“Others he saved, but himself he cannot save. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⁴³He trusts in God; let him now rescue him, if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the son of God.’ ” ⁴⁴In the same way, the robbers crucified with him kept reproaching him. ⁴⁵Now from the sixth hour, darkness came about on the whole earth until the ninth hour. ⁴⁶And at about the ninth hour, Jesus shouted out with a loud voice and said, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” This means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ⁴⁷Some of those standing there who heard it said, “This man is calling Elijah.” ⁴⁸Then immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and offered it to him to drink from. ⁴⁹But the rest said, “Stop doing that; let us see whether Elijah comes to save him.” ⁵⁰Then Jesus shouted again in a loud voice and gave up the ghost. ⁵¹And behold, the veil of the sanctuary split in half from top to bottom, and the earth suffered an earthquake, and the rocks were split, ⁵²and tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep were raised, ⁵³and they came out of the tombs, after his resurrection, and they went to the holy city, and they appeared to many. ⁵⁴Meanwhile the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things which had taken place, were very afraid, and they said, “Truly, this was the son of God.” ⁵⁵Now there were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, looking after him, ⁵⁶among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons. ⁵⁷And when it was late, a rich man came from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also had himself been a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the body to be handed over, ⁵⁹and Joseph took the body and wrapped it up in clean fine linen, ⁶⁰and he put it in his new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. ⁶¹And Mary Magdalene was there, as was the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. ⁶²And the next day, which was after the Preparation Day, the senior priests and Pharisees held a meeting with Pilate, ⁶³and they said, “Your Excellency, we remember that that deceiver said, when he was still alive, ‘In three days time I will rise again.’ ⁶⁴So order the tomb to be secured until the third day, so that his disciples cannot go by night and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead’, whereby the latter deception would be worse than the former.” ⁶⁵Then Pilate said to them, “You have your guard. Go and secure it as you know best.” ⁶⁶So they went and secured the tomb, and they sealed the stone with the guard present.

Reference(s) in Chapter 27: v.9 ↔ Jeremiah 32:25, Jeremiah 32:44, Zechariah 11:12-13 ● v.10 ↔ Zechariah 11:13 ● v.35 ↔ Psalm 22:19^MT (Psalm 22:18^AV) ● v.46 ↔ Psalm 22:2^MT (Psalm 22:1^AV).

¹Late in the night after the Sabbath, as dawn drew on to the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came with the other Mary to take a look at the tomb. ²And behold, a severe earthquake took place, for the angel of the Lord had come down from heaven and had come and rolled back the stone from the entrance, and he was sitting on it, ³and his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing was white like snow. ⁴But those on guard shook with fear of him and became as if dead. ⁵However, the angel reacted and said to the women, “Don't you fear, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who has been crucified. ⁶He is not here, for he has risen as he said. Come and see the place where the Lord lay. ⁷And go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and look, he will go on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. There you are, I have told you.” ⁸So they went out from the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and they ran to report it to his disciples. ⁹But as they were going to report it to his disciples, behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings.” And they went up to him and took hold of him by the feet and worshipped him. ¹⁰Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to depart for Galilee, and that they will see me there.” ¹¹Now as they went, what happened was that some members of the guard went to the city and reported to the senior priests everything that had happened. ¹²And they gathered with the elders and held counsel, and they gave the soldiers a good sum of money, ¹³and they said, “Say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole him while we were sleeping.’ ¹⁴And if this should catch the ear of the governor, we will persuade him and ensure you are not in trouble.” ¹⁵And they took the money, and they did as they had been instructed. And this account has spread about among the Jews up to the present day. ¹⁶Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had commanded them. ¹⁷And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. ¹⁸Then Jesus went up to them, and he spoke to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on the earth is given to me. ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit, ²⁰teaching them to keep everything I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you every day until the consummation of the age.” Amen.

¹The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of God, ²as it stands written in the prophets: ⁴It was the case that John was baptizing in the desert and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins, ⁵and all the region of Judaea would go out to him, as would the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶Now John was clothed in camel hair and a leather girdle around his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷And he would preach and say, “He who is more powerful than me is coming after me, the buckle of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop to loosen. ⁸I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with holy spirit.” ⁹And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan, ¹⁰and immediately as he came up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the spirit descending like a dove on him, ¹¹and a voice came out of the heavens: “You are my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased.” ¹²And immediately the spirit drove him out into the desert. ¹³And he was there in the desert for forty days, being tempted by Satan, and he was with the wild animals, while the angels would take care of him. ¹⁴Then after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God, ¹⁵and saying, “The time has been completed, and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Repent and believe in the gospel.” ¹⁶Then as he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, Simon's, casting a round net in the sea. After all, they were fishermen. ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, “Come and follow me, and I will make you fishermen of men.” ¹⁸And they immediately left their nets and followed him. ¹⁹Then when he had moved on a little from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, while they were in a boat mending their nets, ²⁰and he immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and they went away following him. ²¹Then they went into Capernaum, and on the Sabbath he immediately went into the synagogue and gave some teaching. ²²And they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. ²³And there was a man with an unclean spirit in their synagogue, and he shouted out, ²⁴and he said, “Hey, what have you to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the holy one of God.” ²⁵At this Jesus rebuked it and said, “Be silent and come out of him.” ²⁶Then the unclean spirit convulsed him and shouted in a loud voice and came out of him. ²⁷And they were all astounded, so much so that they debated among themselves and said, “What does this mean? What is this new doctrine, where he even commands the unclean spirits with authority, and they obey him?” ²⁸And his fame immediately spread into the whole country area of Galilee. ²⁹Then immediately when they had come out of the synagogue, they went to the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. ³⁰Now Simon's mother-in-law was laid up ill with a fever, and they told him about her straightaway. ³¹And he came over and took hold of her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her immediately, and she looked after them. ³²When evening had come, when the sun had set, they brought to him all those with ailments and those possessed by a demon, ³³and the whole city was congregated at the door, ³⁴and he cured many who were ailing with various diseases, and he cast out many demons, and he did not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. ³⁵Then he got up early, while it was still very much night, and he went out and went to a deserted place, and he prayed there. ³⁶Meanwhile Simon and those with him went after him, ³⁷and when they had found him, they said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” ³⁸And he said to them, “Let us go to the nearby towns, so that I may preach there too. For I have come out for this very purpose.” ³⁹And he preached in their synagogues in the whole of Galilee, while he also cast out the demons. ⁴⁰Then a leper came to him pleading with him, and kneeling down to him, and he said to him, “If you are willing, you are able to cleanse me.” ⁴¹At this, Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched his hand out and touched him, and he said to him, “I am willing, be cleansed.” ⁴²And as soon as he had spoken, the leprosy went from him, and he was cleansed. ⁴³Then he vehemently admonished him and straightaway dismissed him, ⁴⁴and he said to him, “See to it that you don't say anything to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them.” ⁴⁵But he went out and began to publicize it widely and to blaze the matter abroad, so that he could no longer go openly into a city, but was outside in desolate places. And they kept coming to him from all sides.

Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.2 ↔ Isaiah 40:3, Malachi 3:1 ● v.3 ↔ Isaiah 40:3.

¹Then some days later he went to Capernaum again, and it was reported that he was at someone's home, ²and immediately many gathered together, to the point that there was no room any more, not even space at the door. And while he was speaking the word to them, ³some people carrying a paralysed man came to him, the man being carried by four people, ⁴and not being able to approach him on account of the crowd, they opened up the roof where he was. And when they had broken it up, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying. ⁵Then when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralysed man, “My child, you have been forgiven your sins.” ⁶Now some of the scribes were sitting there, while reasoning in their hearts as follows: ⁷“Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but one, that is, God?” ⁸And immediately Jesus, having perceived in his spirit that they were reasoning inwardly like this, said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these matters in your hearts? ⁹Which is easier, to say to the paralytic man, ‘You have been forgiven your sins’, or to say ‘Arise, and pick up your stretcher, and walk’? ¹⁰But in order that you may know that the son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth ...” – he said to the paralytic man – ¹¹“I say to you, arise, and pick up your stretcher and go to your home.” ¹²And he arose immediately and picked up his stretcher, and he went out in the presence of all, so that they were all astounded, and they glorified God, saying, “Never have we seen anything like this.” ¹³Then he went out again, by the sea. And the whole crowd would come to him, and he would teach them. ¹⁴And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. ¹⁵And it came to pass as he was reclining at table in his house that many tax collectors and sinners reclined with Jesus and his disciples. For there were many, and they followed him. ¹⁶However, when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples, “What is this that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷At which Jesus, having heard it, said to them, “It is not those who are in sound health who need a doctor, but those who are ailing. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” ¹⁸Meanwhile John's disciples, and those of the Pharisees, were fasting, and people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, whereas your disciples do not fast?” ¹⁹And Jesus said to them, “Surely the wedding guests cannot be fasting while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast, ²⁰but the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then, in those days, they will fast. ²¹And no-one sews a patch of uncarded flannel onto an old garment, or else the piece added to it pulls on it – the new on the old – and the tear becomes worse. ²²And no-one puts new wine in old wineskins, or else the new wine tears the wineskins, and the wine leaks out, and the wineskins are ruined. Rather, new wine needs to be put in new wineskins.” ²³Then it came to pass that he was passing by on the Sabbath through the cornfields, and his disciples had begun to make a way through, while plucking the ears of corn, ²⁴and the Pharisees said to him, “Look at what they are doing on the Sabbath, which is not permitted”, ²⁵at which he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry, he and those with him? ²⁶– how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread, which it is not permitted to eat, except for the priests, and how he also gave some to those who were with him?” ²⁷Then he said to them, “The Sabbath came about on account of man, not man on account of the Sabbath. ²⁸Consequently, the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath as well.”

¹Then he went into the synagogue again, and there was a man with a withered hand there. ²Now they watched him closely, to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, in order to accuse him. ³And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up to centre stage.” ⁴And he said to them, “Is it permitted to do good or evil on the Sabbath? To save a life or to kill?” But they remained silent. ⁵Then he looked around at them with anger, thoroughly grieved at the hardness of their heart, and he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored, healthy like the other one. ⁶Then the Pharisees immediately went out with the Herodians and took counsel against him, as to how they might destroy him. ⁷Meanwhile Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a very large number of people followed him, from Galilee and from Judaea, ⁸and from Jerusalem and from Idumaea and across the Jordan, while those from around Tyre and Sidon – a large community who had heard everything he was doing – came to him. ⁹So he told his disciples that a small boat should remain at hand for him on account of the crowd, so that they should not press on him, ¹⁰for he had healed many people, and as a result they converged on him in order that whoever had infirmities might touch him. ¹¹Also whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down before him and shout out saying, “You are the son of God”, ¹²and he would rebuke them sharply so that they should not make him manifest. ¹³Then he went up into a mountain and called along those whom he himself wanted, and they went off to him, ¹⁴and he appointed twelve, for them to be with him, and to send them to preach, ¹⁵and to have authority to cure sicknesses and to cast out demons. ¹⁶And he gave an additional name to Simon: Peter. ¹⁷Furthermore he appointed James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, and he gave them additional names: Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”, ¹⁸and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus and Simon the Kananite, ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who for his part betrayed him. Then they went into a house, ²⁰and again a crowd gathered, so that they could not even eat bread. ²¹And when those close to him heard about it, they went out to take charge of him, for people were saying that he had gone out of his senses. ²²Now the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebul, and that he cast out the demons by the ruler of the demons. ²³So he called them to himself and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ²⁶And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is finished. ²⁷No-one can plunder the goods of a strong man, after entering his house, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he can plunder his house. ²⁸Truly, I say to you that the sons of men will be forgiven all their sins and whatever blasphemies they perpetrate, ²⁹but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit does not have forgiveness throughout the age, but is liable to age-abiding judgment.” ³⁰He said this because they said, “He is possessed by an unclean spirit.” ³¹Then his brothers and mother came and stood outside and sent men to him, calling him. ³²Meanwhile a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Excuse us, but your mother and your brothers and your sisters outside are looking for you.” ³³Then he replied to them and said, “Who is my mother or my brothers?” ³⁴Then after he had looked around at those sitting around him, he said, “Behold my mother and my brothers. ³⁵For it is whoever does the will of God who is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.”

¹Next he began to teach again by the sea, and a large crowd gathered around him, so that he went on board a boat to sit in on the sea, while the whole crowd was by the sea on land. ²And he taught them many things in parables, and he said to them in the course of his teaching, ³“Listen. A sower once went out to sow seed. ⁴And it so happened that as he sowed, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵But some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much soil, and it immediately sprang up through not having depth of soil, ⁶but when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it did not have a root, it withered. ⁷And some fell into the thorn bushes, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not yield any fruit. ⁸And other seed fell onto good ground, and while it sprang up and grew, it yielded produce, and some produced a thirtyfold return, and some a sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold.” ⁹And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” ¹⁰Then when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him the meaning of the parable, ¹¹and he said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, everything comes in parables, ¹³And he said to them, “Do you not know the meaning of this parable? How then can you know the meaning of any parable? ¹⁴The sower sows the word. ¹⁵One group are those alongside the road where the word is sown, but when they hear it, Satan immediately comes and removes the word sown in their hearts. ¹⁶And another group are like those sown on the stony ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy, ¹⁷but they do not have an inward root, but rather are for a season. Then when affliction or persecution comes on account of the word, they immediately stumble. ¹⁸And another group are those sown in the thorn bushes, who hear the word, ¹⁹but the cares of this age and the deceit of riches and the desires in regard to other matters, when they come in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰And another group are those sown on the good ground, who hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, some a thirtyfold return, and some a sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold.” ²¹Furthermore he said to them, “A lamp isn't brought to be put under a bushel of corn or under a bed, is it? It is to be put on a lampstand, isn't it? ²²For there is nothing hidden whatever which will not be made manifest, nor has anything secret taken place but that it will come into the open. ²³If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ²⁴And he said to them, “Watch out with what you hear. By the same measure by which you measure, it will be meted out to you. And to you who hear, the measure will be increased. ²⁵For to whoever has, more will be given. But from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” ²⁶And he said, “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man were casting seed on the ground, ²⁷and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow long in a way he is unaware of, ²⁸for the land produces fruit spontaneously: first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. ²⁹But when the fruit yields itself, he immediately sends out the sickle, because the harvest is at hand.” ³⁰And he said, “To what should we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what kind of parable should we represent it? ³¹It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground is the smallest of all the seeds which are on the earth, ³²but when it is sown, it comes up and becomes bigger than all the other vegetables and puts out big branches, so that the birds of the sky can settle in its shade.” ³³And he spoke the word to them in many such parables, inasmuch as they were able to give them a hearing. ³⁴Indeed he did not speak to them without using a parable. But he did explain everything privately to his disciples. ³⁵And he said to them on that day when evening had come, “Let's go across to the other side.” ³⁶Then when they had sent the crowd away, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. And there were other small boats with him. ³⁷And a severe windy storm arose, and the waves were breaking over into the boat, so that it was already filling up. ³⁸And he was at the stern, sleeping on a pillow, and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, is it not of concern to you that we are in mortal danger?” ³⁹And when he woke up, he rebuked the wind, and he said to the sea, “Be quiet; be silenced.” And the wind abated, and a great calm came. ⁴⁰Then he said to them, “Why are you fearful like this? How come you do not have faith?” ⁴¹And they were very afraid, and they said to each other, “Who can this be then, seeing both the wind and sea obey him?”

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.12 ↔ Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10.

¹Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the district of the Gadarenes, ²and when he had disembarked from the boat, a man from the tombs who was possessed by an unclean spirit immediately went to meet him. ³He had his dwelling in the tombs, and no-one could bind him even with chains, ⁴because he had often been bound in shackles and chains, but the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken, and no-one was able to tame him. ⁵And he was always in the mountains and the tombs, night and day, shouting and lacerating himself with stones. ⁶Then when he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and worshipped him, ⁷and he cried out in a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God not to torment me.” ⁸For he had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.” ⁹And he had asked him, “What is your name?” And he had answered and said, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” ¹⁰And he pleaded with him earnestly that he should not send them out of the district. ¹¹Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there near the mountain, ¹²and all the demons pleaded with him and said, “Send us into the pigs, so that we can go into them.” ¹³At this Jesus immediately permitted them. So the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, at which the herd rushed headlong down the cliff into the sea. There were about two thousand of them, and they drowned in the sea. ¹⁴And those tending the pigs fled and reported it in the city and in the fields. Then they went out to see what it was that had happened, ¹⁵and they came to Jesus and saw the man possessed by a demon sitting, and clothed, and in his senses – the one who had been possessed by Legion – and they were afraid. ¹⁶And those who had seen how it happened to the man possessed by a demon described it to them, and the matter of the pigs. ¹⁷Then they went on to ask him to depart from their district. ¹⁸But when he had embarked on a boat, the one who had been possessed by a demon asked him if he could stay with him. ¹⁹However, Jesus did not permit him but said to him, “Go to your home, to your family, and tell them everything that the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.” ²⁰And he went off, and he began to proclaim in Decapolis everything that Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed. ²¹Meanwhile, when Jesus had again crossed to the other side in the boat, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea, ²²and it so happened that one of the officials of the synagogue came, Jairus by name, and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, ²³and he pleaded with him earnestly saying, “My little daughter is at death's door. I ask you to come and lay your hands on her, so that she should be saved and will live.” ²⁴So he went with him, and a large crowd followed him, and they were thronging him, ²⁵when a certain woman who had had a haemorrhage for twelve years ²⁶– and who had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and who had spent everything she had but had not been benefitted in any way and had rather become worse – ²⁷having heard about Jesus, came in the crowd from behind and touched his cloak, ²⁸for she said, “If I can just touch his clothes, I will be saved.” ²⁹And immediately her issue of blood dried up, and she knew in her body that she had been cured of her infirmity. ³⁰Then Jesus, having become inwardly aware of the power which had gone out of him, immediately turned to the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?” ³¹At this the disciples said to him, “You see the crowd thronging you, yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” ³²Then he looked round to see her who had done this. ³³And the woman, in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down at him and told him all the truth. ³⁴But he said to her, “My daughter, your faith has cured you. Go off in peace and be free of your infirmity.” ³⁵While he was still speaking, men came from the house of the synagogue official and said, “Your daughter has died. Why are you still troubling the teacher?” ³⁶But when Jesus heard what was said, he immediately said to the synagogue official, “Don't be afraid; just believe.” ³⁷And he did not permit anyone to go along with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James, ³⁸and he came to the house of the synagogue official and saw a tumult of people weeping and lamenting greatly, ³⁹and he went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child has not died, but is asleep.” ⁴⁰And they laughed at him. But he sent them all out and took the father of the child with him, and the mother and those with him, and he went into the room where the child was lying. ⁴¹Then he took hold of the child's hand and said to her, “Talitha cumi”, which, being translated, means, “Young girl (I say to you), ‘Arise.’ ” ⁴²And immediately the young girl arose and walked around. Now she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with great astonishment. ⁴³Then he ordered them strictly that no-one should get to know this. He also said that something should be given to her to eat.

¹Then he went out from there and came to his native country, and his disciples followed him. ²Then, when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard him were astounded, and they said, “Where does this man get these things from? And what is this wisdom which has been given to him, so that such deeds of power take place at his hands? ³Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And aren't his sisters here with us?” And they were offended because of him. ⁴But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour except in his native land and among his kinsmen and in his own house.” ⁵And he could not do any deeds of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few invalids and healed them. ⁶Indeed he was astonished on account of their unbelief. And he would go round the neighbouring villages teaching. ⁷Then he called the twelve to himself and began to send them out two at a time, and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits, ⁸and he commanded them not to take anything for the journey except just a staff: neither a wallet, nor bread, nor bronze money for their money belt, ⁹but to be shod with sandals, and not to wear two tunics. ¹⁰And he said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, remain there until you go out from that place. ¹¹And as for whoever does not receive you or hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony to them. Truly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that city.” ¹²Then they went out and preached that one should repent. ¹³And they cast out many demons, and they anointed many infirm with olive oil and cured them. ¹⁴And King Herod heard about it, for his fame had become well-known, and he said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why deeds of power are at work in him.” ¹⁵Others said, “He is Elijah”, whereas yet others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets.” ¹⁶But when Herod heard about it, he said, “John, whom I had beheaded – that's who it is. He has been raised from the dead.” ¹⁷For Herod himself had had John arrested and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. ¹⁸For John had said to Herod, “It is not permitted for you to have the wife of your brother”, ¹⁹and Herodias bore him a grudge, and she wanted to kill him, but she could not. ²⁰For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him, and when he had heard him, he would do many things, and he used to listen to him with pleasure. ²¹But when an opportune day came – when Herod held a dinner on his birthday for his nobles, and the cohort commanders, and the prominent men of Galilee, ²²and the daughter of Herodias herself had come and danced, and she had pleased Herod and those reclining at table with him – the king said to the young girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.” ²³And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.” ²⁴Then she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” ²⁵Then straightaway she came in with haste to the king and made her request, saying, “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a dish at once.” ²⁶Now the king, who had become greatly grieved, because of the oaths and the guests at table, did not want to deny her the request. ²⁷So the king immediately sent an executioner with instruction that his head should be brought in. ²⁸And he went off and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, and the young girl gave it to her mother. ²⁹Then when his disciples heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and put it in a tomb. ³⁰And the apostles gathered around Jesus and reported everything to him, both what they had done, and what they had taught. ³¹And he said to them, “You yourselves come privately to a desolate place, and rest a short while.” For those who came and went were many, and they did not even have an opportunity to eat. ³²So they went to a desolate place by boat privately. ³³And people saw them departing, and many recognized him, and they were quick to converge there on foot from all the cities, and they arrived before them and gathered round him. ³⁴Then when Jesus went out, he saw a large crowd and felt compassion for them, because they were like sheep which had no shepherd, and he began to teach them many things, ³⁵and with it already being a late hour, his disciples came up to him and said, “The place is desolate and it is already a late hour. ³⁶Send them away so that they can go off into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves loaves of bread, for they do not have anything to eat.” ³⁷But he answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.” Then they said to him, “Should we go off and buy bread for two hundred denaries and give it to them to eat?” ³⁸At this he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” Then when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” ³⁹Then he ordered them to have them all recline in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰And they reclined in groups of a hundred, and of fifty. ⁴¹Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and he looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the bread and kept giving it to his disciples to serve to them, and he shared out the two fish for everyone. ⁴²And they all ate and were satisfied. ⁴³Then they picked up twelve basketsful of pieces, and bits of the fish. ⁴⁴Now those who had eaten the bread amounted to five thousand men. ⁴⁵Then straightaway he made his disciples board the boat and go on ahead, to the far side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the crowd away. ⁴⁶And having bidden them farewell, he went away to a mountain to pray. ⁴⁷Then, when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on land. ⁴⁸And when he saw them being harrowed while rowing (for the wind was against them), he then at about the fourth watch of the night came to them walking on the sea, and he intended to pass by them, ⁴⁹but when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a phantom, and they shouted out. ⁵⁰For all of them saw him and were alarmed. Then straightaway he spoke with them and said to them, “Take heart, it is me. Don't be afraid.” ⁵¹And he climbed up into the boat with them, and the wind abated, and they were most exceedingly amazed and astounded within themselves. ⁵²For they had not understood about the bread, for their heart was hardened. ⁵³Then when they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret and moored there. ⁵⁴And when they had disembarked from the boat, they immediately recognized him, ⁵⁵and they ran round the whole of that neighbouring region and began to bring those who were ill round on stretchers to where they heard that he was. ⁵⁶And wherever he went – to villages or cities or country places – they placed the sick in the market places, and they pleaded with him to just touch the hem of his cloak. And whoever touched him was cured.

