Acts 14 Cross References - MLV

¹ Now it happened in Iconium according to the same thing, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke, so-that a large multitude believed, both from the Jews and Greeks. ² But the disobedient Jews aroused and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brethren. ³ Therefore, they indeed stayed a considerable time there, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was testifying to the word of his favor, giving signs and wonders to happen through their hands. ⁴ But the multitude of the city was split-apart, and some were together with the Jews and those others together with the apostles. ⁵ Now as it became an impulse of both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, together with their rulers, to abuse them and to stone them, ⁶ being conscious of it, they fled for refuge to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around them. ⁷ And they were proclaiming the good-news there.
⁸ And there was a certain man, who was sitting in Lystra, being powerless in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. ⁹ This one heard Paul speaking, who, having stared at him and seeing that he had faith to be cured, ¹⁰ said with a loud voice, Stand correctly upon your feet. And he was leaping up and walking.
¹¹ Now when the crowd saw what Paul did, they lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods, who are similar to men, have come down to us. ¹² And indeed, they were calling Barnabas, Zeus; but Paul, Hermes, since he was the leader of the speech. ¹³ Now the priest of Zeus, whose temple was before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and were wishing to sacrifice them together with the crowds.
¹⁴ But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard it, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out ¹⁵ and saying, Men! Why are you doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you and are proclaiming the good-news to you : to turn away from these futile things to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them; ¹⁶ who permitted all the nations in the generations which have gone-by, to conduct-themselves in their own ways. ¹⁷ Although he did not leave himself unwitnessed, by doing good, giving rainfalls and fruitful seasons to you from heaven, filling our hearts with nourishment and joy. ¹⁸ And saying these things, they made the crowds cease from sacrificing to us with difficulty.
¹⁹ But Jews came upon us there from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and were dragging him outside the city, having supposed him to have died. ²⁰ But the disciples surrounded him, having rose up, he entered into the city, and went forth on the next-day together with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ And having proclaimed the good-news to that city, and having made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch, ²² further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God. ²³ Now having assigned elders to them in every congregation, and when they had prayed with fastings, they consigned them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
²⁴ And having gone through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. ²⁵ And having spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia; ²⁶ and they sailed from there to Antioch, from where they were given to the favor of God, for the work which they had fulfilled.

{48-50 AD. Antioch. April 5, 49 AD A skirmish between Roman troops & the Jews at the Passover.} ²⁷ Now when they came and gathered the congregation together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. ²⁸ Now they were staying there together with the disciples a time; not just a few.

²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she requested of him in order that he might cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

³⁵ Therefore the Jews said to themselves, Where is this one about to travel that we will not be finding him? He is not about to travel to the Dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

²⁰ Now there were some Greeks from them, coming up, in order that they might worship at the feast;

²⁰ And immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

⁵ And when they happened to be in Salamis, they were proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John, an attendant.

⁴³ Now when the synagogue had been dissolved, many of the Jews and the pious Jewish-converts followed Paul and Barnabas; who, while speaking, were persuading them to remain in the favor of God.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. But since you are thrusting it away from yourselves and are judging yourselves unworthy of everlasting life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁵¹ But they shook-off the dirt of their feet against them and came to Iconium.

² But the disobedient Jews aroused and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brethren.

²¹ And having proclaimed the good-news to that city, and having made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

¹ Now he arrived in Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, the son of a certain believing Jewess and a Greek father.

¹ Now having traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was the synagogue of the Jews. ² Now according to his custom, Paul entered to them and upon three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

⁴ And some of them obeyed and adhered to Paul and Silas and a large multitude of the pious Greeks, and not just a few of the foremost women.

¹² Therefore indeed, many out of them believed; also not just a few of the prominent Greek women and men.

¹⁷ Therefore indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the pious ones, and in the marketplace every day with those who chanced upon him.

⁴ Now he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and was persuading Jews and Greeks.

⁸ Now Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole house.
And many of the Corinthians hearing, were believing and were being immersed.

⁸ Now having entered into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the kingdom of God.

¹⁰ Now this happened in two years; so-that all those dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

¹⁷ Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being extolled.

²¹ thoroughly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This one is the man who is teaching all people everywhere, against the Jewish people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and has desecrated this holy place.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, being rich toward all who are calling upon him;

²² Since both Jews ask for a sign and Greeks seek wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ as having been crucified, indeed an offense to the Jews, but foolishness to the Greeks; ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³ But not even Titus who was together with me, being a Greek, was urged to be circumcised.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondservant nor free man, there is no male and female; for you all are one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free man, but Christ is all things and in all things.

¹⁰ For he has known that the high-priests had given him up because of envy. ¹¹ But the high-priests shook up the crowd, in order that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, but he who is disobedient to the Son will not be seeing life, but the wrath of God is remaining upon him.

⁴⁵ But the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled up from jealousy, and were contradicting the things being spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming him.

⁵⁰ But the Jews spurred on the pious and prominent women and the foremost ones of the city, and aroused a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

¹⁹ But Jews came upon us there from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and were dragging him outside the city, having supposed him to have died.

