John 10 Cross References - ABU

¹ VERILY, verily, I say to you: He that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. ² But he that enters in through the door is a shepherd of the sheep. ³ To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. ⁴ And when he has put forth all his own, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ⁵ And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers. ⁶ This parable spoke Jesus to them; but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them. ⁷ Therefore said Jesus to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If any one enter in through me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² But he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep. ¹³ The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and am known by mine, ¹⁵ as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷ For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father. ¹⁹ Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰ And many of them said: He has a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him? ²¹ Others said: These are not the words of one that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? ²² And there came the feast of the dedication, in Jerusalem; and it was winter. ²³ And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon. ²⁴ The Jews therefore came around him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold us in doubt? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly. ²⁵ Jesus answered them: I told you, and ye do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me. ²⁶ But ye do not believe; for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one. ³¹ The Jews therefore took up stones again to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being man, makest thyself God. ³⁴ Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? ³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture can not be broken, ³⁶ say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? ³⁷ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may learn and know, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. ³⁹ Therefore they sought again to seize him; and he went forth, out of their hand. ⁴⁰ And he went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was at first immersing; and there he abode. ⁴¹ And many came to him, and said: John indeed wrought no sign; but all things that John spoke of this man were true. ⁴² And many believed on him there.

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps' clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is bound. ¹⁷ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound. ¹⁹ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon. ²¹ And he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells therein. ²² And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits thereon. ²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of the mint and the dill and the cumin, and omitted the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not leave those undone. ²⁴ Blind guides! that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel. ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of rapacity and excess. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of the cup and the platter, that its outside also may become clean. ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ So also ye outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

³ Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.

⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If any one enter in through me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

¹⁵ And how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing then, if also his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

⁸ Wherefore he says: When he ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men. ⁹ Now this, he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ The one who descended, he is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, that he may fill all things. ¹¹ And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers; ¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

⁴ And no one takes to himself the honor, but being called by God, as was also Aaron.

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation the prophets diligently sought and searched, who prophesied of the grace toward you;

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

³ And in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, and that cease not from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse; ¹⁵ forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, ¹⁶ but was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage.

¹ BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

⁷ Therefore said Jesus to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁹ I am the door. If any one enter in through me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² But he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and am known by mine,

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.

² The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; ³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money; ⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all decorum; ⁵ (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ But he must also have a good testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

¹⁴ Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

⁵ For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in each city, as I directed thee;

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant,

²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but have returned now unto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

⁴ And when the chief Shepherd is manifested, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

²⁰ the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

⁴ And when he has put forth all his own, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

²⁶ But ye do not believe; for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

³⁰ And whom he predestined, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

⁹ For a great and effectual door is open to me, and there are many adversaries.

³ Yea, I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

³ at the same time praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in bonds,

¹⁹ Nevertheless, God's firm foundation stands, having this seal: The Lord knew those who are his; and, Let every one that names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them, which now have been announced to you, through those who brought you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no one shall shut, and shuts, and no one opens. ⁸ I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which no one can shut; because thou hast little power and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any one hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and I will sup with him and he with me.

¹⁷ because the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

¹⁵ And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²⁹ He that has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is made full.

⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

²⁶ If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any one serve me, him will the Father honor.

¹⁵ For I gave you an example, that as I did to you, ye also should do.

² In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am ye may be also.

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; because I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

¹ BE ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

¹ BECOME therefore followers of God, as beloved children

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; ⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not account it robbery to be equal with God; ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of beings in heaven, and of beings on earth, and of beings under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²⁰ where as forerunner for us Jesus entered, having become a high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

² looking away to the author and finisher of the faith, Jesus; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

²¹ For to this ye were called; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps;

¹ CHRIST then having suffered for us in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; because he who suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

³ neither as being lords over the heritage, but being examples to the flock.

²⁴ And he said to them: Take heed what ye hear. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you, and there shall be added to you.

