John Cross References - ACV

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² This man was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be. ⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ⁶ A man came to be who was sent from God, his name was John. ⁷ This man came for testimony so that he might testify about the light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ That man was not the light, but that he might testify about the light. ⁹ He was the true light coming into the world that enlightens every man. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹ He came to his own, and his own did not accept him. ¹² But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, ¹³ who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God. ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ John testified about him, and cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me came to be before me, because he was before me. ¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace. ¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him. ¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they might ask him, Who are thou? ²⁰ And he confessed, and did not deny, and confessed, I am not the Christ. ²¹ And they asked him, What therefore, are thou Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are thou the prophet? And he answered, No. ²² They said therefore to him, Who are thou, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do thou say about thyself? ²³ He said, I am the voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, just as the prophet Isaiah said. ²⁴ And those who were sent were from the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, and said to him, Why therefore do thou immerse if thou are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet? ²⁶ John answered them, saying, I immerse in water, but amidst you stands him whom ye know not. ²⁷ He is the man who comes after me, who has become before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loosen the strap of his shoe. ²⁸ These things occurred in Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was immersing. ²⁹ On the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰ This is he about whom I said, After me comes a man who has become before me, because he was before me. ³¹ And I had not known him, but that he would be made known to Israel. Because of this I came immersing in water. ³² And John testified, saying, I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon him. ³³ And I had not known him. But he who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me, Upon whomever thou will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴ And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God. ³⁵ Again on the morrow John stood, and two of his disciples. ³⁶ And having looked upon Jesus walking, he says, Behold, the Lamb of God! ³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸ And Jesus having turned, and having seen them following, says to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi (which says, being interpreted, Teacher), where do thou dwell? ³⁹ He says to them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and remained with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰ Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard from John and who followed him. ⁴¹ This man first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, Christ). ⁴² And he brought him to Jesus. And having seen him, Jesus said, Thou are Simon the son of Jonah. Thou will be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter). ⁴³ On the morrow he wanted to go forth into Galilee, and he finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, Follow me. ⁴⁴ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, What good can be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit. ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, How do thou know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee. ⁴⁹ Nathanael answered, and says to him, Rabbi, thou are the Son of God. Thou are the king of Israel. ⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believe? Thou will see greater than these things. ⁵¹ And he says to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, henceforth ye will see the heaven opened, and the agents of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of thy kingdom.

²² LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. ²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, ²⁴ when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water, ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth ²⁶ while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, ²⁸ when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong, ²⁹ when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, ³¹ rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

⁹ O thou who tell good news to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain. O thou who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength. Lift it up, be not afraid, say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! ¹⁰ Behold, the lord LORD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. ¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young.

²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

² This man was in the beginning with God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

³⁰ I and the Father are one. ³¹ Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We stone thee not about a good work, but about blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, make thyself God.

²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

⁵ And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.

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

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

¹³ Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

⁸ But toward the Son, Thy throne, O God, is into the age of the age. The scepter of thy kingdom is a scepter of straightness. ⁹ Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. ¹⁰ And thou, Lord, at the beginnings founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ¹¹ They will perish, but thou are permanent. And they will all become old as a garment. ¹² And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease. ¹³ But to which of the agents has he ever said, Sit thou by my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

⁸ Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today, and into the ages.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹ What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life ² (and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

⁷ Because those who testify are three:

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

² who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things as he saw.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

¹¹ saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

¹⁴ And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and true witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

¹³ and clothed in a garment dipped in blood. And his name is called The Word of God.

⁶ And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

¹³ -I, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make mankind in our image-after our likeness-and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

²⁵ Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

¹² I have made the earth, and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.

¹⁸ For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work. ¹⁸ Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God. ¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.

⁶ yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages. ³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

¹⁰ And thou, Lord, at the beginnings founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ¹¹ They will perish, but thou are permanent. And they will all become old as a garment. ¹² And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

³ For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

¹¹ Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

¹ O God thou have cast us off. Thou have broken us down. Thou have been angry. O restore us again. ² Thou have made the land to tremble. Thou have torn it. Heal the breaking of it, for it shakes. ³ Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

¹¹ For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

⁴ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you. ⁵ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

⁶ I, LORD, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, ⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

¹⁶ And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

² But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

¹⁶ the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.

⁷⁸ because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

³² a light for enlightenment of Gentiles, and glory of thy people Israel.

⁸ That man was not the light, but that he might testify about the light. ⁹ He was the true light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

²¹ For as the Father raises up the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself.

¹² Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

⁵ When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

⁶ Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me.

²³ that the suffering Christ, since first from a resurrection of the dead, is going to proclaim light to our people and to the nations.

⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

⁴ When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

² (and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

⁵ And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

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

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

¹³ These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it. ¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief. ¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light. ¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. ³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

³⁶ While ye have the light, believe in the light, so that ye may become sons of light. Jesus spoke these things, and after departing, he was hid from them. ³⁷ But although having done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him, ³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet that he spoke might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, and has hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be turned, and I would heal them.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

¹⁴ Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. ⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places smooth. ⁵ And the glory of LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. For the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

¹ Behold, I send my agent, and he shall prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes. ⁶ And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

¹ And in those days John the immerser comes, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, ² Repent ye, for the kingdom of the heavens has approached. ³ For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of a man crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. ⁴ Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region of the Jordan went out to him, ⁶ and they were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance. ⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ¹⁰ And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ For this is he about whom it is written, Behold, I send my agent before thy face who will prepare thy way before thee.

²⁵ The immersion of John, from where was it, from heaven or from men? And they deliberated with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?

