Matthew 23 Cross References - ABU

¹ THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to his disciples, ² saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sat down in Moses' seat. ³ All, therefore, whatever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works, for they say and do not. ⁴ For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but will not move them with their finger. ⁵ But all their works they do to be seen by men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes; ⁶ and love the first place at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Teacher, and all ye are brethren. ⁹ And call not any your father on the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ. ¹¹ But the greatest of you shall be your servant. ¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 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: ¹⁴ [V. 14 is wanting in the oldest and best copies.] ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves. 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. ²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, and say: ³⁰ If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of those who killed the prophets; ³² and fill ye up the measure of your fathers! ³³ Serpents! Brood of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send forth to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 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. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that killest the prophets, and stonest those sent to her; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I say to you, ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ And calling to him the multitude, he said to them: Hear, and understand: ¹¹ Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man. 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. ¹⁵ And Peter answering said to him: Explain to us this parable. ¹⁶ And he said: Are ye also even yet without understanding? ¹⁷ Do ye not yet understand, that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the drain? ¹⁸ But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things that defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defiles not the man.

¹⁴ And again calling to him the multitude, he said to them: Hearken to me every one, and understand.

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to go about in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, ³⁹ and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at the feasts;

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.

⁵⁷ And why even of yourselves do ye not judge what is right?

⁴⁵ And in the hearing of all the multitude, he said to his disciples: ⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who desire to go about in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts;

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to go about in long robes, and love greetings in the markets,

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who desire to go about in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts;

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. ³ And he answering said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying: Honor thy father and mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die. ⁵ But ye say: Whoever says to his father or his mother, It is a gift, whatever thou mightest be profited with from me, ⁶ shall not honor his father or his mother; and ye made the word of God of no effect, for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying: ⁸ This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. ⁹ But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men.

³⁰ And he came to the other, and said likewise. And he answering said: I will, sir; and went not.

²⁹ And Peter answering, and the apostles, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

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? ²³ Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? ²⁴ For, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.

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.

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; and from these turn away.

¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

²⁸ Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.

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.

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.

¹⁰ Now therefore why do ye tempt God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

²⁸ For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no further burden except these necessary things;

¹³ For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire that ye should be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

²⁴ But to you I say, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who knew not the depths of Satan, as they speak: I put upon you no other burden;

¹ TAKE heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou doest alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say to you, they have in full their reward. ³ But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does; ⁴ that thine aims may be in secret and thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee. ⁵ And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily I say to you, they have in full their reward. ⁶ But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee. ⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like to them; for your Father knows what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. ⁹ Do ye, therefore, pray after this manner: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come; thy will be done, as in heaven, so also on the earth. ¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as also we forgave our debtors. ¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. ¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ¹⁶ And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, they have in full their reward.

²⁰ And behold, a woman, having a flow of blood twelve years, came behind, and touched the fringe of his garment.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Ye are they who justify themselves before men; but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination before God.

⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.

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

¹⁸ He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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

¹⁵ Some indeed preach Christ also from envy and strife, but some also from good will;

³ doing nothing through contentiousness or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than himself; ⁴ he that opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

²¹ And he said to her: What wilt thou? She says to him: Command that these my two sons shall sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.

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.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to those who were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the first places; saying to them: ⁸ When thou art bidden by any one to a wedding, recline not in the first place at table, lest one more honorable than thou may have been bidden by him; ⁹ and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give place to this man; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ But when thou art bidden, go and recline in the lowest place; that when he that bade thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have honor in the presence of those who recline at table with thee. ¹¹ For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who desire to go about in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts; ⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.

¹⁰ be kindly affectioned one to another; in honor, preferring one another;

¹ MY brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. ² For if there have come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in gay clothing, and there have come in also a poor man in mean clothing; ³ and ye have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say: Sit thou here in a good place, and say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or, Sit under my footstool; ⁴ were ye not partial in yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Teacher, and all ye are brethren.

⁵ And Peter answering said to Jesus: Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

⁵¹ And Jesus answering said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? The blind man said to him: Lord, that I may receive sight.

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?

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

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.

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.