¹⁸ Take heed therefore how ye hear. For whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, even what he seems to have shall be taken from him.

¹¹ And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers; ¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; ¹³ till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error; ¹⁵ but holding the truth, may in love grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him; ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware lest there shall be any one that despoils you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ Because in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are made complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power;

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; and from these turn away. ⁶ For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ⁷ ever learning, and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound teaching, but according to their own desires will to themselves heap up teachers, having itching ears;

¹ LAYING aside therefore all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings, ² as newborn babes, long for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that ye thereby may grow unto salvation; ³ if indeed ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;

¹⁹ They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but it was in order that they might be made manifest, that all are not of us.

²¹ I wrote not to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

⁵ They are of the world; for this cause they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God; he that knows God, hears us; he that is not of God, hears us not. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

² I know thy works, and thy labor and patience, and how thou canst not bear evil men; and thou didst try those who say they are apostles, and are not, and didst find them liars;

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: With the hearing ye will hear, and will not understand; And seeing ye will see, and will not perceive.

⁵¹ Did ye understand all these things? They say to him, Yea, Lord.

⁵² The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard it, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

³⁶ What is this saying that he said: Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come?

²⁷ They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye can not hear my word.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in parables. A time is coming, when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell you plainly of the Father.

¹⁴ But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not know them, because they are spiritually judged.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he finds it? ⁵ And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And coming home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: Rejoice with me; because I found my sheep which was lost.

¹ VERILY, verily, I say to you: He that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

⁶ Jesus says to him: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.

¹⁸ Because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹ Having therefore, brethren, boldness as to the entrance into the holy places by the blood of Jesus, which [entrance] he instituted for us, ²⁰ a new and living way, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹ and having a great priest over the house of God; ²² Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience; and having had our body washed with pure water,

⁵ And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

³⁶ For before these days arose Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered and brought to naught.

¹ BEING justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; ² through whom also we obtained the access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

¹⁰ Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁸ even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹³ And he says to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; But ye make it a den of robbers.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye go not in, nor suffer those who are entering to go in:

¹⁷ And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But ye have made it a den of robbers.

¹⁰ For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

³³ For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.

⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁶ This he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.

⁴⁷ And if any one hear my words, and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

²¹ thou then, that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou that preachest, a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

¹³ (for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴ But yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come. ¹⁵ But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. ¹⁶ And not as through one that sinned, is the gift; for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification. ¹⁷ For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more they who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.) ¹⁸ So then, as through one trespass it came upon all men unto condemnation; so also through one righteous act it came upon all men unto justification of life. ¹⁹ For as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one will the many be constituted righteous. ²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; ²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

¹⁷ Wherein God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

²⁵ Whence also he is able to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever lives to intercede for them.

¹¹ For so shall be richly ministered to you the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their dissolute ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and am known by mine, ¹⁵ as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁷ For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

² and walk in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and cleanse for himself a people to be his own, zealous of good works.

²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to our sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. ²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but have returned now unto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

¹⁶ In this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents, and simple as doves.

³ To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money;

⁸ Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain;

¹⁰ For Demas forsook me, having loved the present world, and departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

⁷ For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain;

² tend the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but with good will;

¹⁷ But having all seized upon Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.

²⁰ For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

³ And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send.

⁸ because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.

⁶ Because it is God, who commands light to shine out of darkness; who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give to you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of him;

¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

⁸ Nay more, and I account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ,

¹² For which cause I suffer also these things. But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him, unto that day.

⁹ I know thy affliction, and poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

¹³ I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny the faith in me, even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁹ I know thy works, and thy love, and faith, and service, and patience; and thy last works are more than the first.

¹ AND to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he who has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars. I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

⁸ I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which no one can shut; because thou hast little power and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot.

²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son but the Father; nor does any one know the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him.

²¹ In that hour he rejoiced in spirit, and said: I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and reveal them to babes; yea, O Father, that so it seemed good in thy sight.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.