¹ The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ² As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my agent before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee. ³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. ⁴ It came to pass, that John was immersing in the wilderness and preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins. ⁵ And all the land of Judea and the Jerusalemites went out to him, and they were all immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and eating locusts and wild honey. ⁷ And he preached, saying, A man mightier than I comes after me of whom I am not worthy, having stooped down, to loosen the strap of his shoes. ⁸ I indeed immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

¹³ But the agent said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy plea was heard, and thy wife Elizabeth will bear a son for thee. And thou shall call his name John.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he should, no, not drink wine and strong drink. And he will be filled of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's belly. ¹⁶ And he will turn back many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

⁶¹ And they said to her, There is no man among thy relatives who is called by this name. ⁶² And they made signs to his father, whatever he wanted to call him. ⁶³ And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, His name is John. And they all marveled.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways,

² in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to be in John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. ³ And he came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins, ⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, which says, The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. ⁵ Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked things will be into straight and the rough into smooth ways. ⁶ And all flesh will see the salvation of God. ⁷ He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be immersed by him, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ⁹ And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire. ¹⁰ And the crowds questioned him, saying, What then shall we do? ¹¹ And having answered, he says to them, He who has two coats, let him share with him not having, and he who has food, let him do likewise. ¹² And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do? ¹³ And he said to them, Collect not one thing more than from what has been appointed for you. ¹⁴ And men who were soldiers also questioned him, saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages. ¹⁵ And as the people were expectant, and all pondering in their hearts about John, if perhaps he was the Christ, ¹⁶ John responded, saying to them all, I indeed immerse you in water, but a man mightier than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to unloose the strap of his shoes. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire, ¹⁷ whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. ¹⁸ Indeed therefore, also exhorting the people with many other things, he preached the good news. ¹⁹ But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him about Herodias his brother's wife, and about all of which evil things Herod had done, ²⁰ also added this to them all, he even locked up John in prison.

³³ And I had not known him. But he who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me, Upon whomever thou will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit.

²⁸ Ye yourselves testify that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent ahead of that man.

²⁴ John having earlier proclaimed, before his coming presence, the immersion of repentance to Israel.

⁹ He was the true light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

¹² But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

¹⁵ John testified about him, and cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me came to be before me, because he was before me.

¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they might ask him, Who are thou?

²⁶ John answered them, saying, I immerse in water, but amidst you stands him whom ye know not. ²⁷ He is the man who comes after me, who has become before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loosen the strap of his shoe.

³² And John testified, saying, I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon him. ³³ And I had not known him. But he who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me, Upon whomever thou will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴ And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.

³⁶ And having looked upon Jesus walking, he says, Behold, the Lamb of God!

²⁶ And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, about whom thou have testified, behold, this man immerses, and all men come to him. ²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven. ²⁸ Ye yourselves testify that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent ahead of that man. ²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled. ³⁰ It is necessary for that man to increase, but me to decrease. ³¹ He who comes from above is above all things. He who is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all things. ³² And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony. ³³ He who has received his testimony has set a seal that God is true. ³⁴ For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

³³ Ye have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But I do not take the testimony from man. However, I say these things, so that ye may be saved. ³⁵ That man was the lamp that burns and shines, and ye were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

⁴ And Paul said, John indeed immersed an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus, the Christ.

⁴ who wants all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of truth.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

²⁰ And he confessed, and did not deny, and confessed, I am not the Christ.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

⁶ yea, he says, It is too light a thing that thou should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

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

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁷ This man came for testimony so that he might testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.

³² Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

¹² And there was much murmuring among the multitudes about him. Some said, He is a good man, others said, No, but he leads the multitude astray.

¹ I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the farmer.

⁴ But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief. ⁵ Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

⁸ Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines.

⁶ And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do. ⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech. ⁸ So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹³ And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her, Thou are a God who sees, for she said, Have I even here looked behind him who sees me?

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

³³ And LORD went his way as soon as he had left off conversing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

⁴ And when LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. ⁵ And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground. ⁶ Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work.

²⁵ And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

¹⁷ although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands, ²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things. ²⁶ And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy, ²⁷ to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

⁸ which none of the rulers of this age have known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

³ By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

² For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. ³ He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

²⁴ But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy behind him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us.

¹³ And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will be made ashamed after seeing this man. ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they deliberated among themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours. ¹⁵ And having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

³² And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony.

²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made for our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed all the patriarchies of the earth will be blessed. ²⁶ To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

²⁶ Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,

⁸ And I say, Christ Jesus became a helper of men of circumcision, for the sake of God's truth (in order to confirm the promises of the fathers),

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

⁵ To them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

¹⁹ But I said, How I will put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said to them, The sons of the living God.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

²¹ And in his name Gentiles will hope.

⁵ And whoever will receive one such child in my name receives me.

²³ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast, many believed in his name seeing his signs that he did.

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

⁵² And not for the nation only, but also that he might gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

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

¹⁶ And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you ¹⁸ and will be for a Father to you, and ye will be for sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

²⁶ For ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

⁴ Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. ¹³ I wrote these things to you, those who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

²² And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, why do I live? And she went to inquire of LORD.

²⁸ Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

⁴ And make savory food for me, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die.

³³ And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.

³ Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.

⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

⁵ Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Marvel not that I said to thee, ye must be begotten from above. ⁸ The wind blows where it will, and thou hear the sound of it, but know not from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is begotten from the Spirit.

³³ They answered to him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in bondage to no man, ever. How can thou say, Ye will become free? ³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin. ³⁵ And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age. ³⁶ If therefore the Son should make you free, ye will truly be free. ³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. ³⁸ I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father. ³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit, ² that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. ³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises, ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah. ¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac ¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior. ¹⁴ What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate. ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.

¹ Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation. ² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

¹³ For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²³ begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

² as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

²⁸ And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming. ²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.

⁹ Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

⁷ Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

¹ Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

⁴ Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

¹⁸ We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

⁷ I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee.

² Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever.

