John 5 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes, ³ where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble. ⁴ For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with]. ⁵ Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?" ⁷ The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk." ⁹ And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat." ¹¹ He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'." ¹² They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?" ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away. ¹⁴ Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you." ¹⁵ Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath. ¹⁷ The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too." ¹⁸ But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. ¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same. ²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder; ²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. ²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment. ³⁰ I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me. ³¹ If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid; ³² I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid. ³³ You sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth ³⁴ (though I accept no testimony from man — I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved); ³⁵ he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶ But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, ³⁸ his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent. ³⁹ You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me — ⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me for life. ⁴¹ I accept no credit from men, ⁴² but I know there is no love to God in you; ⁴³ here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him! ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope! ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

⁵ Then Jerusalem and the whole of Judaea and all the Jordan-district went out to him ⁶ and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

³³ Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

⁶ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home."

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unless your Father wills it.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see:

⁷ As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? ⁸ Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft raiment? The wearers of soft raiment are in royal palaces. ⁹ Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

¹¹ I tell you truly, no one has arisen among the sons of women who is greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Realm of heaven is greater than he is. ¹² From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it.

²⁷ All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father — nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

² When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath." ³ He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry, ⁴ how he went into the house of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence which neither he nor his men were allowed to eat, but only the priests? ⁵ Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

⁵ Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath? ⁶ I tell you, One is here who is greater than the temple. ⁷ Besides, if you had known what this meant, I care for mercy not for sacrifice, you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. ⁸ For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."

¹⁰ Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?" ¹¹ He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in? ¹² And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.

¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.

²¹ and the Gentiles will hope in his name.

⁴⁵ Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

²⁰ As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm; ²¹ he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

³⁰ And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

²⁷ For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

⁵ He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

⁷ They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?" ⁸ He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning.

¹⁶ Up came a man and said to him, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to gain life eternal?" ¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." ¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself." ²⁰ The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"

²³ When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?"

²⁶ And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet."

³ He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. ³⁸ This is the greatest and chief command.

⁵ Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

⁵ for many will come in my name, saying 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

²¹ His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.' ²² Then the servant with the five hundred pounds came forward. He said, 'You handed me five hundred pounds, sir; here I have gained another five hundred.' ²³ His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.'

³¹ When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory, ³² and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, ³³ setting the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. ³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, ³⁶ I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.' ³⁷ Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink? ³⁸ when did we see you a stranger and entertain you? or unclothed and clothed you? ³⁹ when did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.' ⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! ⁴² For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.' ⁴⁴ Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.' ⁴⁶ So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

³⁹ Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

¹⁸ Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth; ¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

¹¹ then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

³¹ and he went up to her and taking her hand made her rise; the fever left her at once and she ministered to them.

⁴² And the leprosy at once left him and he was cleansed.

⁴⁵ But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

⁹ Which is the easier thing, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to tell him, 'Rise, lift your pallet, and go away'? ¹⁰ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he said to the paralytic, ¹¹ "Rise, I tell you, lift your pallet, and go home."

¹¹ "Rise, I tell you, lift your pallet, and go home."

²⁴ The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."

¹ Again he entered the synagogue. Now a man was there whose hand was withered, ² and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him. ³ He said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise and come forward;" ⁴ then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent.

⁴ then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent.

⁶ On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him.

²⁹ And at once the hemorrhage stopped, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

⁴¹ then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" — which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise." ⁴² The girl got up at once and began to walk (she was twelve years old); and at once they were lost in utter amazement.

²⁰ for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John — he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said;

⁵² Then Jesus said, "Go, your faith has made you well;" and he regained his sight at once and followed Jesus along the road.

¹⁰ Have you not even read this scripture? — The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner:

¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.

¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth; ¹⁶ he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God, ¹⁷ he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

⁷⁶ And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready, ⁷⁷ to bring his people the knowledge of salvation through the remission of their sins

²² and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

³⁰ But he made his way through them and went off.

²⁴ But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" — he said to the paralysed man, "Rise, I tell you, lift your mattress and go home."

² Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?"

¹¹ This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus.

¹⁴ Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise." ¹⁵ Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached.

²⁸ I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

⁴³ and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,

⁵⁴ But he took her hand and called to her, "Rise, little girl." ⁵⁵ And her spirit returned, she got up instantly, and he ordered them to give her something to eat.

⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

¹⁶ He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

²² "All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." ²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

⁸ I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of man will acknowledge him before the angels of God; ⁹ and he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

¹⁰ When he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, ¹¹ there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself. ¹² Jesus noticed her and called to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness." ¹³ He laid his hands on her, and instantly she became erect and glorified God. ¹⁴ But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

¹⁴ But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath." ¹⁵ The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink? ¹⁶ And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

¹⁶ And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able, ²⁵ once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' ²⁶ You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!' ²⁷ 'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.' ²⁸ There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

¹⁴ Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

²⁴ for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God. ¹⁶ The Law and the prophets lasted till John; since then the good news of the Realm of God is preached, and anyone presses in.