⁴⁶ Not that any one has seen the Father, save he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

⁵⁵ And ye know him not; but I know him. And if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like to you. But I know him, and I keep his word.

²⁵ Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me;

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father;

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it is written: Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree;

⁵ For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time;

²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to our sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit;

² And he is a propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

² And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals? ³ And no one was able, in heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look thereon. ⁴ And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, nor to look thereon. ⁵ And one of the elders says to me: Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, prevailed to open the book, and its seven seals. ⁶ And I saw, in the midst of the throne and of the four animals, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as if having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. ⁷ And he came, and has taken the book out of the right hand of him who sits upon the throne. ⁸ And when he took the book, the four animals, and the twenty-four elders, fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden cups full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. ⁹ And they sing a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God by thy blood out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

² But he that enters in through the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

¹⁴ Simeon narrated how at first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

¹⁰ for I am with thee, and no one shall assail thee to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city.

¹⁴ And he said: The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth.

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory; ²⁴ whom he also called, even us, not from among the Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles?

⁹ and that the Gentiles should glorify God for his mercy; as it is written: For this cause I will give thee praise among Gentiles. And to thy name will sing. ¹⁰ And again he says: Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. ¹¹ And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And extol him, all ye peoples. ¹² And again, Isaiah says: There shall be the root of Jesse, And he who rises up to rule the Gentiles; On him will Gentiles hope. ¹³ And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ YOU also, being dead in trespasses and sins;— ² in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we also all walked in time past in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;— ⁴ but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us, made us, ⁵ even when we were dead in sins, alive with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,)

¹³ But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who in time past were afar off, were made near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition; ¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might make the two one new man in himself, making peace; ¹⁶ and might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. ¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near. ¹⁸ Because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness and the love toward man of our Savior God appeared, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the bathing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;

¹⁰ who once were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

²⁵ There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification.

¹⁵ as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.

⁹ As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

⁴ I glorified thee on the earth; I finished the work which thou hast given me to do. ⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

²⁴ Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me; ²⁶ and I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

⁹ But we behold him, who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, in order that he by the grace of God might taste death for every one.

⁵³ Thinkest thou that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will send me more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ How then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? ⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes: Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and staves, to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold of me. ⁵⁶ But all this has been done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all forsook him, and fled.

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹ But he said it of the temple of his body.

³⁰ I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁸ Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

¹⁷ For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

⁵ They answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them: I am he. And Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them. ⁶ When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

¹¹ Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin.

²⁴ whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death; because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

³² This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

¹⁵ But the Author of life ye killed; whom God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not account it robbery to be equal with God; ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

¹⁴ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner took part in the same; that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil; ¹⁵ and might deliver those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

⁶ as also in another place, he says: Thou art a priest forever, After the order of Melchizedek; ⁷ who, in the days of his flesh offering up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and being heard on account of his godly fear, ⁸ though a Son yet learned from what he suffered the [required] obedience, ⁹ and being perfected became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him;

⁶ In whole burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin, thou hadst no pleasure. ⁷ Then said I: Lo, I come, In the volume of the book it is written of me, To do thy will, O God. ⁸ Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, nor hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law, ⁹ then has he said: Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ In which will we have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

³⁴ Think not that I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter with her mother, and a bride with her mother-in-law;

⁵¹ Suppose ye that I came to give peace in the earth? I tell you, nay; but only division. ⁵² For from this time forth, five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three. ⁵³ They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against the daughter, and daughter against the mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.

⁴⁰ Some of the multitude therefore, hearing the words, said: Of a truth this is the Prophet. ⁴¹ Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ then come out of Galilee? ⁴² Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? ⁴³ A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him.

¹⁶ Therefore some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.

⁴ But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

⁷ And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided. ⁸ For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees acknowledge both. ⁹ And there arose a great clamor; and the scribes of the party of the Pharisees arose, and contended, saying: We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit spoke to him, or an angel?— ¹⁰ And a great dissension arising, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiery to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

³ For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

¹⁸ For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

³⁴ But the Pharisees said: He casts out the demons through the prince of the demons.