⁵ And the glory of LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. For the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

² For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

¹ Arise, shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of LORD has risen upon thee. ² For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples. But LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

¹⁶ and Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

²⁰ But while he considered these things, behold, an agent of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take Mary to be thy wife, for that which was begotten in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS, for he will save his people from their sins. ²² Now all this has come to pass, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, ²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

¹ And after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up onto a high mountain in private. ² And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. ³ And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him. ⁴ And having responded, Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If thou desire, we could make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. ⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

³¹ And behold, thou will conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son. And thou shall call his name JESUS. ³² This man will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages. And of his kingdom there will be no end. ³⁴ And Mary said to the agent, How will this be, since I know not a man? ³⁵ And having answered, the agent said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee. Therefore also the holy thing that is begotten will be called the Son of God.

⁷ And she brought forth her son, the firstborn, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the feed trough, because there was no place for them in the inn.

¹¹ because to you was born today in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ Lord.

³² But Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep, and having become awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace. ¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

¹¹ This is the beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and he manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

⁵¹ I am the living bread, having come down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁴⁰ Jesus says to her, Did I not to say thee, that if thou believed, thou will see the glory of God?

⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, and has hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be turned, and I would heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke about him.

⁹ Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

²² And I, the glory that thou have given me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we are one,

³³ as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

³ concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh. ⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord-

³ For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus. ⁶ Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

¹⁸ having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold. ⁷ But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men. ⁸ And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross.

¹⁹ Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness to dwell,

³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was filled to overflowing with the faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

⁵ For to which of the agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son?

¹¹ For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

¹⁴ Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil. ¹⁵ And he might liberate these, as many as throughout all their lifetime were deserving of bondage, with a specter of death. ¹⁶ For he certainly did not embrace agents, but he embraced the seed of Abraham. ¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

⁵ So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.

⁴ Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious, ⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ It is therefore contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen, precious. And he who believes in him will, no, not be shamed. ⁷ To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner,

¹⁶ For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man. ¹⁷ For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.

² By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

⁷ Because many deceivers have gone forth into the world, those not acknowledging Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

³ And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them.

²² LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

² But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

¹¹ I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

¹³ Then Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be immersed by him. ¹⁴ But John was preventing him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and thou come to me? ¹⁵ But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him. ¹⁶ And when Jesus was immersed, he went up straightaway out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him. ¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

⁷ And he preached, saying, A man mightier than I comes after me of whom I am not worthy, having stooped down, to loosen the strap of his shoes.

¹⁶ John responded, saying to them all, I indeed immerse you in water, but a man mightier than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to unloose the strap of his shoes. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² This man was in the beginning with God.

⁷ This man came for testimony so that he might testify about the light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ That man was not the light, but that he might testify about the light.

²⁷ He is the man who comes after me, who has become before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loosen the strap of his shoe.

²⁹ On the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰ This is he about whom I said, After me comes a man who has become before me, because he was before me. ³¹ And I had not known him, but that he would be made known to Israel. Because of this I came immersing in water.

³³ Ye have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But I do not take the testimony from man. However, I say these things, so that ye may be saved. ³⁵ That man was the lamp that burns and shines, and ye were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony greater than of John, for the works that the Father has given me so that I might complete them, the same works that I do, they testify about me that the Father has sent me.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I am.

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold. ⁷ But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

⁷ Who are thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shall become a plain, and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, to it.

¹⁴ But John was preventing him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and thou come to me?

¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

³⁴ For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

¹ I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the farmer. ² Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit. ³ Now ye are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me. ⁵ I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.

¹² And Peter having seen, he responded to the people, Men, Israelites, why do ye marvel at this man? Or why do ye stare at us, as by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man. ¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy and Righteous, and asked for a man, a murderer to be granted to you. ¹⁵ And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

² through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

¹⁷ For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

²⁰ And the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

⁹ But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

⁴ I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, ⁵ that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge. ⁶ for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved. ⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace, ⁸ which he abounded for us in all wisdom and intelligence.

²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

⁵ even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace), ⁶ and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenly things in Christ Jesus. ⁷ So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you, ⁹ not from works, so that not any man may boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

⁷ But the grace was given to each of us, according to the measure of the gift of the Christ. ⁸ Therefore he says, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ And what is the ascended, except that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also the same man who ascended high above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things. ¹¹ And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ. ¹³ Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

⁹ Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

¹¹ searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

¹⁸ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

¹ And God spoke all these words, saying, ² I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³ Thou shall have no other gods before me. ⁴ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ⁷ Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a sabbath to LORD thy God. Thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, ¹¹ for in six days LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ¹³ Thou shall not murder. ¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ Thou shall not steal. ¹⁶ Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. ¹⁷ Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

⁴⁴ And this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel.

¹ And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.

⁴ Moses commanded for us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹ I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations. ² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

²⁰ Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, and the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

⁵⁴ He helped his boy Israel to be reminded of mercy, ⁵⁵ just as he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and his seed into the age.

⁶⁸ Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he came to help, and made ransom for his people. ⁶⁹ And he raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his boy David, ⁷⁰ just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, ⁷¹ salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us, ⁷² to do mercy with our fathers, and his holy covenant to be remembered, ⁷³ the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to give to us, ⁷⁴ without fear from the hand of our enemies, having been saved to serve him ⁷⁵ in piety and righteousness before him all the days of our life. ⁷⁶ And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways, ⁷⁷ to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the remission of their sins,

⁴⁵ Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but this man, we know not where he is from.

³⁸ This is he who became in the congregation in the wilderness with the agent who spoke to him on the mount Sinai, and of our fathers who received living oracles to give to us.