⁵ But the disobedient Jews took for themselves some evil men from among the market-loafers, and having amassed a crowd, the city was in an uproar, and standing against the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them into the public court.

¹³ Now as the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was also proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they also went there, shaking up the crowds.

¹² Now Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews stood up united against Paul and led him in front of the judicial-seat,

²⁷ Now as the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, were inciting all the crowd and put hands upon him, ²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This one is the man who is teaching all people everywhere, against the Jewish people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and has desecrated this holy place. ²⁹ For they were seeing Trophimus the Ephesian together with him among the city, whom they were supposing that Paul had led into the temple.
³⁰ Now the whole city was moved and there happened to be a running of the people together, and grabbing Paul, they were dragging him outside the temple and immediately the doors were locked.

¹⁵ The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and were not pleasing to God, and are adverse to all men; ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved; that they should always fill up their sins, but the wrath has arrived-unexpectedly upon them–to the end.

²⁰ Now those apostles went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working together with them, and confirming the word through the signs that followed. Amen.

⁴⁸ Therefore Jesus said to him, If you do not see signs and wonders, you may never believe.

²² Men, Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man from God, having been shown to you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, just-as you yourselves also know;

²⁹ And hereafter, Lord, look upon their threats and give to your bondservants to speak your word with all boldness, ³⁰ in that you stretched out your hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of your holy young-servant Jesus.

¹² Now through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were happening among the people, and they were all united at Solomon’s porch. ¹³ But none of the rest were daring to join himself to them, but the people were extolling them; ¹⁴ and more believers, multitudes of both men and women, were added to the Lord;

³² And we are witnesses of these words, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, Do not be afraid, but speak out and do not be silent, ¹⁰ because I am with you and no one will be laying a hand on you to mistreat you, because there are many people in this city believing in me. ¹¹ And he stuck-around there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹⁰ Now this happened in two years; so-that all those dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. ¹¹ And God was doing miracles (not obtainable from man) through the hands of Paul; ¹² so-that even handkerchiefs or aprons from the touch of his skin were carried away to those who were sick and the diseases were set-free from them and the evil spirits went out from them.

²⁴ But I make account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.

³² And hereafter I consign you brethren to God, and to the word of his favor, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been made holy.

⁸ But I will be remaining in Ephesus until the Pentecost; ⁹ for a large and effective door has opened to me and many are laying in opposition to me.

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones. ¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness, ²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.

² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.

⁴ God was testifying together with them, both by signs and by wonders and by various powers and by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

⁶ For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

³⁴ Do not suppose that I came to cast peace upon the earth; I did not come to cast peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to pit man against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; ³⁶ and, ‘A man’s enemies will be his own kinfolk.’

³⁴ and Simeon gave-thanks for them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is destined for the fall and the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign being spoken against.

²¹ Whenever the fully armed strong man is guarding his own courtyard, his possessions are in peace. ²² But whenever the one mightier than him, having come upon him and then, overcomes him, he takes away his full-armor upon which he had confidence in, and distributes his haul. ²³ He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, scatters.

⁵¹ You are thinking that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, No, but rather division. ⁵² For there will be from hereafter five in one house having been divided, three against two, and two against three. ⁵³ Father will be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁴³ So there became a split in the crowd because of him.

² Now while ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate^*\'b0 Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.

¹⁴ But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard it, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out

⁴ And some of them obeyed and adhered to Paul and Silas and a large multitude of the pious Greeks, and not just a few of the foremost women.
⁵ But the disobedient Jews took for themselves some evil men from among the market-loafers, and having amassed a crowd, the city was in an uproar, and standing against the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them into the public court.

⁹ But as some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way in the sight of the multitude, he withdrew away from them and separated the disciples, reasoning every day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

²⁴ And some were obeying and some were disbelieving the things which were spoken.

⁵ Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister in the Lord), even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

¹ Why do the nations rage and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.

⁵ Because they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against you:

⁴⁴ But I am saying to you, Love^*\'b0 your enemies, speak well of those who curse you, do good things to those who hate you and pray on behalf of those who are railing at you and are persecuting you.

²⁸ speak well of those who are cursing you, pray on behalf of those who are railing at you.

²⁵ who through the mouth of our father David your young-servant, said, ‘Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples meditate on empty things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered in the same place, against the Lord and against his Christ.’ ²⁷ For against truth, against your holy young-servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together ²⁸ to do as many things as your hand and your council predetermined to happen. ²⁹ And hereafter, Lord, look upon their threats and give to your bondservants to speak your word with all boldness,

¹¹ my persecutions and my sufferings, such-as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I underwent many persecutions such-as these, and the Lord rescued me out of all of them. \ulnone\nosupersub

⁸ Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place will be my camp. ⁹ And the man of God sent to the King of Israel, saying, Beware that you do not pass such a place, for the Syrians are coming down there. ¹⁰ And the King of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of. And he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
¹¹ And the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled for this thing and he called his servants and said to them, Will you* not show me which of us is for the King of Israel? ¹² And one of his servants said, No, my lord, O king, but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel tells the King of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.