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord: If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

²¹ And hearing of it, his kinsmen went out to lay hold of him; for they said: He is beside himself.

²⁰ The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon; who seeks to kill thee?

⁴⁶ The officers answered: Never man spoke like this man. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them: Are ye also led astray? ⁴⁸ Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them): ⁵¹ Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does? ⁵² They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet.

⁴⁷ He that is of God hears God's words; ye therefore hear not, because ye are not of God. ⁴⁸ The Jews answered and said to him: Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?

⁵² The Jews said to him: Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If a man keep my saying, he shall not taste of death, forever.

²⁸ They reviled him, and said: Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this man we know not, whence he is.

¹⁴ And as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some injustice, or wicked misdeed, O Jews, with reason I would have borne with you. ¹⁵ But if it is a question about a word, and names, and your own law look to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of these things

¹⁹ but had certain controversies with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. ²⁰ And I, being perplexed in regard to the dispute about these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged concerning them.

²⁴ And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art mad; much learning makes thee mad.

³⁰ And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they who sat with them. ³¹ And having withdrawn, they talked together, saying: This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. ³² And Agrippa said to Festus: This man could have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

²⁴ And his fame went forth into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were sick, taken with divers diseases and torments, and possessed with demons, and lunatic, and palsied; and he healed them.

⁵ The blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor good tidings are published.

⁶ Having thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

³² Since the world began, it was not heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

¹¹ And as he held fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

¹² And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

³ and said to him: Art thou he that comes, or look we for another?

¹⁵ And while the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he himself were not the Christ,

⁶⁷ If thou art the Christ, tell us. And he said to them: If I tell you, ye will not believe. ⁶⁸ And if I ask, ye will not answer. ⁶⁹ But henceforth shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. ⁷⁰ And they all said: Art thou then the Son of God? And he said to them: Ye say it; for I am.

¹⁹ And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou?

²⁵ Therefore they said to him: Who art thou? And Jesus said to them: That which I also say to you from the beginning.

⁵³ Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom makest thou thyself?

²² These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that if any one acknowledged him as Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

¹² Having therefore such hope, we use great plainness of speech;

² The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. ¹⁸ For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹ Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like manner. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; so also the Son quickens whom he will. ²² For neither does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the Son; ²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵ Verily, verily, I say to you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because he is a son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this; for an hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth; they that did good, to the resurrection of life, and they that did evil, to the resurrection of judgment. ³⁰ I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³¹ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ³² There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. ³³ Ye have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ But I receive the witness not from man; but these things I say, that ye might be saved. ³⁵ He was the burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ³⁶ But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father, who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape. ³⁸ And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not. ³⁹ Search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; ⁴⁰ and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. ⁴¹ I receive not honor from men. ⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

³¹ But of the multitude many believed on him, and said: When the Christ comes, will he work more signs than these which this man wrought?

¹² Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

²⁴ I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.

³² Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

³⁸ But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may learn and know, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs?

³⁷ But though he had wrought so many signs before them, they did not believe on him;

¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe for the very works' sake.

³⁰ Many other signs also did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.

²² Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God wrought by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know;

³⁸ how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil; because God was with him.

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great a salvation; which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard,

⁴⁴ No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

⁶⁵ And he said: For this cause I have said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him from the Father.

⁴⁷ He that is of God hears God's words; ye therefore hear not, because ye are not of God.

³⁷ But though he had wrought so many signs before them, they did not believe on him; ³⁸ that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Lord, who believed our report, And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? ³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, And has hardened their heart; That they should not see with their eyes, And understand with their heart, And turn, and I should heal them.

⁷ What then? What Israel seeks after, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened. ⁸ According as it is written: God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

³ But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed in those who perish; ⁴ in whom the god of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, that they should not discern the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

⁶ We are of God; he that knows God, hears us; he that is not of God, hears us not. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

²³ And then will I profess to them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

¹² But he answering said: Verily I say to you, I know you not.