³⁴ And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David. ³⁵ Therefore also he says in another, Thou will not give thy Holy Man to see decay. ³⁶ For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay. ³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay. ³⁸ Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

²³ And having appointed a day for him, more came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded, solemnly testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God. ²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. ²² And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction. ²³ For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred ²⁶ (in the forbearance of God), for proof of his justice at the present time, for him to be righteous, and who makes the man from Jesus' faith righteous.

²⁰ And the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant, ²¹ so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁴ for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.

⁸ And I say, Christ Jesus became a helper of men of circumcision, for the sake of God's truth (in order to confirm the promises of the fathers), ⁹ and the Gentiles, for the sake of mercy, to glorify God, as it is written, Because of this I will give thanks to thee among Gentiles, and will sing to thy name. ¹⁰ And again he says, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people. ¹¹ And again, Praise ye the Lord all nations, and let all the peoples praise him. ¹² And again, Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who arises to reign over Gentiles. In him Gentiles will hope.

²⁰ For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.

⁷ But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance, ⁸ how will the administration of the Spirit not be more in glory? ⁹ For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory. ¹⁰ For also that which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this regard, because of the glory that transcends.

¹⁰ For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them. ¹¹ But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith. ¹² And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

¹⁷ And I say this, a covenant previously confirmed by God in Christ, the law, which happened four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul in order to make the promise useless.

⁵ And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were going to be spoken, ⁶ but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

⁸ For, finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will perfect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ⁹ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me for a people. ¹¹ And they will, no, not teach each man his fellow citizen, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from their small as far as their great. ¹² Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their lawlessness I will no, not further remember.

²² And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.

⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body. ⁶ In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God, ⁸ saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law. ⁹ Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

³⁹ And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰ God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

⁸ And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls containing incense, which are the prayers of the sanctified. ⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation. ¹⁰ And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth.

⁹ After these things, I looked and lo, a great multitude, which none could number, out of every nation, and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands, ¹⁰ and crying out in a great voice, saying, Salvation is in our God who sits upon the throne, and in the Lamb! ¹¹ And all the agents had stood all around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before his throne on their faces, and worshiped God, ¹² saying, Truly! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and strength, is for our God into the ages of the ages. Truly! ¹³ And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are clothed in white robes, and where did they come from? ¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Because of this they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he who sits on the throne will dwell among them. ¹⁶ They will hunger no more, nor will they thirst any more. The sun will, no, not fall upon them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will tend them, and will lead them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed. ²⁹ And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why is it that thou ask for my name? And he blessed him there. ³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, ¹⁶ the agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

²¹ Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

¹⁸ And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory. ¹⁹ And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of LORD before thee. I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate. ²⁰ And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live. ²¹ And LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shall stand upon the rock. ²² And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by. ²³ And I will take away my hand, and thou shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.

⁵ And LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of LORD. ⁶ And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the sons's sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

⁸ With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he has beheld the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

¹² And LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form, only a voice.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are thou for us, or for our adversaries?

¹² And the agent of LORD appeared to him, and said to him, LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. ¹³ And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if LORD is with us, then why has all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian. ¹⁴ And LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent thee? ¹⁵ And he said to him, Oh, Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. ¹⁶ And LORD said to him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shall smite the Midianites as one man. ¹⁷ And he said to him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou who talk with me. ¹⁸ Depart not from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. ¹⁹ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. ²⁰ And the agent of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. ²¹ Then the agent of LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And the agent of LORD departed out of his sight. ²² And Gideon saw that he was the agent of LORD. And Gideon said, Alas, O lord LORD! Inasmuch as I have seen the agent of LORD face to face. ²³ And LORD said to him, Peace be to thee. Fear not; thou shall not die. ²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to LORD, and called it LORD-shalom. To this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. ²⁵ And it came to pass the same night, that LORD said to him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it. ²⁶ And build an altar to LORD thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shall cut down.

²⁰ for it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the agent of LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on, and they fell on their faces to the ground. ²¹ But the agent of LORD appeared no more to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the agent of LORD. ²² And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. ²³ But his wife said to him, If LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

³⁰ then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,

¹ In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. ² Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young.

¹² They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

²⁶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. And upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. ²⁷ And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward. And from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire. And there was brightness round about him. ²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice speaking.

³ In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God. ⁴ Yea, he had strength over the agent, and prevailed, as he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us. ⁵ Even LORD, the God of hosts, LORD is his memorial.

²² And having turned to the disciples, he said, All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

⁴⁶ Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.

⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke about him.

²³ And one of his disciples whom Jesus loved was sitting at Jesus' bosom.

⁶ I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.

²⁶ And I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, so that the love that thou loved me may be in them, and I in them.

¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

²⁰ If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

⁹ And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. ¹⁰ And thou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which LORD shall choose. And thou shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee, ¹¹ according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shall do. Thou shall not turn aside from the sentence, which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

⁸ Take heed in the disease of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. As I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

²³ And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he taught, saying, By what authority do thou these things? And who gave thee this authority? ²⁴ And having answered, Jesus said to them, I also will ask you one word, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The immersion of John, from where was it, from heaven or from men? And they deliberated with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him? ²⁶ But if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet. ²⁷ And having answered Jesus, they said, We know not. He said to them, And neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁸ But what does it seem to you? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, Child, go work today in my vineyard. ²⁹ And having answered, he said, I do not want to, but having repented later, he went. ³⁰ And having come to the second, he said likewise. And having answered, he said, I, sir, and did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen it, ye did not repent afterward to believe him.

¹⁵ And as the people were expectant, and all pondering in their hearts about John, if perhaps he was the Christ, ¹⁶ John responded, saying to them all, I indeed immerse you in water, but a man mightier than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to unloose the strap of his shoes. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire, ¹⁷ whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. ¹⁸ Indeed therefore, also exhorting the people with many other things, he preached the good news.

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things?