²³ But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee into another; for assuredly I am saying to you, You may never complete the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man should come.

²⁴ but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night that they might assassinate him.

²⁰ But the disciples surrounded him, having rose up, he entered into the city, and went forth on the next-day together with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ And having proclaimed the good-news to that city, and having made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

¹ Now he arrived in Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, the son of a certain believing Jewess and a Greek father. ² He was being testified of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

¹³ Now as the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was also proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they also went there, shaking up the crowds. ¹⁴ Now the brethren then immediately sent Paul forth to travel as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining back there.

¹² Now when it became day, some of the Jews made a conspiracy and they vowed for themselves, saying, they were neither to eat nor to drink until they should have killed Paul. ¹³ Now they were more-than forty who had made this gang; ¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Therefore now, you, together with the council, disclose it to the commander that he should be led to you the next-day, as if being about to investigate more accurately the things concerning him. Now we are ready to assassinate him before he draws near. ¹⁶ But Paul’s sister’s son, having heard of their murderous plot, came and entered into the encampment and reported to Paul. ¹⁷ Now Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Lead this young-man away to the commander; for he has something to report to him.
¹⁸ Therefore indeed, he took him and led him to the commander and says, Paul the prisoner, having called me, asked me to lead this young-man to you, who has something to say to you.
¹⁹ Now the commander grabbed his hand and departed privately, and was inquiring, What is it that you have to report to me?
²⁰ Now he said, The Jews themselves have covenanted together to ask you that you should lead Paul into the Jewish council the next-day, as if being about to inquire more accurately something concerning him. ²¹ Therefore you, do not be persuaded by them; for more-than forty out of them are plotting against him, who have vowed for themselves neither to eat nor to drink until they should have assassinated him, and they are ready now, waiting for the promise from you.
²² Therefore indeed, the commander dismissed the young-man, having commanding him to tell no one that you have disclosed these things to me.

⁴ Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed went through out the land, proclaiming the good-news of the word.

¹⁹ Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed from the affliction which happened upon Stephen, went to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except only to the Jews.

¹⁵ and saying, Men! Why are you doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you and are proclaiming the good-news to you : to turn away from these futile things to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

¹⁰ Now as he saw the vision, we immediately sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord has called us to proclaim the good-news to them.

² Now according to his custom, Paul entered to them and upon three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

² Preach the word. Stand-ready opportunely and inopportunely. Reprove, rebuke and encourage in all patience and teaching.

³ A large multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, dried up, were reclining in this area waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴ For a messenger was going down every opportunity in the pool, and was disturbing the water. Therefore, the first one who stepped after the disturbance of the water became healthy, from whatever disease in which the one was being held.
⁵ Now a certain man was there, who was held in sickness for thirty eight years.

⁷ The sick man answered him, Lord, I do not have a man, in order that he might put me in the pool whenever the water is disturbed. But while I am coming, another is going down before me.

¹ And passing by, he saw a man blind from his birth. ² And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?

² And a certain man, being lame from his mother’s womb, was being bore there, whom they were laying daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask charity from those who travel into the temple.

⁹ if we are examined today on the basis of a good work done to a sick man and by what means this one has been cured.

¹⁰ Now when Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to those who followed, Assuredly I am saying to you, I have not found so-great a faith, not even in Israel.

²² Now Jesus having turned, saw her, and said, Daughter, have courage; your faith has saved you. And the woman was cured from that hour.

²⁸ Now he came into the house, the blind men came to him and Jesus says to them, You believe that I am able to do this?
They say to him, Yes, Lord.
²⁹ Then he touched their eyes, saying, Let it happen for you according to your faith.

⁵⁸ And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith. Let it happen for you as you will it. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

⁴⁰ And a leper comes to him, pleading to him, and kneeling down to him and saying to him, If you are willing, you are able to cleanse me.
⁴¹ Now Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched out his hand, touched him and says to him, I am willing. Be cleansed.

⁵ Now Jesus saw their faith and says to the paralytic, Son, your sins have been forgiven to you.

¹¹ I say to you, Arise and lift up your pallet and go to your house.
¹² And he immediately arose, and having lifted up the pallet, went out in front of them all; so-that they were all astonished and glorified God, saying, We never saw this happen so.

²³ Now Jesus said to him, If you are able to believe. All things are possible to the one who believes.
²⁴ And immediately the father of the child cried out with tears and said, I believe; Lord, help me with my unbelief.

⁵² Now Jesus said to him, Go; your faith has saved you. And immediately he recovered his sight and was following Jesus on the road.

{Luk 19:1-28; Jericho.}

{Joh 11:55-12:1, 9-11 Bethany March 31- April 1, 30 AD.}

⁴ But Peter, together with John, staring toward him, said, Look toward us.

⁶ Then the lame man will leap as a male-deer and the tongue of the mute will sing. For waters in the wilderness will break out and streams in the desert.

¹⁴ And he came near and touched the funeral bier, and those bearing it stopped. Now he said, Young-man, I say to you, Arise.

