John 9 Cross References - ABU

¹ AND passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth. ² And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? ³ Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. ⁴ I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when none can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 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, ⁷ and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing. ⁸ The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs? ⁹ Some said: This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he. ¹⁰ Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? ¹¹ He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight. ¹² They said to him: Where is he? He said: I know not. ¹³ They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind. ¹⁴ And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. 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. ¹⁷ They say to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him, seeing that he opened thine eyes? He said: He is a Prophet. ¹⁸ The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and received sight, until they called the parents of him that received sight. ¹⁹ And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then does he now see? ²⁰ His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. ²¹ But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age; ask him. He shall speak for himself. 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. ²³ Therefore his parents said: He is of age; ask him. ²⁴ They therefore called a second time the man that was blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner. ²⁵ He answered therefore: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. ²⁶ They therefore said to him: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes? ²⁷ He answered them: I told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear again? Will ye also become his disciples? 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. ³⁰ The man answered and said to them: Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes. ³¹ Now we know that God hears not sinners. But if any one is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears. 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. ³⁴ They answered and said to him: Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 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. ³⁸ And he said: Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him. ³⁹ And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind. ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would not have sin. But now ye say: We see. Your sin remains!

¹⁴ And they said: Some, John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

⁷ and the greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

² And answering he said to them: Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered such things?

³⁴ They answered and said to him: Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

⁴ And when the barbarians saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said among themselves: No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though escaped from the sea, justice suffered not to live.

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.

² And answering he said to them: Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered such things? ³ I tell you, nay; but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish. ⁴ Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, suppose ye that they were sinners above all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? ⁵ I tell you, nay; but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

⁴ And Jesus hearing it, said: This sickness is not for death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.

⁴⁰ Jesus says to her: Said I not to thee, that, if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe for the very works' sake. ¹² Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater than these shall he do, because I go to the Father. ¹³ And whatever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

²¹ And they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for that which was done;

³² And he said to them: Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected. ³³ But yet, I must go to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following; because it may not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. ³⁴ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

³⁴ Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

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.

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.

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

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

⁹ Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.

⁴ I glorified thee on the earth; I finished the work which thou hast given me to do.

²⁰ For we can not but speak the things which we saw and heard.

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those without, redeeming the time.

¹⁶ The people that sat in darkness, saw great light, And to those sitting in the region and shadow of death light sprang up.

³² a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ The same came for witness, to bear witness of the light, that through him all might believe. ⁸ He was not the light; but [came] to bear witness of the light. ⁹ There was the true light, which lights every man that comes into the world.

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. ²¹ But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes. ³⁶ While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them.

⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me may not abide in the darkness.

⁴⁷ For so has the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may obtain forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

²³ whether the Christ should suffer, whether he, the first of the resurrection from the dead, shall show light to the people and to the Gentiles.

¹⁴ Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine on it; for the glory of God lightened it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

³³ And taking him aside from the multitude he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, touched his tongue,

²³ And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him forth out of the village; and spitting in his eyes, and putting his hands on him, he asked him if he beheld anything.

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

⁴ Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, suppose ye that they were sinners above all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

¹¹ He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight.

³⁹ And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind.

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 And some of them said: Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused even that this man should not have died?

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;

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

⁴⁶ And they come to Jericho. And as he was going forth from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way-side.

²⁰ And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass, that the beggar died; and he was borne away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried;

³⁵ And it came to pass, that as he came near to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting by the way-side, begging.

² And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried along, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms of those entering into the temple; ³ who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked alms. ⁴ And Peter, looking intently upon him, with John, said: Look upon us. ⁵ And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶ And Peter said: Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, rise up and walk. ⁷ And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up. And immediately his feet and ankles received strength; ⁸ and leaping forth, he stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. ⁹ And all the people saw him walking and praising God; ¹⁰ and they recognized him, that this was he who sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him. 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.

²⁷ and sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows up, he knows not how.

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be?

¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

²¹ But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age; ask him. He shall speak for himself.

²⁶ They therefore said to him: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes?

³⁵ But some one will say: How do the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come?

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, ⁷ and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

²⁷ He answered them: I told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear again? Will ye also become his disciples?

¹¹ He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk. ¹² They asked him therefore: Who is the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? ¹³ And he who was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there being a multitude in the place.

¹¹ The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said: Where is he?

