Mark 9 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power." ² Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured, ³ and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. ⁴ And Elijah along with Moses appeared to them, and conversed with Jesus. ⁵ So Peter addressed Jesus, saying, "Rabbi, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" ⁶ (for he did not know what to say, they were so terrified). ⁷ Then a cloud came overshadowing them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, listen to him." ⁸ And suddenly looking round they saw no one there except Jesus all alone beside them. ⁹ As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead. ¹⁰ This order they obeyed, debating with themselves what 'rising from the dead' meant. ¹¹ So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹² He said to them, "Elijah does come first, to restore all things; but what is written about the Son of man as well? This, that he is to endure great suffering and be rejected. ¹³ As for Elijah, I tell you he has come already, and they have done to him whatever they pleased — as it is written of him." ¹⁴ When they reached the disciples they saw a large crowd round them, and some scribes arguing with them. ¹⁵ On seeing him the whole crowd was thunderstruck and ran to greet him. ¹⁶ Jesus asked them, "What are you discussing with them?" ¹⁷ A man from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit, ¹⁸ and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." ¹⁹ He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me." ²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said; ²² "it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us." ²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes." ²⁴ At once the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe; help my unbelief." ²⁵ Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again." ²⁶ And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead"; ²⁷ but, taking his hand, Jesus raised him and he got up. ²⁸ When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?" ²⁹ He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting." ³⁰ On leaving there they passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know of their journey, ³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, telling them that the Son of man would be betrayed into the hands of men, that they would kill him, and that when he was killed he would rise again after three days. ³² But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant. ³³ Then they reached Capharnahum. And when he was indoors he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" ³⁴ They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest. ³⁵ So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all." ³⁶ Then he took a little child, set it among them, and putting his arms round it said to them, ³⁷ "Whoever receives one of these little ones in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not me but him who sent me." ³⁸ John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him." ³⁹ Jesus said, "Do not stop him; no one who performs any miracle in my name will be ready to speak evil of me. ⁴⁰ He who is not against us is for us. ⁴¹ Whoever gives you a cup of water because you belong to Christ, I tell you truly, he shall not miss his reward. ⁴² And whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea. ⁴³ If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched. ⁴⁴ -- ⁴⁵ If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna. ⁴⁶ -- ⁴⁷ If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire is never put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone has to be consecrated by the fire of the discipline. ⁵⁰ Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

¹ In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea, ² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near." ³ (This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.') ⁴ This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey. 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? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance, ⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! ¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

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

¹³ You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

²² whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.

²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

²⁹ If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna. ³⁰ And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

² A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";

⁴ Then Jesus told him, "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, to notify men."

⁸ The captain answered, "Sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof; only say the word, and my servant will be cured. ⁹ For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

²⁸ When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir."

³² As they went out, a dumb man was brought to him, who was possessed by a daemon, ³³ and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

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: ³⁸ he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. ⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

² Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples ³ to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. ⁶ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" 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. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you. 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. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: —

¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: — ¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come. ¹⁵ He who has an ear, let him listen to this. ¹⁶ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates, ¹⁷ 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.' ¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil';

¹⁹ He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

²² Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.

³⁰ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

⁴⁰ for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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."

¹⁰ Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?"

²⁸ He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Then would you like us to go and gather them?' ²⁹ 'No,' he said, 'for you might root up the wheat when you were gathering the weeds.

³⁶ Then he left the crowds and went indoors. And his disciples came up to him saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."

³ For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip, ⁴ since John had told him, "You have no right to her." ⁵ He was anxious to kill him but he was afraid of the people, for they held John to be a prophet. ⁶ However, on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in public to the delight of Herod; ⁷ whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she wanted. ⁸ And she, at the instigation of her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head this moment on a dish." ⁹ The king was sorry, but for the sake of his oath and his guests he ordered it to be given her; ¹⁰ he sent and had John beheaded in the prison, ¹¹ his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

¹³ When Jesus heard it he withdrew by boat to a desert place in private; but the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

³¹ Jesus at once stretched his hand out and caught him, saying, "How little you trust me! Why did you doubt?"

¹⁵ Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate."

²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

²² And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon." ²³ But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us." ²⁴ He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent." ²⁵ But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, do help me." ²⁶ He replied, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁷ "No, sir," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." ²⁸ At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.