¹¹ And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of sickness for eighteen years, and she was always stooped over and was not able to completely stand-erect. ¹² Now having seen her, Jesus summoned her and said to her, Woman, you have been released from your sickness. ¹³ And he laid his hands upon her and instantly she was straightened and was glorifying God.

⁸ Jesus says to him, Arise, lift up your pallet and walk. ⁹ And immediately the man became healthy, and lifted up his pallet and was walking.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹² Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who believes in me, the works which I am doing, he will also be doing, and he will be doing greater works than these, because I am traveling on to my Father.

⁶ But Peter said, I do not possess silver and gold, but what I have, that I am giving to you. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, arise and walk. ⁷ And he clutched him by the right hand and lifted him up and instantly his feet and his ankles were strengthened. ⁸ And leaping up, he stood and was walking, and he entered together with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.

³³ Now he found a certain man there, Aeneas by name, who was paralyzed and had been laying in his pallet for eight years. ³⁴ And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Stand up and spread your bed for yourself. And immediately he stood up.

¹⁰ To whom they were taking-heed, from the little to the great, saying, This one is the power of God, the Great.

²² Now the public was shouting out, saying, This is a voice of a god and not of a man!

⁶ But they were expecting that he is about to swell up or to suddenly fall down dead. But expecting it for a long time and viewing nothing improper happening to him, having a turnabout, they were saying that he was a god.

³⁵ But having the composure of the crowd, the town scribe says, Men of Ephesus, for what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great goddess Artemis and of the fallen image from Zeus?

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him.

²⁵ Now it happened, as Peter entered in, Cornelius, having met him, and having fallen down upon his feet, worshiped him.

⁷ And it happened, when the King of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But consider, I beseech you* and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

³ And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard and sat down confounded. ⁴ Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of the trespass of those of the captivity and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.
⁵ And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn and I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,

²⁴ And they were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

⁶⁵ Then the high-priest ripped his garments, saying, He has blasphemed. Why do we still have need of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

⁶³ But the high-priest, having ripped his tunic, says, Why do we still have need of witnesses?

⁴ But the multitude of the city was split-apart, and some were together with the Jews and those others together with the apostles.

⁵ Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister in the Lord), even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority not to work?

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

¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

¹¹ for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have and lived?

²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with what is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

¹⁰ And Joshua said, Hereby you* will know that the living God is among you* and that he will without fail drive out from before you* the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

²¹ And do not turn not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What will be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant killed* both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

¹³ for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

²⁶ For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

⁴ It may be that Jehovah your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

¹⁶ Incline your ear, O Jehovah and hear. Open your eyes, O Jehovah and see. And hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent for him to defy the living God.

⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Jehovah.

⁶ The heavens made were by the word of Jehovah and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁸ Our help is in the name of Jehovah, who made heaven and earth.

⁵ He who has the God of Jacob for his help is fortunate, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, ⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who keeps truth everlasting,

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, ²⁴ when there were no depths. I was brought out when there were no fountains abounding with water, ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought out 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 boundary 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.

⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in will not profit. And their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?

¹⁹ And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁸ For Jehovah says thus 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 Jehovah and there is none else.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you* that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image and pray to a god that cannot save.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder. They carry it and set it in its place and it stands. From its place it will not remove. Yes, he may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with foreign vanities?

³ For the customs of the peoples are vanity.
For a man cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. ⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. ⁵ They are like a palm tree, of turned work and do not speak. They must be carried, because they cannot go. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.

⁸ But they are together stupid and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

¹⁰ But Jehovah is the true God. He is the living God and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus you* will say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

¹⁴ Every man has become stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not you he, O Jehovah our God? Therefore we will wait for you, for you have made all these things.

¹⁷ Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you,

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these: ²⁹ As for you, O king, your thoughts came upon your bed, what should happen hereafter. And he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
³⁰ But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living man, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

²⁶ I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is what will not be destroyed and his dominion will be even to the end.

⁴ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah and have not kept his statutes and their lies have made them go-astray, according to which their fathers walked.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.
Jehovah says thus, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

¹⁶ Now Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

²⁶ For just-like the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son, to have life in himself,

¹⁸ He who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory, but he who is seeking the glory from the one who sent him, this one is true and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹² Now having seen them, Peter answered to the people, Men, Israelites! Why are you marveling over this one? Or why are you staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness we have made him able to walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his young-servant Jesus; whom you indeed gave up and denied him in the face of Pilate, when he had decided to release that man.

²⁴ Now they, having heard it, lifted up their voice to God united and said, O Lord, you are the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them;

²⁶ And he appeared the next day to those who were quarreling and drove them to make peace, having said, Men, you are brethren! Why are you wronging one another?

²⁶ But Peter lifted him up, saying, Stand up; I am also a man.

²² Now the public was shouting out, saying, This is a voice of a god and not of a man! ²³ But instantly a messenger of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory and he expired, having become maggot-eaten.

³² And we are proclaiming to you the good-news of the promise which came to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus;

⁷ And they were proclaiming the good-news there.