¹Then the Pharisees gathered round him, as did some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, ²and seeing some of his disciples with unclean hands (that is, unwashed) eating bread, they found fault. ³For neither the Pharisees nor any Jews eat unless they have washed their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders, ⁴and on return from the market, unless they dip themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to keep to: washings of chalices and pots and copper vessels and beds. ⁵Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?” ⁶To which he answered and said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you, you hypocrites, as it stands written: ⁸For having abandoned the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men: washings of pots and chalices, and you do many other similar things.” ⁹And he said to them, “How finely you set aside the commandment of God so as to keep your own tradition! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother’, and, ‘He who speaks ill of his father or mother must certainly die.’ ¹¹But you approve if a man says to his father or mother, ‘What you might have been benefitted by from me is corban’, which means ‘a gift offering’. ¹²And you don't permit him to do anything any more for his father or his mother, ¹³so you invalidate the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And you do many similar things.” ¹⁴Then when he had called all the crowd to himself, he said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing on the outside of man which can defile him, if it goes into him, but it is the things that come out of him – those are the things which defile man. ¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ¹⁷Then when he went into a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸And he said to them, “Are you also witless in this way? Do you not understand that nothing from outside which goes into a man can defile him? ¹⁹Because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and it goes out into the latrine, a system which makes all foodstuffs clean.” ²⁰And he said, “Now what comes out of a man – that is what defiles man. ²¹For from inside, out of the heart of men, come ill-natured disputes, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²thefts, frauds, wicked acts, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³All these wicked things come out from the inside and defile man.” ²⁴Then he got up and departed from there to the regions between Tyre and Sidon, and he went into a house, not wanting anyone to know, but he could not escape notice. ²⁵For a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit had heard about him, and she came and fell down at his feet. ²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race. And she asked him to cast out the demon from her daughter. ²⁷But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” ²⁸Then she answered and said to him, “Yes, Lord. But even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.” ²⁹Then he said to her, “You may go because of that remark. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” ³⁰And she went off to her house, and she found that the demon had come out and that her daughter had been laid on a bed. ³¹And again he left the borders of Tyre and Sidon and came to the Sea of Galilee in the middle of the districts of Decapolis. ³²And they brought him a man deaf and hardly able to speak, and they pleaded with him to put his hand on him. ³³Then he took him away from the crowd privately and put his fingers in his ears and spat and touched his tongue, ³⁴and he looked up to heaven, and he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha”, which means “be opened.” ³⁵And immediately his sense of hearing was opened and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke properly. ³⁶Then he commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he commanded them, the more profusely they publicized it. ³⁷And they were astounded in the extreme, and they said, “He has done everything well – he enables both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.6 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.7 ↔ Isaiah 29:13 ● v.10 ↔ Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 5:16.

¹In those days when there was a very large crowd, and they didn't have anything to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them, ²“I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have remained with me for three days now and do not have anything to eat. ³And if I send them off to their home fasting, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.” ⁴At this his disciples answered him, “How can anyone feed these people with bread here in the desert?” ⁵Then he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.” ⁶And he instructed the crowd to recline on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, and he gave thanks, and he broke them and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served them to the crowd. ⁷And they had a few small fish, and he blessed them and told them to serve them as well. ⁸So they ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven hampers of surplus pieces. ⁹Now those who ate were about four thousand. And he sent them off. ¹⁰Then he immediately boarded a boat with his disciples and went to the regions of Dalmanutha. ¹¹And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with him, seeking a sign from him from heaven, putting him to the test, ¹²at which he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation keenly seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, there certainly will not be a sign given to this generation.” ¹³Then he left them and again boarded a boat and departed to the other side. ¹⁴Now they had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have any with them in the boat except for one loaf, ¹⁵and he instructed them and said, “Watch out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” ¹⁶At this they argued among themselves and said, “It is because we haven't got any bread.” ¹⁷But Jesus was aware of that and said to them, “Why are you arguing because you haven't got any bread? Don't you discern or understand yet? Do you still have a hardened heart? ¹⁸Do you not see, although you have eyes? And do you not hear, although you have ears? And do you not remember? ¹⁹When I broke five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketsful of pieces did you pick up?” They said to him, “Twelve.” ²⁰“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many hampers full of pieces did you pick up?” And they said, “Seven.” ²¹And he said to them, “How come you do not understand?” ²²Then he came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blind man to him and pleaded with him to touch him. ²³Then he took hold of the blind man's hand and led him out of the village, and he spat into his eyes and put his hands on him, and he asked him if he could see anything. ²⁴And he looked up and said, “I can see men, inasmuch as I can see them walking around looking like trees.” ²⁵Then he put his hands on his eyes again and enabled him to see again, and he was restored, and he saw everyone clearly. ²⁶And he sent him off to his house, and he said, “Do not go into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.” ²⁷Then Jesus went out, as did his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, “Who do men say I am?” ²⁸They replied, “ ‘John the Baptist’, whereas others say, ‘Elijah’, and others, ‘One of the prophets.’ ” ²⁹Then he said to them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter answered and said to him, “You are the Christ.” ³⁰Then he warned them not to tell anyone about himself. ³¹Next he began to teach them that the son of man had to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders and the senior priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and to rise again after three days. ³²Indeed, he would make the assertion openly. Then Peter took him aside, and he began to remonstrate with him. ³³But he turned around and looked at his disciples, and he remonstrated with Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. For you are not mindful of the affairs of God, but those of men.” ³⁴Then he called the crowd to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Let whoever wishes to follow me deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but it is whoever loses his own life for my sake and that of the gospel who will save it. ³⁶For in what way does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his own life? ³⁷Or what will a man give in exchange for his own life? ³⁸For as for whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the son of man will be in turn ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his father with the holy angels.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.18 ↔ Jeremiah 5:21.

¹And he said to them, “Truly, I am telling you that there are some of those standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.” ²Then six days later, Jesus took Peter and James and John along and brought them up to a high mountain alone, privately. Then he was transfigured in front of them. ³And his clothes became shining – very white like snow – clothes of a kind which no cloth dresser on earth can make shine like that. ⁴Moreover Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were speaking to Jesus, ⁵at which Peter responded and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. So let's make three booths: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ⁶For he did not know what he should say, for they were terrified. ⁷Then a cloud materialized and overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my beloved son. Hear him.” ⁸Yet the moment when they looked round, they didn't see anyone any longer, except just Jesus with them. ⁹Then as they came down from the mountain, he commanded them not to recount the things they had seen to anyone until the son of man had risen from the dead. ¹⁰And they kept the matter to themselves, while discussing with each other what rising from the dead meant. ¹¹Then they questioned him and said, “The scribes say that Elijah must come first, don't they?” ¹²Then he answered and said to them, “Elijah does indeed come and restore everything first, so how come it stands written concerning the son of man that he must suffer many things and be thought nothing of? ¹³But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and that they did to him whatever they wanted, as it stands written concerning him.” ¹⁴Then he went to the disciples and saw a large crowd around them, and scribes discussing with them. ¹⁵And immediately, when the whole crowd saw him, they were astounded, and they ran to greet him. ¹⁶Then he asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?” ¹⁷At this one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I have brought you my son who is possessed by a mute spirit. ¹⁸And wherever it seizes him, it tears at him, and he foams and gnashes his teeth, and he becomes dehydrated. Moreover, I told your disciples to cast it out, but they couldn't.” ¹⁹Then he answered him and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him to me.” ²⁰So they brought him to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately convulsed him, and he fell onto the ground and rolled about, foaming. ²¹And he asked his father, “How long is it since this happened to him?” And he said, “Since childhood. ²²And it has often thrown him in both fire and water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, help us and have compassion on us.” ²³Then Jesus, quoting him, said to him, “ ‘If you can’ believe, everything is possible for him who believes.” ²⁴Then the father of the child immediately cried out and said with tears, “I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.” ²⁵Then when Jesus saw that a crowd was converging, he rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not go in to him any more.” ²⁶Then it shouted and convulsed him severely and came out, and he became as though he was dead, so that many said that he had died. ²⁷But Jesus took hold of him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. ²⁸Then when he had gone home, his disciples asked him privately, “Why is it that we could not cast it out?” ²⁹And he said to them, “This kind cannot come out by any means except prayer and fasting.” ³⁰And they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know. ³¹For he kept teaching his disciples and saying to them, “The son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and after being killed, he will rise on the third day.” ³²But they kept failing to understand the statement and were afraid to ask him about it. ³³Then he went to Capernaum, and after going into a house, he asked them, “What did you discuss among yourselves on the way?” ³⁴But they remained silent, for on the way they had discussed with each other who was the greatest. ³⁵Then he sat down and addressed the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be the first, he will be the last of all and the servant of all.” ³⁶Next, he took a child and stood him in front of them, and after taking him in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷“Whoever receives one of such children in my name receives me, and whoever receives me doesn't receive me, but him who sent me.” ³⁸Then John answered him and said, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, someone who does not follow us, and we prevented him, because he does not follow us.” ³⁹But Jesus said, “Do not prevent him, for there is no-one who can perform a deed of power in my name and who will quickly be able to speak ill of me. ⁴⁰For whoever is not against you is for you. ⁴¹For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's – truly, I am telling you – he will certainly not lose his reward. ⁴²And it would be better for anyone who causes one of the little ones who believe in me to stumble, if an upper millstone were put round his neck and he were thrown into the sea. ⁴³So if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better for you to go into life maimed than to go off into Gehenna, into the inextinguishable fire, with two hands, ⁴⁵And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better for you to go off into life lame than to be thrown into Gehenna, into the inextinguishable fire, with two feet, ⁴⁷And if your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It would be better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye, than to be thrown into fiery Gehenna with two eyes, ⁴⁹For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt. ⁵⁰Salt is good. But if salt becomes bland, with what can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and live peaceably among yourselves.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 9: v.44 ↔ Isaiah 66:24 ● v.46 ↔ Isaiah 66:24 ● v.48 ↔ Isaiah 66:24.

¹Then he arose from there and went to the districts of Judaea, through the far side of the Jordan, and again crowds flocked to him, and, as was his custom, he taught them again. ²And when some Pharisees arrived, they asked him, “Is it permitted for a husband to divorce his wife?” testing him. ³And he answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴Then they said, “Moses permitted us to write a deed of divorce and to divorce.” ⁵At this Jesus replied and said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you in view of your hardness of heart. ⁶But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. ⁷On account of this, a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, ⁸and the two will be one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹So let man not separate what God has paired together.” ¹⁰Then at home his disciples again asked him about the same thing, ¹¹and he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹²And if a woman divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.” ¹³Then they brought children to him, so that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. ¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them. For of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a child will certainly not go into it.” ¹⁶Then he took them in his arms and put his hands on them and blessed them. ¹⁷Then as he was setting off on his way, a certain man ran up to him and knelt before him and asked him, “Good teacher, what should I do in order to inherit age-abiding life?” ¹⁸At this Jesus said to him, “Why do you say I am good? No-one is good except one, that is, God. ¹⁹You know the commandments. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not commit murder. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not defraud. Honour your father and your mother.” ²⁰And he answered and said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth.” ²¹Then Jesus looked at him and felt brotherly love for him and said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell what you have and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. And come and follow me and take up the cross.” ²²But he became crestfallen at the proposition and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. ²³Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “With what difficulty those who have money will go into the kingdom of God!” ²⁴Now the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how difficult it is for those trusting in money to go into the kingdom of God!” ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go in through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go into the kingdom of God. ²⁶Then they were utterly amazed, and they said to themselves, “Who, then, can be saved?” ²⁷So Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God. For everything is possible with God.” ²⁸Peter went on to say to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” ²⁹But Jesus answered and said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no-one who has left home, or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, ³⁰who will not receive a hundredfold now, in this season – houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the age to come, age-abiding life. ³¹For many who are first will be last, and who are last will be first.” ³²Now they were on their way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were astounded, and they were afraid as they were following. Then he took the twelve aside again and began to tell them about the things that would happen to him, ³³and he said, “Here we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be delivered up to the senior priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him to the Gentiles. ³⁴And they will mock him and scourge him and spit on him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise again.” ³⁵Then James and John the sons of Zebedee came to him and said, “Teacher, we would like you to do for us whatever we ask.” ³⁶He then said to them, “What would you like me to do for you?” ³⁷They then said to him, “Grant us to sit one on your right and one on your left in your glory.” ³⁸But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup which I drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” ³⁹Then they said to him, “We can.” But Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup which I drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized. ⁴⁰But to sit on my right and my left is not mine to give, but is for those for whom it has been prepared.” ⁴¹Then when the ten heard it, they began to become annoyed with James and John. ⁴²But Jesus called them to himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered fit to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high-ranking people exercise authority over them. ⁴³But it will not be like this among you, but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴and whoever of you wishes to be first must be the servant of all. ⁴⁵For indeed the son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” ⁴⁶Then they arrived in Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho, as did his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, who was blind, was sitting at the side of the road begging. ⁴⁷And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout and say, “Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me.” ⁴⁸At this many rebuked him telling him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me.” ⁴⁹And Jesus stopped and ordered him to be called. So they called the blind man and said to him, “Take courage, get up; he is calling you.” ⁵⁰So he took off his coat and got up and went to Jesus. ⁵¹Then Jesus answered and said to him, “What would you like me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabbouni, to see again.” ⁵²Then Jesus said to him, “Off you go; your faith has cured you.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed Jesus on his way.

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.4 ↔ Deuteronomy 24:1 ● v.6 ↔ Genesis 1:27 ● v.7 ↔ Genesis 2:24 ● v.8 ↔ Genesis 2:24 ● v.19 ↔ Exodus 20:12-16, Deuteronomy 5:16-20.

¹And when they were approaching Jerusalem, Bethsphagé and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples out, ²and he said to them, “Go off into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied up, on which no man has sat. Untie it and bring it. ³And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it’, and he will immediately despatch it here.” ⁴So they went off and found a colt tied to the door outside in the street, and they untied it. ⁵And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” ⁶So they spoke to them as Jesus had commanded, and they left them alone. ⁷Then they led the colt to Jesus and put their clothes on it, and he sat on it. ⁸And many spread their clothes in the way, whereas others cut foliage from the trees and spread them in the way. ⁹Both those who were going in front and those following shouted and said,

¹⁰Blessed is the kingdom of our father David,

Which comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest realms.”

¹¹Then Jesus went into Jerusalem, and into the temple, and when he had looked around at everything, the time already being evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. ¹²And on the next day, after they had departed from Bethany, he was hungry, ¹³so when he saw a fig tree from a distance, which had leaves, he went to see if he would find anything on it. But when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves. After all, it was not the fig season. ¹⁴And reacting, Jesus said to it, “Let no-one ever eat from you any more.” And the disciples heard him. ¹⁵Then they went to Jerusalem, and when Jesus had gone into the temple, he began to throw out those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of those selling doves, ¹⁶and he did not allow anyone to carry a utensil through the temple. ¹⁷Then he gave some teaching and said to them, “Does it not stand written that ¹⁸Now the scribes and the senior priests heard it, and they looked for a way to destroy him. For they feared him, because all the crowd were amazed at his teaching. ¹⁹And when it had become late, he went out of the city. ²⁰Then early in the morning as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree, withered from its roots, ²¹and Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look, the fig tree which you cursed has withered.” ²²Then Jesus replied and said to them, “Have faith in God. ²³For truly, I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be uplifted and cast into the sea’ and does not doubt in his heart, but who believes that what he says will come about – then whatever he says will come to pass for him. ²⁴Which is why I say to you, believe that you will receive everything that you ask for when praying, and it will come to pass for you. ²⁵And when you stand praying, be forgiving if you have anything against anyone, in order that your father in the heavens may forgive you your transgressions. ²⁶But if you do not forgive, neither will your father in the heavens forgive your transgressions.” ²⁷Then they went to Jerusalem again, and while he was walking around in the temple, the senior priests and scribes and the elders came to him, ²⁸and they said to him, “By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority to do these things?” ²⁹Then Jesus replied and said to them, “I for my part will ask you one thing, so answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ³⁰John's baptism – was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.” ³¹Then they reasoned among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him then?’ ³²But should we say, ‘Of men’? ” They feared the people, for everyone held John to really have been a prophet. ³³Then they answered and said to Jesus, “We do not know.” To which Jesus answered and said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 11: v.9 ↔ Psalm 118:25, Psalm 118:26 ● v.10 ↔ Psalm 118:25 ● v.17 ↔ Isaiah 56:7, Jeremiah 7:11.

¹Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence round it and dug a vat pit and built a tower, and he put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad. ²And in due course he sent a servant to the farmers, in order to receive some vineyard fruit from the farmers. ³But they took him and flogged him and sent him off empty-handed. ⁴Then he sent another servant to them. But they stoned that one and beat him on the head and sent him off having been shamefully treated. ⁵Then he sent another one. But they killed that one, and many others, flogging some and killing others. ⁶Well then, still having his one son, his beloved, he also sent him last of all to them, and he said, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷But those farmers said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸So they took him and killed him and disposed of him outside the vineyard. ⁹What, then, will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰And have you not read this scripture: ¹²And they looked for a way to seize him, but they feared the crowd. For they knew that he had levelled the parable at them. So they left him and departed. ¹³Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him to trap him in his speech. ¹⁴So they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not concern yourself about anyone, for you do not regard the outward appearance of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to give census-tax to Caesar or not? ¹⁵Are we to give it or not to give it?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a denary to see.” ¹⁶So they brought one. Then he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.” ¹⁷Then Jesus replied and said to them, “Give the things of Caesar to Caesar and the things of God to God.” And they were amazed at him. ¹⁸Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him and said, ¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone's brother dies, and he leaves a wife, but he does not leave children, that his brother is to take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.’ ²⁰Let's say there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and he died and did not leave seed. ²¹Then the second took her, and he died, and neither did he leave seed. And likewise the third. ²²And the seven took her but did not leave seed. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.” ²⁴Then Jesus replied and said to them, “You are in error in this, aren't you, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God. ²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in the heavens. ²⁶And concerning the dead – the fact that they are raised – have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage about the bush, when God spoke to him and said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. So you are badly in error.” ²⁸Then one of the scribes who had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “What is the first commandment of all?” ²⁹And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.’ ³⁰And, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹And the second is similar – this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” ³²Then the scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You have spoken truly in that, ‘He is one and there is no other apart from him.’ ³³And, ‘To love him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your soul and with all your strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself is greater than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.’ ” ³⁴Then when Jesus saw that he had answered astutely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no-one dared question him any more. ³⁵And Jesus answered them and said, when teaching in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? ³⁶For David himself said by holy spirit, ³⁷David himself, therefore, calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” Now the common people were listening to him with pleasure. ³⁸And he said to them in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes who enjoy walking around in robes, and greetings in the markets, ³⁹and the privileged seats in the synagogues, and the privileged couches at dinners, ⁴⁰who devour widows' houses and for show say long prayers. These will receive a more serious judgment.” ⁴¹Then Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the crowd put copper money into the treasury. And many rich people were putting in a lot, ⁴²but one poor widow put in two leptons, which is a quadrans. ⁴³Then he called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Truly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than anyone of those who contribute to the treasury. ⁴⁴For everyone contributed from their surplus, but this woman from her paucity put in everything she had – her whole livelihood.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.10 ↔ Psalm 118:22 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 118:23 ● v.19 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.26 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.29 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:4 ● v.30 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5 ● v.31 ↔ Leviticus 19:18 ● v.32 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:4, 2 Samuel 22:32, Isaiah 45:5, Psalm 18:32^MT (Psalm 18:31^AV) ● v.33 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18, 1 Samuel 15:22, Isaiah 1:11 ● v.36 ↔ Psalm 110:1.

¹Then as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what impressive stones and buildings these are.” ²At this Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not a stone shall be left on a stone, nor will it escape being reduced to rubble.” ³Subsequently, while he was sitting down on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately and said, ⁴“Tell us, when will these things take place? And what is the sign when all these things are about to be fulfilled?” ⁵Then Jesus answered them and went on to say, “Watch out that no-one leads you astray. ⁶For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the one’, and they will deceive many. ⁷And when you hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be alarmed. For such things must take place, but that is not yet the end. ⁸For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and disorders. These things are the beginnings of birth pains. ⁹But you watch out for yourselves. For they will deliver you to the Sanhedrin councils, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before leaders and kings on account of me, as a testimony to them. ¹⁰And the gospel must be preached to all the nations first. ¹¹Then when they lead you and deliver you up, do not be worried beforehand about what you are to say, and do not rehearse a script, but say whatever is given to you at that hour. For it is not you who will be speaking, but the holy spirit. ¹²And brother will betray brother to death, and father child, and children will rise up against their parents and will have them put to death. ¹³And you will be hated by everyone on account of my name. But it is he who endures to the end who will be saved. ¹⁴Then when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it should not – let him who reads take note – then those in Judaea must flee to the mountains. ¹⁵He who is on the roof must not come down into the house nor go in to take anything from his house, ¹⁶and he who is in the field must not turn back to take his coat with him. ¹⁷But woe to those with child and those who are breastfeeding in those days. ¹⁸And pray that your flight should not be in the winter. ¹⁹For those days will be a tribulation such as has never taken place since the beginning of creation which God created, up to now, and never will be again, ²⁰and if the Lord were not to shorten those days, no flesh would be saved, but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days. ²¹Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ’, or, ‘Look there’, do not believe it. ²²For false Christs and false prophets will rise up, and they will give signs and wonders with the intention of deceiving, if possible, even the elect. ²³So you watch out. There you are, I have told you everything beforehand. ²⁴But in those days, after that tribulation, ²⁶And then they will see the son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷And then he will send his angels, and they will gather up his elect from the four winds, from the extremities of the earth to the extremities of heaven. ²⁸Now learn from the parable of the fig tree. When its branch has already become fresh and is producing leaves, know that the summer is near. ²⁹So too you, when you see these things taking place, know that they are near, right at the doors. ³⁰Truly, I say to you that this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place. ³¹Heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away. ³²But no-one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels who are in heaven, nor the son, except the father. ³³Watch out, be vigilant and pray, for you do not know when the time is. ³⁴It will be like a man abroad, who has left his house and has given his servants authority, and to each one his work, and who has instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵So be vigilant. For you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning, ³⁶so that if he comes suddenly, he does not find you sleeping. ³⁷And I am telling everyone what I am telling you: be vigilant.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.8 ↔ Isaiah 19:2 ● v.12 ↔ Micah 7:6 ● v.14 ↔ Daniel 9:27, Daniel 11:31, Daniel 12:11 ● v.19 ↔ Daniel 12:1 ● v.22 ↔ Deuteronomy 13:2^MT (Deuteronomy 13:1^AV) ● v.24 ↔ Isaiah 13:10 ● v.25 ↔ Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 34:4 ● v.26 ↔ Daniel 7:13.