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. ³¹ This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day. ²² Peter took him and began to reprove him for it; "God forbid, Lord," he said, "This must not be."

²⁸ I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

¹ Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and his brother John, and led them up a high hill by themselves; ² in their presence he was transfigured, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes turned white as light. ³ There appeared to them Moses and Elijah, who conversed with Jesus.

³ There appeared to them Moses and Elijah, who conversed with Jesus. ⁴ So Peter addressed Jesus and said, "Lord, it is a good thing we are here; pray let me put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

⁴ So Peter addressed Jesus and said, "Lord, it is a good thing we are here; pray let me put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 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."

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." ⁶ When the disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces in terror;

⁶ When the disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces in terror; ⁷ but Jesus came forward and touched them, saying, "Rise, have no fear."

⁷ but Jesus came forward and touched them, saying, "Rise, have no fear." ⁸ And on raising their eyes they saw no one except Jesus all alone. ⁹ As they went down the hill Jesus ordered them, "Tell this vision to nobody until the Son of man is raised from the dead." ¹⁰ The disciples inquired of him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

¹⁰ The disciples inquired of him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹¹ He replied, "Elijah to come and restore all things?

¹¹ He replied, "Elijah to come and restore all things? ¹² Nay, I tell you Elijah has already come, but they have not recognized him — they have worked their will on him. And the Son of man will suffer at their hands in the same way." ¹³ Then the disciples realized he was speaking to them about John the Baptist. ¹⁴ When they reached the crowd, a man came up and knelt to him. ¹⁵ "Ah, sir," he said, "have pity on my son; he is an epileptic and he suffers cruelly, he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

¹⁵ "Ah, sir," he said, "have pity on my son; he is an epileptic and he suffers cruelly, he often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."

¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him." ¹⁷ Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

¹⁷ Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." ¹⁸ So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.

¹⁸ So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed. ¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" ²⁰ He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

²⁰ He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

²² When his adherents mustered in Galilee Jesus told them, "The Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men; ²³ they will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised." They were greatly distressed at this. ²⁴ When they reached Capharnahum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and asked Peter, "Does your teacher not pay the temple-tax?"

¹ At that hour the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Who is greatest in the Realm of heaven?" ² So he called a child, set it among them,

² So he called a child, set it among them, ³ and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all. ⁴ Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven; ⁵ and whoever receives a little child like this for my sake, receives me. ⁶ But whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe in me, better for him to have a great mill-stone hung round his neck and be sunk in the deep sea.

⁸ If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire.

⁸ If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire. ⁹ If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out and throw it away; better get into Life with one eye than keep your two eyes and be thrown into the fire of Gehenna.

⁹ If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out and throw it away; better get into Life with one eye than keep your two eyes and be thrown into the fire of Gehenna. ¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

¹⁴ but Jesus said to them, "Let the children alone, do not stop them from coming to me: the Realm of heaven belongs to such as these." ¹⁵ Then he laid his hands on them and went upon his way.

¹⁸ "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death ¹⁹ and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; then on the third day he will be raised."

²¹ He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm." ²² Jesus replied, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?" They said to him, "We can." ²³ "You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father." ²⁴ When the ten heard of this, they were angry at the two brothers, ²⁵ but Jesus called them and said, "You know the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them: ²⁶ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave; ²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

³⁴ Then Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and they regained their sight at once and followed him.

²¹ Jesus answered, "I tell you truly, if you have faith, if you have no doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree but even if you say to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done. ²² All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."

³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.

⁷ they like to be saluted in the marketplaces and to be called 'rabbi' by men.

¹¹ He who is greatest among you must be your servant.

³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.

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,

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!

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."

⁴⁶ So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

² "You know the passover is to be held two days after this; and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified."

²⁴ The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!" ⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

²² Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!" ²³ "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

⁴³ His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!"

⁵⁴ Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

⁶³ and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.'

³ His appearance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.

² As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you: ³ the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' — ⁴ John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ⁵ and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. ⁶ John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷ He announced, "After me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to stoop and untie the string of his sandals: ⁸ I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the holy Spirit."

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

²⁵ But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him." ²⁶ And after convulsing him the unclean spirit did come out of him with a loud cry.

²⁶ And after convulsing him the unclean spirit did come out of him with a loud cry. ²⁷ Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"

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.