³⁰ and having led them out, he said, Lords, what is essential for me to do in order that I might be saved?

¹⁶ Now while Paul is waiting for them in Athens, the spirit was being irritated in him, while viewing the idol ridden city. ¹⁷ Therefore indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the pious ones, and in the marketplace every day with those who chanced upon him. ¹⁸ Now also some of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers were encountering him and some were saying, Whatever does this babbler wish to say?
Some said, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons, because he is proclaiming the good-news of Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁴ The God, who made the world and all things in it, this one being Lord of heaven and earth, is not dwelling in temples made with hands; ²⁵ nor is he assisted by men’s hands, as if needy of anything, he is giving to all, life and breath in all things. ²⁶ And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the borders of their residence; ²⁷ that they are to seek the Lord, if then, they might yet grope after him and might find him, for-sure, he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸ For we live and move and are in him; as some also, according to your own poets, have said, For we are also his offspring.
²⁹ Therefore being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that God is similar to gold or silver or stone, or a carved thing from a craft and the contemplation of man. ³⁰ Therefore indeed, God overlooked the times of ignorance. Hereafter, he is commanding all men everywhere to repent;

¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.
¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision. ²⁰ But I was proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

¹⁰ saying to them, Men, I view that the voyage is about to be with disaster and much damage, not only of the load and of the ship, but also of our lives.

²¹ Now they are without much food, then Paul, having been standing in the midst of them, said, O men, it was essential for you to have been obedient to me and to have not set-sail away from Crete and then to have gained this disaster and damage.

²⁵ Hence, be cheerful, men; for I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me.

²⁰ For the invisible things of him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity; that they may be without defense; ²¹ because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, nor gave-thanks, but became-futile in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² They were foolish, claiming to be wise, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.

⁴ Therefore concerning the food of idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol in the world is nothing and that there is no other God except one.

¹⁷ Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you are to walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind,

⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God,

¹⁵ but if I am slow, these things are in order that you may know how men ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

¹² Beware brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you, in withdrawing away from the living God.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like-feelings to us and he prayed with much prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.

⁷ and he says in a loud voice, Fear the Lord and give glory to him, because the hour of his judgment has come and worship the one who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See that you do not do that. I am a fellow bondservant of you and of your brethren who are holding the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, have been gathered together to make a war with the one who sits upon the horse and with his army.

⁹ And he says to me, See that you do not do that. I am your fellow bondservant and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who are keeping the words of this book. Worship God.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise Jehovah.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

⁵ For all the peoples walk each one in the name of his god. And we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God everlasting and forever.

³⁰ Therefore indeed, God overlooked the times of ignorance. Hereafter, he is commanding all men everywhere to repent;

²¹ because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, nor gave-thanks, but became-futile in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² They were foolish, claiming to be wise, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.
²⁴ Hence also, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts into uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and gave-divine service to the created thing contrary to the one who created it, who is gracious forever. Amen.

²⁸ And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper.

¹² that you were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world.

³ For enough time which has passed away from our life is for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, and having conducted-ourselves in: unbridled-lusts, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinking-bouts and illegal idolatries;

⁴ then I will give your* rains in their season and the land will yield its increase and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

¹² Lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built pleasant houses and dwelt in it, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

¹⁴ that I will give the rain of your* land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

¹² Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. And you will lend to many nations and you will not borrow.

¹ And it happened after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab and I will send rain upon the earth.

²⁵ And they took fortified cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards and olive-groves and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,

⁶ For he says to the snow, Fall on the earth, likewise to the shower of rain and to the showers of his mighty rain.

²⁶ to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, ²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
²⁸ Has the rain a father? Or who has bore the drops of dew?

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God and the expanse shows his handiwork. ² Day to day pours out speech and night to night shows knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language in which their voice is not heard.
⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. He has set a tabernacle for the sun in them,

⁵ Your loving kindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. ⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great deep. O Jehovah, you preserve man and beast.
⁷ How precious is your loving kindness, O God and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

¹ Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

⁹ You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain because you have so prepared the earth. ¹⁰ You water its furrows abundantly. You settle the ridges of it. You make it soft with showers. You bless the springing of it.
¹¹ You crown the year with your goodness and your paths drop fatness. ¹² They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness and the hills are girded with joy. ¹³ The pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also are covered over with grain. They shout for joy; they also sing.

⁹ You, O God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary. ¹⁰ Your congregation dwelt in it. You, O God, prepared for the poor from your goodness.

²⁴ O Jehovah, how great are your works! You have made them all in wisdom. The earth is full of your riches.
²⁵ Yonder is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts. ²⁶ There go the ships. There is leviathan, whom you have formed to play in it.
²⁷ These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. ²⁸ You give to them, they gather. You open your hand, they are satisfied with good.

⁹ Jehovah is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for you and you give them their food in due season. ¹⁶ You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁷ Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiving. Sing praises upon the harp to our God, ⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

¹³ And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.

²⁴ Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

²⁶ And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there will be showers of blessing.