²⁵ And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

¹⁶ Jesus says to her: Mary! Turning, she says to him in Hebrew: Rabboni! (which is to say, Teacher!)

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!

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.

¹⁰ Neither be called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ.

⁴⁹ And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said: Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him.

³² But I prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and thou, when thou hast turned, strengthen thy brethren.

¹³ Ye call me the Teacher, and the Master; and ye say well, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, the Master and the Teacher, washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

⁹ For to this end Christ died, and lived, that he might be Lord of both the dead and living. ¹⁰ But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

¹² And I mean this, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. ¹³ Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye immersed in the name of Paul?

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? ⁴ For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? ⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?

²⁴ Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for in faith ye stand fast.

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

¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named,

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, ² to the saints in Colosse, and faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive greater condemnation.

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

⁹ I, John, your brother, and partner with you in the affliction, and kingdom, and patient endurance in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he said to me: See thou do it not. I am a fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

⁹ And he says to me: See thou do it not. I am a fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book; worship God.

⁸ Be not ye therefore like to them; for your Father knows what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. ⁹ Do ye, therefore, pray after this manner: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

³² For after all these do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these.

¹¹ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

¹ BRETHREN, and fathers, hear my defense, which I now make to you.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

¹⁸ and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹ REBUKE not an elder, but entreat him as a father; younger men as brethren; ² elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

⁹ Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh, who chastened us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹ BEHOLD what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. For this cause the world knows not us, because it knew not him.

²⁶ Not so shall it be among you; ²⁷ but whoever would become great among you, let him be your minister; and whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant;

⁴³ But it is not so among you. But whoever would become great among you, shall be your minister; ⁴⁴ and whoever would become chiefest of you, shall be servant of all.

²⁶ But ye are not so; but let the greatest among you become as the younger, and he that is chief as he that serves. ²⁷ For which is greater, he that reclines at table, or he that serves? Is not he that reclines at table? But I am in the midst of you as he that serves.

¹⁴ If I then, the Master and the Teacher, washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I gave you an example, that as I did to you, ye also should do.

¹⁹ For being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often;

¹³ For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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.

³ Happy the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

⁴ Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

⁵¹ He wrought might with his arm; he scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. ⁵² He cast down princes from thrones, and exalted those of low degree.

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

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.

⁶ But he gives the more grace. Wherefore he says: God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.

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.

³¹ Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus says to them: Verily I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

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: ¹⁴ [V. 14 is wanting in the oldest and best copies.] ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.

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.

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.

²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, and say:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

¹⁷ But that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. ¹⁸ And having called them, they commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach, in the name of Jesus.

²⁸ saying: Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

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.

¹ AND Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

⁸ But Elymas the Magian (for so his name is interpreted), withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us forth, and please not God, and are contrary to all men; ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the utmost.

⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

¹⁵ Of whom do thou also beware; for he has greatly withstood our words.

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.

³³ Serpents! Brood of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send forth to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 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. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

⁴⁰ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

⁴⁸ but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For to whomsoever much was given, of him much will be required; and to whom they committed much, of him they will require the more.

⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.

⁶ For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

¹⁰ For there are many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, chiefly they of the circumcision; ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

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,

²² But I say to you, that every one who is angry with his brother, without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca! shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, Thou fool! shall be in danger of hell-fire.

²⁹ And if thy right eye causes thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abides not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch,

¹⁰ and said: O full of all deceit and all wickedness, child of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

⁴³ And when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and of the proselyte worshipers followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

² But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up and embittered the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren.

¹⁹ But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, and stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

⁵ But the Jews, moved with envy, having taken to them, of the idlers in the market-place, certain vicious men, and having gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them unto the people. ⁶ And not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying: These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that also at Beroea the word of God was preached by Paul, they came, stirring up the people there also.

¹⁷ They zealously seek you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye may zealously seek them.

¹² As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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;—

³³ Again ye heard, that it was said to those of old: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt perform to the Lord thine oaths. ³⁴ But I say to you, swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; ³⁵ nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

⁵ But ye say: Whoever says to his father or his mother, It is a gift, whatever thou mightest be profited with from me, ⁶ shall not honor his father or his mother; and ye made the word of God of no effect, for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

¹⁷ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

¹⁹ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

²⁴ Blind guides! that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of the cup and the platter, that its outside also may become clean.