¹Now two days later it was the Passover and the days of the unleavened bread, and the senior priests and the scribes were looking for a way to catch him by deceit and put him to death. ²But they said, “Not at the festival, so that there will not be a popular uproar.” ³Then when he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, while he was reclining at table, a woman who had an alabaster box of very expensive genuine spikenard ointment came, and she broke the alabaster box and poured it down onto his head. ⁴And some were irritated inwardly and said, “Why has this waste of ointment taken place? ⁵For this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries and given to the poor.” And they railed at her. ⁶But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you giving her trouble? She has done me a good work. ⁷For you always have the poor with you, and you can do them good whenever you want, but you do not always have me. ⁸She has done what she was able to do. She has had the anticipation to anoint my body for my embalming. ⁹Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken about as a memorial to her.” ¹⁰Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the senior priests in order to betray him to them. ¹¹And when they heard it, they were delighted and promised to give him money. Then he looked for a convenient way to betray him. ¹²Then on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they were sacrificing the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover lamb?” ¹³And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go off into the city, and a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him, ¹⁴and wherever he goes to, say to the master of the house, ‘The teacher asks, «Where is the guest-room where I may eat the Passover lamb with my disciples?» ’ ¹⁵Then he will show you a large upper room, laid out and prepared. Prepare for us there.” ¹⁶So his disciples went out and came to the city, and they found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover lamb. ¹⁷Then when it had become late, he came with the twelve. ¹⁸And while they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me: the one who eats with me.” ¹⁹Then they began to grieve and say to him one by one, “Surely not me?” And another would say, “Surely not me?” ²⁰But he answered and said to them, “It is the one of the twelve who dips into the bowl with me. ²¹Now the son of man goes away according to what stands written concerning him. But woe to that man through whom the son of man is betrayed. It would have been better for him if that man had not been born.” ²²Then while they were eating, after Jesus had taken bread and blessed it, he broke it and gave some to them, and he said, “Take this and eat it. This is my body.” ²³Then when he had taken the cup and given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it, ²⁴and he said to them, “This is my blood, that of the new covenant, which is poured out on behalf of many. ²⁵Truly, I say to you that I will no longer drink from the produce of the vine at all until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God.” ²⁶Then they went out to the Mount of Olives, singing hymns. ²⁷Then Jesus said to them, “You will all take offence at me this night, in that it stands written: ²⁸but after I have risen, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” ²⁹Then Peter said to him, “Even if all take offence, still, I will not.” ³⁰Then Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you that you today, this night, before the cock crows twice, will deny me three times.” ³¹But he all the more insistently kept saying, “Even if I need to die with you, I will definitely not deny you.” They all spoke similarly too. ³²Then they came to a place, the name of which was Gethsemané, and he said to his disciples, “Sit down here while I pray.” ³³Then he took Peter and James and John with him, and he began to be struck with astonishment and to be sorely troubled. ³⁴And he said to them, “My soul is extremely sorrowful to the point of death. Remain here and be watchful.” ³⁵Then he approached a little and fell to the ground and prayed that, if it was possible, the hour should pass away from him, ³⁶and he said, “Abba, father, everything is possible with you. Remove this cup from me, but not what I want, but what you want.” ³⁷Then he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not be watchful for one hour? ³⁸Be watchful and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” ³⁹Then he went away again and prayed, and he said the same thing. ⁴⁰Then he returned and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were weighed down, and they did not know what to answer him. ⁴¹Then he came for the third time and said to them, “Sleep from now on and rest. It has passed away. The hour has come. Behold, the son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. ⁴²Get up, let's go. Look, he who will betray me has drawn near.” ⁴³And immediately, while he was still talking, Judas, being one of the twelve, arrived, as did a large crowd with him, with swords and sticks, from the senior priests and the scribes and the elders. ⁴⁴Now he who was betraying him had pre-arranged a signal with them, and he had said, “He whom I kiss, that is him. Seize him and lead him away securely.” ⁴⁵So he went off, and straightaway he went up to him and said to him, “Rabbi, rabbi”, and he kissed him profusely. ⁴⁶Then they laid their hands on him and seized him. ⁴⁷But a certain one of those standing around drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his ear. ⁴⁸But Jesus responded and said to them, “Have you come out as you would against a robber, with swords and sticks to arrest me? ⁴⁹I was with you every day teaching in the temple, but you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled.” ⁵⁰Then they all left him and fled. ⁵¹However, a certain young man followed him, wearing fine linen over his naked body, and the young men seized him, ⁵²but he abandoned the fine linen and fled from them naked. ⁵³Then they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the senior priests and the elders and the scribes went with him. ⁵⁴Meanwhile Peter followed him from a distance up to inside the courtyard of the high priest, and he was sitting with the attendants and was warming himself at the fire. ⁵⁵Now the senior priests and all the Sanhedrin council were looking for a testimony against Jesus, so as to put him to death, but they could not find one, ⁵⁶for many were giving false witness against him, but the testimonies were not in agreement. ⁵⁷Then some stood up and gave false witness against him and said, ⁵⁸“We have heard him say, ‘I will destroy this sanctuary which is made by hands and within three days I will build another not made by hands.’ ” ⁵⁹But their testimonies were not in agreement in this either. ⁶⁰Then the high priest stood up in full view and questioned Jesus and asked, “Do you not answer anything? What are these people testifying against you?” ⁶¹But he remained silent and did not answer anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, “Are you the Christ, the son of the blessed?” ⁶²Then Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven.” ⁶³At this the high priest tore his tunics and said, “Why do we still need witnesses? ⁶⁴You have heard the blasphemy. How does it look to you?” Then they all condemned him to be punishable by death. ⁶⁵Then some began to spit at him, and to blindfold his face, and to buffet him and to say to him, “Prophesy.” Then the attendants would give him sharp slaps on the face. ⁶⁶Then while Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest's maidservants came, ⁶⁷and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked straight at him and said, “You were also with Jesus the Nazarene.” ⁶⁸But he denied it and said, “I do not know or even understand what you are saying.” Then he went out into the forecourt, and the cock crowed. ⁶⁹Then when the maidservant saw him again, she began to say to those standing around, “This man is one of them.” ⁷⁰And he kept on denying it again. And after a short while, those standing around said to Peter again, “You certainly are one of them, and indeed you are a Galilean, and your dialect is similar.” ⁷¹But he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know this man whom you are speaking about.” ⁷²Then the cock crowed a second time. At this Peter remembered the saying that Jesus had spoken to him, “Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.” Then he took it to heart and wept.

Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.27 ↔ Zechariah 13:7.

¹Then straightaway in the morning the senior priests with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin held a council, and they bound Jesus and carried him away and handed him over to Pilate. ²And Pilate questioned him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He then answered and said to him, “As you say.” ³And the senior priests accused him of many things. ⁴Then Pilate questioned him again and asked, “Do you not answer anything? See how many things they testify against you.” ⁵But Jesus no longer answered anything, with the result that Pilate was amazed. ⁶Now at the festival, he would release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked for. ⁷And a man called Barabbas was held bound among the insurgents who had committed murder in the insurrection. ⁸And the crowd shouted out and began to make their request for him to do as he always did for them, ⁹at which Pilate answered them and said, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews to you?” ¹⁰For he knew that the senior priests had delivered him up through envy. ¹¹But the senior priests had stirred up the crowd so that he should rather release Barabbas to them. ¹²Then Pilate replied again and said to them, “What then do you want me to do to him whom you call the king of the Jews.” ¹³Then they shouted again, “Crucify him!” ¹⁴Then Pilate said to them, “Well what has he done wrong?” But they shouted all the more profusely, “Crucify him!” ¹⁵Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and when he had had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified. ¹⁶Next the soldiers led him into the courtyard, which is the governmental compound, and they convened the whole cohort. ¹⁷And they clothed him in purple and put a crown of thorns on him which they had plaited. ¹⁸And they went on to greet him, saying, “Hail, O king of the Jews.” ¹⁹And they kept striking his head with a reed, and spitting on him, and kneeling and paying homage to him, ²⁰and when they had made fun of him, they took off the purple clothing, and they put his own clothes on him, and they led him out in order to crucify him. ²¹And they pressed a certain passer-by, Simon the Cyrene, who was coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. ²²Then they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which in translation is “The Place of the Skull.” ²³And they gave him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it. ²⁴Then when they had started to crucify him, they shared out his clothes among themselves and cast lots for them as to who would take what. ²⁵Now it was the third hour when they crucified him. ²⁶And the inscription of his indictment was inscribed:

“The king of the Jews.”

²⁷Moreover they crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left. ²⁸So the scripture was fulfilled which says, “And he was reckoned with lawless ones.” ²⁹And those passing by blasphemed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Ah, you who would demolish the sanctuary and build it again in three days, ³⁰save yourself and come down from the cross.” ³¹And the senior priests also similarly mocked among themselves along with the scribes and said, “He saved others. He cannot save himself. ³²Let Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe him.” And those crucified with him kept reproaching him. ³³Then, at the sixth hour, darkness descended on the whole earth until the ninth hour. ³⁴And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice and said, “Eloi Eloi, lima sabachthani”, which in translation is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ³⁵At which some bystanders, when they heard it, said, “Look, he is calling on Elijah.” ³⁶Then a certain person ran and filled a sponge with vinegar and put it on a reed and offered it him to drink, and he said, “All right. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down.” ³⁷Then Jesus uttered a loud noise and expired. ³⁸At this point the veil of the sanctuary was split in two from the top to the bottom. ³⁹When the centurion who was standing by opposite him saw that he had shouted and expired in this way, he said, “Truly, this man was the son of God.” ⁴⁰There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were also Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James junior and Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹who had also followed him and served him when he was in Galilee, and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem. ⁴²Then with it being late by this time, since it was the Preparation Day, which is the day before the Sabbath, ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable councillor, who himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, came and ventured to go up to Pilate and asked for Jesus's body. ⁴⁴Now Pilate was surprised that he had already died, and he called for the centurion and asked him if he died a while ago. ⁴⁵Then having ascertained the fact from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶And having bought fine linen, he took him down and wrapped him in the fine linen and deposited him in a sepulchre which had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance to the sepulchre, ⁴⁷while Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses observed where he was being put.

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.28 ↔ Isaiah 53:12 ● v.34 ↔ Psalm 22:2^MT (Psalm 22:1^AV).

¹Then when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices with which to come and anoint him. ²And very early on the first day of the week they came to the sepulchre, with the sun having risen, ³and they were saying to each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance to the sepulchre for us?” ⁴Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. Now it was very large. ⁵Then they went into the sepulchre and saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were astonished. ⁶But he said to them, “Do not be astonished. You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they put him. ⁷But go off and tell his disciples, including Peter, that he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, as he told you.” ⁸At this they went out and ran away from the sepulchre, and trembling and bewilderment possessed them, and they didn't say anything to anyone, for they were afraid. ⁹Then after he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons. ¹⁰She departed and told those who had been in company with him, who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it. ¹²And after this, he was manifested in another form to two of them who were walking around, as they were going to a field. ¹³At this they went off and told the rest. But those did not believe them either. ¹⁴Later, he was manifested to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen. ¹⁵And he said to them, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to the whole of creation. ¹⁶He who has believed and has been baptized will be saved, but he who has not believed will be condemned. ¹⁷And these signs will closely follow those who have believed. They will cast out demons in my name; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸they will take up serpents; even if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them at all; they will lay hands on the infirm, and they will get better.” ¹⁹So then, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into heaven, and he sat down at the right hand of God. ²⁰And they went out and preached everywhere, with the Lord working with them, confirming the word through signs following. Amen.

¹Seeing that many have undertaken to draw up an account concerning the proceedings fully carried through among us, ²just as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses to, and had become servants of, the word – just as they handed those things down to us – ³so it seemed right to me too, who has followed everything accurately from the beginning, to write to you in an orderly way, Your Excellency Theophilus, ⁴in order that you might come to know the certainty of the matters about which you have been taught orally. ⁵In the days of Herod the king of Judaea, there was a certain priest by the name of Zacharias, from the division of Abijah, whose wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. ⁶They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord blamelessly. ⁷Now they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were elderly, ⁸and it came to pass while he was holding the office of priest in the appointed order of his division before God, ⁹in accordance with the custom of the priestly office, that he received the lot of burning incense as he went into the Lord's sanctuary. ¹⁰And while the whole gathering of the people was praying outside at the hour of the incense, ¹¹an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right hand side of the incense altar. ¹²And Zacharias was alarmed when he saw him, and fear fell on him, ¹³but the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your supplication has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call him John, ¹⁴and you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, ¹⁵for he will be great in the Lord's sight, and he will not drink any wine or liquor at all, and he will be filled with holy spirit even from his mother's womb, ¹⁶and he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God. ¹⁷And he will go ahead of him in the spirit and power of Elijah, in order to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the prudence of the righteous, to prepare a people equipped for the Lord.” ¹⁸Then Zacharias said to the angel, “By what means will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is elderly.” ¹⁹Then the angel replied and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you, and to bring you the good tidings of these things. ²⁰Now look, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their due time.” ²¹Meanwhile the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they were surprised at him taking so much time in the sanctuary, ²²and when he came out, he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. So he kept making signs to them, and he remained mute. ²³And it came to pass when the days of his officiating service were completed that he went off to his home, ²⁴and after those days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she hid herself away for five months, and she said, ²⁵“This is how the Lord has acted for me in the days when he condescended to remove my reproach among men.” ²⁶Then in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee, the name of which was Nazareth, ²⁷to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin was Mary, ²⁸and when the angel had come to her, he said, “Greetings, you who have been shown grace. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.” ²⁹Now when she saw this, she was deeply disturbed at his words, and she pondered on what kind of greeting this might be, ³⁰but the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace with God. ³¹And look, you will conceive in the womb and bear a son, and you will give him the name Jesus. ³²He will be great, and he will be called the son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, ³³and he shall reign over the house of Jacob throughout the ages, and there will be no end to his kingdom.” ³⁴Then Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, seeing I do not know a man?” ³⁵At this the angel answered and said to her, “Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you, and on account of this the holy child who will be born will be called the son of God. ³⁶And look, Elizabeth your kinswoman has herself also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren, ³⁷for nothing will prove impossible with God.” ³⁸Then Mary said, “Here am I, the maidservant of the Lord. May it come to pass for me according to your words.” And the angel departed from her. ³⁹Then in those days Mary got up and went with haste into the mountainous region, to a town of Judah, ⁴⁰and she went into Zacharias's house and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹Then it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby in her womb leapt, and Elizabeth was filled with holy spirit, ⁴²and she called out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. ⁴³And from where is this privilege of mine that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴Because, you see, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby leapt for joy in my womb. ⁴⁵And blessed is she who has believed that an accomplishment of the things spoken to her by the Lord will take place.” ⁴⁶Then Mary said,

“My being magnifies the Lord,

⁴⁷And my spirit has rejoiced in God my saviour,

⁴⁸Because he has looked favourably on the lowly status of his maidservant.

For it will be seen that from now on

All generations will pronounce me blessed,

⁴⁹Because he who is mighty

Has done great deeds for me,

And holy is his name,

⁵⁰And his mercy is on those who fear him,

From generation to generation.

⁵¹He has acted in strength with his arm;

He has scattered those who are arrogant

In the thoughts of their heart.

⁵²He has removed powerful men from their thrones

And exalted the lowly;

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things

And sent the rich away empty.

⁵⁴He has helped Israel his servant,

Remembering mercy –

⁵⁵As he said to our fathers,

To Abraham and to his seed

– Throughout the age.”

⁵⁶Then Mary remained with her for about three months, and then returned to her house. ⁵⁷Meanwhile Elizabeth's time for her to give birth became due, and she bore a son. ⁵⁸And her neighbours and relatives heard how the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her. ⁵⁹And it came to pass on the eighth day that they came to circumcise the child, and they called him after the name of his father Zacharias, ⁶⁰but his mother replied and said, “No; instead, he will be called John.” ⁶¹Then they said to her, “There is no-one in your family who is called by that name.” ⁶²So they made signs to his father as to what he wished him to be called. ⁶³At this he asked for a writing-tablet and wrote as follows: “His name is John.” And they were all amazed. ⁶⁴Then his mouth was immediately opened, as was his tongue, and he spoke blessing God. ⁶⁵Then fear came upon all those who lived around them, and in the entire mountainous region of Judaea all these matters were talked about, ⁶⁶and all those who heard it laid it to heart and said, “What then will this child turn out to be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him. ⁶⁷Then Zacharias his father was filled with holy spirit, and he prophesied and said,

⁶⁸“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,

Because he has visited and accomplished redemption

For his people,

⁶⁹And he has raised a horn of salvation for us

In the house of David his servant,

⁷⁰As he spoke by the mouth of the holy ones

– His prophets of old time –

⁷¹Bringing about salvation from our enemies

And from the hand of all those who hate us,

⁷²In showing mercy to our fathers,

And in remembering his holy covenant,

⁷³– The oath which he swore to Abraham our father –

To grant to us,

⁷⁴That we,

After being delivered from the hand of our enemies,

Might serve him fearlessly,

⁷⁵In sanctity and righteousness in his sight,

All the days of our life.

⁷⁶And you, child,

Will be called a prophet of the Most High,

For you will go ahead of the Lord

To prepare his ways,

⁷⁷To impart knowledge of salvation to his people,

By forgiveness of their sins,

⁷⁸By means of the compassionate mercy of our God,

By which one who has sprung up

Has visited us from on high,

⁷⁹In appearing to those living in darkness

And the shadow of death,

To direct our feet onto the way of peace.”

⁸⁰So the child grew up and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert places until the day of his being presented to Israel.

Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.17 ↔ Malachi 3:1, Malachi 3:23^MT (Malachi 4:5^AV), Malachi 3:24^MT (Malachi 4:6^AV).

¹Now it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman world should be registered. ²This first registration took place when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. ³So everyone went to be registered – each one to his own town. ⁴And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judaea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and the paternal lineage of David, ⁵to have himself registered with Mary, the woman betrothed to him, who was expecting a child. ⁶And it came to pass when they were there, that the days for her to give birth became due, ⁷and she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and she laid him in a feeding-trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. ⁸Now there were shepherds in the same region spending the nights in the open and keeping guard over their flock at night, ⁹and behold, the angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were very much afraid. ¹⁰Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for look, I bring you tidings of great joy, which will be to the whole of the people, ¹¹for today a saviour, who is Christ the Lord, was born to you in the city of David. ¹²And this is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a feeding-trough.” ¹³Then suddenly along with the angel came a numerous heavenly company, praising God, and they said,

¹⁴“Glory in the highest realms to God,

And peace on earth;

Goodwill among men.”

¹⁵And it came to pass, when the angels had departed from them for heaven, that the shepherds said to each other, “Let us without fail cross over to Bethlehem and see this episode which has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” ¹⁶So they went, going quickly, and they discovered both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the feeding-trough. ¹⁷Then when they had seen it, they publicized the account which had been told them concerning this child. ¹⁸And all who heard it were astounded at what was told them by the shepherds, ¹⁹but Mary guarded all these things closely, pondering them in her heart. ²⁰Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for everything that they had heard and seen, according to what they were told. ²¹Subsequently, when eight days had passed for the circumcising of him, he was given the name Jesus, which had been given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb. ²²Then when the days of their purification were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, ²³as it stands written in the law of the Lord: “Every male who opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord”, ²⁴and to offer a sacrifice according to what has been spoken in the law of the Lord: “A pair of turtle-doves or two fledgling pigeons.” ²⁵Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and holy spirit was on him, ²⁶and it had been oracularly communicated to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he saw the Lord's Christ, ²⁷and he went under the impulse of the spirit to the temple. And when the parents brought the child Jesus in for them to do what was the custom of the law concerning him, ²⁸he took him in his arms and blessed God and said,

²⁹“Now, Lord,

You can let your servant go,

According to your word,

In peace,

³⁰Because my eyes have seen your salvation,

³¹Which you prepared in front of all peoples:

And for the glory of your people Israel.”

³³Joseph and his mother were amazed at the things said concerning him, ³⁴but Simeon blessed them, and he said to Mary his mother, “Behold, he is destined to be an occasion of falling and rising of many in Israel, and a sign spoken against. ³⁵And a sword will cut through your own soul also, in order that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” ³⁶Also, there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher – she was very elderly and had lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage – ³⁷and she was an eighty-four year old widow, who had not left the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day, ³⁸and she stood by at that very hour and gave thanks to the Lord, and she spoke of him to all those who were awaiting redemption in Jerusalem. ³⁹Then when they had completed all the things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town, Nazareth. ⁴⁰So the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him. ⁴¹And his parents went to Jerusalem every year for the festival of the Passover. ⁴²Then when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival, ⁴³and when they had spent the days there, as they returned, the boy Jesus remained in Jerusalem, but neither Joseph nor his mother knew it, ⁴⁴but they supposed he was in the group of travellers, and they went a day's journey and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, ⁴⁵and when they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem looking for him. ⁴⁶And it was after three days that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and questioning them, ⁴⁷and all those listening to him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. ⁴⁸Then when they saw him, they were astounded, and his mother said to him, “My child, why have you acted this way to us? You can see that your father and I have been very worried looking for you.” ⁴⁹Then he said to them, “How come you were looking for me? Did you not know that I need to be immersed in my father's affairs?” ⁵⁰But they did not understand the remark which he made to them. ⁵¹Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. But his mother kept all these remarks in her heart. ⁵²Meanwhile Jesus progressed in wisdom and stature, and in grace with God and men.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.11 ↔ Isaiah 9:5^MT (Isaiah 9:6^AV) ● v.23 ↔ Exodus 13:2 ● v.24 ↔ Leviticus 12:6 ● v.32 ↔ Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6.

