Luke 19 Cross References - Riverside

¹ HE entered and was passing through Jericho. ² In the city there was a man called Zacchaeus, who was chief of the tax collectors and was rich. ³ He was trying to see Jesus — what he was like; but he could not on account of the crowd, for he was short in stature. ⁴ So running ahead he climbed up into a mulberry tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. ⁵ When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, make haste and come down; to-day I must stay at your house." ⁶ He hurriedly descended and welcomed him joyfully. ⁷ All who saw it grumbled, saying that Jesus was going in to stay with a sinner. ⁸ Zacchaeus stood and said to the Master, "See, the half of my property, Sir, I give to the poor, and if I have unjustly taken anything from any one, I will give him back four-fold." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." ¹¹ While they were listening to this, he added an illustration, because he was near to Jerusalem and they were thinking that the kingdom of heaven was going to appear immediately. ¹² He said, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to get for himself a kingdom and return. ¹³ Calling his ten servants, he gave them each an equal sum of money and said to them, 'Do business until I come.' ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.' ¹⁵ When he returned, having secured the royal power, he ordered those servants to whom he had given the silver to be called to him that he might know what each had gained in trading. ¹⁶ The first came saying, 'Sir, your money has gained tenfold.' ¹⁷ He said, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in the least you shall be ruler over ten cities.' ¹⁸ Then came the second, saying, 'Your money, Sir, has made fivefold.' ¹⁹ He said to this one, 'And you shall be over five cities.' ²⁰ Another one came, saying, 'Sir, here is your silver, which I kept laid away in a napkin. ²¹ For I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down and you reap where you did not sow.' ²² He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow? ²³ Then why did you not put my silver into the bank, so that when I came I could have exacted it with interest?' ²⁴ Then to those who stood by he said, 'Take from him the silver and give it to him who has tenfold.' ²⁵ They said to him, 'Sir, he has tenfold.' ²⁶ 'I tell you,' he said, 'that to every one who has, shall be given, and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken. ²⁷ But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to be king over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.' ²⁸ When he had said these things, he journeyed onward, going up toward Jerusalem. ²⁹ When they approached Bethphage and Bethany at the mount called the Olive Orchard, he sent two of his disciples, ³⁰ telling them, "Go into the village across there, and as you enter it you will find a colt tied upon which no man has ever sat. Loose it and lead it here. ³¹ If any one asks you, 'Why are you loosing it?' say, 'The Master has need of it.' " ³² Those who were sent went and found everything just as he had said to them. ³³ While they were loosing the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?" ³⁴ They said, "The Master has need of it." ³⁵ They led it to Jesus and threw their cloaks on the colt and mounted Jesus on it. ³⁶ As he advanced, some spread their cloaks in the road, ³⁷ and as he approached the descent of the Mount of Olives all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen, ³⁸ saying: "Blessed be he who comes as king, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the heights above!" ³⁹ Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples." ⁴⁰ But he said, "I tell you if these become silent, the stones will cry out." ⁴¹ As he drew near and looked at the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, "If this day you also knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes! ⁴³ For days will come when your enemies will throw up a palisade against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴ and level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time when you were visited." ⁴⁵ Entering into the Temple courts he began and drove out the dealers, ⁴⁶ saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers." ⁴⁷ He was teaching every day in the Temple courts. But the high priests and the scribes were bent on destroying him, and so were the first citizens. ⁴⁸ But they could find no way to do it; for all the people hung upon him listening.

²¹ She will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

⁹ and do not think of saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

¹¹ When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" ¹² Jesus heard it and said, "The strong have no need of a physician, but the sick have. ¹³ Go and learn what this means: 'I wish for kindness, and not for sacrifice.' I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

³⁷ for from your words you will be justified and from your words you will be condemned."

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

¹⁴ and to them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'You will plainly hear, but you will not understand, and you will clearly look, but you will not see. ¹⁵ For the heart of these people has grown fat, and with their ears they are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed; so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and repent and I should heal them.'

²³ He who received seed in good ground is he who hears the message and understands it and makes a yield of a hundred, or sixty, or thirty fold."

²⁴ He replied, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

¹⁰ See to it that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you, in heaven their angels continually behold the face of my Father in heaven.

²³ "Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a man who was a king, who determined to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴ When he had begun the accounting there was brought to him one who owed him ten thousand talents. ²⁵ Since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, as well as his wife and his children and whatever he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ But the servant fell down and did homage and said, 'Have patience with me and I will pay you in full.' ²⁷ Then the master, pitying the servant, released him and cancelled his debt. ²⁸ But that servant, on going out, found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred shillings, and he seized him and choked him, saying, 'Pay in full what you owe.' ²⁹ His fellow servant fell down and begged, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will pay you in full.' ³⁰ But he would not, but went and threw him into prison until he should pay off the debt. ³¹ When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and went and informed their master about everything. ³² The master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant, all that debt of yours I cancelled when you begged me. ³³ Ought you not to have had pity on your fellow servant as I had pity on you?' ³⁴ Then his master was angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay off all that was owing to him. ³⁵ Just so will my Father in heaven do to you if you do not forgive each one his brother from your hearts."