⁴⁰ A leper came to him beseeching him on bended knee, saying, "If you only choose, you can cleanse me;" ⁴¹ so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed."

⁴¹ so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed." ⁴² And the leprosy at once left him and he was cleansed.

⁶ Now there were some scribes sitting there who argued in their hearts,

⁸ Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts?

¹⁰ When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable,

³⁴ he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

³ who dwelt among the tombs; by this time no one could bind him, not even with a chain, ⁴ for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters — nobody could tame him. ⁵ All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones.

⁷ shrieking aloud, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? By God, I adjure you, do not torture me." ⁸ (For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")

¹⁹ but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

²³ with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

²⁵ And there was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years —

³⁷ He would not allow anyone to accompany him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

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."

⁴³ But he strictly forbade them to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

¹⁴ Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;" ¹⁵ others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets." ¹⁶ But when Herod heard of it he said, "John has risen, the John I beheaded." ¹⁷ For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip; ¹⁸ John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife." ¹⁹ Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it, 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 Then came a holiday, when Herod held a feast on his birthday for his chief officials and generals and the notables of Galilee. ²² The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it." ²³ He swore to her, "I will give you whatever you want, were it the half of my realm." ²⁴ So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" "John the Baptizer's head," she answered. ²⁵ Then she hurried in at once and asked the king, saying, "I want you to give me this very moment John the Baptist's head on a dish." ²⁶ The king was very vexed, but for the sake of his oaths and his guests he did not like to disappoint her; ²⁷ so the king at once sent one of the guard with orders to bring his head. The man went and beheaded him in the prison, ²⁸ brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

³¹ And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat). ³² So they went away privately in the boat to a lonely spot.

¹⁷ Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying. ¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

²⁶ (the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter.

¹¹ Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.

¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

²³ So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

²⁹ So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ." ³⁰ Then he forbade them to tell anyone about him. ³¹ And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

³¹ And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

³³ but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

² Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured, ³ and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. ⁴ And Elijah along with Moses appeared to them, and conversed with Jesus.

¹⁰ This order they obeyed, debating with themselves what 'rising from the dead' meant.

¹² He said to them, "Elijah does come first, to restore all things; but what is written about the Son of man as well? This, that he is to endure great suffering and be rejected.

¹⁵ On seeing him the whole crowd was thunderstruck and ran to greet him.

¹⁸ and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

²⁵ Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again." ²⁶ And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";

²⁸ When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?" ²⁹ He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting." ³⁰ On leaving there they passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know of their journey, ³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, telling them that the Son of man would be betrayed into the hands of men, that they would kill him, and that when he was killed he would rise again after three days. ³² But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

³⁴ They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest.

⁴³ If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.

⁴³ If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched. ⁴⁴ -- ⁴⁵ If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

⁴⁵ If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

⁴⁵ If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna. ⁴⁶ -- ⁴⁷ If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire is never put out.

⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire is never put out.

⁵⁰ Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

¹³ Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them;

¹³ Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them; ¹⁴ but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these.

¹⁶ Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.

³² They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself. ³³ "We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

⁴² so Jesus called them and said, "You know the so-called rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them: ⁴³ not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you wants to be first must be your slave; ⁴⁵ for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

²³ I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

²⁸ and asked him, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you authority to act in this way?"

¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

²⁶ Then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

³⁰ I tell you truly, the present generation will not pass away till all this happens.

³³ But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,

⁵ and on entering the tomb they saw a youth sitting on the right dressed in a white robe. They were bewildered, ⁶ but he said to them, "Do not be bewildered. You are looking for Jesus of Nazaret, who was crucified? He has risen, he is not here. That is the place where he was laid. ⁷ Go you and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there, as he told you.'" ⁸ And they fled out of the tomb, for they were seized with terror and beside themselves. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid of — .

¹² After this he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking on their way to the country.

¹⁴ Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

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."

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,

²⁶ indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

⁵⁰ But they did not understand what he said.

⁵⁰ But they did not understand what he said. ⁵¹ Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.

² during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert; ³ and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins — ⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him. ⁵ Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth; ⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.'

¹⁹ But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife as well as for all the wickedness that he, Herod, had committed, ²⁰ crowned all by shutting John up in prison.

³⁵ But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.

⁴¹ From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" ³¹ Jesus replied to them, "Healthy people have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: ³² I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance."