¹⁰ The Jews therefore said to the man who was cured, It is sabbath. It is not permitted for thee to take up the bed.

⁴¹ The Jews therefore murmured about him because he said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven.

⁵² The Jews therefore contended with each other, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

²⁴ The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, When do thou lift up our soul? If thou are the Christ, tell us plainly.

²⁵ And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, Whom do ye suppose me to be? I am not, but behold, he comes after me of whom I am not worthy to loose the shoes of his feet.

¹¹ I indeed immerse you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit. ¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

¹⁵ And as the people were expectant, and all pondering in their hearts about John, if perhaps he was the Christ, ¹⁶ John responded, saying to them all, I indeed immerse you in water, but a man mightier than I comes, of whom I am not worthy to unloose the strap of his shoes. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire, ¹⁷ whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

¹⁵ LORD thy God will raise up for thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brothers, like me. Ye shall hearken to him, ¹⁶ according to all that thou desired of LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. ¹⁷ And LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. ¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like thee. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.

⁹ But what did ye go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ¹⁰ For this is he about whom it is written, Behold, I send my agent before thy face who will prepare thy way before thee. ¹¹ Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

¹⁴ And if ye are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is going to come.

¹⁴ And they said, Some, John the immerser, others, Elijah, but others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

¹⁰ And his disciples questioned him, saying, Why then do the scholars say that Elijah must first come? ¹¹ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all. ¹² But I say to you, that Elijah already came, and they knew him not, but did to him how many things they wanted. Likewise also the Son of man is going to suffer by them.

¹⁷ And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

²⁵ And they asked him, and said to him, Why therefore do thou immerse if thou are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?

⁴⁰ Many from the multitude therefore, when they heard the saying, said, This is truly the prophet.

¹³ So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? Or will thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now decide, and see what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

³ For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of a man crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, which says, The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. ⁵ Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked things will be into straight and the rough into smooth ways. ⁶ And all flesh will see the salvation of God.

¹³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in. ¹⁴ But woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye devour widows' houses, and praying long in pretence. Because of this ye will receive greater condemnation. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye encompass the sea and the land to make one proselyte, and when it happens, ye make him twice more a son of hell than yourselves.

²⁶ Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, so that the outside of them may also become clean.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers who were not immersed by him, rejected the purpose of God for themselves.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you. ⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! Because ye love the place of honor in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like the unseen sepulchers, and the men who walk over them do not know.

⁵³ And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things,

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.

¹ Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ² This man came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou have come a teacher from God, for no man can do these signs that thou do if God is not with him.

⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have ye not also been led astray? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.

⁸ For in fact Sadducees say to be no resurrection nor agent nor spirit, but Pharisees acknowledge them all.

⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

¹⁵ LORD thy God will raise up for thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brothers, like me. Ye shall hearken to him,

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like thee. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. ²⁵ Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublesome times. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

²³ And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he taught, saying, By what authority do thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?

²⁰ And he confessed, and did not deny, and confessed, I am not the Christ. ²¹ And they asked him, What therefore, are thou Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are thou the prophet? And he answered, No. ²² They said therefore to him, Who are thou, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do thou say about thyself?

⁵ And it came to pass on the morrow, to be assembled in Jerusalem, their rulers, and elders, and scholars, ⁶ and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the high priestly family. ⁷ And after placing them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this?

²⁸ saying, Did we not command by an order for you not to teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem of your doctrine, and intend to bring upon us this man's blood.

¹ Behold, I send my agent, and he shall prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts. ² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

⁸ I indeed immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹ He came to his own, and his own did not accept him.

¹⁹ They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

³ And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father nor me.

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

⁵ Because John indeed immersed in water, but ye will be immersed in the Holy Spirit after not many of these days.

¹⁶ And I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed in water, but ye will be immersed in the Holy Spirit.

³⁰ This is he about whom I said, After me comes a man who has become before me, because he was before me.

²⁴ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan.

²³ And John also was immersing in Aenon near Salim because there was much water there. And they came and were immersed.

²⁶ And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, about whom thou have testified, behold, this man immerses, and all men come to him.

⁴⁰ And he departed again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing, and he stayed there.

⁵ Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

⁷ And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? ⁸ And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together.

³ Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. ⁴ And if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls, according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. Ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶ And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel upon the houses in which they shall eat it. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with the inwards of it. ¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, but that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And thus ye shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And ye shall eat it in haste. It is LORD's Passover. ¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am LORD. ¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

³⁸ And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead. And Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts. And it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before LORD.

¹⁷ Why have ye not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before LORD?

²¹ And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins. And he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man who is in readiness into the wilderness. ²² And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities to a solitary land. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

¹ And LORD said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

²³ But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. And among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

³ And thou shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer to LORD: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. ⁴ The one lamb thou shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shall offer at evening, ⁵ and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. ⁶ It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to LORD. ⁷ And the drink offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. In the holy place thou shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to LORD. ⁸ And the other lamb thou shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, thou shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD. ⁹ And on the sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering of it. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

⁷ He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that is mute before its shearers, so he opened not his mouth.

¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

² Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

²¹ And she will bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS, for he will save his people from their sins.

²⁸ Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

³² Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb, mute before shearing him, thus he opened not his mouth.

³⁹ And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

³ For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

²¹ For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony for their own times.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

²⁸ so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted-of Christ,

²⁴ Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

¹⁸ Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

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

⁵ And ye know that that man was made known so that he might take up our sins. And in him is no sin.

¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

⁶ And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, like it had been killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God being sent forth into all the earth.

⁸ And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls containing incense, which are the prayers of the sanctified.

¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly!

¹ And I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals. And I heard one of the four living creatures saying like the sound of thunder, Come and see.