¹Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother was tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, ²at the time when Annas and Caiaphas were high priest, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the desert, ³and he went to the whole area around the Jordan, proclaiming the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins, ⁴as it stands written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, where he says, ⁷Then he said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of adders, who has intimated to you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸Well then, produce fruit worthy of repentance, and do not start saying to yourselves, ‘We have our father Abraham.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones, ⁹and the axe also already lies at the root of the trees. For every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” ¹⁰Then the crowds questioned him and said, “What shall we do, then?” ¹¹At this he replied and said to them, “Let him who has two tunics share with him who does not have any, and let him who has food do likewise.” ¹²Then some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?” ¹³And he said to them, “Do not exact any more than you have been authorized.” ¹⁴Then some men on military service also questioned him, and they said, “And as for us, what shall we do?” At that he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone or falsely accuse anyone, and be satisfied with your pay.” ¹⁵Moreover, since the people were in expectation and everyone was considering John in their hearts, as to whether he might be the Christ, ¹⁶John reacted and said to them all, “I baptize you with water. But he who is mightier than me is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose. He will baptize you with holy spirit and fire, ¹⁷and his winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his store, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire.” ¹⁸Then in many other respects he comforted and brought good tidings to the people. ¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, because he was being rebuked by him concerning Herodias the wife of his brother, and concerning all the wicked things Herod had done, ²⁰added this as well to everything and shut John up in prison. ²¹Then it came to pass, when all the people had been baptized, and Jesus had been baptized and was praying, that heaven was opened, ²²and the holy spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him, and a voice from heaven came and said, “You are my beloved son; I am very pleased with you.” ²³Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old, beginning his ministry, being, as was reckoned by law, the son-in-law of Joseph, who was the son-in-law of Heli, ²⁴who was the son of Mattath, who was the son of Levi, who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Janna, who was the son of Joseph, ²⁵who was the son of Mattathiah, who was the son of Amos, who was the son of Naum, who was the son of Esli, who was the son of Naggai, ²⁶who was the son of Maath, who was the son of Mattathiah, who was the son of Semei, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Judah, ²⁷who was the son of Johanan, who was the son of Resha, who was the son of Zerubbabel, who was the son of Shealtiel, who was the son of Neri, ²⁸who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Addi, who was the son of Cosam, who was the son of Elmodam, who was the son of Er, ²⁹who was the son of Jose, who was the son of Eliezer, who was the son of Jorim, who was the son of Mattath, who was the son of Levi, ³⁰who was the son of Simeon who was the son of Judah, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Jonah, who was the son of Eliakim, ³¹who was the son of Melea, who was the son of Menan, who was the son of Mattattah, who was the son of Nathan, who was the son of David, ³²who was the son of Jesse, who was the son of Obed, who was the son of Boaz, who was the son of Salmon, who was the son of Nahshon, ³³who was the son of Amminadab, who was the son of Ram, who was the son of Hezron, who was the son of Perez, who was the son of Judah, ³⁴who was the son of Jacob, who was the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham, who was the son of Terah, who was the son of Nahor, ³⁵who was the son of Serug, who was the son of Reu, who was the son of Peleg, who was the son of Eber, who was the son of Salah, ³⁶who was the son of Cainan, who was the son of Arphaxad, who was the son of Shem, who was the son of Noah, who was the son of Lamech, ³⁷who was the son of Methuselah, who was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Jared, who was the son of Mahalaleel, who was the son of Cainan, ³⁸who was the son of Enos, who was the son of Seth, who was the son of Adam, who was the son of God.

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.4 ↔ Isaiah 40:3 ● v.5 ↔ Isaiah 40:4 ● v.6 ↔ Isaiah 40:5.

¹Then Jesus, who was full of holy spirit, returned from the Jordan, and he was led by the spirit into the desert, ²and he was tempted by the devil for forty days, and he did not eat anything in those days. Then when they were completed – after all this – he was hungry. ³The devil said to him, “If you are the son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” ⁴At this Jesus answered him and said, “It stands written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ” ⁵Then the devil led him up to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ⁶and the devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, because it has been given to me, and I give it to whomever I wish, ⁷so if you worship me, all that will be yours.” ⁸Then Jesus answered him and said, “Off with you behind me, Satan. It stands written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” ⁹Next he led him to Jerusalem, and he stood him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰for it stands written: ¹¹and, ¹²At this Jesus responded and said to him, “It has been spoken: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” ¹³Then having finished each temptation, the devil withdrew from him for a while, ¹⁴and Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee. Then a report about him spread throughout the entire surrounding region, ¹⁵and he himself taught in their synagogues, and he was glorified by all. ¹⁶Then he went to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and in accordance with his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. ¹⁷Now the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed over to him, and he unrolled the book, and he found the place where it was written: ²⁰Then he rolled the book up and returned it to the attendant, and he sat down. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking at him intently, ²¹but he went on to say to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.” ²²So they all bore witness to him, and they were astounded at the words of grace coming from his mouth, and they said, “Isn't this the son of Joseph?” ²³At this he said to them, “You will no doubt tell me this adage: ‘Doctor, cure yourself. All the things we have heard which took place in Capernaum, do also here in your native country.’ ” ²⁴And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native country, ²⁵and I say to you truthfully, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven had been closed for three years and six months, when there was a severe famine in all the land, ²⁶and Elijah was not sent to any of them except to Sarepta in Sidon, to a widowed woman. ²⁷Also, there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸Then they were all filled with anger in the synagogue on hearing these things, ²⁹and they rose up and threw him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the mountain on which their town had been built, intending to throw him off a precipice, ³⁰but he slipped through the thick of them and went his way. ³¹Then he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and he would teach them on the Sabbath days, ³²and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority. ³³Now there was a man in the synagogue possessed by a spirit of an unclean demon, and he shouted out in a loud voice, ³⁴and he said, “Hey, what have you got to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the holy one of God.” ³⁵Then Jesus rebuked it and said, “Be silent and come out of him.” At this the demon threw him right in among them, and it came out of him, not having harmed him in any way. ³⁶And astonishment came upon them all, and they spoke to each other and said, “What kind of speech is this, where he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out?” ³⁷Consequently, rumours about him spread to every place in the surrounding area. ³⁸Then he left the synagogue and went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever, and they appealed to him concerning her. ³⁹So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she got up and waited on them. ⁴⁰Then when the sun was setting, all those who had folk sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on each one of them and cured them. ⁴¹Demons also came out of many of them, shouting and saying, “You are the Christ the son of God”, but he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. ⁴²Then when it was day, he departed and went to a desolate place, but the crowds looked for him and came up to him and tried to stop him moving on from them. ⁴³So he said to them, “I must also announce good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other towns, because this is what I have been sent for.” ⁴⁴Then he would proclaim it in the synagogues of Galilee.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.4 ↔ Deuteronomy 8:3 ● v.8 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:13, Deuteronomy 10:20 ● v.10 ↔ Psalm 91:11 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 91:12 ● v.12 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:16 ● v.18 ↔ Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 35:5 ● v.19 ↔ Isaiah 61:2 ● v.26 ↔ 1 Kings 17:9.

¹Then it came to pass, when the crowd were pressing him so as to hear the word of God, and he himself was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, ²that he saw two boats standing by the lake. The fishermen had disembarked from them and had washed out their nets. ³So he went on board one of the boats, which was Simon's, and he asked him to put out to sea away from the land a little. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. ⁴Then when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out to the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” ⁵At this Simon answered and said to him, “Master, we have toiled all night long but caught nothing. But at your word I will lower the net.” ⁶Then they did this, and they enclosed a very large number of fish, but their net was beginning to tear, ⁷so they beckoned to their colleagues, who were in the other boat, to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats, so much so that they were on the point of sinking. ⁸Then when Simon Peter saw it, he fell at Jesus's knees and said, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.” ⁹For astonishment had gripped him, and all those with him, at the catch of the fish which they had taken. ¹⁰So too had astonishment gripped James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were companions of Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will be catching men.” ¹¹Then they brought the boats in to land, and they left everything and followed him. ¹²And it came to pass when he was in one of the towns that there was a man infected with leprosy, and when he saw Jesus, he fell face down and pleaded with him, and he said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can cleanse me.” ¹³At this he stretched out his hand and touched him, and he said, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy departed from him. ¹⁴Then he instructed him not to tell anyone, but, he said, “Go off and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them.” ¹⁵But the report about him spread all the more, and many crowds would gather to hear him and to be cured of their infirmities by him. ¹⁶However, he would withdraw to the desolate places and pray. ¹⁷Then it came to pass, on one of those days, that he was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea, and from Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was present to cure them. ¹⁸And there were men bringing a man who was paralysed, on a bed, and they kept trying to bring him in and set him before him, ¹⁹but not finding a way by which they might bring him in, on account of the crowd, they went up onto the roof and lowered him, bed and all, through the tiles in among them in front of Jesus. ²⁰And seeing their faith, he said to him, “Sir, you have been forgiven your sins.” ²¹Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, and they said, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” ²²But having discerned their reasonings, Jesus replied and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³Which is easier, to say, ‘You have been forgiven your sins’, or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? ²⁴But in order that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he said to the paralysed man – “I say to you, get up, and pick up your bed and go to your home.” ²⁵And immediately he got up in their presence, and he picked up what he had been lying on, and he went away to his home, glorifying God. ²⁶At this, amazement gripped them all, and they glorified God, and they were filled with fear, and they said, “We have seen wonders today.” ²⁷Then after these things he went away and saw a tax collector by name of Levi, sitting at the tax collection point, and he said to him, “Follow me.” ²⁸And he left everything and got up and followed him. ²⁹Then Levi organized a big reception in his house for him, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were sitting with them. ³⁰However, the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples and said, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹So Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are in good health who need a doctor, but those who are ill. ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ³³Then they said to him, “Why do John's disciples fast frequently and make supplications, as those of the Pharisees do for their part, whereas yours eat and drink?” ³⁴He then said to them, “Surely you can't make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵But such days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then – in those days – they will fast.” ³⁶And he told them a parable: “No-one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, otherwise the new one will tear, and that of the new material will not be compatible with the old. ³⁷And no-one puts new wine in old wineskins, or else the new wine will tear the wineskins and will itself be spilt, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸But new wine needs to be put in new wineskins, so both are preserved together. ³⁹And no-one who has drunk old wine immediately wants new. For he says, ‘The old is more palatable.’ ”

¹Now it came to pass on a high day Sabbath that he was crossing through the cornfields, and his disciples were plucking ears of corn and eating them, rubbing them with their hands. ²And some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath days?” ³So Jesus replied to them and said, “Have you not read this – what David did when he was hungry – he and those with him – ⁴when he went into the house of God and took the showbread loaves and ate from them, and gave some to those who were with him as well, loaves which it is not permitted to eat, except for the priests alone?” ⁵So he said to them, “The son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath as well.” ⁶And it also came to pass on another Sabbath that he went into the synagogue and gave teaching, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. ⁷The scribes and the Pharisees, however, watched carefully to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find an accusation against him. ⁸But he knew their reasonings, and he said to the man who had a withered hand, “Get up and stand in full view.” And he got up and stood there. ⁹So Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something. Is it permitted to do good or bad – to save life or to kill – on the Sabbath days?” ¹⁰Then he looked round at them all and said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” So he did that, and his hand was restored as sound as the other one. ¹¹But they were filled with senselessness, and they discussed with each other what they might do to Jesus. ¹²And it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he passed the night in prayer to God. ¹³Then when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: ¹⁴Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who for his part became a traitor. ¹⁷Then he went down with them, and he stood in a place on the plain, and there was a crowd of his disciples, and a very large number of the people from the whole of Judaea and Jerusalem and the coastal area of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. ¹⁸There were also those troubled by unclean spirits, and they were healed. ¹⁹And the whole crowd kept trying to touch him, because power would go out from him and cure everyone. ²⁰Then he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said,

“Blessed are you poor,

Because yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹Blessed are you who are hungry now,

For you will be satisfied.

Blessed are you who weep now,

Because you will laugh.

²²Blessed are you when men hate you,

And when they ostracize you

And reproach you

And reject your name as evil,

On account of the son of man.

²³Rejoice on that day and leap for joy,

For you will see that your reward is great in heaven.

After all, their fathers acted along those lines towards the prophets.

²⁴But woe to you who are rich,

Because you have your due consolation.

²⁵Woe to you who have been filled,

For you will be hungry.

Woe to you who are laughing now,

For you will mourn and weep.

²⁶Woe when men speak well of you.

After all, their fathers acted along those lines towards the false prophets.

²⁷But I say to you who are listening, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸bless those who curse you; pray for those who deal spitefully with you. ²⁹To him who hits you on the cheek, offer the other one also, and from him who takes your coat, do not withhold your tunic either. ³⁰And give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for anything back from him who takes your goods. ³¹And as you would want men to do to you, do the same to them yourselves for your part. ³²And if you love those who love you, what kind of graciousness is that to you? For even the sinners love those who love them. ³³And if you do good to those who do good to you, what kind of graciousness is that to you? For even the sinners do the same. ³⁴And if you lend things to those from whom you hope to get them back, what kind of graciousness is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners on terms that they get the same things back. ³⁵But love your enemies, and do good, and lend not hoping for anything back, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the unthankful and wicked. ³⁶So be compassionate, as your father is compassionate for his part. ³⁷And do not judge, and you will not be judged at all. Do not condemn, so that you will not be condemned at all. Acquit others, and you will be acquitted. ³⁸Give, and you will be given. They will give you a good measure, compacted and shaken and overflowing in your bosom. For with the same measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you in turn.” ³⁹Then he told them a parable. “Surely a blind man cannot guide a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰The disciple is not above his teacher, but each will be equipped like his teacher. ⁴¹And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the joist in your own eye? ⁴²Or how can you say to your brother, ‘My brother, let me extract the splinter in your eye’, not seeing the joist in your own eye yourself? You hypocrite! First extract the joist from your eye, and then you will see clearly to extract the splinter in your brother's eye. ⁴³For there is no good tree which produces rotten fruit, nor is there a rotten tree which produces good fruit. ⁴⁴For each tree is known by its own fruit. For one does not gather figs from thorn plants, nor does one harvest a bunch of grapes from a bramble bush. ⁴⁵A good man produces what is good from the good store of his heart, whereas the wicked man produces wickedness from the wicked store of his heart. For his mouth speaks from the overflow of his heart. ⁴⁶Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’, but do not do what I say? ⁴⁷I will show you what everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them is like. ⁴⁸He is like a man who built a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on rock. Then when a flood came, the river beat against that house, but it was not strong enough to shake it, for it had been founded on rock. ⁴⁹But he who hears but does not do accordingly is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the river beat, so that it immediately collapsed, and the devastation of that house was severe.”

¹Then when he had finished all his words in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum. ²Now the servant of a certain centurion, who was highly valued by him, was ill and on the point of dying, ³and having heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him requesting him to come and save his servant. ⁴Then when they had come to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, and they said that he to whom he would grant this was worthy of it, ⁵and they said, “For he loves our nation, and he himself built the synagogue for us.” ⁶So Jesus went with them, and by the time he was not far away from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, who said to him, “Lord, do not put yourself to trouble, for I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof, ⁷which is why I have not considered myself worthy to come to you either. But just say the word and my servant will be cured. ⁸For indeed I am a man appointed under a system of authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to one, ‘Go’, and he goes, and to another, ‘Come’, and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this’, and he does it.” ⁹When Jesus heard these things, he was astonished at him, and he turned and said to the crowd who were following him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found so much faith.” ¹⁰Then those who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant who had been ailing in good health. ¹¹And it came to pass soon afterwards that he went to a town called Nain, and a considerable number of his disciples went with him, and also a large crowd, ¹²and when he approached the gate of the town, it transpired that a dead youth was being carried out – the only-begotten son of his mother – and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. ¹³Then when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don't cry.” ¹⁴And he went up and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still, and he said, “Young man, I say to you, get up.” ¹⁵At this the dead youth sat up and began to speak. Then he gave him to his mother. ¹⁶Then fear gripped everyone, and they glorified God, and they said, “A great prophet has arisen among us”, and, “God has visited his people.” ¹⁷And this report about him spread in the whole of Judaea and in all the neighbouring area. ¹⁸Moreover, John's disciples reported back to him concerning all these things, ¹⁹at which John called for a certain two of his disciples and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” ²⁰Then when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you asking, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?’ ” ²¹Now in that very hour he cured many of their diseases and infirmities and evil spirits, and he granted many blind their sight. ²²And Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report back to John what you have seen and heard: that the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear again, the dead are raised; good tidings are preached to the poor. ²³And blessed is whoever does not stumble at me.” ²⁴Then when John's messengers had departed, he began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out in the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind? ²⁵Well then, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in delicate clothes? You know that people in elegant clothing and living in luxury are to be found in royal palaces. ²⁶So what then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and one more eminent than a prophet. ²⁷This man is he about whom it stands written: ²⁸For I say to you, no-one among those born from women is a greater prophet than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” ²⁹Then when all the people had heard it, including the tax collectors, they pronounced God righteous, having been baptized with John's baptism. ³⁰But the Pharisees and scholars in the law rejected God's counsel to them and were not baptized by him. ³¹“To whom then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they similar? ³²They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to each other, and saying,

‘We have played the flute to you,

But you have not danced.

We have sung you a dirge,

But you have not wept.’

³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ ³⁴The son of man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a gluttonous and wine-drinking man, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ ³⁵But wisdom is justified by all her children.” ³⁶Then one of the Pharisees asked him to dine with him. So he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined. ³⁷Now there was a woman in the town, who was a sinner, who had found out that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, and she brought an alabaster box of ointment, ³⁸and she stood at his feet weeping behind him, and she began to wet his feet with the tears and wipe them off with the hairs of her head, and she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. ³⁹But when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who, and what kind of woman, it is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” ⁴⁰At this Jesus reacted and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” Then he said, “Teacher, say it.” ⁴¹“There were two debtors to a certain money-lender. One owed five hundred denaries, the other fifty. ⁴²Since they did not have the means to repay, he waived the debt for both of them. Which of them, then”, he said, “will love him more?” ⁴³Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one for whom he waived the greater debt.” Then he said to him, “You have judged correctly.” ⁴⁴Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house, but you did not put water on my feet. But she wet my feet with tears and wiped them off with the hairs of her head. ⁴⁵You did not give me a kiss. But from the time I came in, she did not stop kissing my feet. ⁴⁶You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. ⁴⁷For this reason I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, so that she loved me a lot. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.” ⁴⁸And he said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven.” ⁴⁹Then those reclining at table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” ⁵⁰But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.27 ↔ Malachi 3:1.

¹Then it came to pass shortly afterwards that he travelled from city to city and village to village preaching and bringing good tidings of the kingdom of God, the twelve being with him also, ²as also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out, ³and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's administrator, and Susanna and many others, and they attended to them with their own resources. ⁴Then when a large crowd had assembled and people of various towns had come to him, he spoke using a parable: ⁵“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed it, some fell beside the road and was trodden on, and the birds of the sky ate it up. ⁶And some fell on rock, where, after growing, it dried up, because it did not have moisture. ⁷And some fell amid the thorn bushes, and when the thorn plants had grown up with it, they smothered it. ⁸And other seed fell onto good ground, and it grew up, and it produced a hundredfold yield.” While he was saying these things, he would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” ⁹But his disciples questioned him and said, “What does this parable mean?” ¹⁰Then he said, “To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are described in parables, ¹¹Now this is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God. ¹²Those beside the road are they who hear, but then the devil comes and removes the word from their hearts, in order that they might not believe and be saved. ¹³Those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but these do not have root, and they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away. ¹⁴That which fell into the thorn bushes is those who hear but are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life as they go, and they do not go on to produce fruit. ¹⁵But that on the good ground is those with a noble and good heart who hear the word and hold on to it and bear fruit with patience. ¹⁶No-one who has lit a lamp hides it with a container or puts it under a bed, but rather puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light. ¹⁷For there is nothing hidden that will not become manifest, nor anything secret that will not become known and come into the open. ¹⁸So watch out how you hear. For whoever has something, more will be given to him, but whoever does not have anything, even that which he thinks he has will be taken from him.” ¹⁹Then his mother and brothers came to him, but they were unable to reach him on account of the crowd. ²⁰And it was reported to him by people saying, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” ²¹But he replied and said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.” ²²Then it came to pass in one of those days that he went on board a boat, as did his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set sail. ²³Now as they were sailing, he fell asleep. Then a squall descended on the lake, and they were filling up with water, and they were in danger. ²⁴So they went to him, and they woke him up and said, “Master, master, we are in mortal danger.” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and the dashing of the water, and they stopped, and it became calm. ²⁵Then he said to them, “Where is your faith?” But they were afraid and astonished, and they said to each other, “Who is this then, in that he even commands the winds and water, and they obey him?” ²⁶Then they put in at the region of the Gadarenes, which is on the opposite side to Galilee. ²⁷And when he had disembarked onto land, a certain man from the town met him, a man who had been possessed by demons for a considerable time, and who was not wearing any outer clothing, and who did not stay at home, but among the tombs. ²⁸And when he saw Jesus, he shouted out and fell down at him and said in a loud voice, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the Most High God? I implore you, do not torment me.” ²⁹For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for it had held him in its grip for a long time, and he was kept under guard bound with chains and fetters, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into desolate places. ³⁰Then Jesus questioned him and said, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion”, for many demons had entered him. ³¹And he pleaded with him not to command them to go away into the abyss. ³²Now there was a herd there of a considerable number of pigs feeding on the mountain, and they pleaded with him to allow them to go into them. At this he allowed them. ³³Then when the demons had come out of the man, they went into the pigs, whereupon the herd rushed headlong down the cliff into the lake and drowned. ³⁴Then when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the city and in the fields. ³⁵So they came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and they found the man out of whom the demons had come sitting down, clothed, and in his senses, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid. ³⁶Then those who had actually seen it related to them how he who had been possessed by demons had been cured. ³⁷However, the whole populace of the surrounding area of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, because they were gripped by a great fear. So he went on board a boat and returned. ³⁸But the man out of whom the demons had come implored him to stay with him. However, Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹“Return to your home, and tell them about what God has done for you.” At this he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰Then it came to pass when Jesus returned that the crowd welcomed him, for they were all awaiting him, ⁴¹and the next thing that happened was that a man, whose name was Jairus, who was president of the synagogue, came and fell at Jesus's feet and implored him to come into his house, ⁴²because he had an only-begotten daughter, twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went off, the crowds pressed him, ⁴³and a woman who had been suffering from a haemorrhage for twelve years, who had spent all her life-savings on doctors, but who had not been able to be cured by anyone, ⁴⁴came up from behind and touched the hem of his coat, and immediately her haemorrhage stopped. ⁴⁵At this Jesus said, “Who is it who touched me?” Since everyone denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the crowds are pressing you and thronging you, yet you ask, ‘Who is it who touched me?’ ” ⁴⁶But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I am aware that power has gone out from me.” ⁴⁷Then when the woman saw that she had not gone unnoticed, she came trembling and fell down at him and explained to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she had been cured immediately. ⁴⁸He then said to her, “Be of good courage, my daughter, your faith has cured you. Go in peace.” ⁴⁹While he was still speaking, someone came from the entourage of the president of the synagogue saying to him, “Your daughter has died; do not trouble the teacher.” ⁵⁰But when Jesus heard it, he replied to him and said, “Do not fear; just believe, and she will be saved.” ⁵¹Then when he had come to the house, he did not permit anyone to go in, except Peter and John and James and the father of the child, and the mother. ⁵²Everyone was weeping, and mourning her. But he said, “Do not weep; she has not died, but is sleeping.” ⁵³They then ridiculed him, since they knew that she had died. ⁵⁴But he sent them all out and held her hand and called out and said, “Child, get up”, ⁵⁵at which her spirit returned, and she immediately stood up. Then he ordered her to be given something to eat. ⁵⁶And her parents were astonished, but he instructed them not to tell anyone what had taken place.