²³ Be glad then, you* sons of Zion and rejoice in Jehovah your* God, for he gives you* the former rain in just measure and he causes the rain to come down for you*, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

⁴⁵ Do this that you may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens, because his sun rises upon the evil and the good and it rains upon the righteous and the unrighteous.

³⁵ However, love^*\'b0 your enemies and do good things for them and lend, hoping for nothing again. And your reward will be much, and you will be sons of the Highest, because he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

²⁷ that they are to seek the Lord, if then, they might yet grope after him and might find him, for-sure, he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸ For we live and move and are in him; as some also, according to your own poets, have said, For we are also his offspring.

¹⁹ because what is known of God is apparent among them; for God manifested it to them. ²⁰ For the invisible things of him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity; that they may be without defense;

¹⁷ Command the rich in this current age, not to be cavalier, nor to have hope on the uncertainty of riches, but have hope in the living God, who is richly providing to us all things toward enjoyment;

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like-feelings to us and he prayed with much prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rainfall and the land sprouted her fruit.

⁶ And Jehovah 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.

⁹ And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one came in to journey and he will be a judge? Now we will deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed greatly upon the man, against Lot and drew near to break the door.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought a great sin upon them? ²² And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. ²³ For they said to me, Make gods for us, which will go before us. For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

¹⁶ As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not listen to you.
¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food and were well and saw no evil.

¹⁵ Therefore Jesus, having known that they are about to come and seize him, in order that they might make him king, departed by himself into the mountain alone.

¹⁹ He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ Now the high-priests and the elders persuaded the crowds in order that they should ask for Barabbas and should destroy Jesus. ²¹ But the governor answered and said to them, Whom do you will that I may release to you from the two?
But they said, Barabbas!
²² Pilate says to them, Therefore what should I do to Jesus who is called Christ?
They all say to him, Let him be crucified!
²³ But the governor said, For what evil has he done?
But they were crying out even-more, saying, Let him be crucified!
²⁴ Pilate seeing he profited nothing, but rather that an uproar is happening, took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; you will see to it.
²⁵ And all the people answered and said, His blood is upon us and upon our children.

¹¹ But the high-priests shook up the crowd, in order that he should rather release Barabbas to them. ¹² And Pilate again answered and said to them, Therefore what do you wish that I might do to the one whom you call the King of the Jews?
¹³ But they cried out again, Crucify him! ¹⁴ But Pilate said to them, For what evil has he done?
But they cried out even-more, Crucify him.

⁵⁸ and they cast him outside the city and were stoning him. And the witnesses placed their garments beside the feet of a young-man called Saul.

¹⁶ for I will be showing him how-much it is essential for him to suffer on behalf of my name.

⁵⁰ But the Jews spurred on the pious and prominent women and the foremost ones of the city, and aroused a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders. ⁵¹ But they shook-off the dirt of their feet against them and came to Iconium.

⁵ Now as it became an impulse of both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, together with their rulers, to abuse them and to stone them,

²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I was also standing by and was consenting to the his assassination, guarding the garments of those assassinating him.

³¹ I die every day by my boasting of you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ always carrying around in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are habitually given up to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So-then indeed, death is working in us, but life in you.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, as if having insanity) I am beyond them : in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often.

²⁵ I was lashed with rods three-times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three-times. I have spent a night and a day in the depth of the sea;

¹² Hence Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order that he might make the people holy through his own blood. ¹³ Now-then let us go forth to him outside the encampment, carrying his reproach.

²⁶ and having found him, he led him to Antioch. Now it happened, they were gathered together with him in the congregation a whole year and he taught a considerable crowd, and the disciples were first divinely-called Christians, in Antioch.

¹⁷ But he, having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. Now he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And having gone out, he traveled to a different place.

⁶ being conscious of it, they fled for refuge to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around them.

²² further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁸ Now they were staying there together with the disciples a time; not just a few.

⁴⁰ Now when they came out of the prison and they entered into the house of Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they encouraged them and went out.

¹ Now after the uproar ceased, having called the disciples, Paul hugged them. Then he came out to travel into Macedonia.

⁹ But a certain young-man, Eutychus by name, while sitting in the window, being carried away by deep sleep, while Paul is reasoning on even more, fell downward, having finally been carried away by his sleep, from the third story and was raised up being dead. ¹⁰ Now Paul went down and fell upon him, and having embraced him, said, Do not be in an uproar, for his life is in him.
¹¹ Now when he had gone up, and having broken the bread and having eaten and conversed on for a considerable time till dawn, so he went away. ¹² And they led the living child Eutychus upstairs, and they were immeasurably comforted.

⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing us.

⁹ as being unrecognized and yet being fully known; as dying and behold, we live; as being disciplined and yet not being slain;

⁷ And whenever they completed their testimony, the beast which is ascending out of the abyss, will make war with them and overcome them and kill them. ⁸ And the corpse s of them lay in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹ And some from among the peoples and tribes and languages and nations look upon their corpses three and a half days and they will not allow their corpses to be laid in a tomb. ¹⁰ And those who are dwelling upon the earth rejoice over them and will be joyous, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell upon the earth. ¹¹ And after the three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who view them. ¹² And they heard a loud voice out of heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies viewed them.