¹⁰ For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die. ¹¹ But ye say: If a man say to his father or his mother, It is Corban (that is, a gift) whatever thou mightest be profited with from me—; ¹² and ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother, ¹³ annulling the word of God by your tradition, which ye handed down. And many such things ye do.

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!

³ Now I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under condemnation.

²² in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

⁹ Because in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

³⁴ But I say to you, swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne;

⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, And the earth is my footstool. What house will ye build for me, saith the Lord; Or what is my place of rest?

² Immediately I was in the Spirit; and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. ³ And he who sat was like in appearance to a jasper and sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round the throne, like in appearance to an emerald;

¹⁹ Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, that except your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

¹³ But go, and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice; for I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.

⁷ But if ye had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the blameless.

³⁷ Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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.

¹² I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law.

⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine own eye?

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. ³ And he answering said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying: Honor thy father and mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die.

²⁴ And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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.

⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said: It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood. ⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. ⁸ Wherefore that field was called the field of blood, unto this day.

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.

²⁸ Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Governor's palace; and it was early; and they themselves went not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

⁴⁰ They all therefore cried out again, saying: Not this one, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

⁴ And coming from the market, except they immerse themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they received to hold, immersions of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands? ⁶ And he said to them: Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites; as it is written: This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. ⁷ But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men. ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, immersions of pots and cups; and many other such things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them: Well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition!

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?

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for from the fruit the tree is known.

⁴⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and the evil, out of the evil, brings forth that which is evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

¹ HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear 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,

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

⁴⁴ Woe to you! because ye are as tombs that appear not, and men walking over them know it not.

³ Then Paul said to him: God will smite thee, thou whited wall. And dost thou sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to law?

³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure sends forth good things; and the evil man out of the evil treasure sends forth evil things.

⁵ But all their works they do to be seen by men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes;

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things come forth from within, and defile the man.

¹² For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³ And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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.

²⁹ Men, brethren, I may speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his sepulchre is among us unto this day.

³⁵ And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did to them likewise.

³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send forth to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 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.

²² And he says to him: Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow?

⁵¹ Stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! Ye always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye. 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;

¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the utmost.

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

³⁴ And when the season of fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. ³⁵ And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

⁷ He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be immersed by him: Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

³ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from your simplicity toward Christ.

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,

²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, suppose ye, will he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace?

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him who speaks; for if they did not escape, refusing him who declared the divine will on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him who speaks from heaven;

⁹ And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, who leads astray the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents, and simple as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and will scourge you in their synagogues;

²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the other; for verily I say to you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

⁵² And he said to them: Therefore every scribe, instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure new and old.

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; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you alway, unto the end of the world.

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.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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.

²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the utmost part of the earth.

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.

¹ BUT Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, ² and asked of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

²⁷ And in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

² And he slew James the brother of John with the sword.

¹ AND there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

³² And Judas and Silas, also themselves being prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

¹⁹ And I said: Lord, they well know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believe on thee; ²⁰ and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, then I myself was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of those who slew him.

⁶ But we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; but a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to naught.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation, and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon.

³ Wherefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed; and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. ⁶ And there are diversities of operations, but the same God who works all in all. ⁷ But to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for profiting. ⁸ For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; ⁹ to another faith, by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another diversities of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these works the one and self-same Spirit, dividing to each one severally as he will.

²⁴ of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

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;

²⁸ whom we announce, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword; they went about in sheep-skins and goats' skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

¹⁰ And they who dwell on the earth rejoice ever them, and are glad; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

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.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it, being dead, he yet speaks.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than Abel.

¹¹ because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another 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.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things are done.

³⁰ Verily I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things are done. ³¹ Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.

³² Verily I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all shall have come to pass. ³³ Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.

¹² Rejoice, and exult; because great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

³ And he sent forth his servants to call those who were bidden to the wedding; and they would not come.