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.10 ↔ Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10.

¹Next he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases, ²and he sent them away to proclaim the kingdom of God and to cure those who were ill. ³And he said to them, “Do not take anything for the journey, neither staffs nor wallet, nor bread, nor money, nor have two coats each, ⁴and stay in whatever house you go into, and go out from there. ⁵But as for whoever does not receive you, go out of that city and shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.” ⁶So they departed and passed through from village to village bringing good tidings and healing people everywhere. ⁷Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all the things being done by him, and he was quite put out, with it being said by some that John had been raised from the dead, ⁸and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the ancient prophets had risen. ⁹Then Herod said, “I had John beheaded. So who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he looked for a way to see him. ¹⁰Meanwhile the apostles returned and described to him the things which they had done, at which he took them along and withdrew privately to a deserted place in the city called Bethsaida, ¹¹but the crowds, having come to know about it, followed him. Nevertheless, he received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed curing. ¹²Then the day began to decline, and the twelve came up and said to him, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go off to the surrounding villages and fields to lodge and find provisions, because here we are in a desolate place.” ¹³But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They then said, “We do not have more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go to buy food for all these people.” ¹⁴After all, there were about five thousand men there. Then he said to his disciples, “Seat them in groups of fifty.” ¹⁵So they did this, and they had them all recline. ¹⁶Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and he looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke them and gave them to the disciples to serve to the crowd. ¹⁷And they all ate and were filled, and the fragments they left over were picked up: twelve basketsful. ¹⁸Subsequently, it came to pass when he was praying on his own, that his disciples were with him, and he questioned them and asked, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” ¹⁹They answered and said, “John the Baptist, while others say Elijah, and others that one of the ancient prophets has risen.” ²⁰Then he said to them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter then answered and said, “The Christ of God.” ²¹At this he warned them and forbade them to tell anyone this, ²²and he said, “The son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and senior priests and scribes, and be killed, and rise on the third day.” ²³Then he said to everyone, “If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁴For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but it is whoever loses his life for my sake who will save it. ²⁵For how is man benefitted if he has gained the whole world but has lost or suffered damage to his very self? ²⁶For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the son of man will be ashamed of him when he enters into his glory and that of the father and that of the holy angels. ²⁷And I say to you, truly, there are some of those standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.” ²⁸Then it came to pass about eight days after these words that he took Peter and John and James along with him and went up the mountain to pray. ²⁹And as he was praying, the appearance of his face became different, and his clothing became white as it flashed like lightning. ³⁰Then two men, who were Moses and Elijah, became visible and were talking with him, ³¹and they appeared in glory, and they were speaking of his departure from this life, which he was about to fulfil in Jerusalem. ³²Then Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. ³³And it came to pass as they moved away from him that Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here, so let us make three booths, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah”, not knowing what he was saying. ³⁴But as he was saying these things, a cloud materialized and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as the two aforementioned went into the cloud. ³⁵Then a voice came out of the cloud and said, “This is my beloved son. Hear him.” ³⁶And when the voice had passed, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silence and did not disclose to anyone in those days anything of what they had seen. ³⁷Then it came to pass on the next day when they had come down from the mountain that a large crowd met him. ³⁸And it so happened that a man from the crowd shouted out and said, “Teacher, I implore you to have an eye to my son, for he is my only-begotten child, ³⁹and what happens is that a spirit gets possession of him, and he suddenly shouts out, and it convulses him with foaming, and it hardly recedes from him as it crushes him. ⁴⁰And I pleaded with your disciples to cast it out, but they couldn't.” ⁴¹At this, Jesus replied and said, “O faithless and wayward generation, how long will I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.” ⁴²Even as he was coming, the demon tore at him and convulsed him. Jesus, however, rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and gave him back to his father. ⁴³And they were all astonished at the majesty of God. And while they all marvelled at everything Jesus did, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁴“Lay these words to your ears. For the son of man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.” ⁴⁵But they failed to understand this remark, and it was veiled from them, so that they did not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this remark. ⁴⁶Then a dispute arose among them as to who might be the greatest of them. ⁴⁷But Jesus, having seen the disputing of their heart, took hold of a child and stood him next to himself, ⁴⁸and he said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is he who is least among you all who will be great.” ⁴⁹Then John responded and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we prevented him, because he does not follow with us.” ⁵⁰But Jesus said to him, “Do not prevent him, for he who is not against us is for us.” ⁵¹Now it came to pass, towards the completion of the days to him being taken up, that he resolutely disposed himself to go to Jerusalem. ⁵²And he sent messengers ahead of him, who departed and went into a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. ⁵³But they did not receive him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. ⁵⁴Then when his disciples James and John saw him, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and destroy them, as Elijah did for his part?” ⁵⁵But he turned round and rebuked them and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are. ⁵⁶For the son of man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.” Then they went to another village. ⁵⁷Then it came to pass as they were going on the way that someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go, Lord.” ⁵⁸But Jesus said to him, “The foxes have dens, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the son of man does not have anywhere to lay his head.” ⁵⁹He also said to someone else, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, allow me to go off and bury my father first.” ⁶⁰However, Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go off and proclaim the kingdom of God.” ⁶¹Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord. But first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house.” ⁶²But Jesus said to him, “No-one, having put his hand to the plough, but looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

¹Then after these things the Lord appointed another seventy in addition, and he sent them in twos ahead of him into every town and place where he was going to go himself. ²Then he said to them, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So entreat the Lord of the harvest to send out workers to his harvest. ³Off you go. Mark this, I am sending you as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴Do not carry a purse or wallet, or footwear, and do not greet anyone on the way. ⁵In whatever house you go into, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’ ⁶And if there is a man of peace there, your peace will rest on him. But if not, it will turn back on you. ⁷And remain in that house eating and drinking what they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house. ⁸So in whatever town you go into and they receive you, eat what is served to you, ⁹and cure the sick in it, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has drawn close to you.’ ¹⁰But as for whatever town you go into and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹‘We are wiping away even the dust from your town which has stuck to us, so testifying against you. But know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn close to you.’ ¹²And I say to you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on that day than for that town. ¹³Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes a long time ago. ¹⁴However, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon than for you towns in the judgment. ¹⁵And you, Capernaum, which have been elevated to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. ¹⁶He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.” ¹⁷Subsequently, the seventy returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.” ¹⁸He then said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning. ¹⁹Here you are, I give you the authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over every power of the enemy, and nothing at all will harm you. ²⁰But do not rejoice at this, in that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice in that your names have been written in the heavens.” ²¹At that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the spirit and said, “I give thanks to you, father, Lord of heaven and the earth, in that you have hidden these things from the wise and clever and have revealed them to infants. Indeed, father, because this met with your approval”. ²²Then he turned to his disciples and said, “Everything has been handed over to me by my father. And no-one knows who the son is except the father, and who the father is except the son, and whoever the son wishes to reveal it to.” ²³Then he turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see what you see. ²⁴For I say to you that many prophets and kings have wanted to see the things which you see but did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear but did not hear them.” ²⁵Then what happened was that a certain scholar in the law stood up, testing him, and he said, “Teacher, by doing what will I inherit age-abiding life?” ²⁶At this, he said to him, “What stands written in the law? How do you read it?” ²⁷He then replied and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself.” ²⁸Then he said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this and you shall live.” ²⁹But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?” ³⁰Jesus then rejoined and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who for their part stripped him and gave him a beating and went off leaving him, as his fate would have it, half dead. ³¹And by chance a certain priest was going down by that road, and when he saw him, he passed by opposite. ³²And likewise also a Levite, who had come down to the place, came and saw him, and he passed by opposite. ³³But a certain Samaritan on a journey came down to him and saw him, and he had compassion on him, ³⁴and he went to him and bound up his wounds, and he poured oil and wine on them, and he mounted him on his own beast, and he brought him to an inn and took care of him. ³⁵Then on the next day when he departed, he produced two denaries, and he gave them to the inn-keeper and said to him, ‘Take care of him, and whatever you spend in addition I will repay you when I return.’ ³⁶Which, then, of these three do you consider to have emerged as the neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?” ³⁷He then said, “He who showed him compassion.” So Jesus said to him, “You go too, and do likewise.” ³⁸Then it came to pass as they were on the move that he went into a certain village, and a certain woman by name of Martha received him into her house. ³⁹Now this woman had a sister called Mary, who had sat down beside Jesus's feet and was listening to his words. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted with a lot of serving. Then she came up and said, “Lord, are you not concerned that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? So tell her to assist me.” ⁴¹But Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and agitated about many things. ⁴²But one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.27 ↔ Leviticus 19:18, Deuteronomy 6:5.

¹And it came to pass when he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, that one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John for his part taught his disciples.” ²So he said to them, “When you pray, say,

‘Our father in the heavens,

May your name be sanctified.

May your kingdom come.

May your will be done,

As in heaven,

So on the earth.

³Give us our oncoming bread daily,

⁴And forgive us our sins,

For indeed we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.

And do not lead us into temptation,

But save us from evil.’ ”

⁵Then he said to them, “Who among you has a friend, and would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, ‘My friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶because a friend has arrived at my house from a journey, and I do not have anything to serve him’? ⁷Then from indoors he would reply and say, ‘Do not give me trouble. The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you any.’ ⁸I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him something because he is his friend, he will get up anyway and give him what he needs because of his shameless behaviour. ⁹And I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. ¹¹Which of you, as the father, if your son were to ask for bread, would give him a stone? Or also if he were to ask for a fish, instead of a fish would give him a serpent? ¹²Or also if he were to ask for an egg, would give him a scorpion? ¹³So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father from heaven give holy spirit to those who ask him!” ¹⁴Subsequently, he was casting out a demon, and it was mute. And it came to pass that when the demon had come out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds were amazed. ¹⁵But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons”, ¹⁶whereas others, testing him, wanted a sign from heaven from him. ¹⁷But he, knowing their cogitations, said to them, “Every kingdom which is divided against itself is made desolate, and a house divided against a house falls. ¹⁸So then, if Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out the demons by Beelzebul. ¹⁹And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people cast them out? By this logic, they themselves will be judges over you. ²⁰But if I cast out the demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. ²¹As long as a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are in peace, ²²but as soon as one stronger than he arrives and overcomes him, he will take his weaponry, in which he trusted, and he will divide his spoils. ²³He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. ²⁴Whenever an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it traverses arid places seeking a resting place, and if it does not find it, it says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came out’, ²⁵and when it has arrived there, it finds it swept clean and tidied up. ²⁶Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself along with it, and they go and dwell there, and the latter state of that man becomes worse than the first.” ²⁷And it came to pass as he was saying these things that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb which carried you and the breasts which you sucked.” ²⁸But he said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” ²⁹As the crowds continued to accumulate, he went on to say, “This generation is wicked. It is looking for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet, ³⁰for as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the son of man will also be to this generation. ³¹The queen of the south will rise in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. ³²The men of Nineveh will rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. ³³And no-one lights a lamp and puts it in a vault, or under a bushel of corn, but on a lampstand, so that those coming in can see its glow. ³⁴The light of the body is the eye. So when your eye is clear-sighted then the whole of your body will be bright, but if it is ill-disposed then your body is dark. ³⁵So watch out that the light in you is not actually darkness. ³⁶Therefore, if the whole of your body is bright, not having any dark part, it will be bright all over, as when a lamp lights you up with its brilliance.” ³⁷Now while he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him, and he went and reclined at table. ³⁸And the Pharisee, when he saw it, was astounded that he did not first perform ablutions before the meal. ³⁹Then the Lord said to him, “Well now, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰You fools, did not he who made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹But give as alms inward things, and you will find that everything is clean for you. ⁴²But woe to you, you Pharisees, because you give tithes of mint and rue, and every herb, but you pass by the judgment and love of God. You ought to have done these things, while not neglecting the former things. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the privileged seating in the synagogues and the greetings in the market places. ⁴⁴Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like the inconspicuous tombs, and the men walking around above them are unaware of them.” ⁴⁵Then one of the scholars in the law answered and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things, you are insulting us as well.” ⁴⁶But he said, “Woe to you scholars in the law too, for you burden men with burdens which are hard to bear, but you yourselves do not feel what the burdens are like with a single one of your fingers. ⁴⁷Woe to you, because you build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸Consequently, you bear witness and approve of the works of your fathers, because they themselves killed them, whereas you build their sepulchres. ⁴⁹On account of this the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send prophets and apostles to them’, but they will kill some of them and persecute them, ⁵⁰so that an account is required from this generation of the blood of all the prophets which has been shed since the overthrow of the world, ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I say to you, an account will be required from this generation. ⁵²Woe to you scholars of the law, because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not go in, and you have prevented those who were going in.” ⁵³Now while he was saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to harbour an intense grudge and to draw him out on very many matters, ⁵⁴ensnaring him, looking for a way to catch something out of his mouth, in order to accuse him.

¹Meanwhile as myriads of the crowd gathered together to the point of treading on each other, he went on to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ²There is nothing well-veiled that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not become known, ³because whatever you have said in darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken to the ear in closed rooms will be proclaimed on the rooftops. ⁴But I say to you friends of mine, do not fear those who can kill the body but after that are unable to do anything more. ⁵And I will show you whom to fear. Fear him who after killing has authority to throw into Gehenna. Yes, I say to you, fear him. ⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷But even the hairs on your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows. ⁸And I say to you, as regards everyone who acknowledges me in the presence of men – the son of man will in turn acknowledge him before the angels of God. ⁹But he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God. ¹⁰Now as for anyone who speaks a word against the son of man, it will be forgiven him, but it will not be forgiven him who blasphemes against the holy spirit. ¹¹And when they haul you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not be concerned about how or what you should answer in defence, or what you should say, ¹²for the holy spirit will teach you at that hour what it is necessary to say.” ¹³Then someone said to him from the crowd, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” ¹⁴But he said to him, “Sir, who appointed me as a judge or an apportioner over you?” ¹⁵And he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves against greed. For it is not the abundance of a person's possessions which makes up his life.” ¹⁶Then he told them a parable and said, “The estate of a certain rich man gave a good yield. ¹⁷And he thought things over and said, ‘What should I do? For I do not have anywhere to gather up my fruits into.’ ¹⁸And he said, ‘This is what I will do – I will demolish my storehouses and build bigger ones, and I will gather up there all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹And I will say to myself, «Self, you have many goods laid up for many years. Have a rest, eat, drink and be merry.» ’ ²⁰But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night they demand your life from you. Then who will have what you have prepared?’ ²¹Such is he who treasures things up to himself, but who does not become rich towards God.” ²²Then he said to his disciples, “This is why I say to you, do not be concerned about yourself, as to what you will eat, or about your body, as to what you will wear. ²³Your life is more than food, and your body is more than its clothing. ²⁴Observe the ravens, how they do not sow or reap, which have neither store nor barn, yet God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds! ²⁵And who among you can add one cubit to his height by being anxious? ²⁶So if you cannot do even a very small thing, why are you anxious about the remaining things? ²⁷Observe the lilies – how they grow. Yet they neither toil nor spin thread. But I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. ²⁸And if God so clothes the vegetation in the field which is in existence today, but which is thrown into a furnace tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith! ²⁹So don't you concentrate on what you will eat or what you will drink, and do not be in suspense about it, ³⁰for the nations of the world concentrate on all these things, but your father knows that you need these things. ³¹Rather, seek the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you. ³²Do not fear, you little flock. For it pleased your father to give you the kingdom. ³³Sell your belongings and give alms. Make yourselves purses which do not wear out – an unfailing treasure in the heavens where no thief comes near, nor does a moth cause ruin. ³⁴For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ³⁵Let your loins be girded and your lamps be burning, ³⁶and you yourselves be like men awaiting their master when he returns from the wedding reception, so that when he comes and knocks, they open to him immediately. ³⁷Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on the alert when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them recline at table, and he will come up to them and serve them. ³⁸And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them like this, blessed are those servants. ³⁹And know this: if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰So you also be prepared, because at an hour when you don't expect it, the son of man will come.” ⁴¹Then Peter said to him, “Lord, are you saying this parable to us or to everyone else as well?” ⁴²And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward whom the master will appoint over his body of servants to give them their ration of wheat at the proper time? ⁴³Blessed is that servant whom his master will find acting this way when he comes. ⁴⁴Truly, I say to you that he will appoint him over all his possessions. ⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking a long time coming’, and he starts beating the menservants and maidservants, and eating and drinking, and becoming drunk, ⁴⁶that servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect it, and at an hour which he does not know, and he will cut him in two and assign his lot with the unfaithful. ⁴⁷And that servant, who knew his master's will but did not make preparations nor act in accordance with his will, will be flogged with many lashes. ⁴⁸But he who did not know, and who acted in a way worthy of beating, will be flogged with few lashes. From everyone to whom much is given, much will be required, and from him to whom they have entrusted much, they will ask all the more. ⁴⁹I came to cast fire on the earth, so what do I wish for if it has already been set alight? ⁵⁰And I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed until it is completed! ⁵¹Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather discord. ⁵²For from now on there will be five in one house at odds with each other, three against two and two against three. ⁵³A father will be at variance with his son, and a son with his father; a mother with her daughter and a daughter with her mother; a mother-in-law will be against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” ⁵⁴Then he said to the crowds as well, “Whenever you see a cloud arising from the west, you immediately say, ‘A downpour is coming.’ And so it comes to pass. ⁵⁵And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat.’ And so it comes to pass. ⁵⁶You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the condition of the earth and the sky, but how come you cannot interpret this period of time? ⁵⁷And why can you not determine by yourselves what is right? ⁵⁸For when you go before a magistrate with your opponent, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he does not drag you to the judge, and the judge hands you over to the executive officer, and the executive officer throws you in prison. ⁵⁹I say to you, you will certainly not come out from there until you have paid the very last lepton.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.53 ↔ Micah 7:6.

¹Now there were some people present at that very time reporting to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. ²To this Jesus reacted and said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans, because they have suffered such things? ³No, I say to you, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. ⁴Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them – do you suppose these were more at fault than all the other men who live in Jerusalem? ⁵No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.” ⁶Then he related this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, but he did not find any, ⁷and he said to his vinedresser, ‘That's three years that I have been coming looking for fruit on this fig tree, but not finding any. Cut it down. Why should it for its part occupy the ground pointlessly?’ ⁸But he answered and said to him, ‘Master, leave it this year too, until I have dug around it and applied manure. ⁹And if it bears fruit, well and good. But if not, you can cut it down in the coming year.’ ” ¹⁰Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, ¹¹and there was a woman who had been possessed by a spirit of illness for eighteen years, and who was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all. ¹²Then when Jesus saw her, he called to her and said to her, “Madam, you have been made free of your illness.” ¹³And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight again, and she glorified God. ¹⁴But the president of the synagogue, who was annoyed that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded and said to the congregation, “There are six days on which one must do work. So come on these days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” ¹⁵Therefore the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead it away to give it drink? ¹⁶Should this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound all these eighteen years, not be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” ¹⁷And with him saying these things, all those who opposed him were put to shame, and all the congregation rejoiced at all the illustrious things which were done by him. ¹⁸Then he said, “To what is the kingdom of God similar, and with what shall I compare it? ¹⁹It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and threw in his own garden, and it grew and became a big tree, and the birds of the sky nestled in its branches.” ²⁰He spoke again: “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? ²¹It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three satums of flour, until it was all leavened.” ²²Then he crossed around from town to town and village to village, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. ²³And someone said to him, “Lord, is it only a few who are saved?” He then said to them, ²⁴“Exert yourselves to go in through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, are trying to go in, but they will not be able. ²⁵Once the master of the house has got up and closed the door, when you make a move and stand outside and knock on the door and say, ‘Lord, lord, open up to us’, he will then answer and say to you, ‘I don't know where you are from.’ ²⁶Then you will go on to say, ‘We have eaten and drunk in your company, and you taught us in our streets.’ ²⁷Then he will say, ‘I say to you, I do not know where you are from. Keep away from me, all you perpetrators of iniquity.’ ²⁸There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves cast out. ²⁹And they will come from the east and the west and the north and the south, and they will recline at table in the kingdom of God. ³⁰And you will see that there are some last who will be first, and that there are some first who will be last.” ³¹On that day, some Pharisees came over and said to him, “Get out and go away from here, for Herod wishes to kill you.” ³²At this he said to them, “Go and say to that fox, ‘Look, I cast out demons and accomplish healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will come to an end.’ ³³But it is necessary for me to make my journey today and tomorrow and the day after, because it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem. ³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I wished to gather your children in the way a bird gathers its own brood under its wings, but you were not willing! ³⁵See how your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you that you will not see me at all until the time comes when you say,

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.27 ↔ Psalm 6:9^MT (Psalm 6:8^AV) ● v.35 ↔ Psalm 118:26.