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

⁹ After these things, I looked and lo, a great multitude, which none could number, out of every nation, and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands, ¹⁰ and crying out in a great voice, saying, Salvation is in our God who sits upon the throne, and in the Lamb!

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁷ Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will tend them, and will lead them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their life to the point of death.

⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

¹ And I looked, and lo, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with it a number, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having its name and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

⁴ These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were purchased by Jesus, out of men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

¹⁰ he also himself will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which was mixed undiluted in the cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy agents and before the Lamb.

³ And they sing the song of Moses the bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations.

¹⁴ These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with him are the called and chosen and faithful.

⁷ We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

⁹ And he says to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true sayings of God.

⁹ And there came one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the woman, the bride of the Lamb.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

²² And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb.

²⁷ And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

² But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall. ³ And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says LORD of hosts. ⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. ⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.

⁶ and they were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. ⁴ It came to pass, that John was immersing in the wilderness and preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins. ⁵ And all the land of Judea and the Jerusalemites went out to him, and they were all immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways, ⁷⁷ to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the remission of their sins, ⁷⁸ because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace. ⁸⁰ And the child grew, and became strong in spirit. And he was in the desolate regions until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

³⁹ And when they completed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth. ⁴⁰ And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was upon it. ⁴¹ And his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. ⁴² And when he became twelve years old, them having gone up according to the custom of the feast,

³ And he came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins, ⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, which says, The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

¹⁶ And when Jesus was immersed, he went up straightaway out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him.

¹⁰ And straightaway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens divided, and the Spirit descending upon him as a dove.

²² and the Holy Spirit to descend in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and a voice to occur out of heaven, saying, Thou are my beloved Son. In thee I am well pleased.

³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is valid.

¹³ Then Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be immersed by him. ¹⁴ But John was preventing him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and thou come to me? ¹⁵ But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him.

³¹ And I had not known him, but that he would be made known to Israel. Because of this I came immersing in water.

⁵ Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

⁴ And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to declare.

⁴⁴ While Peter still spoke these sayings, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. ⁴⁵ And the faithful men of circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because also on the Gentiles the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, ⁴⁷ Can any man forbid the water for these not to be immersed, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also?

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning. ¹⁶ And I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed in water, but ye will be immersed in the Holy Spirit.

² he said to them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him, But we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit. ³ And he said to them, Into what then were ye immersed? And they said, Into John's immersion. ⁴ And Paul said, John indeed immersed an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus, the Christ. ⁵ And when they heard this, they were immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ And Paul having laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues, and prophesied.

¹³ For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

²⁶ He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷ I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

³ And after he who tempts came, he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, speak so that these stones may become bread.

⁶ And he says to him, If thou are the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He will command his agents about thee, and, They will take thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

²⁹ And behold, they cried out, saying, What is with us and thee, Jesus, Son of God? Did thou come here before the time to torment us?

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God.

⁴⁰ and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God.

⁵⁴ Now the centurion, and those with him watching over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that happened, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

¹ The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

¹¹ And a voice occurred out of the heavens, Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

³⁵ And having answered, the agent said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee. Therefore also the holy thing that is begotten will be called the Son of God.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered, and says to him, Rabbi, thou are the Son of God. Thou are the king of Israel.

²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man.

⁶⁹ And we have believed and know that thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³⁶ whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

²⁷ She says to him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that thou are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.

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

⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord-

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.

¹ God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son, ² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.

⁵ For to which of the agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son? ⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

²³ Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

⁸ He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son. ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.

⁹ Every man transgressing, and not abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, does not have God. The man abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, this man has both the Father and the Son.

¹⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet resembling highly refined metal:

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

²⁵ Therefore a debate developed from John's disciples with the Jews about purification. ²⁶ And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, about whom thou have testified, behold, this man immerses, and all men come to him.

²² Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.

¹ I was manifested by those who did not ask for me. I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name. ² I have spread out my hands all the day to a disobedient and rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

²⁹ On the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

² Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted-of Christ, ²⁰ who was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you:

²³ A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

²¹ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of LORD, and to seek LORD of hosts. I will go also.

⁴³ On the morrow he wanted to go forth into Galilee, and he finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, Follow me.

³⁹ And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all, as many things as I did. ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to remain with them, and he remained there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of his word. ⁴² And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of thy speaking, for we have heard ourselves, and know that this really is the Savior of the world, the Christ.

¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

¹⁶ And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for where thou go, I will go, and where thou lodge, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

⁸ Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, who hear thy wisdom.

⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.

³⁴ Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed thy flock, where thou make it to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be designated by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. ⁸ But be ye not designated Rabbi, for one is your leader, the Christ, and ye are all brothers.

²⁴ And after John's messengers departed, he began to say to the multitudes about John, What did ye go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? ²⁵ But what did ye go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those in elegant clothing, and existing in luxury, are in kingly places. ²⁶ But what did ye go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he about whom it is written, Behold, I send my agent before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee.

³⁸ But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him to be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

³⁹ And she was sister to this woman called Mary, who also, having sat at Jesus' feet, was listening to his word.

²⁵ Now many multitudes went with him, and having turned, he said to them,

²⁰ And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

⁴⁰ And having stood still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he questioned him, ⁴¹ saying, What do thou that I would do to thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive sight.

⁵ And when Jesus came to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, after making haste, come down, for today I must lodge at thy house.

⁶¹ And having turned, the Lord looked on Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, Before a cock sounds thou will deny me thrice.

² This man came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou have come a teacher from God, for no man can do these signs that thou do if God is not with him.

²⁵ And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when did thou become here?

²¹ These men therefore came to Philip, the man from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we want to see Jesus.

⁴ Jesus therefore knowing all the things that were coming upon him, after going forth, he says to them, Whom seek ye?

⁷ Again therefore he questioned them, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus the Nazarene.