³ And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery; and having placed her in the midst, ⁴ they say to him: Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act: ⁵ Now in the law Moses commanded us, that such should be stoned; what then dost thou say? ⁶ This they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with his finger in the ground. ⁷ And as they continued asking him, raising himself up, he said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. ⁸ And again stooping down, he wrote in the ground.

⁴⁶ But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did. ⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs?

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might seize him.

¹⁹ The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Perceive ye that ye avail nothing? Behold, the world is gone after 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;

¹ AT that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grain-fields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck ears of grain, and to eat. ² And the Pharisees seeing it said to him: Behold, thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. ³ And he said to them: Have ye not read what David did, when he hungered, himself and those with him; ⁴ how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show-bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? ⁵ Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? ⁶ But I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here. ⁷ But if ye had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the blameless. ⁸ For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath. ⁹ And departing from thence, he went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ And behold, there was a man, having his hand withered. And they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him. ¹¹ And he said to them: What man will there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it, and raise it up? ¹² How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath. ¹³ Then he says to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other. ¹⁴ And the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

²³ And it came to pass, that he went through the grain-fields on the sabbath; and his disciples began to go forward, plucking the ears of grain.

¹ AND it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he was going through grain-fields; and his disciples plucked and ate the ears of grain, rubbing them with their hands. ² And some of the Pharisees said: Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath? ³ And Jesus answering them said: And have ye not read this, what David did when he hungered, himself and they who were with him; ⁴ how he went into the house of God, and took and ate the show-bread, and gave to those who were with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone? ⁵ And he said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. ⁶ And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was withered. ⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees were watching, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find an accusation against him. ⁸ But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man having the withered hand: Arise, and stand forth in the midst. And he rose up, and stood. ⁹ Then said Jesus to them: I will ask you what is lawful on the sabbath, to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it? ¹⁰ And looking round on them all, he said to him: Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored. ¹¹ And they were filled with madness, and conferred one with another, as to what they should do to Jesus.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. ¹¹ And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and wholly unable to raise herself up. ¹² And Jesus seeing her, called her to him, and said to her: Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. ¹³ And he laid his hands on her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. ¹⁴ And the ruler of the synagogue answering (being indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath), said to the multitude: There are six days in which it is proper to work; in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath. ¹⁵ And the Lord answered him, and said: Hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the manger, and lead him away to water him? ¹⁶ And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound, lo, eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath? ¹⁷ And as he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

¹ AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath, that they watched him.

⁹ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. And on that day was the sabbath.

¹⁶ And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them: I did one work, and ye all marvel. ²² Moses has for this cause given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers; and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I made a man altogether whole on the sabbath?

¹⁰ Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? ¹¹ He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight.

²⁶ They therefore said to him: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes? ²⁷ He answered them: I told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear again? Will ye also become his disciples?

² And the Pharisees seeing it said to him: Behold, thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.

³¹ On that day there came certain Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and go hence; for Herod desires to kill thee. ³² And he said to them: Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected. ³³ But yet, I must go to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following; because it may not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

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.

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

¹² And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude.

⁴³ A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him.

²⁴ They therefore called a second time the man that was blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.

³⁰ The man answered and said to them: Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes. ³¹ Now we know that God hears not sinners. But if any one is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears. 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.

¹⁹ Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

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

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.

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

¹¹ And the multitudes said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

¹⁹ And he said to them: What things? And they said to him: The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

¹⁹ The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

¹⁴ The men therefore, seeing the sign that Jesus wrought, said: This is of a truth the Prophet that comes into the world.

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;

²² Moses said: A Prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatever he shall say to you. ²³ And it shall be that every soul, that will not hear that Prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. ²⁴ And also all the prophets from Samuel, both he and they who followed, as many as spoke, also foretold these days. ²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. ²⁶ Unto you first, God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

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.

³¹ And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.

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

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not?

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.

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.

¹⁵ When it is said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation; ¹⁶ who then, when they had heard, provoked? Nay, was it not all who came forth out of Egypt by Moses? ¹⁷ But with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned? whose carcasses fell in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not? ¹⁹ And we see that they were not able to enter in, because of unbelief.

¹¹ Let us therefore endeavor to enter into that rest, that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief.

⁸ The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs? ⁹ Some said: This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he.

¹⁰ and they recognized him, that this was he who sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.

¹⁴ And beholding the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

²² Happy are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of man.