¹⁹ When you travel, make disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁴ But they, having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

¹ Now it happened in Iconium according to the same thing, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke, so-that a large multitude believed, both from the Jews and Greeks.

⁸ And there was a certain man, who was sitting in Lystra, being powerless in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

³⁶ Now after some days Paul said to Barnabas, We should return now! We should visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are holding up. \ulnone\nosupersub

² He was being testified of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

³ Strengthen you* the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees.

²¹ Now brother will be giving up brother to death and the father his child and children will be standing up against parents and will be slaying them. ²² And you will be hated by all men because of my name. But he who has endured to the end, this one will be saved.

³⁸ Now he who is not taking up his cross and following after me, is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself and lift up his cross and follow me.

²⁴ But again I am saying to you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

⁴⁷ And if your eye offends you, cast it out. It is good for you to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, rather than having two eyes, and to be cast into the hell of fire,

²⁴ Now the disciples were being amazed upon his words. But Jesus again answered and says to them, Children, how hard it is for those who have confidence in wealth to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to enter through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

³⁰ who may not receive a hundred-times that now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and everlasting life in the world to come.

²⁸ But you are those who have remained with me in my temptations ; ²⁹ and I also covenant to you, just-as my father covenanted to me a kingdom,

²⁶ Was it not essential for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?

⁵ Jesus answered, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, If someone has not been born out of water and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God!

³¹ Therefore Jesus said to those Jews who have believed in him, If you abide in my word, then you truly are my disciples; ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will be making you free.

²⁵ He who loves his life will be losing it, and he who hates his life in this world will be keeping it to everlasting life. ²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me. ⁶ If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned.

⁹ Just-as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love.

²⁰ Remember the word which I said to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours.

¹ I have spoken to you these things, in order that you should not be offended. ² They will be expelling you from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that everyone who kills you may think that he is offering divine service to God.

³³ I have spoken to you these things, in order that you may have peace in me. You have affliction in the world, but have courage; I have overcome the world.

⁷ And the word of God was growing, and the number of the disciples were extremely multiplying in Jerusalem, and a large crowd of the priests were obedient to the faith.

²³ who, having come and having seen the favor of God, rejoiced and was encouraging all with purpose of heart to remain in the Lord,

³² And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brethren through much speech also further strengthened them.

⁴¹ Now he was going through Syria and Cilicia, further strengthening the congregations.

²³ And having spent some time there, he came out and went through the region of Galatia and afterwards Phrygia, further strengthening all the disciples.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed we are suffering together with him, in order that we might also be glorified together with him.

⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, so that you are irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ if you actually are remaining in the faith, having been founded and grounded and not being moved away from the hope of the good-news which you heard, which was preached in all creation which is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, that he might establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith; ³ that no one be shook up in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are destined for this thing. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it also happened and you know.

¹³ that he might establish your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.

⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God,

¹¹ Faithful is the word: for if we died together with him, we will also be living together with him : ¹² if we endure, we will also be reigning together with him; if we are denying him, he will also be denying us;

¹² But even all who wish to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, happening to you for a test, as though a strange thing is befalling to you. ¹³ But accordingly you are sharing in the sufferings of the Christ with us, rejoice, in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad. ¹⁴ If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are fortunate, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. He is indeed blasphemed according to their manner, but he is glorified according to your manner. ¹⁵ For let not anyone of you suffer like a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or like a meddler in the affairs of others. ¹⁶ But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this respect.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a small time, he himself may frame you up, will establish, will strengthen and will found you.

¹¹ for so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

³ Beloved, making all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had a necessity to write to you encouraging you to fight earnestly for the faith which was given once for all to the holy-ones.

²⁰ But you, beloved, keep building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
²¹ Keep yourselves in God’s love, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for everlasting life.

⁹ I John, your brother and partner in the affliction and the kingdom and the endurance which are in Christ Jesus, happened to be on the island called Patmos, because of the word of God and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some from you into prison, in order that you may be tested and you will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you know.
And he said to me, These are those who are coming out of the great affliction and they have rinsed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁴ And he made the appointment of the twelve, in order that they might be with him and in order that he might send them forth to preach,

⁴⁶ And Jesus having shouted with a loud voice, said, Father, I will consign my spirit into your hands. And having said these things, he expired.

²² having begun from the immersion of John, to the day from which he was received up from us, it is essential one of these is to become a witness together with us of his resurrection.

³⁰ which they also did, having sent it to the elders through the hand s of Barnabas and Saul.

¹ Now there were some prophets and teachers in the congregation which was in Antioch: both Barnabas, and Symeon who was called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, a foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. ² Now while ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate^*\'b0 Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them. ³ Then having fasted and prayed and having laid their hands on them, they dismissed them.

²⁶ and they sailed from there to Antioch, from where they were given to the favor of God, for the work which they had fulfilled.