⁶ And the rest laid hold of his servants, and ill-treated and slew them.

³⁰ If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³ And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty. ⁴ And again he sent to them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. ⁵ And he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. ⁶ Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent him also to them last, saying: They will reverence my son.

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! ³⁵ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you: Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ And he sent his servant, at the hour of the supper, to say to those who were bidden: Come, for all things are now ready. ¹⁸ And they all, with one mind, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him: I bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee let me be excused. ¹⁹ And another said: I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to make trial of them; I pray thee let me be excused. ²⁰ And another said: I married a wife; and therefore I can not come.

²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in; and his father came out, and entreated him.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when he had returned, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what each gained by trading. ¹⁶ And the first came, saying: Lord, thy pound gained ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him: Well done, good servant; because thou wast faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. ¹⁸ And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound made five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said also to this man: And be thou over five cities. ²⁰ And another came, saying: Lord, behold thy pound, which I kept laid up in a napkin. ²¹ For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou layedst not down, and reapest what thou didst not sow. ²² And he says to him: Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow? ²³ Why then didst thou not put my money into the bank? and I, at my coming, should have required it with interest. ²⁴ And he said to those standing by: Take from him the pound, and give it to him that has the ten pounds. ²⁵ And they said to him: Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ For I say to you, that to every one that has shall be given; and from him that has not, even what he has shall be taken away. ²⁷ But those my enemies, who would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. ²⁸ And having spoken these things, he went before, going up to Jerusalem. ²⁹ And it came to pass, as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called Olivet, that he sent forth two of his disciples, ³⁰ saying: Go into the opposite village, in which as ye are entering ye will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever sat; loose and bring him. ³¹ And if any one ask you, why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say to him: Because the Lord has need of him. ³² And they that were sent forth departed, and found even as he said to them. ³³ And as they were loosing the colt, its owners said to them: Why loose ye the colt? ³⁴ And they said: The Lord has need of him. ³⁵ And they brought him to Jesus; and having cast their garments upon the colt, they set Jesus thereon. ³⁶ And as he went, they spread their garments in the way. ³⁷ And as he was drawing near, just at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles which they saw; ³⁸ saying: Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest! ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him: Teacher, rebuke thy disciples. ⁴⁰ And answering he said to them: I tell you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out. ⁴¹ And when he came near, as he saw the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying: If even thou hadst known, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ For days will come upon thee, that thine enemies will cast up a mound about thee, and compass thee round, and shut thee in on every side, ⁴⁴ and will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee, and will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

¹¹ And again he sent another servant; and him also, having beaten and treated him shamefully, they sent away empty. ¹² And again he sent a third; and they wounded him also, and cast him out. ¹³ And the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps, seeing him, they will reverence him. ¹⁴ But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us forth, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

⁷ And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and will overcome them, and will kill them. ⁸ And their remains are on the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and I wondered when I saw her, with great wonder.

² And he answering said to them: See ye not all these things? Verily I say to you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

¹⁴ But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not, (let him that reads, mark!) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains.

³⁵ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you: Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

⁶ As for these things which ye behold, days will come in which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

²⁰ And when ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled.

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.

⁹ And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

²⁶ And it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Christ of the Lord. ²⁷ And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, ²⁸ then he took him into his arms, and blessed God, and said: ²⁹ Now, Lord, thou lettest thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; ³⁰ because my eyes saw thy salvation,

²² All things were delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him. ²³ And turning to the disciples, he said privately: Happy are the eyes that behold what ye are beholding.

²² And he said to the disciples: Days will come, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye will not see it.

²¹ Again therefore he said to them: I go away, and ye will seek me, and shall die in your sin. Whither I go, ye can not come.

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.

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

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?

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

²⁵ For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that hardness has come upon Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

¹⁴ But their understandings were hardened; for until this day the same vail on the reading of the old covenant remains, not being taken away; which vail is done away in Christ. ¹⁵ But even unto this day, when Moses is read, a vail lies upon their heart. ¹⁶ But whenever it turns to the Lord, the vail is taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸ But we all, with unvailed face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.