³⁴ And calling to him the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them: Whoever desires to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²¹ And Jesus beholding him loved him, and said to him: One thing thou lackest; go, sell whatever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

²³ And he said to all: If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

²⁷ And he will say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all workers of unrighteousness.

²⁵ Verily, verily, I say to you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

³ To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. ⁴ And when he has put forth all his own, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

²² Jesus says to him: If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? Do thou follow me.

²³ And it shall be that every soul, that will not hear that Prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

³ But if any one loves God, the same is known by him.

⁹ But now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye turn back again to the weak and poor elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again anew?

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb, whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from men, a first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.

²² For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, so as to lead, if possible, even the chosen astray.

³¹ And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked for you, to sift as the wheat. ³² But I prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and thou, when thou hast turned, strengthen thy brethren.

⁴⁶ And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.

¹⁵ that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life.

³⁶ He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

¹⁴ But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.

²⁴ Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

³⁹ Search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; ⁴⁰ and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

²⁷ Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you; for him the Father, God, has sealed,

³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁷ Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me has everlasting life.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life.

²⁵ Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live;

¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also.

² as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are, ¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

⁹ that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Of those whom thou hast given me, I lost none.

⁵⁹ and stoned Stephen, calling and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

² through whom also we obtained the access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

⁹ Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath through him.

¹⁷ For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more they who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.)

²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ THERE is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

³³ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's chosen? God is he that justifies; ³⁴ who is he that condemns? Christ is he that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter. ³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

³ For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, our life, shall be manifested, then will ye also with him be manifested in glory.

¹⁶ But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Christ Jesus might show forth all his long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

⁵ who by the power of God are kept through faith, unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he himself promised to us, the life eternal.

¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹³ These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, who believe on the name of the Son of God. ¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. ¹⁶ If any one see his brother sin a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life,—to those who sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death; for that I do not say that he shall pray. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death. ¹⁸ We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches him not. ¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one. ²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept by Jesus Christ:

²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy;

²⁸ Ye heard how I said to you: I go away; and I come to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.

⁶ I manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.

⁹ I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are thine.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are,

¹⁹ Go therefore, and disciple all the nations, immersing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

¹ IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work.

²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

⁹ Jesus says to him: Am I so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou: Show us the Father?

²³ Jesus answered and said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said, that he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you.

¹⁰ And all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me. ²² And the glory which thou hast given to me I have given to them, that they may be one, as we are one; ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them as thou lovedst me.

¹⁶ And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

¹³ looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

⁷ For there are three who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood;

³⁵ And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

¹⁸ For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

⁵⁹ They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

⁸ The disciples say to him: Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have now become the betrayers and murderers;

⁵⁸ and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid off their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul, ⁵⁹ and stoned Stephen, calling and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

¹⁹ Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like manner. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel.

³⁶ But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.

²⁵ Jesus answered them: I told you, and ye do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.

³⁷ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

¹² Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

¹ LET every soul submit himself to the higher powers. For there is no power but from God; the powers that be have been ordained by God.

⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not account it robbery to be equal with God;

¹⁷ It is written also in your law, that the witness of two men is true.

³⁴ The multitude answered him: We heard out of the law that the Christ abides forever; and how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

²⁵ But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law: They hated me without a cause.

¹⁰ As it is written: There is none righteous, no, no one; ¹¹ there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways; ¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²¹ In the law it is written: For with men of other tongues, and with strange lips, I will speak to this people; And not even so will they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

¹⁸ For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.

³⁵ And having crucified him, they divided his garments among them, casting lots.

¹⁷ And it is easier that heaven and earth should pass away, than that one tittle of the law should fail.

²⁶ Was it not necessary, that the Christ should suffer these things, and enter into his glory? ²⁷ And beginning from Moses, and all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

⁴⁴ And he said to them: These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and psalms, concerning me. ⁴⁵ Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶ And he said to them: Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and should rise from the dead on the third day;

³⁸ that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Lord, who believed our report, And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? ³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst.