¹ WHEN they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

¹ WHEN they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ² telling them, "Go into the village opposite and at once you will find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose her and lead her to me.

² telling them, "Go into the village opposite and at once you will find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose her and lead her to me. ³ If any one says anything to you, you will say, 'The Master has need of them,' and at once he will send them."

³ If any one says anything to you, you will say, 'The Master has need of them,' and at once he will send them." ⁴ This happened in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, ⁵ "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king comes to thee, gentle and riding on an ass and on a colt, the foal of a beast of draught." ⁶ The disciples went and did as Jesus had bidden them, ⁷ and brought the ass and the colt, and spread on them their cloaks and seated him on them.

⁷ and brought the ass and the colt, and spread on them their cloaks and seated him on them. ⁸ A very large crowd spread their cloaks in the road, and others cut off branches from the trees and spread them in the road.

⁸ A very large crowd spread their cloaks in the road, and others cut off branches from the trees and spread them in the road. ⁹ The crowds that walked before and those that followed shouted, "God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God in highest heaven save him!"

⁹ The crowds that walked before and those that followed shouted, "God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God in highest heaven save him!" ¹⁰ When he entered Jerusalem all the city was shaken, and people said, "Who is this?" ¹¹ The crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee." ¹² Jesus went into the Temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling doves, ¹³ and he said, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a den of robbers."

¹⁵ When the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting, "God save the Son of David!" they were angry ¹⁶ and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'?" ¹⁷ Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

²³ When he had gone into the Temple courts, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing this, and who gave you this authority?"

²⁸ What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go to-day and work in the vineyard.' ²⁹ He answered, 'I will, Sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The father went to the second son and said the same. He answered, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God.

³⁷ At last he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ³⁸ But when the grape-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.'

³⁸ But when the grape-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.' ³⁹ So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ When, therefore, the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those grape-growers?" ⁴¹ They said to him, "He will put those miserable men to a miserable death, and will let out the vineyard to other grape-growers who will render him the fruits in their seasons."

⁴³ Therefore I tell you the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation that produces the fruits.

⁷ Then the king grew angry and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

¹² and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding robe?' But he was speechless.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and held a consultation how they could entrap him in talk. ¹⁶ They sent to him their disciples with the Herodians and they said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and that you are afraid of no one, for you do not regard the social standing of men.

¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in.

³⁴ Therefore I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city, ³⁵ so that all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar, may come on you. ³⁶ I tell you truly all this will come on this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I fain have gathered your children as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, and you would not.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I fain have gathered your children as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, and you would not. ³⁸ See, your house is left to you desolate,

³⁸ See, your house is left to you desolate, ³⁹ for I tell you, you will not see me from now on until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "

² He answered them, "Do you not see all these things? I tell you truly there will not be left here one stone upon another which will not be thrown down."

¹⁴ "It is just as when a man going abroad called his servants and committed to them his property.

¹⁴ "It is just as when a man going abroad called his servants and committed to them his property. ¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his particular ability. Then he went abroad.

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his particular ability. Then he went abroad. ¹⁶ At once he who received the five talents went and traded with them and gained five more. ¹⁷ In the same way he who received the two gained two more. ¹⁸ But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ¹⁹ After a long time the master of those servants came and had an accounting with them.

¹⁹ After a long time the master of those servants came and had an accounting with them. ²⁰ The man who had received the five talents came and brought five talents more, saying, 'Master, you committed to me five talents; see, I have gained five talents more.' ²¹ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

²¹ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.' ²² The man who had received the two talents came and said, 'Master, you committed to me two talents; see, I have gained two talents more.' ²³ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.' ²⁴ Then the man who had received the one talent came and said, 'Master, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not thresh,

²⁴ Then the man who had received the one talent came and said, 'Master, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not thresh,

²⁴ Then the man who had received the one talent came and said, 'Master, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not thresh, ²⁵ and I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. There, you have your own.'

²⁵ and I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. There, you have your own.' ²⁶ His master replied, 'You wicked and idle servant. Did you know that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not thresh?

²⁶ His master replied, 'You wicked and idle servant. Did you know that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not thresh? ²⁷ Then you ought to have turned over my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with interest.

²⁷ Then you ought to have turned over my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with interest. ²⁸ Take from him the talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.

²⁸ Take from him the talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one who has will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken.

²⁹ For to every one who has will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken. ³⁰ And the worthless servant throw out into the darkness outside. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.'

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled at the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas, ⁴ and they plotted to seize Jesus by some trick and kill him.