¹² It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

³⁸ and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

⁴⁴ Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

²⁹ (For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

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

¹⁹ They replied, "John the Baptist, though some say Elijah and some say that one of the ancient prophets has arisen."

²⁷ I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God." ²⁸ It was about eight days after he said this, when he took Peter, John, and James, and went up the hillside to pray. ²⁹ While he was praying the appearance of his face altered and his dress turned dazzling white. ³⁰ There were two men conversing with him, Moses and Elijah,

³⁰ There were two men conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, ³¹ who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

³¹ who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem. ³² Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him. ³³ When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying). ³⁴ As he spoke, a cloud came and overshadowed them. They were awestruck as they passed into the cloud, ³⁵ but a voice came from the cloud, "This is my Son, my Chosen one; listen to him." ³⁶ When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen.

³⁶ When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen. ³⁷ Next day, when they came down the hill, a large crowd met him. ³⁸ "Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

³⁸ "Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy, ³⁹ and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces.

³⁹ and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces. ⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." ⁴¹ Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you and bear with you? Fetch your son here."

⁴¹ Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you and bear with you? Fetch your son here." ⁴² Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

⁴² Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father. ⁴³ And all were astounded at this grand display of God. But while all marvelled at all he did, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears: 'the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men.'"

⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears: 'the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men.'" ⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying — indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it — and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying — indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it — and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. ⁴⁶ A dispute arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. ⁴⁷ Jesus knew the dispute that occupied their minds, so he took hold of a little child and set it by his side; ⁴⁸ then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

⁴⁸ then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great." ⁴⁹ John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours." ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him; he who is not against you is for you."

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."

¹⁴ He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,

¹⁹ If I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges.

²³ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

²⁶ 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."

⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

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?"

¹⁰ No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests. ¹¹ For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

¹³ No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

²¹ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.'

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

³⁴ Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour? ³⁵ It is no use for either soil or dunghill, it is flung out. He who has an ear let him listen to this."

²⁴ so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish. ²⁶ Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

¹ To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come; ² it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones!

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!" ⁶ The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

¹⁴ I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

³¹ Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled; ³² he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on; ³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day." ³⁴ However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

³⁴ However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

¹⁸ for I tell you I will never drink the produce of the vine again till such time as God's Reign comes."

²⁴ A quarrel also rose among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest. ²⁵ But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and their authorities take the name of 'Benefactor': ²⁶ not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.

²⁶ not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant. ²⁷ Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant. ²⁸ It is you who have stood by me through my trials; ²⁹ so, even as my Father has assigned me royal power, ³⁰ I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁰ I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹¹ Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

³⁹ One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day." ⁸ Then they remembered what he had said,

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?" ²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

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."

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." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

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. ⁹ The real Light, which enlightens every man, was coming then into the world: ¹⁰ he entered the world — the world which existed through him — yet the world did not recognize him; ¹¹ he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him. ¹² On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, ¹³ who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man. ¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality.

¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality. 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. 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." ²⁸ This took place at Bethany on the opposite side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 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.' ³⁴ Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

³⁴ Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God." ³⁵ Next day again John was standing with two of his disciples; ³⁶ he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

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

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days." ²⁰ "This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!" ²¹ He meant the sanctuary of his body, however, ²² and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

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

¹⁴ Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

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. 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.

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."

²⁷ At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

⁴⁷ when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe." ⁴⁹ The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead." ⁵⁰ Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey.

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?"

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.

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.)

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;

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,

³⁹ You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me —

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?"

⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

⁵¹ Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death." ⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!

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

²⁰ His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that. 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."

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

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.

³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁴⁰ "Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?"

¹⁶ (His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

²⁷ My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:

³³ (By this he indicated the kind of death he was to die.) ³⁴ So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

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.

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." 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'?

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.

¹⁷ This is what I command you, to love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first.

¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying." ¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'?

¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'?

²⁹ His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures. ³⁰ Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God."

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."

²⁵ Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. ²⁶ So when Jesus saw his mother and his favourite disciple standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, there is your son!" ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."

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.

²³ This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

⁶ Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?" ⁷ But he told them, "It is not for you to know the course and periods of time that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

⁹ On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; 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,

²¹ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets; ²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you. ²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;

²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People; ²⁴ and all the prophets who have spoken since Samuel and his successors have also announced these days.