¹⁵ Jesus says to her, Woman, why weep thou? Whom seek thou? That woman, supposing that he is the gardener, says to him, Sir, if thou have taken him, tell me where thou have laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶ Jesus says to her, Mary. After turning around, that woman says to him, Rabboni, which says, Teacher.

²¹ And having gone down to the men, Peter said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek. What is the cause for which ye are here?

²⁹ And so I came without objection when summoned. I ask therefore for what matter ye summoned me.

¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

²⁸ Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

²⁹ And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us, because it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them.

⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, What good can be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to remain with them, and he remained there two days.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me, and he who comes to me I will, no, not cast out.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, and what has happened that thou are going to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a dwelling with him.

³⁰ And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired lodging. And he received all who came in to him, ³¹ preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

¹⁸ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And he says to them, Come behind me, and I will make you fishermen of men. ²⁰ And straightaway having left the nets, they followed him. ²¹ And having gone on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And he called them. ²² And straightaway having left the boat and their father, they followed him.

² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,

¹⁶ And walking beside the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, the son of Simon, casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, Come ye behind me, and I will make you to become fishermen of men. ¹⁸ And straightaway they left the nets, and followed him. ¹⁹ And having advanced a little from there he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. ²⁰ And straightaway he called them. And having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the workmen, they went behind him.

² And he saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen having gone out of them, were washing their nets. ³ And having entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And having sat down, he taught the crowds from the boat. ⁴ And when he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, Put out into the depth, and let down your nets for a catch. ⁵ And having answered, Simon said to him, Master, having toiled through the whole night, we took nothing, but at thy saying, I will let down the net. ⁶ And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was tearing. ⁷ And they beckoned to their partners in the other boat, after coming, to assist them. And they came and filled both the boats, so as for them to be sunk down. ⁸ But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord. ⁹ For astonishment surrounded him, and all those with him, at the catch of the fishes that they caught, ¹⁰ and likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not, from henceforth thou will be catching men. ¹¹ And when they brought their boats to land, after forsaking all, they followed him.

⁴⁰ Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard from John and who followed him. ⁴¹ This man first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, Christ). ⁴² And he brought him to Jesus. And having seen him, Jesus said, Thou are Simon the son of Jonah. Thou will be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him,

¹³ And when they came in, they went up into the upper floor where they were lodging, including, Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

⁹ Then they said one to another, We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we delay till the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

⁷ Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

²⁰ I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,

³ And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of LORD.

² And the Spirit of LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of LORD.

¹ The Spirit of the lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and the opening of bonds to those who are bound,

¹⁷ And when they saw it, they informed about the declaration that was told them about this child.

³⁸ And having stood near at that same hour, she acknowledged the Lord, and spoke about him to all those who were awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliverance those who have been broken, ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰ And having closed the book, having given it back to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were focused on him. ²¹ And he began to say to them, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.

³⁶ And having looked upon Jesus walking, he says, Behold, the Lamb of God! ³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

²⁵ The woman says to him, I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When that man comes he will declare all things to us.

²⁸ The woman therefore left her water pot, and departed into the city, and says to the men, ²⁹ Come, see a man who told me all, as many things as I did. Is not this the Christ?

²⁷ For in truth, against thy holy Boy Jesus, whom thou anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

³⁸ Jesus of Nazareth-how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who passed through doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

³² And we proclaim good news to you: the promise to the fathers, which happened because God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, ³³ as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

⁸ But toward the Son, Thy throne, O God, is into the age of the age. The scepter of thy kingdom is a scepter of straightness. ⁹ Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

³ what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens. ¹⁸ And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

¹⁶ And he added to Simon the name Peter;

⁸ But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

¹⁴ Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit. ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, How do thou know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee.

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any man should testify about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil? ⁷¹ But he spoke of Judas Iscariot son of Simon. For this man, being one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

¹⁸ I speak not about you all. I have seen whom I chose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me lifted up his heel against me.

² There were together, Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other men of his disciples.

¹⁵ So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He says to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹² Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours,

⁵ Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

⁹ and James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, when they understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship. So that we were for the Gentiles, and they for men of circumcision,

¹ I was manifested by those who did not ask for me. I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

¹⁸ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And he says to them, Come behind me, and I will make you fishermen of men. ²⁰ And straightaway having left the nets, they followed him. ²¹ And having gone on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And he called them.

⁹ And passing forth from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And he says to him, Follow me. And after rising, he followed him.

³ Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus who was surnamed Thaddaeus,

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

²⁸ These things occurred in Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was immersing.

³⁵ Again on the morrow John stood, and two of his disciples.

⁵ Jesus therefore having lifted up his eyes, and having seen that a great multitude comes to him, he says to Philip, From where will we buy loaves, so that these may eat?

⁷ Philip answered him, Loaves of two hundred denarii of bread are not sufficient for them, so that each of them may take a little something.

⁸ Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

²¹ Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

⁴⁵ And straightaway he compelled his disciples to enter into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself would send the crowd away.

²² And he comes to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man to him, and call for him so that he might touch him.

¹⁰ And when the apostles returned, they related to him as many things as they did. And having taken them along, he withdrew in private into a desolate place of a city called Bethsaida.

¹³ Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works were done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

⁸ Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. ⁹ Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like thee. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. ²¹ And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which LORD has not spoken? ²² When a prophet speaks in the name of LORD, if the thing does not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Thou shall not be afraid of him.

² In that day the branch of LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for those who have escaped from Israel.

¹² And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of LORD,

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king comes to thee. He is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon a donkey, even upon a colt the foal of a donkey.

²³ And having come, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, that he will be called a Nazarene.

⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas?

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

³ Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended by him.

⁶⁷ And having seen Peter warming himself, having looked at him, she says, Thou also were with Jesus of Nazareth.