{48-50 AD. Antioch. April 5, 49 AD A skirmish between Roman troops & the Jews at the Passover.}

⁴ Now when they came to Jerusalem, they were accepted by the congregation, and the apostles and the elders, and they reported how-much God did with them.

⁶ Now the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see concerning this word
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²³ They wrote these things through their hand:
The apostles and the elders and brethren, to the brethren, those from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Hail to you!

¹⁷ Now from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the congregation.

¹² And may the Lord increase in you and this increase to abound in love toward one another and toward all men, just-as we also do toward you; ¹³ that he might establish your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God and Father who loved us and gave us everlasting encouragement and good hope in his grace, ¹⁷ may comfort your hearts and may establish them in all the word and in good work.

¹ Do not berate an elder man, but encourage him like a father; younger-men like brethren;

¹⁷ The elders who are governing well, let them be deemed worthy of double honor, especially those who are laboring in the word and in teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture says, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’And, ‘The worker is worthy of his wages.’ ¹⁹ Do not accept an accusation against an elder, unless upon the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²² Lay hands on no one quickly, nor share in another’s sins. Keep yourself pure!

¹² Because of which case, I also am suffering these things too, but I am not ashamed; for I know the one whom I have believed and I have confidence that he is able to guard my deposit consigned to him for that day.

² And the things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, consign these to faithful men, who will also be competent to teach others.

⁵ Because of this, I left you in Crete, in order that you might amend the things which are deficient and should designate elders in every city, as I commanded you.

¹⁴ Is anyone among you sick? Let him invite the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord.

¹ I am encouraging the elders the ones among you, (the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, also the partner of the glory which is about to be revealed).

¹ The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth;

¹ The elder to beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

¹³ Now Paul, with those around him, having set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.
¹⁴ But they, having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

³⁸ But Paul was not deeming it worthy to take Mark together with them, the one who withdrew away from them from Pamphylia and did not go together with them to the work.

²³ Now having assigned elders to them in every congregation, and when they had prayed with fastings, they consigned them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole congregation, to send chosen men from them selves together with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, leading men among the brethren: Judas surnamed Barsabbas and Silas.

³⁰ Therefore indeed, when they were dismissed, they came down to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude together, they gave them the letter.

⁴⁰ but Paul went forth, having chosen Silas, having been given to the favor of the Lord by the brethren.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So-then, I have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from Jerusalem and in a circle, as far as Illyricum.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because he was being condemned.

²⁵ of which I became a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

²⁸ The Christ whom we are proclaiming, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we should present every man complete in Christ Jesus;

¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Beware that the service which you have received in the Lord, that you should fulfill it.

⁵ But you, be sober in all things, suffer evil treatment, do the work of an evangelist, fully assure your service.
⁶ For I am already a drink-offering and the time of my departure stands-ready. ⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have kept the faith. ⁸ Furthermore the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will be giving to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁶ who testified to your love in the sight of the congregation; whom you will do well, having sent onward worthily of God. ⁷ For they went forth on behalf of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ Therefore we ought to receive those who are such, in order that we should become fellow workers for the truth.

¹⁰ Therefore they were saying to him, How were your eyes opened?

¹⁸ But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance to the Gentiles into life.

{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}

³ Therefore indeed, being sent onward by the congregation, they were going through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the turning to God of the Gentiles, and they were producing great joy in all the brethren. ⁴ Now when they came to Jerusalem, they were accepted by the congregation, and the apostles and the elders, and they reported how-much God did with them. ⁵ But there rose up some of the sect of the Pharisees who have believed, saying, It is essential to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.
⁶ Now the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see concerning this word
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¹² Now all the multitude was silent, and they were hearing Barnabas and Paul describing how-much God did, in signs and wonders, among the Gentiles through them.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he was describing one by one each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his service. ²⁰ Now when they heard it, they were glorifying the Lord, having said to him, You are now viewing brother, how many tens of thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous ones of the law; ²¹ and they have been instructed concerning you, that you are teaching apostasy from Moses to all the Jews among the nations, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.
²² Therefore what is this?
It is essential for the multitude to certainly come together; for they will be hearing that you have come.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works,

⁵ Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. ⁷ So-then neither is the one who is planting anything, nor the one who is watering, but God who is causing the growth. ⁸ Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each one will be receiving his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you and my spirit are gathered together, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

¹⁸ For indeed, first of all, when you are coming together in the congregation, I am hearing that splits exist in you, and I believe some part of it. \ulnone\nosupersub

²³ Therefore, if the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and if all speak with foreign languages, and if unskilled or unbelieving people come in, will they not be saying that you are insane?

¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

⁹ for a large and effective door has opened to me and many are laying in opposition to me.

¹² Now when I came to Troas for the good-news of the Christ and when a door had been opened to me in the Lord,

³ praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound;

⁷ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia:
He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things: ⁸ I know your works (behold, I have given you an opened door which is in your sight, which no one is able to lock it), that you have little power and kept my word and did not deny my name.

³⁵ But Paul and Barnabas were staying in Antioch with many others also, teaching and proclaiming the good-news of the word of the Lord.