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

²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, ²⁸ mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

³⁷ (This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

⁵⁴ When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

³⁶ As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

³⁹ When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing, ⁴⁰ while Philip found himself at Azotus, where he passed on, preaching the gospel in every town, till he reached Caesarea.

⁴ he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

³³ There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis.

⁴⁰ Peter put them all outside; then he knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body said, "Tabitha, rise." She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter she sat up. ⁴¹ Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

⁴¹ Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

¹⁶ This happened three times; then the vessel was at once raised to heaven.

¹⁹ So the Spirit said to Peter, who was pondering over the vision, "There are three men looking for you!

³⁰ "Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress, ³¹ saying, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, your alms are remembered by God.

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. ⁹ He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better,

²³ They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

¹⁸ She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

¹³ Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.

¹¹ there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns. ¹² I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests, ¹³ when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? You hurt yourself by kicking at the goad.'

⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

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.

¹³ If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

¹⁰ Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

¹⁸ be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.

¹³ So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; ¹⁸ he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

²¹ but that (as it is written) They should see who never had learned about him, and they who had never heard of him should understand.

¹⁷ Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

²³ and you belong to Christ, and Christ to God.

¹⁰ Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols? ¹¹ He is ruined, this weak man, ruined by your 'enlightened mind,' this brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

³² Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God. ³³ Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number — at their salvation.

³ so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.

¹ Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal; ² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

²³ But each in his own division: — Christ the first to be reaped; after that, all who belong to Christ, at his arrival.

⁴ For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear — not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

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);

³ I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited;

⁵ by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

⁷ Look at this obvious fact. So-and-so is perfectly sure he 'belongs to Christ'? Well then, let him understand, on second thoughts, that I 'belong to Christ' as much as he does.

²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me,

¹ This will be my third visit to you: every case is to be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

¹¹ Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

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.)

¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself ¹⁵ (whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

²⁴ Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

² with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love ³ to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves. ⁴ For there is one Body and one Spirit — as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call — ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, who is within us all.

²⁹ Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

³¹ Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice; ³² be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

¹⁰ so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

¹⁸ What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

²³ I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

²⁷ Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

²⁹ For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

¹ So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness, ² I pray you to give me the utter joy of knowing you are living in harmony, with the same feelings of love, with one heart and soul, ³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man, ⁴ and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own. ⁵ Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus. ⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

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

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.

⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; ⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

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.

⁵ So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

¹² As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —

⁶ let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

⁸ hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

¹³ hold them in special esteem and affection, for the sake of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you, 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,

⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹¹ In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith,

¹⁴ So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.

⁴ When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,

¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,

²² So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

¹ We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

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.

¹⁰ Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways; ¹¹ so I swore in my anger, 'they shall never enter my Rest.' ¹² Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

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.

⁷ In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.

⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, ² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

¹⁷ You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.

²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake.

²⁰ for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

¹⁴ But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish; ¹⁶ for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil. ¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward; ¹⁸ and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.

⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

¹⁵ the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; even the sins he has committed will be forgiven him.

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; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

¹ So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

³ not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

¹⁶ For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty, 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."

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." ¹⁸ That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill,

² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

⁹ I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

⁹ Now the very archangel Michael, when he disputed the body of Moses with Satan, did not dare to condemn him with scoffs; what he said was, The Lord rebuke you!

¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

¹³ and in the middle of the lampstands One who resembled a human being, with a long robe, and a belt of gold round his breast; ¹⁴ his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow; his eyes flashed like fire, ¹⁵ his feet glowed like burnished bronze, his voice sounded like many waves, ¹⁶ in his right hand he held seven stars, a sharp sword with a double edge issued from his mouth, and his face shone like the sun in full strength. ¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,

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.

⁹ And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore; ¹⁰ and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹² Rejoice for this, O heavens and ye that dwell in them! But woe to earth and sea! The devil has descended to you in fierce anger, knowing that his time is short."

¹⁰ he shall drink the wine of God's passion, poured out untempered in the cup of his anger, and shall be tortured with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name."

⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!" ⁷ And I heard the altar cry, "Even so, Lord God almighty: true and just are thy sentences of doom."

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).

¹⁸ to devour the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of the strong, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all men, free and slaves, low and high alike."

¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever. 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.

¹⁵ and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire — which is the second death, the lake of fire.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

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, ⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.