⁴ And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵ But I will warn you whom ye shall fear; fear him, who after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, fear him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? And not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; ye are of more value than many sparrows. ⁸ And I say to you: Every one that shall acknowledge me before men, him will the Son of man also acknowledge before the angels of God; ⁹ but he that denied me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

⁵⁶ And a certain maid seeing him as he sat by the fire, and looking intently upon him, said: This man also was with him. ⁵⁷ And he denied him, saying: Woman, I do not know him. ⁵⁸ And after a little while, another seeing him said: Thou also art of them. And Peter said: Man, I am not. ⁵⁹ And about the space of one hour after, another confidently affirmed, saying: Of a truth this one also was with him; for he is a Galilaean. ⁶⁰ And Peter said: Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crowed. ⁶¹ And the Lord turning looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him: Before a cock crows this day, thou wilt deny me thrice.

¹³ No one, however, spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

⁴⁵ The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them: Why did ye not bring him? 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.

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; ⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

² They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, a time is coming, that every one who kills you will think he makes an offering to God.

³⁸ And after this, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus.

¹⁹ When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, the doors having been shut, where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst; and he says to them: Peace be to you.

¹⁸ And having called them, they commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach, in the name of Jesus.

¹³ But of the rest no one dared to join himself to them; but the people honored them;

⁴⁰ And to him they assented; and having called the apostles, they scourged them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was blamed. ¹² For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also dissembled with him, so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and defiled with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

²⁷ And with him they crucify two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

³⁹ And seeing it, the Pharisee who had bidden him spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman this is that touches him; for she is a sinner.

² And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.

⁷ And seeing it, they all murmured, saying that he went in to be a guest with a sinner.

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.

⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?

⁴⁹ Jesus answered: I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me.

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.

³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you; for the prince of the world comes, and in me he has nothing.

³⁰ They answered and said to him: If this man were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Do ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him.

² For I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believes.

²¹ Him who knew not sin he made to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

¹¹ He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk.

³⁰ The man answered and said to them: Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes.

¹⁰ He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne concerning his Son.

⁶⁷ If thou art the Christ, tell us. And he said to them: If I tell you, ye will not believe.

¹⁰ Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? ¹¹ He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight. ¹² They said to him: Where is he? He said: I know not. ¹³ They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind. ¹⁴ And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

¹¹ Happy are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say all evil against you falsely, for my sake.

³⁹ And those passing by reviled him, wagging their heads,

⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope. ⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷ But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

¹¹ Then they suborned men, who said: We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes; and coming upon him, they seized him, and brought him to the council, ¹³ and set up false witnesses, Who said: This man ceases not to speak words against this holy place, and the law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

¹⁷ But if thou art called a Jew, and restest upon law, and makest thy boast in God,

¹² and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

²³ who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed it to him who judges righteously;

²⁴ But the Pharisees hearing it said: This man does not cast out the demons, except through Beelzebul, prince of the demons.

⁶¹ and said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

² And they began to accuse him, saying: We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

²⁷ But we know this man, whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is.

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?

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them: Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; because I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.

³⁵ This Moses whom they denied, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him did God send as a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

²² And they heard him unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said: Away with such a one from the earth; for it was not fit that he should live.

²² Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the prophets and Moses said should come;

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all His house. ³ For he has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is builded by some one; but he who built all things is God. ⁵ And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of the things which were to be afterward spoken;

⁶ And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about the surrounding villages, teaching.

²² And answering he said to them: Go, and report to John what ye saw and heard; that the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor good tidings are published.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

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

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 If any one desires to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes upward, and said: Father, I thank thee that thou didst hear me. ⁴² And I knew that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me.

¹⁶ Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

⁷ Then said I: Lo, I come, In the volume of the book it is written of me, To do thy will, O God.

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and even if he have committed sins, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess therefore your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart accuse us not, we have confidence toward God. ²² And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

⁷⁰ (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets of old,)

¹⁸ And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there was a man upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, so great.

³⁸ And now I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; ³⁹ but if it is of God ye can not overthrow them; lest haply ye be found also fighting against God.

¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he neglect to hear the church also, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican. ¹⁸ Verily I say to you: Whatever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

⁴⁵ And a certain one of the lawyers answering says to him: Teacher, in saying these things thou reproachest us also.

¹¹ For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood, and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. ¹² I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. ¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God be merciful to me, the sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

¹⁷ Verily I say to you, whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter therein.

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

⁴⁸ Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed.

⁴¹ Ye do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

² And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?

³⁵ Jesus heard that they cast him out; and finding him, he said to him: Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind?

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹³ But those who are without God judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among yourselves.