³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. ³⁷ And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

¹⁶ Men, brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God. ⁶⁴ Jesus says to him: Thou saidst it. But I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven. ⁶⁵ Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying: He blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, ye now heard his blasphemy. ⁶⁶ What think ye? They answering said: He is guilty of death.

⁴³ He trusts in God; let him now deliver him, if he desires him; for he said I am the Son of God.

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and they that with him were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying: Truly this was the Son of God.

³⁵ And the angel answering said to her: The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Highest will overshadow thee; therefore also the Holy One that is born shall be called the Son of God.

³⁴ For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not the Spirit by measure.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. ¹⁸ For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

³⁶ But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father, who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape.

⁵⁷ As the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me.

⁶⁹ And we believe and know, that thou art the Holy One of God.

⁴² Jesus said to them: If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I came forth, and am come; neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they cast him out; and finding him, he said to him: Dost thou believe on the Son of God? ³⁶ He answered and said: Who then is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? ³⁷ And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that talks with thee.

³⁰ I and the Father are one. ³¹ The Jews therefore took up stones again to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being man, makest thyself God.

¹⁸ As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world.

²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

⁷ The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord, and my God.

³¹ But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

⁴ who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

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

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under law,

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in respect to us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us. ¹³ In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen, and bear witness, that the Father has sent forth the Son, a Savior of the world.

²⁰ Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his miracles were done, because they repented not. ²¹ Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! For if the miracles, that were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²² But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, that wast exalted to heaven, shalt go down to the underworld. For if the miracles, that were done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

³¹ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

¹⁰ Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

⁹ Jesus says to him: Am I so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou: Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works. ¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe for the very works' sake.

²⁰ In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel; ⁹ if we are this day examined in respect to a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this person has been made whole; ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him does this man stand here before you whole. ¹¹ He is the stone that was set at naught by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. ¹² And there is salvation in no other; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, in which we must be saved.

²⁹ And they rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, to cast him down headlong. ³⁰ But he, passing through the midst of them, went away.

³⁰ Therefore they sought to seize him; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

⁴⁴ And some of them desired to seize him; but no one laid hands on him.

³¹ The Jews therefore took up stones again to stone him.

²⁸ These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.

²⁶ And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.

¹ AND after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

¹¹ I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance; but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear; he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire; ¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and will gather his wheat into the garner; but the chaff he will burn up with fire unquenchable.

²³ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every infirmity among the people. ²⁴ And his fame went forth into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were sick, taken with divers diseases and torments, and possessed with demons, and lunatic, and palsied; and he healed them. ²⁵ And great multitudes followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and from beyond the Jordan.

² And he said to his servants: This is John the Immerser; he is risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him.

³⁷ And having found him, they say to him: All are seeking thee.

¹ AND it came to pass, as the multitude pressed upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

²⁶ But what went ye out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he, of whom it is written: Behold, I send forth my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee. ²⁸ For I say to you, among those born of women, no one is a greater prophet than John; but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. ²⁹ And all the people, hearing it, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with John's immersion. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God toward themselves, not having been immersed by him.

¹ IN the mean time, the multitude having gathered together in tens of thousands, so that they trod one upon another, he began first to say to his disciples: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

²⁷ he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.

²⁹ On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰ This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me.

³³ And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴ And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.

¹¹ This beginning of the signs Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

²⁶ And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him. ²⁷ John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. ²⁸ Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. ²⁹ He that has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is made full. ³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹ He that comes from above is above all; he that is from the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all. ³² And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and his testimony no one receives. ³³ He that received his testimony has set his seal, That God is true. ³⁴ For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not the Spirit by measure. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

²³ And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.

³⁹ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did.

⁴¹ And far more believed because of his word;

³⁰ As he spoke these words many believed on him.

⁴⁵ Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what he did, believed on him.

⁴² Yet, even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;