¹Now it came to pass, when he had gone into the home of one of the senior members of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him closely, ²and it was the case that there was in front of him a certain man with oedema, ³at which Jesus reacted and addressed the scholars in the law and the Pharisees and said, “Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?” ⁴But they kept quiet. Then he took hold of him and cured him and let him go. ⁵Then he replied to them and said, “Who among you whose son or ox falls into a well would not immediately draw it up on the Sabbath day?” ⁶And they could not argue against those matters with him. ⁷Then he told the guests a parable as he noticed how they chose the prime seats, and he said to them, ⁸“When you have been invited to a wedding by someone, do not recline at a prime seat, in case someone more honourable than you is invited by him, ⁹and the one who invited you and him should come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man’, and then you will have to move on with shame to occupy the last choice place. ¹⁰But when you are invited, go and recline in the last choice place so that when your host comes, he says to you, ‘My friend, come up higher.’ Then you will have honour in the sight of those reclining with you. ¹¹For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” ¹²Then he said to him who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relations or rich neighbours, in case they also invite you in return, and you have a repayment.” ¹³But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the disabled, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴and you will be blessed, because they don't have the means to repay you. For it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the righteous. ¹⁵Then when one of those reclining with him at table heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will eat lunch in the kingdom of God.” ¹⁶At this he said to him, “A certain man gave a grand dinner and invited many people. ¹⁷And he sent his servant at the hour of the dinner to say to the guests, ‘Come along, for everything is already prepared.’ ¹⁸But they all one after the other set about excusing themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go out and see to it. I ask you to accept my apologies.’ ¹⁹And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you to accept my apologies.’ ²⁰And another said, ‘I have married a woman, which is why I can't come.’ ²¹So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor and the disabled and the lame and the blind here.’ ²²In due course the servant said, ‘Master, it has been done as you ordered, but there is still place.’ ²³At this the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the roads and paths and compel them to come in, so that my house is filled. ²⁴For I say to you, no-one of those men who were invited will have a taste of the dinner of mine.’ For many are called, but few chosen.” ²⁵Moreover large crowds were going with him, and he turned and said to them, ²⁶“If anyone comes to me but does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁷And whoever does not bear his cross and follow me cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁸For who among you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the expense, to see whether he has enough money for its completion, ²⁹in case after he has laid the foundation, he does not have the means to complete it, and everyone who sees it starts mocking him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man started building, but he was not able to complete it’? ³¹Or what king, making a move to engage another king in war, does not first sit down and take counsel as to whether he is powerful enough with ten thousand soldiers to confront him with twenty thousand soldiers coming against him? ³²If not, while he is still far off, he will send a delegation and ask for terms of peace. ³³So in this way, every one of you who does not bid farewell to all his own possessions cannot be a disciple of mine. ³⁴Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what can it be seasoned? ³⁵It is not fit for either land or manure; it is thrown away outside. Let him who has ears to hear, hear.”

¹Now all the tax collectors and the sinners would approach him to hear him, ²at which the Pharisees and scribes would mutter among themselves, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” ³So he spoke this parable to them and said, ⁴“What man among you who has one hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? ⁵Then when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing, ⁶and he comes to his house and calls his friends and neighbours together and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep.’ ⁷I say to you that there will be more joy like this in heaven at one sinner who repents, than at ninety-nine righteous, who have no need of repentance. ⁸Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, will not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? ⁹And when she has found it, she will call her friends and neighbours together and say, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma which I had lost.’ ¹⁰In this way, I tell you, there is joy in the sight of the angels of God at one sinner who repents.” ¹¹Then he said, “A certain man had two sons, ¹²and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of the property which falls to me.’ So he distributed his estate between them. ¹³Then not many days later the younger son gathered everything and moved to a distant country and squandered his substance there by living extravagantly. ¹⁴But when he had spent everything, a severe famine set in throughout that country, and he began to be in need. ¹⁵And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs. ¹⁶However, he would long to fill his belly with the carob-pods which the pigs ate, but no-one gave him any. ¹⁷Then he came to himself and said, ‘How many hired servants of my father have bread in abundance, whereas I am perishing from famine! ¹⁸I will get up and go to my father and say to him, «Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. ¹⁹And I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me one of your hired servants.» ’ ²⁰So he got up and went to his father. Now while he was still far off, his father saw him, and he was moved to compassion, and he ran and fell around his neck and kissed him. ²¹Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ ²²But his father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. ²³And bring the fatted calf and slaughter it, and let us eat it and rejoice, ²⁴because this son of mine was dead, but he has come back to life, and he was lost, but he has been found.’ So they began to rejoice. ²⁵But his elder son was in the field, and as he came back and approached the house, he heard music and dancing, ²⁶so he called one of the servants and inquired as to what this was. ²⁷And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the fatted calf, because he has got him back in good health.’ ²⁸But he became angry and refused to come in. So his father went out and tried to console him. ²⁹But he replied and said to his father, ‘Look, I have been serving you for all these years, and I have never disobeyed any commandment of yours, but you have never given me a kid for me to enjoy with my friends. ³⁰But when this son of yours came, who has dissipated your wealth with harlots, you slaughtered the fatted calf for him.’ ³¹At this he said to him, ‘My child, you are always with me, and everything of mine is yours. ³²But it was befitting to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, but he has come back to life, and he was lost, but he has been found.’ ”

¹Then he also said to his disciples, “A certain man was rich, and he had a steward, and this man was accused by him of squandering his possessions. ²So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you will not be able to hold the office of steward any longer.’ ³Then the steward said to himself, ‘What should I do, for my master is taking my stewardship away from me. I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. ⁴I know what I will do, so that when I have been dismissed from my stewardship, they will receive me into their homes.’ ⁵And he called for each one of his master's debtors, and he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶So he said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ Then he said to him, ‘Take your agreement and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ ⁷Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ This one said, ‘One hundred cors of grain.’ Then he said to him, ‘Take your agreement and write eighty.’ ⁸Then the master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light towards their own generation. ⁹And I say to you, make yourselves friends of dishonest mammon, so that when you fail, they will receive you in age-abiding dwellings. ¹⁰He who is trustworthy in the least thing is also faithful in a greater matter, and he who is dishonest in the least thing is also dishonest in a greater matter. ¹¹So if you have not been trustworthy with dishonest mammon, who will entrust you with that which is true? ¹²And if you have not been trustworthy with another person's property, who will give you something of your own? ¹³No domestic servant can serve two masters. For he will either hate one and love the other, or be attached to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” ¹⁴Now the Pharisees also heard all these things, and, being avaricious, they mocked him. ¹⁵Then he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in God's sight. ¹⁶The law and the prophets were the order of the day until John. From then on the kingdom of God has been preached, but everyone is using force against it. ¹⁷However, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to drop out. ¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. ¹⁹Now there was a certain rich man, and he used to wear purple and fine linen, and he feasted luxuriously every day. ²⁰And there was a certain poor man by the name of Lazarus, who had been placed at his gate, covered in sores, ²¹and he longed to be fed from the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; not only that, but the dogs would also come and lick his sores clean. ²²Then it came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried away by angels to Abraham's bosom. Then the rich man also died and was buried. ²³And when in Hades he lifted up his eyes, where he was in torments, he saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴Then he called and said, ‘Father Abraham, have compassion on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering pain in this flame.’ ²⁵But Abraham said, ‘My child, remember that you received the good things you had in your life, whereas Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, whereas you suffer pain. ²⁶And besides all these things, a great chasm between us and you has been established, so that those wishing to cross from here to you cannot do it, nor can anyone cross from your side to us.’ ²⁷Then he said, ‘In that case, I ask you, father, to send him to my father's house, ²⁸for I have five brothers, to testify solemnly to them, so that they do not also come to this place of torment.’ ²⁹Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them heed them.’ ³⁰Then he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one of the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ ³¹But he said to him, ‘If they will not hear Moses and the prophets, even if someone were to rise from the dead, they would not be persuaded.’ ”

¹Then he said to the disciples, “It is impossible for offences not to come, but woe to him through whom they come. ²It would be better for him if an ass-driven millstone were hung around his neck and he had been thrown in the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ³Beware. Now if your brother sins against you, rebuke him. Then if he repents, forgive him. ⁴And if he sins against you seven times a day, and he turns back seven times a day and says, ‘I repent’, you must forgive him.” ⁵Then the apostles said to the Lord, “Give us more faith.” ⁶To which the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’, and it would have obeyed you. ⁷But who is there among you who has a servant ploughing or tending sheep, who will straightaway say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come along and recline at table’? ⁸But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat for dinner, and gird yourself and serve me while I eat and drink, and after that you can eat and drink.’ ⁹Surely he won't be grateful to that servant because he did the things ordered? I don't think so. ¹⁰Likewise, you too, when you have done everything you were ordered, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants, for we have only done what we had to do.’ ” ¹¹Subsequently, it came to pass when he was going to Jerusalem that he crossed through the middle of Samaria and Galilee, ¹²and as he was going into a certain village, ten leprous men met him, and they stood at a distance, ¹³and they raised their voice and said, “Jesus, master, have mercy on us.” ¹⁴Then when he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to pass as they were going off that they were cleansed. ¹⁵And one of them, when he saw that he had been cured, turned back glorifying God with a loud voice. ¹⁶And he fell face down at his feet thanking him. Now he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷Then Jesus replied and said, “Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸Were there not any to be found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner?” ¹⁹And he said to him, “Get up and go your way; your faith has cured you.” ²⁰Then when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he replied to them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with close watching. ²¹Nor when they say, ‘Look, here it is’, or, ‘Look, there it is.’ After all, look, the kingdom of God is in you.” ²²Then he said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the son of man but will not see him. ²³And they will say to you, ‘Look, here he is’ or, ‘Look, there he is.’ Do not go along with or follow them. ²⁴For just as flashing lightning gives illumination from one place under the sky to another place under the sky, so will the son of man be in his day. ²⁵But first he must undergo much suffering and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will also be in the days of the son of man. ²⁷They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸And similarly with what happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, ²⁹but on the day when Lot departed from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰It will be like this on the day when the son of man is revealed. ³¹On that day, let him who is on the roof and whose goods are in the house not come down to pick them up, and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back. ³²Remember Lot's wife. ³³Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it. ³⁴I say to you, on that night, there will be two in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other will be left. ³⁵There will be two grinding in the same place, and one will be taken away and the other will be left.” ^{36 37}Then they answered and said to him, “Lord, where?” And he said to them, “It is where the body is that the eagles will be gathered together.”

¹He also told them a parable on the need always to pray and not to flag, ²and he said, “There was a certain judge in a certain city who did not fear God, nor did he respect man. ³And there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Vindicate me from my opponent.’ ⁴But for a long time he refused. But at length he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God or respect man, ⁵nevertheless because this widow gives me trouble, I will get her vindicated, so that she does not endlessly come and grind me down.’ ” ⁶Then the Lord said, “Hear what the dishonest judge says. ⁷Will God not provide the vindication due to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and be longsuffering over them? ⁸I tell you he will provide the vindication due to them swiftly. But when the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” ⁹And he spoke this parable to certain people who trusted in themselves – that they were righteous – and despised the others: ¹⁰“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood up and prayed to himself as follows: ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, the grasping, the unjust, the adulterers – nor like this tax collector either. ¹²I fast twice a week. I tithe everything I acquire.’ ¹³Then the tax collector stood at a distance and was not even willing to lift his eyes up to heaven, but he beat his breast and said, ‘O God, be propitious to me, a sinner.’ ¹⁴I say to you, the latter went down to his house justified rather than the former. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” ¹⁵Then they also brought some infants to him for him to touch, and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶But Jesus called them along, and he said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them. For the kingdom of God is constituted of such. ¹⁷Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will definitely not enter into it.” ¹⁸Then a certain governor inquired with him and asked, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit age-abiding life?” ¹⁹Jesus then said to him, “Why do you call me good? No-one is good except one: God. ²⁰You know the commandments. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not commit murder. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. Honour your father and your mother.” ²¹Then he said, “I have kept all these things from my youth.” ²²Then when Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have got and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me.” ²³But when he heard this, he became very sad, for he was very rich. ²⁴Then when Jesus saw that he had become very sad, he said, “How it is with difficulty that those who are affluent will go into the kingdom of God. ²⁵For it is easier for a camel to go in through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go into the kingdom of God.” ²⁶Then those listening said, “Well who can be saved, then?” ²⁷He then said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” ²⁸Then Peter said, “In our case, we have left everything behind and followed you.” ²⁹At which he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no-one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children for the sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰who will not certainly receive in return many times over in this epoch, and in the age to come – age-abiding life.” ³¹And taking the twelve along, he said to them, “Here we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written through the prophets will be accomplished by the son of man.” ³²For he will be delivered to the Gentiles and be mocked and insulted and spat on. ³³And they will flog him and kill him, then on the third day he will rise again. ³⁴But they did not understand any of these things, and this remark was hidden from them, and they did not discern the import of the things spoken. ³⁵Then it came to pass as he approached Jericho that a certain blind man was sitting beside the road, begging, ³⁶and when he heard a crowd passing through, he inquired what this was all about. ³⁷So they informed him that Jesus the Nazarene was passing by. ³⁸At this he shouted and said, “Jesus, son of David, have compassion on me.” ³⁹But those going in front rebuked him, telling him to be quiet. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have compassion on me.” ⁴⁰Then Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to him, and when he had come near, he questioned him, ⁴¹and he asked, “What would you like me to do for you?” He then said, “Lord, for me to see again.” ⁴²Then Jesus said to him, “See again. Your faith has cured you.” ⁴³And immediately he recovered his sight, and he followed him, glorifying God. And all the people saw it and gave praise to God.

Reference(s) in Chapter 18: v.20 ↔ Exodus 20:12-16, Deuteronomy 5:16-20,.

¹Then he entered Jericho and went through it. ²And there was a man by the name of Zacchaeus, and he was a senior tax collector, and this man was rich, ³and he was trying to see who Jesus was, but he could not for the crowd because he was short in stature. ⁴So he ran on ahead and climbed up a fig-mulberry tree in order to see him, because it was by that way that he was going to cross through. ⁵And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up and saw him and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry up and come down, for today I must stay in your house.” ⁶So he came down hastily, and he received him in his house, rejoicing, ⁷but when they all saw it, they muttered among themselves, and they said, “He has gone in to lodge with a sinful man.” ⁸Meanwhile Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, I am giving half my possessions to the poor, Lord, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I will repay it four times over.” ⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, for he also is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰For the son of man came to seek and save what has got lost.” ¹¹As they heard these things, he again told a parable, because of him being close to Jerusalem, and of them thinking that the kingdom of God was immediately going to manifest itself prominently. ¹²So he said, “A certain nobleman went to a distant land to receive a kingdom for himself and to return. ¹³And he called ten of his own servants and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’ ¹⁴But his citizens hated him, and they sent a delegation after him, who said, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ ¹⁵And it came to pass when he returned, having received the kingdom, that he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, in order to find out who had gained what in doing business. ¹⁶So the first came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made a profit of ten minas.’ ¹⁷At this he said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant, for you were faithful in a very small matter. Have authority over ten cities.’ ¹⁸Then the second came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’ ¹⁹And he said to this one likewise, ‘You too be in charge of five cities.’ ²⁰Then the other one came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept hidden in a sweat-band. ²¹For I was afraid of you, for you are a harsh man. You take what you did not put there, and you reap what you did not sow.’ ²²So he said to him, ‘I will judge you from your own mouth, you bad servant. You knew that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not put there, and reaping what I did not sow. ²³So why did you not invest my money at a bank, so that when I came, I would have availed myself of it with interest?’ ²⁴Furthermore he said to those standing around, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten minas.’ ²⁵(But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’) ²⁶‘For I say to you that to everyone who has something, more will be given, but from him who does not have anything, even what he has will be taken away from him. ²⁷However, bring those enemies of mine here – those who did not want me to reign over them – and execute them before me.’ ” ²⁸Then when he had spoken these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. ²⁹And it came to pass as he approached Bethsphagé and Bethany at the mount called the Mount of Olives, that he sent off two of his disciples, ³⁰and he said, “Go off to the village opposite, in which as you go in, you will find a tethered foal, on which no man has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. ³¹And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you will say the following to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’ ” ³²Then those who had been sent off went off and found it as he had told them. ³³And as they untied the foal, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the foal?” ³⁴At this they said, “The Lord needs it.” ³⁵So they led it to Jesus, and they slung their own clothes onto the foal and mounted Jesus on it. ³⁶As he rode, they strewed their clothes in the way. ³⁷And as he was by now approaching the descent down the Mount of Olives, the whole company of the disciples started rejoicing and praising God in a loud voice for all the deeds of power which they had seen, ³⁸saying,

Peace in heaven and glory in the highest realms.”

³⁹Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” ⁴⁰But he answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these go quiet, the stones will cry out.” ⁴¹And as he approached and saw the city, he wept over it, ⁴²and he said, “If only you had known, and of all times on this day of yours, the things pertaining to your peace. But as it is, they are hidden from your eyes, ⁴³because the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a rampart round you, and they will surround you and enclose you from all sides. ⁴⁴And they will dash you and your children in you to the ground, and they will not leave stone on stone in you, because you did not know the occasion of your visitation.” ⁴⁵Then when he had gone into the temple, he went on to throw out those who sold things in it, and those who bought them, ⁴⁶saying to them, “It stands written: ⁴⁷And he taught in the temple each day, but the senior priests and the scribes were looking for a way to dispose of him, as were the leading men of the people, ⁴⁸but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were completely enraptured listening to him.

Reference(s) in Chapter 19: v.38 ↔ Psalm 118:26 ● v.46 ↔ Isaiah 56:7, Jeremiah 7:11.

¹Now it came to pass on one of those days as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, that the priests and scribes came up to him, as did the elders, ²and they spoke to him and said, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is who has given you this authority.” ³So he answered and said to them, “I will for my part ask you one question, so you tell me, ⁴John's baptism – was it from heaven or from men?” ⁵They then debated among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ ⁶But if we say, ‘From men’, all the people will stone us, for they have been persuaded that John is a prophet.” ⁷And they answered that they did not know where it was from. ⁸So Jesus said to them, “Then neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” ⁹He then went on to speak this parable to the people: “A man planted a vineyard, and he put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad for a considerable time. ¹⁰And in due course, he sent a servant to the farmers for them to give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers flogged him and sent him away empty-handed. ¹¹Then he sent another servant. But they also flogged that one and treated him with indignity and sent him away empty-handed. ¹²Then he sent again – a third one. But they also wounded this one and threw him out. ¹³Then the landlord of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Maybe when they see him, they will respect him.’ ¹⁴But when the farmers saw him, they talked it through among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, so that the inheritance will become ours.’ ¹⁵So they drove him out to a place outside the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the landlord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” And when they had heard it, they said, “May it not take place.” ¹⁷But he looked straight at them and said, “What does this scripture mean: ¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and on whomever it falls, it will crush to powder.” ¹⁹Then the senior priests and the scribes looked for a way to lay hands on him at that very time, but they were afraid, for they knew that he had levelled that parable against them. ²⁰And they watched him closely, and they sent infiltrators pretending to be sincere in order to seize on his remarks, with a view to informing on him to the administration and authority of the governor. ²¹And they questioned him and asked, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not show partiality, but teach the way of God in truth. ²²Is it permissible for us to pay tax to Caesar, or not?” ²³At this, having perceived their trickery, he said to them, “Why are you testing me? ²⁴Show me a denary. Whose image and inscription does it have?” They answered and said, “Caesar's.” ²⁵Then he said to them, “Well then, render to Caesar the things due to Caesar, and to God the things due to God.” ²⁶So they were not able to seize on his remark in the presence of the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and they fell silent. ²⁷Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came over and questioned him, ²⁸and they said, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If someone's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother is to take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.’ ²⁹Now suppose there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died without children. ³⁰Then the second took the wife, and this one died without children. ³¹Then the third took her likewise, and like this indeed the seven of them. They did not leave any children, and they died. ³²Then last of all the woman died as well. ³³So in the resurrection, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven had her as a wife.” ³⁴Then Jesus replied and said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage, ³⁵but those who have been considered worthy of attaining to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶Nor can they die any more, for they are like angels, and they are sons of God, being members of the resurrection. ³⁷Now that the dead are raised, even Moses disclosed, at the passage about the bush, where he says, ‘The Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ ³⁸So he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” ³⁹Then some of the scribes answered and said, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” ⁴⁰And they did not dare question him on anything any more. ⁴¹Then he said to them, “How do they say that the Christ can be the son of David, ⁴²when David himself says in the book of the Psalms,

⁴³Until I make your enemies your footstool» ’?

⁴⁴So David calls him Lord. So how is it that he is his son?” ⁴⁵Then with all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in robes and love greetings in the market places and the privileged seats in the synagogues and the privileged couches at dinners, ⁴⁷who devour widows' houses, and for show pray at length. These will receive judgment to a greater degree.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 20: v.17 ↔ Psalm 118:22 ● v.28 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.37 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.42 ↔ Psalm 110:1 ● v.43 ↔ Psalm 110:1.