²⁹ 'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

³¹ He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he said, "I want to regain my sight."

¹⁰ For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

¹⁷ 'Capital,' he said, 'you excellent servant! because you have proved trustworthy in a trifle, you are placed over ten towns.'

⁴¹ And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you!

¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

⁵⁶ then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes.

²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

³¹ Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁴ In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

⁶ A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John: ⁷ he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him. ⁸ He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony to the Light that he appeared.

¹¹ he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

¹⁵ (John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.') ¹⁶ For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness; ¹⁷ while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast. ¹⁹ Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"

¹⁹ Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰ he frankly confessed — he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ." ²¹ They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered. ²² "Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?" ²³ He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' — as the prophet Isaiah said." ²⁴ Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him; ²⁵ so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?" ²⁶ "I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize, ²⁷ and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal."

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world! ³⁰ That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.' ³¹ I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel." ³² And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him. ³³ I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

³³ I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.' ³⁴ Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

⁴⁵ he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets — it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him." ⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "When you were under that fig tree, before ever Philip called you, I saw you." ⁴⁹ "Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

¹³ Now the Jewish passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."

²³ When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

²⁵ and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

² he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him." ³ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

⁷ Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil; ²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed, ²¹ whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

²⁶ and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony — here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!" ²⁷ John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven. ²⁸ You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.' ²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete. ³⁰ He must wax, I must wane." ³¹ He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others. ³² He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony. ³³ Whoever does accept it, certifies to the truth of God. ³⁴ For he whom God has sent utters the words of God — God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure; ³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything. ³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

²¹ "Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

²³ But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

²⁹ "Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

³ where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

⁵ Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat." ¹¹ He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'." ¹² They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

¹² They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?" ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away. ¹⁴ Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same. ²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder; ²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. ²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment. ³⁰ I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

³² I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.

³⁴ (though I accept no testimony from man — I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

³⁶ But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

³⁶ But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

⁴¹ I accept no credit from men, ⁴² but I know there is no love to God in you; ⁴³ here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him! ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

¹⁵ Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them; ³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me, ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

⁴⁷ Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life.

⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

⁶⁶ After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

¹ After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

¹⁸ He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him. ¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? — and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?"

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? — and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd replied, "You are mad. Who wants to kill you?"

²² Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath. ²³ Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

²³ Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

²⁵ Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill?

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink; ³⁸ he who believes in me — out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow"

⁵² They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

⁵ Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?" ⁶ (They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

¹¹ She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I; be off, and never sin again."]

¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid." ¹⁴ Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to — whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to. ¹⁵ You judge by the outside. I judge no one; ¹⁶ and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself — there is myself and the Father who sent me. ¹⁷ Why, it is written in your own Law that the evidence of two persons is valid: ¹⁸ I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me."

¹⁸ I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me."

²⁸ so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

²⁸ so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me. ²⁹ He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

³⁷ I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!

⁴² Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him. ⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

⁴⁷ He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

⁵⁰ However, I do not aim at my own credit; there is One who cares for my credit, and he is judge. ⁵¹ Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."

⁵⁴ Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,' ⁵⁵ but you do not understand him. I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him and I hold to his word.

⁵⁸ "Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born." ⁵⁹ At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and made his way out of the temple.

¹ As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;

⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

¹¹ He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know."

¹⁴ Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see." ¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

²¹ But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."

²⁵ To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see."

²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹ We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from." ³⁰ The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

³⁰ The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! ³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will. ³² It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." ³⁴ They retorted, "And so you would teach us — you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

²⁵ Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe,

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

³² Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?" ³³ The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

³⁷ If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me; ³⁸ but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me — that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." ³⁹ Once more they tried to arrest him, but he escaped their hands

²⁴ "I know," said Martha, "he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day." ²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

³⁷ though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"

⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

²⁸ I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

²⁸ I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." ²⁹ When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him." ³⁰ Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.

³⁷ Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him — ³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them. ⁴¹ (Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.)

⁴³ they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God. ⁴⁴ And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me,

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me, ⁴⁵ and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me.

⁴⁵ and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark. ⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day, ⁴⁹ for I have not spoken of my own accord — the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know his orders mean eternal life. Therefore when I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

¹ Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.

¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds. ¹¹ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: — or else, believe because of the deeds themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too.

¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

¹⁵ I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father.

²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father.

¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

¹ So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee, ² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him. ³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ. ⁴ I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;

⁴ I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do; ⁵ now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began. ⁶ I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

¹⁰ (all mine is thine and thine is mine), and I am glorified in them.