⁵⁵ Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to seize me as if against a robber, with swords and clubs? Every day I sat in the Temple teaching and you did not arrest me.

⁴⁵ From noon darkness came over all the land until three o'clock.

⁵¹ Suddenly the curtain of the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked. The rocks were split, ⁵² and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the sleeping saints arose, ⁵³ and, coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. ⁵⁴ The Centurion and his men who were guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that happened, were greatly terrified and said, "Truly this man was a son of God!"

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

²⁰ These are those who received seed in good ground — such as hear the message and receive it and yield thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

²⁵ For to him who has will be given, and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken."

³² They were on the road going up to Jerusalem and Jesus was walking in advance. Astonishment fell on them, and those who were following were fearful. Then again he took aside the twelve and began and told them what was going to happen to him. ³³ He said, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ and they will make sport of him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him. But after three days he will rise."

¹ WHEN they were approaching Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples ² and told them, "Go into the village across there, and immediately, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, upon which no man has ever yet sat. Untie him and bring him. ³ If anybody asks, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Master has need of him,' and at once he will send him."

³ If anybody asks, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Master has need of him,' and at once he will send him." ⁴ They went and found the colt tied near the door outside in the street, and they untied him.

⁴ They went and found the colt tied near the door outside in the street, and they untied him. ⁵ Some of those who were standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

⁵ Some of those who were standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" ⁶ They gave the reply that Jesus had told them to give, and the men let them take it.

⁶ They gave the reply that Jesus had told them to give, and the men let them take it. ⁷ They brought the colt to Jesus and threw upon it their cloaks and he mounted it.

⁷ They brought the colt to Jesus and threw upon it their cloaks and he mounted it. ⁸ Then many spread their cloaks in the road and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

⁸ Then many spread their cloaks in the road and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. ⁹ Some went in front and some followed, shouting, "God save him! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

⁹ Some went in front and some followed, shouting, "God save him! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! ¹⁰ Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! God in highest heaven save him!"

¹⁰ Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! God in highest heaven save him!" ¹¹ He entered Jerusalem and came into the Temple courts. After inspecting everything, because it was already late he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

¹⁵ They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the Temple courts and began to cast out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of the dove-sellers, ¹⁶ and would not allow any one to carry anything through the Temple courts, ¹⁷ for he taught and said to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." ¹⁸ When the high priests and the scribes heard of this they tried to contrive to put him out of the way, for they were afraid of him because the people were deeply impressed by his teaching.

²⁷ They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking about in the Temple courts, the high priests and the scribes came to him ²⁸ and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you authority to do them?" ²⁹ Jesus replied, "I will ask you one question; answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. ³⁰ The baptism of John — was it from heaven or of men? Answer me." ³¹ But they discussed among themselves, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ³² But if we say, 'From men,' — they feared the people, for all regarded John as really a prophet. ³³ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he replied, "Neither will I tell you by what power I am doing these things."

¹ THEN he began to speak to them in figures: "There was a man who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug for a wine-vat, and built a tower and let it out to grape-growers, and then went abroad.

¹² They kept trying to seize him, but were afraid of the crowd. For they knew that he had meant the illustration for them. So they left him and went away.

² Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left one stone upon another which will not be thrown down." ³ Then, when he was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the Temple buildings, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

¹⁴ "When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not [Let the reader consider], then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, ¹⁵ and let him who is on top of the house not descend and enter to take anything from his house, ¹⁶ and let him who is in the field not turn back to get his cloak. ¹⁷ Alas for the women with child and the nursing mothers in those days! ¹⁸ Pray that it may not be in the winter. ¹⁹ For those will be days of misery such as has not been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again. ²⁰ Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of those whom he has chosen he has shortened the days.

³⁴ It is just as when a man going abroad leaves his house and gives to his servants authority and to each his work and commands the porter to watch. ³⁵ Watch, therefore, for you do not know when the Master of the house will come, whether at evening or at midnight or at cock-crowing or in the morning. ³⁶ Otherwise coming suddenly he may find you sleeping. ³⁷ What I say to you, I say to all, Watch."

¹ THE Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to come after two days. The high priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize him by some stratagem and kill him.

²⁶ After singing a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives.

¹⁹ Then the Lord Jesus, after talking with them, was taken up into heaven and sat down on the right hand of God.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel! For he has looked upon his people, and made deliverance for them.

⁷⁷ To give the knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins, ⁷⁸ Through the tender compassion of our God, With which the sunrise from on high will shine upon us;

⁷⁸ Through the tender compassion of our God, With which the sunrise from on high will shine upon us; ⁷⁹ To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the path of peace."