¹Then he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts in the treasury, ²and he saw someone, in fact a needy widow, putting two leptons in there. ³And he said, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the others. ⁴For these all contributed towards gifts for God from the surplus they have, but this woman contributed all the livelihood she had from her penury.” ⁵And while some were speaking of the temple, how it had been adorned with fine stones and votive offerings, he said, ⁶“As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which no stone will be left on stone or escape demolition.” ⁷Then they questioned him and said, “Teacher, when, then, will these things take place, and what is the sign when these things are about to happen?” ⁸He then said, “Watch out that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the one’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ So do not go after them. ⁹And when you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be scared, for these things must take place first, but the end is not immediate.” ¹⁰Then he said to them, “Nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, ¹¹and there will be severe earthquakes in various places, and famines and plagues, and there will be fearful things and great signs from heaven. ¹²But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, as you are brought before kings and governors for my name's sake, ¹³and it will result in an occasion of a testimony for you. ¹⁴So lay it to your hearts not to premeditate how to speak in defence, ¹⁵for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, by which none of those opposing you will be able to contradict or resist. ¹⁶And you will also be betrayed by parents and relations and friends and brothers, and they will put some of you to death. ¹⁷And you will be hated by everyone on account of my name. ¹⁸But not a hair of your head will in any way be lost. ¹⁹Hold on to your lives in your endurance. ²⁰And when you see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that its desolation has drawn near. ²¹Then let those in Judaea flee into the mountains, and let those in its midst move out, and let those in the country areas not go into it. ²²For these are the days of vengeance, in order for all the things that stand written to be fulfilled. ²³And alas for those who are with child and those who are breastfeeding in those days, for there will be great anxiety on the earth and wrath among this people. ²⁴And they will fall by the blade of the sword and will be taken captive to all the Gentiles, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ²⁵And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on earth anguish among the nations in bewilderment, while the sea roars, as does its swell, ²⁶as men faint from fear and expectation of the things befalling the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷And then they will see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and much glory. ²⁸But when these things start taking place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” ²⁹Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. ³⁰When they are already putting out shoots, you see for yourselves and know that the harvest is already near. ³¹In this way, you too, when you see these things taking place, know that the kingdom of God is near. ³²Truly, I say to you that this generation will certainly not pass away until everything takes place. ³³Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away. ³⁴And watch out for yourselves that your hearts do not become stupefied with intoxication or drunkenness or everyday cares, and don't let that day come on you suddenly, ³⁵for it will come like a snare upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶So be watchful, entreating on every occasion to be considered worthy to escape all the things about to take place and to stand in the presence of the son of man.” ³⁷And by day he would teach in the temple, whereas at night he would go out to spend the night on the mount called the Mount of Olives. ³⁸And all the people would rise early to go to him, so as to hear him in the temple.

Reference(s) in Chapter 21: v.10 ↔ Isaiah 19:2 ● v.22 ↔ Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 63:4, Hosea 9:7.

¹Now the festival of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching, ²and the senior priests and the scribes were looking for a way to eliminate him, for they were afraid of the people. ³Meanwhile Satan entered into Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was one of the twelve in number. ⁴And he went away and spoke with the senior priests and chief magistrates on how he could deliver him to them, ⁵at which they were delighted, and they agreed to give him money. ⁶So he fully complied and looked for an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of a crowd. ⁷Then the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was necessary for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed. ⁸And he sent Peter and John off, and he said, “Go and prepare the Passover lamb for us so that we can eat it.” ⁹Then they said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare it?” ¹⁰He then said to them, “As you go into the city, you will see that a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house where he goes in. ¹¹And say to the master of the house, ‘The teacher asks you, «Where is the lodging where I can eat the Passover lamb with my disciples?» ’ ¹²And that man will show you a large upper room ready set up. Prepare it there.” ¹³Then they went off and found it as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover lamb. ¹⁴And when the hour had come, he reclined at table, as did the twelve apostles with him. ¹⁵And he said to them, “I have really longed to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering. ¹⁶For I say to you, I will no longer partake of it at all until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ¹⁷Then he received the cup, and he gave thanks and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸For I say to you, I will not be drinking any of the produce of the vine at all until the kingdom of God comes.” ¹⁹And he took bread and gave thanks and broke it and gave some to them, and he said, “This is my body which is being given on behalf of you; do this as a memorial to me.” ²⁰Then similarly, he took the cup after dining and said, “This cup is the new covenant by my blood, which is shed for you. ²¹But mark this, the hand of him with me who will betray me is on the table. ²²So the son of man proceeds according to what has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed.” ²³Then they began to inquire among themselves as to which of them was the one about to do this. ²⁴Moreover a rivalry arose among them as to which of them was considered the greatest. ²⁵So he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles have dominion over them, and those who have authority over them are called benefactors. ²⁶But don't you be like that; rather, let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant. ²⁷For who is greater, he who reclines at table, or he who serves? Surely he who reclines? Yet I am in your midst as the servant. ²⁸But you are the ones who have remained with me throughout in my trials. ²⁹And I assign a kingdom to you in accordance with how my father has assigned it to me, ³⁰so that you may eat and drink at my table, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” ³¹And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon, see how Satan has made a claim on you all, so as to sift you like grain. ³²But I have pleaded for you, that your faith might not fail, so once you have come to yourself, strengthen your brothers.” ³³Then he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go both to prison and to death with you.” ³⁴But he said, “I say to you, Peter, the cock definitely will not crow today before you have denied three times that you know me.” ³⁵Furthermore, he said to them, “When I sent you out without wallet or purse or footwear, did you lack anything?” They then said, “No, nothing.” ³⁶However, he said to them, “But now, he who has a wallet must take it, and likewise also a purse. And he who does not have one must sell his cloak and buy a sword. ³⁷For I say to you that this scripture must still be fulfilled in me: the passage, ‘And he was reckoned among the lawless.’ And indeed, the things concerning me are coming to completion.” ³⁸Then they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” But he said to them, “It is enough.” ³⁹And he went out, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples also followed him. ⁴⁰When he arrived at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you do not enter into temptation.” ⁴¹Then he withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and he knelt down and prayed. ⁴²And he said, “Father, if you are willing to remove this cup from me ... – but not my will, but yours be done.” ⁴³Then an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him, ⁴⁴but being in agony, he prayed all the more intensely. Furthermore his sweat had become like clots of blood falling to the ground. ⁴⁵Then he arose from prayer and went to the disciples and found them lying asleep from sorrow. ⁴⁶So he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you do not enter into temptation.” ⁴⁷Now while he was still speaking, a crowd happened to come, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was going in front of them, and he approached Jesus to kiss him. ⁴⁸But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the son of man with a kiss?” ⁴⁹Then when those around him had seen what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, should we strike them with the sword?” ⁵⁰Then a certain one of them struck the high priest's servant and took off his right ear. ⁵¹But Jesus replied and said, “Leave it at that.” Then he touched his ear and healed him. ⁵²Then Jesus said to the senior priests and chief magistrates of the temple and elders who had come against him, “Have you come out with swords and sticks as if against a thief? ⁵³When I was with you in the temple each day, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the authority of darkness.” ⁵⁴But they seized him and led him away, and they brought him into the house of the high priest. Meanwhile, Peter was following at a distance. ⁵⁵As they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and were sitting together, Peter went there and sat in among them. ⁵⁶But when a certain maidservant saw him sitting in the fire-light, she looked at him intently and said, “This man was also with him.” ⁵⁷But he denied him and said, “Madam, I don't know him.” ⁵⁸And after a short time, another person saw him and said, “You are also of their company.” But Peter said, “No, I am not, sir.” ⁵⁹Then after about one hour had passed, a certain other person made positive assertions and said, “This man was truly with him as well, and indeed he is a Galilean.” ⁶⁰But Peter said, “Sir, I don't know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still talking, the cock crowed. ⁶¹Then the Lord turned round and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the Lord's words when he said to him, “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” ⁶²Then Peter went outside and wept bitterly. ⁶³Next, the men who were holding Jesus mocked him, flogging him, ⁶⁴and they blindfolded him and struck him on the face and then questioned him, saying, “Prophesy, who is it who struck you?” ⁶⁵And they kept speaking many other blasphemies against him. ⁶⁶Then when day had come, the council of the elders of the people met, consisting of senior priests and scribes, and they led him up to their Sanhedrin council and said, ⁶⁷“Are you the Christ? Tell us.” He then said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe it at all. ⁶⁸And if I question you, you certainly won't answer me or release me. ⁶⁹From now on, the son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” ⁷⁰Then they all said, “So you are the son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say I am.” ⁷¹Then they said, “Why do we still need a testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from his mouth.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.37 ↔ Isaiah 53:12 ● v.70 ↔ Exodus 3:14.

¹Then the whole of their assembly rose and led him to Pilate. ²And they began to accuse him, and they said, “We found this man misleading the nation and forbidding them to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” ³Then Pilate questioned him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He then answered him and said, “As you say.” ⁴Pilate then said to the senior priests and the crowds, “I find nothing incriminating in this man.” ⁵But they persisted and said, “He stirs up the people as he teaches throughout all Judaea, starting from Galilee and reaching here.” ⁶Now when Pilate heard “Galilean”, he inquired whether the man was a Galilean. ⁷And having ascertained that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, he referred him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days. ⁸Then when Herod saw Jesus, he rejoiced greatly, for he had been wanting to see him for some time, because he had heard many things about him, and he hoped to see some sign performed by him. ⁹So he questioned him at considerable length. But he did not answer him anything. ¹⁰Moreover the senior priests and the scribes were standing by, vigorously accusing him. ¹¹Then after Herod, with his troops, had treated him contemptuously and mocked him, he put resplendent clothes on him and sent him back to Pilate. ¹²So Pilate and Herod became friends with each other on that very day, for they had previously been at enmity with each other. ¹³Pilate then called the senior priests and the rulers and the people together, ¹⁴and he said to them, “Bring me this man who is supposedly perverting the people, and be aware that I have examined him in your presence and found nothing in this man incriminating him of the things which you accuse him of. ¹⁵Indeed nor Herod. For I referred your case to him and the result is that nothing worthy of death has been committed by him. ¹⁶So I will chasten him and release him.” ¹⁷After all, he had an obligation to release one person to them at each festival. ¹⁸But they shouted out with the whole crowd, and they said, “Take this man away, but release Barabbas to us” ¹⁹– someone who had been put in prison on account of a certain sedition which had taken place in the city, and for murder. ²⁰So Pilate addressed them again, as he wished to release Jesus. ²¹But they shouted it down and said, “Crucify him, crucify him.” ²²Then he spoke to them a third time, “But what wrong has this man done? I have not found anything culpable by death in him. So I will chastise him and release him.” ²³But they insisted in a loud voice and demanded that he be crucified, and their voices and those of the senior priests kept gaining strength. ²⁴So Pilate decided that their demand should be met. ²⁵And he released him who had been put in prison on account of sedition and murder, the one whom they demanded, whereas he delivered Jesus to their will. ²⁶Then as they led him away, they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, as he was coming back from the field, and they forced him to carry the cross behind Jesus. ²⁷And a large number of the people followed him, including women, who both mourned for him and lamented him. ²⁸But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹For be aware of this, the days are coming on which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs which did not give birth, and the breasts which never breastfed.’ ³⁰Then they will go on ³¹For if they do these things in the case of moist wood, what is to happen in the case of the dry?” ³²Then two others, who were criminals, were also brought, to be executed with him. ³³And when they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. ³⁴Jesus, though, said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Then in sharing out his clothes, they cast a lot. ³⁵Meanwhile the people stood watching, and the rulers also sneered with them and said, “He saved others; let him save himself, if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.” ³⁶And the soldiers also mocked him, as they came up and offered him vinegar, ³⁷and they said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.” ³⁸Indeed there was an inscription written over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew letters:

“This is the king of the Jews.”

³⁹Then one of the criminals who were hung there blasphemed him and said, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us.” ⁴⁰But the other responded and rebuked him and said, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹And we rightly so, for we are receiving what is deserved for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴²Then he said to Jesus, “Remember me, Lord, when you go into your kingdom.” ⁴³At which Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you this day, you will be with me in paradise.” ⁴⁴Now it was about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. ⁴⁵And the sun became darkened, and the veil of the sanctuary was split down the middle. ⁴⁶And Jesus called out in a loud voice and said, “Father, into your hands I will commit my spirit.” And when he had said these things, he breathed his last. ⁴⁷And when the centurion saw what had taken place, he glorified God and said, “This man really was righteous.” ⁴⁸Then when all the crowds who had converged on that spectacle had seen the things that took place, they beat their breasts and went back, ⁴⁹while all his acquaintances stood at a distance, as did the women who had followed him from Galilee, watching these things. ⁵⁰And there was a man by name of Joseph, who was a councillor, a good and righteous man, ⁵¹and he was not in agreement with their verdict or action. He was from Arimathea, a Jewish city, and moreover he himself was also awaiting the kingdom of God. ⁵²He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³And he took it down and wrapped it up in fine linen and put it in a hewn-out tomb where no-one had ever yet lain. ⁵⁴Now the day was the Preparation Day; the twilight of the Sabbath was drawing on. ⁵⁵And some women who had come with him from Galilee followed and looked at the tomb and how his body had been laid. ⁵⁶Then they returned and prepared fragrances and ointment. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Reference(s) in Chapter 23: v.30 ↔ Hosea 10:8 ● v.43 ↔ Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 8:19.

¹Then on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they went to the tomb carrying the fragrances which they had prepared, and some others went with them, ²and they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³and when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴And it came to pass as they were at a loss on this matter, that – to their surprise – two men in dazzling clothes came up to them. ⁵Then, as they had become frightened and were bowing face down to the ground, they said to them, “Why are you seeking among the dead him who is alive? ⁶He is not here, but he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee, ⁷when he said that the son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and rise on the third day.” ⁸At this they remembered his words, ⁹and they returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰So it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James and the others with them, who told the apostles these things. ¹¹But their words appeared in their opinion to be nonsense, and they disbelieved them. ¹²Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, and he stooped and saw the linen strips lying on their own, and he went off home, astonished at what had taken place. ¹³Then, as it happened, two of them were walking on that day to a village which was sixty stades distant from Jerusalem, which had the name Emmaus. ¹⁴And they were talking to each other about all these things that had taken place, ¹⁵and it came to pass while they were talking and assessing things, that Jesus himself approached and walked along with them, ¹⁶but their eyes were held back from recognizing him. ¹⁷Then he said to them, “What are these words which you are exchanging with one another as you walk and are sullen?” ¹⁸So one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said to him, “Are you the only one staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened in it in recent days?” ¹⁹Then he said to them, “What things?” They then said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word in the presence of God and all the people, ²⁰and how the senior priests and our rulers delivered him up to a sentence of death and had him crucified, ²¹whereas we were hoping that he was the one who would liberate Israel. But as it is, with all these things, he has passed through this third day today since these things took place without doing so. ²²Not only this, but some of our women astonished us after they had gone to the tomb early in the morning, ²³and when they did not find his body, they came also telling us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive, ²⁴at which some of those with us went off to the tomb, and they found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.” ²⁵Then he said to them, “O witless men and slow in heart to believe all the things the prophets have spoken. ²⁶Did not Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” ²⁷Then, starting from Moses and from all the prophets, he gave them an exposition of all the scriptures concerning himself. ²⁸Then they came near to the village to which they were going, and he made as if to go further, ²⁹but they urged him not to, and they said, “Stay with us, for it is towards evening and the day has declined. So he went in to stay with them.” ³⁰Subsequently, it came to pass while he was reclining at table with them that he took the bread and gave blessing, and he broke it and handed some to them, ³¹and their eyes were opened wide, and they recognized him. Then he became invisible to them. ³²Then they said to each other, “Was not our heart burning inside us while he was speaking to us on the way and when he expounded the scriptures to us?” ³³Then they got up at that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven, and those associated with them, assembled, ³⁴just as they were saying, “The Lord really has risen and has appeared to Simon.” ³⁵Then they related in detail the things on the way, and how he became known to them at the time of the breaking of the bread. ³⁶And while they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace to you.” ³⁷But being terrified and fearful, they thought they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸Then he said to them, “Why are you disturbed, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹See my hands and my feet, and that it is me myself. Feel me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” ⁴⁰Then when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹And while they still disbelieved for joy and were amazed, he said to them, “Have you got any food here?” ⁴²They then handed him a piece of grilled fish and some honeycomb, ⁴³which he took in their presence and ate. ⁴⁴And he said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you when I was still with you, that everything written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms concerning me needs to be fulfilled.” ⁴⁵Then he opened up their mind to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶And he said to them, “So it stands written and so the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷and for repentance and forgiveness of sins to be preached in his name to all the nations, starting from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸And you are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹And mark this, I am sending my father's promise over you. So stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are invested with power from on high.” ⁵⁰Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them, ⁵¹and it came to pass while he was blessing them that he became separated from them and was carried up to heaven. ⁵²At this they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, ⁵³and they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

¹In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. ²This word was with God in the beginning. ³Everything came into being through it, and not one single thing that has come into being came into being apart from it. ⁴In it was life, and the life was the light of men, ⁵and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it. ⁶There was a man sent from God, and his name was John. ⁷He came with a view to a testimony, in order to testify about the light, in order that everyone should believe through him. ⁸That man was not the light, but he came in order to testify about the light. ⁹It was the true light, which lights up every man who comes into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him. ¹¹He came to his own property, but his own people did not receive him. ¹²But as for those who did receive him, he gave them authority to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in his name, ¹³who were begotten not by blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of man, but by God. ¹⁴And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only-begotten from the father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵John testified concerning him and cried out, saying, “This is he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me had existence before me, because he was prior to me.’ ” ¹⁶And we have all received some of his fulness, and grace for grace. ¹⁷For the law was given through Moses, then grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No-one has seen God at any time. It is the only-begotten son, who is in the bosom of the father, who has expounded him. ¹⁹And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” ²⁰And he confessed and did not deny who he really was, and he confessed, “I am not the Christ.” ²¹Then they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “No, I am not.” – “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No.” ²²So they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” ²³He said, “I am as Isaiah the prophet said.” ²⁴Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees, ²⁵and they questioned him and asked him, “So why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” ²⁶John replied to them and said, “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands he whom you do not know. ²⁷He is the one who comes after me, who had existence before me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to loosen.” ²⁸These things took place in Bethania beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. ²⁹The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, “Behold the lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. ³⁰This is he about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who had existence before me, because he was prior to me.’ ³¹And I did not know him, except that he should be manifested to Israel – that is why I came baptizing with water.” ³²And John testified, saying, “I have seen the spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him. ³³And I did not know him, except that he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘On whom you see the spirit descending and remaining, that is the one who baptizes with holy spirit.’ ³⁴And I have seen it, and I have testified that this is the son of God.” ³⁵On the next day, John was again standing, as were two of his disciples, ³⁶and looking at Jesus walking around, he said, “Behold the lamb of God.” ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸Jesus then turned round and saw them following, and he said to them, “What are you looking for?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” – which, translated, is “teacher” – “where are you staying?” ³⁹He said to them, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the two who heard from John and followed him. ⁴¹He found his own brother Simon first, and he said to him, “We have found the Messiah” – which, translated, is the “Christ” – ⁴²and he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas, which, translated, is ‘Peter.’ ” ⁴³The next day, he wished to set out for Galilee, and he found Philip, and Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, namely Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.” ⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him, “Can there be anything good from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said concerning him, “Look, an Israelite, truly, in whom there is no guile.” ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.” ⁴⁹Nathanael replied and said to him, “Rabbi, you are the son of God. You are the king of Israel.” ⁵⁰Jesus replied and said to him, “Do you believe because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree’? You will see greater things than these.” ⁵¹And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you people, from now on you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the son of man.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.21 ↔ Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:18 ● v.23 ↔ Isaiah 40:3.

¹Then on the third day a wedding took place in Cana in Galilee, and Jesus's mother was there. ²And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. ³Then when the wine ran out, Jesus's mother said to him, “They haven't got any more wine.” ⁴Jesus said to her, “Madam, what does that matter to me or you? My hour has not yet come.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he says to you.” ⁶Now there were six stone water-jars there, standing according to the cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three metretes. ⁷Jesus said to them, “Fill the water-jars with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. ⁸Then he said to them, “Draw some off now and bring it to the catering steward.” So they brought it. ⁹But when the catering steward had tasted the water, which had become wine – and he did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn off the water knew – the catering steward called the bridegroom, ¹⁰and he said to him, “Every man first puts out the good wine, and when they have become drunk, then the inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now.” ¹¹Jesus performed this first of the signs in Cana in Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. ¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they remained there for a few days. ¹³And the Jews' Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting down, ¹⁵and he made a whip from cords, and he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the small change of the money-changers, and he turned the tables upside down. ¹⁶And he said to those who were selling doves, “Take these things away from here. Do not make my father's house a house of commerce.” ¹⁷His disciples then remembered that it stands written: “The zeal of your house will consume me.” ¹⁸So the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “Break up this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰So the Jews said, “This temple was built in forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ²²So when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered him saying this, and they believed the scripture and the words which Jesus had spoken. ²³Then when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the festival, many believed in his name when they saw his signs which he performed. ²⁴But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ²⁵and because he did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.17 ↔ Psalm 69:10^MT (Psalm 69:9^AV).

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. ²This man came to him by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no-one can do these signs which you do unless God is with him.” ³Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a person is begotten from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ⁴Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Surely he cannot go into his mother's womb a second time and be born again?” ⁵Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a person is begotten from water and from spirit, he cannot go into the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is begotten from flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from spirit is spirit. ⁷Do not be amazed because I said to you, ‘You must be begotten from above.’ ⁸The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is everyone who has been begotten from the spirit.” ⁹Nicodemus replied and said to him, “How can these things be?” ¹⁰Jesus replied and said to him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and don't you know these things? ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. ¹²If I told you of earthly things, and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you of upper-heavenly things? ¹³And no-one has ascended to heaven except him who came down from heaven, the son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the son of man be lifted up, ¹⁵so that everyone who believes in him should not be lost, but have age-abiding life. ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten son, so that everyone who believes in him should not be lost, but have age-abiding life. ¹⁷For God did not send his son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged, but he who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than the light, for their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does base things hates the light, and he does not come to the light, so that his works are not shown up. ²¹But he who works the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be made manifest, for they have been carried out in God.” ²²After these things, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judaean region, and he spent time there with them, and he had some baptizing done. ²³Now John was also baptizing in the Ainon near Salim, because there was a lot of water there, and people would come and be baptized. ²⁴For John had not yet been thrown in prison. ²⁵Then a dispute arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew concerning cleansing. ²⁶And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan – of whom you have testified – see how he is having people baptized, and all are coming to him.” ²⁷John answered and said, “Man cannot accept anything unless it has been given him from heaven. ²⁸You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ’, but said, ‘I have been sent ahead of him.’ ²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly on account of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been fulfilled. ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. ³²And what he has seen and heard, that is what he testifies of, but no-one accepts his testimony. ³³He who has accepted his testimony has attested that God is true. ³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the spirit by measure to him. ³⁵The father loves the son and has put everything in his hand. ³⁶He who believes in the son has age-abiding life, but he who does not believe in the son will not see life, but God's anger remains on him.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.14 ↔ Numbers 21:9.