¹⁵ We are Jews by nature, and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

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;—

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yea, all of you submitting to one another, gird yourselves with humility; because, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

⁹ I wrote somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the pre-eminence among them, receives us not.

¹⁷ and that no one should be able to buy or sell, save he that has the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

³³ And those in the ship came and worshiped him, saying: Of a truth, thou art the Son of God.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter answering said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

¹ THE beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God,

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

³⁴ And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. ⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.

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. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸ He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

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 Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him: Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse befall thee.

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

²⁷ She says to him: Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.

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.

³⁶ And as they went along the way, they came to a certain water. And the eunuch said: See, here is water; what hinders that I should be immersed?

²⁰ And straightway he preached Jesus, in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

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;

²⁰ But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by those who sought me not; I became manifest to those who asked not after me.

² in these last days spoke to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds; ³ who, being the brightness of his glory and the impress of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; ⁴ having become so much superior to the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they. ⁵ For to whom of the angels said he ever: Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee; and again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. ⁶ But when he has again brought in the first-begotten into the world, he says And let all the angels of God worship him. ⁷ And of the angels he says: Who makes his angels winds, And his ministers a flame of fire; ⁸ but of the Son: Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom; ⁹ Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, anointed thee, With the oil of gladness, above thy fellows;

¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

⁵ Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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.

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.

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

³⁸ And Jesus turning, and beholding them following, says to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Rabbi (which interpreted means, Teacher), where dost thou abide?

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him on whom they believed not? And how shall they believe on him of whom they heard not? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered 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;

¹¹ And he answering said to them: To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given. ¹² For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.

²⁶ Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he.

²¹ He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ²² Judas says to him (not Iscariot): Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? 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.

³¹ and said: Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thine alms were remembered before God. ³² Send therefore to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea-side; who, when he comes will speak to thee. ³³ Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou didst well in coming hither. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee from the Lord.

⁹ And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail! And they, coming to him, laid hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

¹⁷ And seeing him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

⁵² And they, having worshiped him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy;

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; ¹⁰ and didst make them unto our God a kingdom and priests, and they will reign on the earth. ¹¹ And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels, around the throne and the animals and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a loud voice: Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain, to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. ¹³ And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: To him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four animals said: Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped.

²³ but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great the darkness!

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. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is become gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn, and I shall heal them.

⁷⁹ to give light to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, in order to guide our feet into the way of peace.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be spoken against,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; Because he anointed me to publish good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To send the oppressed away free,

²¹ And in that very hour he cured many, of diseases and plagues, and evil spirits; and on many blind he bestowed sight.

³⁴ The lamp of the body is thine eye. When thine eye is single, thy whole body also is light; but when it is evil, thy body also is dark. ³⁵ Take heed therefore, lest the light that is in thee is darkness.

³⁰ And, behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.

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

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.

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.

¹⁵ Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

²⁵ He answered therefore: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

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. ³⁸ And he said: Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.

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. ⁴¹ These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

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. ⁹ And David says: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them; ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow down their back alway.

¹⁶ to the one a savor of death unto death, to the other a savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 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.

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession; that ye should show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

¹¹ But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

¹² Then came to him his disciples, and said to him: Knowest thou that the Pharisees, when they heard the saying, were offended? ¹³ And he answering said: Every plant, which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

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.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him: Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not he, who made the outside, make the inside also? ⁴¹ But give that which ye have in alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you. ⁴² But woe to you, Pharisees! because ye pay tithe of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not leave those undone. ⁴³ Woe to you, Pharisees! because ye love the first seat in the synagogues, and the greetings in the markets. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! because ye are as tombs that appear not, and men walking over them know it not. ⁴⁵ And a certain one of the lawyers answering says to him: Teacher, in saying these things thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶ And he said: Woe to you lawyers also! because ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ So then ye bear witness to and approve the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. ⁴⁹ Therefore also said the wisdom of God: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute; ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. Verily I say to you, it shall be required of this generation. ⁵² Woe to you lawyers! because ye took away the key of knowledge; ye entered not in yourselves, and those who were entering in ye hindered. ⁵³ And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things; ⁵⁴ lying in wait for him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

¹⁹ and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law; ²¹ thou then, that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou that preachest, a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou that sayest, a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

¹⁷ Because thou sayest: I am rich, and have gotten wealth, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the pitiable one, and poor, and blind, and naked;

⁴⁷ And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. ²³ He that hates me hates my Father also. 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.

²⁶ For if we willingly sin, after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

⁸ If we say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, that he may forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.