²⁶ so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

¹¹ whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

⁷ The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

¹³ On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out and seated him on the tribunal at a spot called the 'mosaic pavement' — the Hebrew name is Gabbatha

¹⁷ and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' — the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

²⁰ Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

¹⁶ "Mary!" said Jesus. She started round and said, "Rabboni!" (a Hebrew word meaning 'teacher').

³¹ but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

² when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.

⁷ And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong, ⁸ he leapt to his feet, started to walk, and accompanied them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

¹² But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

²² (the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed, being more than forty years old).

³⁶ In days gone by Theudas started up, claiming to be a person of importance; a number of men, about four hundred of them, rallied to him, but he was slain, and all his followers were dispersed and wiped out. ³⁷ After him Judas the Galilean started up at the time of the census, and got people to desert to him; but he perished too, and all his followers were scattered.

³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips. ³³ By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth. ³⁴ So the eunuch said to Philip, "Pray, who is the prophet speaking about? Is it himself or someone else?" ³⁵ Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

⁴ he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" ⁵ "Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

³³ There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis. ³⁴ "Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

⁴² when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.

²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

⁸ At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born.

¹⁷ though as the bountiful Giver he did not leave himself without a witness, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and joy to your heart's content."

¹¹ where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.

²⁵ he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

²⁸ for it is in him that we live and move and exist — as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'

³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

³⁸ "Then you are not the Egyptian who in days gone by raised the four thousand assassins and led them out into the desert?"

⁴⁰ As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.

¹⁵ and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

⁸ [Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead,

²² To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place.

²² To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place. ²³ that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"

²⁷ King Agrippa, you believe the prophets? I know you do."

² (which he promised of old by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

⁷ to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² 'We know the doom of God falls justly upon those who practise such vices.'

⁵ In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed. ⁶ For he will render to everyone according to what he has done, ⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality, ⁸ but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness — ⁹ anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well, ¹⁰ but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

¹⁰ but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

¹² All who sin outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be condemned by the Law.

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ. ¹⁷ If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

¹⁷ If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God, ¹⁸ understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law

¹⁸ understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law ¹⁹ and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls, ²⁰ a tutor for the foolish, a teacher of the simple, because in the Law you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth — ²¹ well then, do you ever teach yourself, you teacher of other people? You preach against stealing; do you steal? ²² You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples? ²³ You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law? ²⁴ Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says! ²⁵ Circumcision is certainly of use, provided you keep the Law; but if you are a breaker of the Law, then your circumcision is turned into uncircumcision. ²⁶ (If then the uncircumcised observe the requirements of the Law, shall not their uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision? ²⁷ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised and who fulfil the Law, judge you who are a breaker of the Law for all your written code and circumcision?) ²⁸ He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh; ²⁹ he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual not literal — praised by God, not by man.

²⁹ he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual not literal — praised by God, not by man.

² Much in every way. This to begin with — Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God. ³ Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist. ¹⁸ For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith, and thus became the father of many nations — even as he was told, So numberless shall your offspring be. ¹⁹ His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;

⁶ For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

⁴ Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal. ²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; ¹⁰ the command that meant life proved death for me. ¹¹ The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me. ¹² So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good. ¹³ Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme. ¹⁴ The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

¹ Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot). ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

²⁵ But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything. ²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood. ³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!

¹ Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God! ² I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

⁴ Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness. ⁵ Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it. ⁶ But here is what faith-righteousness says: — Say not in your heart, 'Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down). ⁷ Or, 'who will go down to the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ from the dead). ⁸ No, what it does say is this: — The word is close to you, in your very mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach). ⁹ Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved; ¹⁰ for with his heart man believes and is justified, with his mouth he confesses and is saved. ¹¹ No one who believes in him, the scripture says, will ever be disappointed. No one — ¹² for there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, the same Lord is Lord of them all, with ample for all who invoke him. ¹³ Everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved.

²¹ He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

²¹ Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; ⁸ if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die; ⁹ it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God — ¹¹ for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God. ¹² Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God.

³ Christ certainly did not please himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those who denounced Thee have fallen upon me. —

¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

³¹ So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

⁶ varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone.

¹² Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

²² as all die in Adam, so shall all be made alive in Christ.

²⁵ For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet.

⁴² So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal; ⁴³ sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power; ⁴⁴ sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

⁴⁵ Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit'; ⁴⁶ but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven. ⁴⁸ As Man the material is, so are the material; as Man the heavenly is, so are the heavenly. ⁴⁹ Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man. ⁵⁰ I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹ Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed — ⁵² changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.

²² 'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

⁸ Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life; ⁹ in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;

⁹ in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

⁷ Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face; ⁸ surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory. ⁹ If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory ¹⁰ (indeed, in view of the transcendent glory, what was glorious has thus no glory at all); ¹¹ if what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with far greater glory.

¹⁴ sure that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise me too with Jesus and set me at your side in his presence.