¹Now when the Lord came to know that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making more disciples, and having them baptized, than John ²– and yet Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples did – ³he left Judaea and went off to Galilee, ⁴and he had to cross through Samaria, ⁵so he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land which Jacob gave to Joseph his son. ⁶Now Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being tired from the journey, was just sitting at the well. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸After all, his disciples had gone off into the town to buy food. ⁹So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How come you, being a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it was saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get the living water from then? ¹²Surely you are not greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and who drank from it himself, as did his sons, and his cattle.” ¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. ¹⁴Whoever drinks the water which I give him will certainly never thirst, but the water which I give him will become a well of water in him, springing up to age-abiding life.” ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don't thirst or have to come here to draw water.” ¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go and call your husband, and come back here.” ¹⁷The woman answered and said, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ ¹⁸For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. You have spoken the truth about this.” ¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you say that the place where one should worship is in Jerusalem.” ²¹Jesus said to her, “Madam, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²²You worship that which you do not know, but we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³But the hour is coming, and is now, when true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and truth. For indeed the father seeks such people to worship him.” ²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. ²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will clarify everything for us.” ²⁶Jesus said to her, “I am the one, I who am speaking to you.” ²⁷Then at this point his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman. However, no-one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” ²⁸The woman then left her water-jar and went away to the town, and she said to the men, ²⁹“Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰They left the town and came to him. ³¹Meanwhile, the disciples prevailed on him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.” ³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know of.” ³³Then the disciples said to each other, “No-one has brought him anything to eat, have they?” ³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is that I should do the will of him who sent me, and complete his work. ³⁵You say, do you not, ‘It is still four months for the harvest to come’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the farmlands – they are already white, ready for the harvest. ³⁶And the reaper receives wages and gathers fruit for age-abiding life, so that the sower and the reaper rejoice together. ³⁷For in this matter the saying is true, that the sower is one and the reaper another. ³⁸I have sent you to reap that which you did not toil over. Others have toiled, but you have entered into their toil.” ³⁹Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him, on account of the words of the woman who gave this testimony: “He told me everything I have done.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he remained there for two days, ⁴¹and many more believed on account of his words. ⁴²And they said to the woman, “It is no longer on account of your story that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is truly the saviour of the world, the Christ.” ⁴³Then two days later, he went away from there and departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified that a prophet does not have honour in his own native land. ⁴⁵So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they also went to the festival. ⁴⁶Then Jesus went to Cana in Galilee again, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he went off to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was on the point of dying. ⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and miracles, you won't believe at all.” ⁴⁹The royal official said to him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go your way – your son will live.” And the man believed the words which Jesus had said to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And while he was still going down, his servants met him and gave him a report and said, “Your child is alive.” ⁵²So he inquired from them the hour when he became better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³So the father knew that it was at the very hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live”, and he and his whole house believed. ⁵⁴Jesus performed this second sign as he departed from Judaea for Galilee.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.26 ↔ Exodus 3:14.

¹After these things, it was the Jews' festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now there is a pool in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate, which is called in Hebraic Bethesda, and it has five colonnades. ³In these a very large number of people who were ill were lying down: the blind, the lame, the wizened, awaiting the movement of the water, ⁴for an angel would come down into the pool at a certain time and disturb the water. Then the first to go in after the disturbance of the water would be cured of whatever disease he was suffering from. ⁵There was a certain man there who had been in an infirm condition for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying down, knowing that he had been like that for a long time now, he said to him, “Do you want to be cured?” ⁷The infirm man replied to him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is disturbed. By the time I go, someone else goes down in before me.” ⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your stretcher, and walk.” ⁹And immediately the man was cured, and he picked up his stretcher and walked. However, it was the Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰So the Jews said to him who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath. It is not permitted for you to pick up the stretcher.” ¹¹He replied to them, “He who restored my health – he said to me, ‘Pick up your stretcher and walk.’ ” ¹²So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your stretcher and walk’?” ¹³But he who had been cured did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved aside, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴After these things, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have been cured. Don't sin any more, in case something worse happens to you.” ¹⁵The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored his health. ¹⁶And for this reason the Jews kept persecuting Jesus and looking for an opportunity to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My father has been working up to now, and I have been working as well.” ¹⁸Then on account of this, the Jews looked all the more for an opportunity to kill him, because not only would he break the Sabbath, but he would also say that God was his own father, making himself equal to God. ¹⁹So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing on his own initiative – only if he sees the father doing something. For whatever he does, so the son does in the same manner. ²⁰For the father loves the son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you may be amazed. ²¹For as the father raises up the dead and makes them alive, so the son for his part makes alive those whom he wishes to, ²²because the father does not even judge anyone but has given all judgment to the son, ²³in order that everyone should honour the son, as they honour the father. He who does not honour the son does not honour the father who sent him. ²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you that he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has age-abiding life and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. ²⁵Truly, truly, I say to you that the hour is coming, and is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the son of God, and those who hear it will live. ²⁶For as the father has life in himself, so he has granted that the son may also have life in himself, ²⁷and he has given him authority also to execute judgment, because he is the son of man. ²⁸Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all those in tombs will hear his voice, ²⁹and those who have done good things will go out into the resurrection of life, but those who have done base things to the resurrection of judgment. ³⁰I cannot do anything on my own initiative. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, for I do not seek my will, but the will of the father who sent me. ³¹If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true. ³²There is another who testifies concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies concerning me is true. ³³You have sent inquirers to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴Now I do not accept testimony from men, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵He was the lamp burning and shining, and you were pleased to rejoice in his light for a while. ³⁶But I have a testimony greater than that of John. For the works which the father gave me to complete, those very works which I do, witness concerning me that the father has sent me. ³⁷And the father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his appearance, ³⁸and you did not have his word remaining in you, for you don't believe in him whom he sent. ³⁹You examine the scriptures because you think you have age-abiding life in them. Now they are what testify concerning me, ⁴⁰yet you are not willing to come to me to have life. ⁴¹I do not accept glory from men, ⁴²but I know you – I know that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³I have come in the name of my father, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, while you do not seek the glory which is from the only God? ⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the father. Moses is the one who is accusing you, in whom you have put your hope. ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷But if you do not believe his writings, how can you believe my words?”

¹After these things, Jesus went away across the sea of Galilee, of Tiberias, ²and a large crowd followed him, because they had seen his signs which he performed on the infirm. ³Then Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. ⁴Incidentally, the Passover was near, the Jews' festival. ⁵Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, and he said to Philip, “From where can we buy loaves of bread so that these may eat?” ⁶But he said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷Philip answered him, “Two hundred denaries' worth of bread would not suffice for them, so that each of them could take a little.” ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, ⁹“There is one little boy here who has five barley loaves and two cooked fish, but what is that for so many?” ¹⁰But Jesus said, “Have the men recline.” Now there was a lot of grass in the place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. ¹¹And Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to those reclining. And they did the same with the cooked fish – as much as they wanted. ¹²And when they were full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces which are left over so that nothing goes to waste.” ¹³So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets of pieces from the five barley loaves which those who had eaten had left over. ¹⁴Then when the men had seen the sign which Jesus had performed, they said, “This is truly the prophet who was to come into the world.” ¹⁵So Jesus, who knew that they would come and seize him to make him king, withdrew to the mountain alone. ¹⁶Then when evening had come, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷and they went on board a boat and were going across the sea to Capernaum. Now dark had already fallen, and Jesus had not come to them, ¹⁸and the sea was being stirred up, with a strong wind blowing. ¹⁹Then when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stades, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid. ²⁰But he said to them, “I am; do not be afraid.” ²¹Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the place which they were heading for. ²²The next day, the crowd who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there had been no other boat there, except the one which his disciples had boarded, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples had departed alone, ²³but that boats had come from Tiberias near to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves went into the boats and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus. ²⁵And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you arrive here?” ²⁶Jesus replied to them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the bread and had your fill. ²⁷Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures, leading to age-abiding life, which the son of man will give you. For the father, God, has sealed him.” ²⁸Then they said to him, “What should we do to do the works of God?” ²⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in him whom he has sent.” ³⁰Then they said to him, “What sign will you perform then for us to see and believe you? What will you perform? ³¹Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it stands written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” ³²Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴Then they said to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” ³⁵And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger at all, and he who believes in me will not ever thirst at all. ³⁶But I said to you, ‘Although you have seen me, you still don't believe.’ ³⁷Everything that the father gives me will come to me, and I will certainly not cast out him who comes to me. ³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of the father who sent me, that I should not lose any part of anything that he has given me, but that I should raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the son and believes in him should have age-abiding life, and that I should raise him up on the last day.” ⁴¹Then the Jews murmured about him, because he had said, “I am the bread which has come down from heaven.” ⁴²And they said, “Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How come, then, he says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³So Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. ⁴⁴No-one can come to me, unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It stands written in the prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ So everyone who hears from the father and has learnt comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the father, except him who is from God – he has seen the father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has age-abiding life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate manna in the desert and died. ⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person should eat it and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, he will live throughout the age. And moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” ⁵²Then the Jews contended with each other, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life in you. ⁵⁴He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has age-abiding life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink. ⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living father sent me, so I live because of the father. And as for him who eats me, he will also live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down from heaven, not comparable to how your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live throughout the age.” ⁵⁹He said these things in the synagogue while teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰Then many of his disciples who had heard him said, “This speech is hard. Who can listen to him?” ⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, “Does this offend you? ⁶²What, then, if you should see the son of man ascending to where he was before? ⁶³It is the spirit which makes alive; the flesh is of no benefit. The words which I am speaking to you are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe and who it was who would betray him. ⁶⁵And he said, “This is why I have said to you that no-one can come to me, unless it has been granted to him by my father.” ⁶⁶At this many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷Then Jesus said to the twelve, “You don't also wish to go away, do you?” ⁶⁸Then Simon Peter replied to him, “Lord, to whom could we go? You have the words of age-abiding life, ⁶⁹and we have believed, and know, that you are the Christ, the son of the living God.” ⁷⁰Jesus replied to them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.” ⁷¹He was speaking here of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For this man was going to betray him, being one of the twelve.

Reference(s) in Chapter 6: v.20 ↔ Exodus 3:14 ● v.31 ↔ Psalm 78:24 ● v.45 ↔ Isaiah 54:13, Jeremiah 31:33-34.

¹And after that Jesus walked around in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk around in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a way to kill him. ²Now the festival of the Jews, Tabernacles, was near. ³Then his brothers said to him, “Move on from here and go to Judaea, so that your disciples also may see your works which you do, ⁴for no-one does a thing in secret when he is trying to be known in public himself. If you are doing these things, manifest yourself to the world.” ⁵For not even his brothers believed in him. ⁶So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come. But your time is always at hand. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil. ⁸You go up to this festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for my time has not yet been fulfilled.” ⁹Then when he had said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers went up, then he went up to the festival as well – not openly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹Then the Jews looked for him at the festival and said, “Where is that man?” ¹²And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is good.” Others said, “No. Rather, he is misleading the crowd.” ¹³However, no-one spoke freely concerning him for fear of the Jews. ¹⁴Then when the festival was already half way through, Jesus went up to the temple and gave some teaching. ¹⁵And the Jews were amazed, and they said, “How come this man knows literature, not having studied it?” ¹⁶So Jesus replied to them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but of him who sent me. ¹⁷If anyone wishes to do his will, he will know about the teaching – whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own initiative. ¹⁸He who speaks on his own initiative seeks his own glory, but it is he who seeks the glory of him who sent him who is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for a way to kill me?” ²⁰The crowd answered and said, “You are possessed by a demon. Who is looking for a way to kill you?” ²¹Jesus answered and said to them, “I have performed one work, and you are all amazed. ²²For this reason Moses gave you circumcision – not that it was from Moses' time, but from the fathers' time – and you circumcise a man on a Sabbath. ²³If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, in order that the law of Moses should not be broken, why are you angry at me because I cured a man in his entirety on the Sabbath? ²⁴Do not judge by appearance, but judge with a just judgment.” ²⁵Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the one whom they are trying to kill? ²⁶And look, he is speaking openly, and they aren't saying anything to him. The leaders really have not established, have they, that this really is the Christ? ²⁷But we know where this man is from. However, when the Christ comes, no-one will know where he is from.” ²⁸So Jesus shouted out, while teaching in the temple, and he said, “You both know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come on my own initiative, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” ³⁰Then they looked for a way to seize him, yet no-one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ³¹But many of the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Christ comes, surely he will not do more signs than these which this man has done?” ³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and senior priests sent officers to seize him. ³³Then Jesus said, “I will only be a little while with you still, and then I will go away to him who sent me. ³⁴You will look for me, but you will not find me. And where I am, you cannot go.” ³⁵Then the Jews said to themselves, “Where is he going to go, such that we won't find him? Is he going to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does this remark which he said mean, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me’, and, ‘Where I am, you cannot go’?” ³⁷Now on the last – the great – day of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸As regards him who believes in me, as the scripture says, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his inside.’ ” ³⁹He said this referring to the spirit which those who believed in him were about to receive, for there was not yet any holy spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. ⁴⁰Then many of the crowd who heard the statement said, “This man is truly the prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ.” Yet others said, “No, for surely the Christ does not come from Galilee? ⁴²Does not the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” ⁴³So a division arose in the crowd on account of him. ⁴⁴And some of them wanted to seize him, but no-one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵Then the officers went to the senior priests and Pharisees, and those said to them, “Why did you not bring him here?” ⁴⁶The officers replied, “Never did a man speak in such a way as this man did.” ⁴⁷Then the Pharisees answered them, “You haven't gone astray too, have you? ⁴⁸None of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed him, have they? ⁴⁹But this crowd who do not know the law are strongly cursed.” ⁵⁰Nicodemus, who had come to him by night, who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹“Surely our law does not judge a man if it has not first heard from him and knows what he is doing?” ⁵²They answered and said to him, “You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate and see: no prophet has arisen from Galilee.” ⁵³Then each went to his house.

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.38 ↔ Isaiah 12:3, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 58:11; Ezekiel 47:1; Joel 4:18^MT (Joel 3:18^AV), Zechariah 13:1, Zechariah 14:8. ● v.42 ↔ Psalm 89:30^MT-37^MT (Psalm 89:29^AV-36^AV), Psalm 132:11, Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 11:10, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 33:15, Micah 5:1^MT (Micah 5:2^AV).

¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²Then at dawn he presented himself at the temple again. And all the people came, and he sat down and was teaching them, ³when the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been caught in adultery, and they placed her at the focus of attention, ⁴and they said to him, testing him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery, ⁵and in the law, Moses commanded us that such people are to be stoned. So what do you say?” ⁶But they said this testing him, so that they might have something to accuse him with. But Jesus stooped and wrote on the ground with his finger, not acting in pretence. ⁷And when they persisted in asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you cast a stone at her first.” ⁸Then stooping again, he wrote on the ground. ⁹And having heard it, and being convicted by their conscience, they went out one by one, beginning with the elders. Then Jesus was left there alone with the woman at the focal point. ¹⁰Then Jesus straightened himself up, and not seeing anyone except the woman, he said to her, “Where are those accusers of yours? Didn't anyone condemn you?” ¹¹And she said, “No-one, Lord.” Jesus then said, “Neither do I judge you. Go and do not sin any more.” ¹²Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will certainly not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” ¹³Then the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵You judge according to the flesh, but I do not judge anyone. ¹⁶And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but it is a case of me and the father who sent me. ¹⁷And in your law it stands written that the testimony of two men is true. ¹⁸I am the one testifying about myself, and the father who sent me testifies about me too.” ¹⁹Then they said to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You neither know me nor my father. If you knew me, you would know my father too.” ²⁰Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, while teaching in the temple, but no-one seized him, because his hour had not yet come. ²¹Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot go.” ²²Then the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself, in that he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot go’?” ²³And he said to them, “You are of the things below, but I am of the things above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴So I said to you, ‘You will die in your sins.’ For if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.” ²⁵Then they said to him, “Who are you?” And Jesus said to them, “I tell you: the beginning, which I have been telling you all along. ²⁶I have many things concerning you to say and to judge, but he who sent me is true, and what I hear from him, that I say to the world.” ²⁷They did not know that he was speaking to them of the father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the son of man, then you will know that I am, and that on my own initiative I do not do anything, but as my father has taught me, so I speak. ²⁹And he who sent me is with me. The father has not left me alone, because I always do the things which are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he said these things many believed in him. ³¹Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” ³³They replied to him, “We are the seed of Abraham, and we have never been slaves to anyone. How come you say, ‘You will be free’?” ³⁴Jesus replied to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you that everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. ³⁵But the slave does not remain in the house forever. The son remains throughout the age. ³⁶So if the son makes you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷I know that you are the seed of Abraham, but you are looking for a way to kill me, because my word does not find room in you. ³⁸I speak of what I have seen with my father. And you consequently do what you have seen with your father.” ³⁹They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing Abraham's works. ⁴⁰But now, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹You do the works of your father.” Then they said to him, “We were not born from fornication. We have one father: God.” ⁴²Then Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, since I came out from God and have come here, for I did not come on my own initiative, but he sent me. ⁴³Why do you not understand my discourse? Because you are not able to hear my words. ⁴⁴You stem from your father the devil, and you have a will to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own mind, because he is a liar and is the father of it. ⁴⁵But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶Who among you can convict me of sin? But if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷He who is from God hears the words of God. That is why you do not hear them, because you are not from God.” ⁴⁸Then the Jews replied and said to him, “Were we not right in saying, ‘You are a Samaritan, and you are possessed by a demon’?” ⁴⁹Jesus replied, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honour my father, whereas you dishonour me. ⁵⁰And I do not seek my glory. There is the one who seeks and judges. ⁵¹Truly, truly, I say to you, if a person keeps my word, he will by no means see death throughout the age.” ⁵²The Jews said to him, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Abraham and the prophets died, but you say, ‘If a person keeps my word, he will by no means taste death throughout the age.’ ⁵³Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Whom do you make yourself out to be?” ⁵⁴Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my father who glorifies me, whom you say is our God. ⁵⁵But you have not come to know him. But I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be like you – a liar. But I do know him, and I keep his word. ⁵⁶Abraham your father was glad to see my day, and he saw it, and he rejoiced.” ⁵⁷Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I am.” ⁵⁹Then they took up stones to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and he went out of the temple and crossed through the thick of them, and so he passed them by.

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.5 ↔ Deuteronomy 22:24 ● v.6 ↔ Numbers 5:23 ● v.17 ↔ Deuteronomy 19:15.

¹And as he passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth. ²And the disciples questioned him and asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, he or his parents, that he should be born blind?” ³Jesus replied, “Neither he nor his parents sinned, but it happened in order that the works of God should be manifested in him. ⁴I must carry out the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no-one can do any work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle and smeared the clay on the eyes of the blind man, ⁷and he said to him, “Go and wash yourself in the Pool of Siloam”, which, translated, is “Sent.” So he went away and washed himself, and he came back sighted. ⁸Then the neighbours and those who had previously seen that he had been blind, said, “Is this not the one who sits and begs?” ⁹Some said, “This is him.” But others said, “He is like him.” He himself said, “I am he.” ¹⁰Then they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He replied and said, “A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and he said to me, ‘Go off to the Pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went off, and when I washed myself, I recovered my sight.” ¹²Then they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don't know.” ¹³They brought him who had been blind in the past to the Pharisees. ¹⁴Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Then the Pharisees also asked him on the same ground how he had recovered his sight. He then said to them, “He placed clay on my eyes, then I washed myself, and now I can see.” ¹⁶Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, since he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” So there was a division among them. ¹⁷They asked the blind man again, “What have you got to say about him, in that he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.” ¹⁸In fact the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and had recovered his sight until they had called the parents of him who had recovered his sight. ¹⁹And they questioned them and asked, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How come that he can now see?” ²⁰Then his parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. ²¹But as to how he can now see, we don't know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already decided that if anyone professed that that man was the Christ, he would be excommunicated from the synagogue. ²³That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” ²⁴So they called the man who had been blind a second time, and they said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” ²⁵At which he answered and said, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, I can now see.” ²⁶Then they asked him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷He replied to them, “I have told you already, but you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?” ²⁸They reviled him and said, “You are a disciple of his. But we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God spoke to Moses. But we do not know where this man is from.” ³⁰The man answered and said to them, “Well, in this matter it is astounding that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes. ³¹Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is godly and does his will, he hears him. ³²Never has it been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he could not do anything.” ³⁴They replied and said to him, “You were wholly born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out. ³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and he found him, and he asked him, “Do you believe in the son of God?” ³⁶He answered and said, “So who is that, Lord, so that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus then said to him, “You have seen him, and also he who is talking to you is the one.” ³⁸Then he said, “I believe, Lord.” And he worshipped him. ³⁹Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world with a view to judgment – that those who do not see should see, and those who see should become blind.” ⁴⁰Now some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, “Surely we are not blind too?” ⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But as it is, you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains.”

¹“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not come into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up from somewhere else, is a thief and a robber. ²But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. ⁵However, they certainly will not follow a stranger but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶Jesus spoke this proverb to them, but they did not know what the things that he was saying to them meant. ⁷Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door for the sheep. ⁸All who have gone are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone goes in through me, he will be saved, and he will go in and out and will find pasture. ¹⁰The thief does not come except to steal and slaughter and destroy. I came in order that they might have life and have it abundantly. ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹²But the hired man, so who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. Then the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep. ¹³The hired man, then, flees, because he is a hired man, and he is not concerned about the sheep. ¹⁴I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and I am known by my own. ¹⁵As the father knows me, I also know the father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶I have other sheep too, which are not of this fold, and I must lead those too, and they will hear my voice, and there will be this: one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷Here is why the father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again. ¹⁸No-one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my father.” ¹⁹Then a division arose again among the Jews on account of these words. ²⁰And many of them said, “He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?” ²¹Others said, “These words are not those of one possessed by a demon. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?” ²²Now it was the festival of the Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter, ²³and Jesus was walking around in the temple in Solomon's Colonnade. ²⁴Then the Jews gathered round him and said to him, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” ²⁵Jesus replied to them, “I have told you, and you do not believe. It is the works which I do in the name of my father which testify concerning me. ²⁶But you do not believe, for you are not my sheep, as I told you. ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸And I give them age-abiding life, and they will certainly not be lost throughout the age, and no-one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no-one can snatch them from my father's hand. ³⁰I and the father are one.” ³¹Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus replied to them, “I have shown you many good works from my father. On account of which of those works do you stone me?” ³³The Jews answered him and said, “We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and in that you, being a man, make yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law: ‘I have said, «You are gods» ’? ³⁵If he called those people to whom the word of God came ‘gods’ – and the scripture cannot be broken – ³⁶do you say of him whom the father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said, ‘I am the son of God’? ³⁷If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me, ³⁸but if I do do them, and if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the father is in me and I in him.” ³⁹Then they again looked for a way to seize him, but he slipped away, out of their reach. ⁴⁰And he departed again, across the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing, and he remained there. ⁴¹And many came to him and said that John did not perform any sign, but that everything John had said about this man had been true. ⁴²And many there believed in him.

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.34 ↔ Psalm 82:6; Isaiah 41:23.