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and patriarchy of David,

²³ And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

²² And all witnessed to him, and wondered at the words of grace that proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?

²⁷ And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things about himself.

⁴⁴ And he said to them, These are the words that I spoke to you while still being with you, that it is necessary for all things that are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me to be fulfilled.

⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, What good can be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

⁴⁵ Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped. ⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for that man wrote about me.

⁴² And they said, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Therefore how does this man say, I have come down out of heaven?

⁵ They answered him, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas, the man betraying him had also stood with them.

¹⁹ And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²² Men, Israelites, hear ye these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man shown by God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know,

⁶ But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

⁸ And I answered, Who are thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecute.

⁹ Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

²⁸ And all in the synagogue were filled with rage, having heard these things. ²⁹ And having risen up, they thrust him outside of the city, and brought him as far as the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw him down headlong.

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

²⁹ Come, see a man who told me all, as many things as I did. Is not this the Christ?

⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, For does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

⁵² They answered and said to him, Are thou also from Galilee? Search and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet.

²¹ but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

² Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises,

⁶ But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel,

³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

¹ Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

²² Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

⁵ And no lie was found in their mouth, for they are unblemished.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him. ²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

¹ O LORD, thou have searched me, and known. ² Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

⁶ But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open.

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

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

¹⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet resembling highly refined metal: ¹⁹ I know thy works, and thy love and faith and service and perseverance. And thy last works are more than the first.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

¹ LORD says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

²¹ And say to them, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. ²² And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all. And they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. ²³ Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ²⁴ And my servant David shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd. They shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. ²⁵ And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell therein, they, and their sons, and their son's sons, forever. And David my servant shall be their ruler forever.

²⁵ Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublesome times.

⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek LORD their God and David their king, and shall come with fear to LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.

¹⁵ LORD has taken away thy judgments. He has cast out thine enemy. The King of Israel, even LORD, is in the midst of thee. Thou shall not fear evil any more.

¹² And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of LORD, ¹³ even he shall build the temple of LORD. And he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

² Where is he who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.

³³ And those who came in the boat worshiped him, saying, Thou really are the Son of God.

⁵ Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon a donkey, and a colt the foal of a pack animal.

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned him, saying, Are thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, Thou say.

⁴² He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.

³⁸ Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!

³⁴ And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.

³⁸ And Jesus having turned, and having seen them following, says to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi (which says, being interpreted, Teacher), where do thou dwell?

¹³ took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! ¹⁴ And Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it, as it is written, ¹⁵ Fear not, daughter of Zion. Behold, thy King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt.

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him, Then thou are a king? Jesus answered, Thou say that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I would testify to the truth. Every man who is of the truth hears my voice.

¹⁹ And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin. ²¹ Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write, The king of the Jews, but, That man said I am king of the Jews. ²² Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God. ²⁹ Jesus says to him, Because thou have seen me, thou have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.

²⁹ For to every man who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.

⁴⁵ And blessed is she who believed, because there will be a fulfillment of the things that were spoken to her from the Lord.

⁹ And when Jesus heard these things, he marveled him, and having turned around to the multitude who followed him, he said, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.

²⁹ Jesus says to him, Because thou have seen me, thou have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.

¹² And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And, behold, the agents of God ascending and descending on it.

¹ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

⁹ I beheld till thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and the wheels of it burning fire. ¹⁰ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.

¹³ I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. ¹⁴ And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

¹¹ Then the devil leaves him, and behold, agents came and served him.

²⁰ And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.

⁶ But that ye may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (then he says to the paralyzed man), After rising, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.

¹³ Now when Jesus came into the regions of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say I, the Son of man, am? ¹⁴ And they said, Some, John the immerser, others, Elijah, but others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. ¹⁵ He says to them, But who say ye, I am? ¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

²⁷ For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his agents, and then he will reward each man according to his actions. ²⁸ Truly I say to you, there are some of those who stand here, who will, no, not taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy agents with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

²⁴ The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.

⁶² And Jesus said, I am. And ye will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.

⁹ And behold, an agent of the Lord stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they feared a great fear.

¹³ And suddenly there came to be with the agent a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

²¹ Now it came to pass, during the immersion of all the people, Jesus also having been immersed and praying, for the heaven to be opened,

⁴³ And an agent from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

⁶⁹ From henceforth the Son of man will be sitting at the right hand of the power of God.

⁴ And it came to pass while they were bewildered about this, that behold, two men stood near them in shining apparel.

¹³ And no man has ascended into heaven, except he who came down out of heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man.

²⁶ Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled.

⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

⁵³ Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

⁵¹ Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age.

¹ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter in by the door into the fold of the sheep, but goes up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber.

⁷ Jesus therefore said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.

²³ And Jesus answered them saying, The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat that falls into the ground dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say to you, a bondman is not greater than his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any man whomever I may send, receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ²¹ Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.

³⁸ Jesus answered him, Will thou lay down thy life for me? Truly, truly, I say to thee, A cock will, no, not sound, until thou will deny me thrice.

¹² Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, that man will also do. And he will do greater than these, because I go to the Father.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy.

²³ And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, that as many things as ye may ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

¹⁸ Truly, truly, I say to thee, When thou were younger, thou girded thyself, and walked where thou would, but when thou become old, thou will stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and carry thee where thou do not want.

¹⁰ And while they were gazing at his going into the sky, behold, two men had also stood by them in white apparel, ¹¹ who also said, Men, Galileans, why stand ye gazing into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into the sky will so come, in that same way as ye saw him going into the sky.

⁵⁶ And he said, Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

¹¹ And he sees heaven opened, and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet bound at four corners, and being lowered to the earth,

⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power

⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,

¹ After these things I looked, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard like a trumpet, speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show thee what must happen after these things.

¹¹ And I saw the heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he who sits upon it called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.