¹⁰ for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

¹⁴ for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,

¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation.

¹⁸ for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with you all.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

²⁴ the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

⁴ but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

¹⁵ Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.) ¹⁶ Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

²¹ Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law? ²² Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman; ²³ but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise. ²⁴ Now this is an allegory. The women are two covenants. One comes from mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude; that is Hagar, ²⁵ for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother. ²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren who bearest not, break into joy, thou who travailest not; for the children of the desolate woman are far more than of the married. ²⁸ Now you are the children of the Promise, brothers, like Isaac; ²⁹ but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day. ³⁰ However, what does the scripture say? Put away the slave-woman and her son, for the son of the slave-woman shall not be heir along with the son of the free-woman. ³¹ Hence we are children of no slave-woman, my brothers, but of the free-woman,

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

⁸ he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit. ⁹ Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

¹² to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ. ¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

¹⁸ illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints, ¹⁹ and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might ²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere, ²¹ above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come — ²² he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church, ²³ the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.

¹ And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.

¹⁴ Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

²⁴ Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God ⁷ but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise ⁸ and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross. ⁹ Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, ¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

²¹ who will transform the body that belongs to our low estate till it resembles the body of his Glory, by the same power that enables him to make everything subject to himself.

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

¹¹ May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

¹⁶ for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

¹³ For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

¹⁶ Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

⁶ we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight;

¹¹ May our God and Father and our Lord Jesus direct my way to you! ¹² And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you), ¹³ so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

¹⁴ Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁴ Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷ then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

⁹ for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power ⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus, ⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth; ¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope, ¹⁷ graciously encourage your hearts and strengthen them for all good in deed and word.

¹⁷ To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen.

³ it is good to pray thus, it is acceptable to our Saviour, ⁴ to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

¹⁶ Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.

¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹⁴ but hold you to what you have been taught, hold to your convictions, remember who your teachers were, ¹⁵ remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline, ¹⁷ to make the man of God proficient and equip him for good work of every kind.

¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁶ And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'

⁷ For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour, ⁸ putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man; ⁹ what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

¹² Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

¹² For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow — scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. ¹³ And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

¹³ And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

⁴ Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was. ⁵ Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

¹ For Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him — ² who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham — this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace). ³ He has neither father nor mother nor genealogy, neither a beginning to his days nor an end of his life, but, resembling the Son of God, continues to be priest permanently. ⁴ Now mark the dignity of this man. The patriarch Abraham paid him a tenth of the spoils. ⁵ Those sons of Levi who receive the priestly office are indeed ordered by law to tithe the people (that is, their brothers), although the latter are descended from Abraham; ⁶ but he who had no Levitical genealogy actually tithed Abraham and blessed the possessor of the promises! ⁷ (And there is no question that it is the inferior who is blessed by the superior.) ⁸ Again, it is mortal men in the one case who receive tithes, while in the other it is one of whom the witness is that 'he lives.' ⁹ In fact, we might almost say that even Levi the receiver of tithes paid tithes through Abraham; ¹⁰ for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

³⁵ Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

²¹ so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls. ²² Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.

¹ My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people.

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains;

⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you; ¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.

²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

¹¹ let him shun wrong and do right, let him seek peace and make peace his aim.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

²² who is at God's right hand — for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

⁵ but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

¹⁷ when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

¹⁹ and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts —

¹⁹ and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts — ²⁰ understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself; ²¹ for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.

¹⁸ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

¹ It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

¹ It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life ² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) —

² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) — ³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One. ¹⁵ Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

¹ Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

⁶ Jesus Christ, he it is who came by water, blood, and Spirit — not by the water alone, but by the water and the blood. ⁷ The Spirit is the witness to this, for the Spirit is truth. ⁸ The witnesses are three, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three of them are in accord. ⁹ If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater; for God's testimony consists in his testimony to his Son.

⁹ If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater; for God's testimony consists in his testimony to his Son.

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

¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life. ¹³ I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.

²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice. ²² Lo, I will lay her on a sickbed, and bring her paramours into sore distress, if they do not repent of her practices; ²³ and her children I will exterminate. So shall all the churches know that I am the searcher of the inmost heart; I will requite each of you according to what you have done.

²³ and her children I will exterminate. So shall all the churches know that I am the searcher of the inmost heart; I will requite each of you according to what you have done.

¹ Then to the angel of the church at Sardis write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your doings, you have the name of being alive, but you are dead.

¹⁴ Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.

⁸ And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints), ⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

¹⁷ for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found. ¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

⁶ Then he said, "All is over! I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last. I will let the thirsty drink of the fountain of the water of Life without price.

²² But I saw no temple in the City, for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.

¹ Then he showed me the river of the water of Life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

³ None who is accursed will be there; but the throne of God and the Lamb will be within it, his servants will serve and worship him,

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.