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear! Indeed, I am bringing you good news of a great joy which is to be for all the people; ¹¹ for there was born for you to-day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ and Lord. ¹² This will be a sign for you: you will find the babe wrapped up and lying in a manger." ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude from the army of heaven, praising God, and saying, ¹⁴ "Glory in highest heaven to God, and peace on earth among men in whom he delights."

¹⁶ So they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.

³⁰ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

⁸ Produce then fruits suitable for a change of heart, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father.' For I tell you, God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

⁸ Produce then fruits suitable for a change of heart, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father.' For I tell you, God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham. ⁹ Already the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not yield good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

⁹ Already the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not yield good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire." ¹⁰ The crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?" ¹¹ He answered, "Let him who has two tunics give to him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise." ¹² Some tax collectors came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?" ¹³ He said to them, "Do nothing beyond what you are authorized." ¹⁴ Soldiers asked him, "And what shall we do?" He said to them, "Do violence to no man; bring no false accusations; be content with your rations."

¹⁹ When they could not contrive to bring him in on account of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his pallet into the midst in front of Jesus.

²⁹ Levi held a great reception for him at his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. ³⁰ The Pharisees and their scribes grumbled to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" ³¹ Jesus answered them, "The well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick have. ³² I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners to a change of heart."

⁴⁶ "Why do you call me: 'Master, Master,' and yet not do what I say?

¹³ When the Master saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep,"

¹⁶ All were awe-struck, and they gave praise to God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us and God has visited his people."

³⁴ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'See there a man who is a glutton and wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said within himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what this woman who is touching him is, for she is a sinner."

¹⁸ Be careful, then, how you hear; for whoever has, to him will be given, and whoever has not, even what he seems to have will be taken away from him."

⁷ Herod the Prince heard of all that was going on, and he was at a loss because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, ⁸ by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that some one of the old prophets had arisen. ⁹ Herod said, "John I beheaded. Who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he made efforts to see him.

⁵¹ As the days before his being taken up to heaven were passing, he set his face to go to Jerusalem

⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon it; but if not, it will return upon you.

⁴¹ But give the things inside as gifts of mercy and at once all will be clean for you.

²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this night your soul will be required of you; and the things that you have prepared — whose will they be?'

²⁵ Which of you can by worrying add a foot to his height?

³³ Sell what you have and give gifts of mercy. Make for yourselves purses that never grow old, an unfailing treasure in heaven where no thief approaches nor moth consumes;

⁴⁸ But he who did not know and yet has done things worthy of lashes will be beaten with few. From every one to whom much was given, much will be required, and from him to whom they have committed much, men will ask the more.

⁵⁰ I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I distressed until it is accomplished!

¹⁶ And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound for eighteen years, to have been freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

³⁰ Indeed, there are last who will be first and there are first who will be last."

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children as a bird gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! ³⁵ See, your house is left to you! I tell you, you will not see me until the day when you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "

³⁵ See, your house is left to you! I tell you, you will not see me until the day when you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "

² The Pharisees and the scribes grumbled to one another, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."

⁴ "What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he has found it? ⁵ And when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders with joy, ⁶ and when he comes home he calls together his friends and neighbors and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!' ⁷ I tell you there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner whose heart is changed than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need to change.

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

² Calling him to him, he said, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your management; for you cannot longer be manager.'

² Calling him to him, he said, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your management; for you cannot longer be manager.' ³ The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do? for my master is going to take the management away from me. I have not strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

³ The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do? for my master is going to take the management away from me. I have not strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I will do, so that when I am dismissed from the management they may welcome me into their houses.' ⁵ So, calling to him all of the debtors of his master, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my master?' ⁶ He replied, 'A hundred measures of oil.' He said, 'Take your account and sit down quickly and write fifty.' ⁷ Then to another he said, 'And you, how much do you owe?' He replied, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your account and write eighty.' ⁸ The master praised the wicked manager because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are with reference to their own generation wiser than the sons of light. ⁹ I tell you, make for yourselves friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may welcome you into the eternal tents.

⁹ I tell you, make for yourselves friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may welcome you into the eternal tents. ¹⁰ He who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in the least is also dishonest in much.

¹⁰ He who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in the least is also dishonest in much. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been faithful in the dishonest Mammon, who will entrust to you the true? ¹² And if you were not faithful in what was another's, who will give you what is your own? ¹³ No house servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon."

²⁰ On being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, Jesus answered them, "The kingdom of God will not come in a way that can be observed,

⁹ He gave also this illustration to some who trusted in themselves as being righteous and despised others: ¹⁰ "Two men went up to the Temple courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.' ¹³ But the tax collector stood far off and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, the sinner!' ¹⁴ I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

²² On hearing that, Jesus said to him, "You lack still one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven, and then come and follow me." ²³ But he, on hearing this, became deeply sorrowful, for he was very rich. ²⁴ Jesus looked at him and said, "With how much difficulty do those who have riches enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God!" ²⁶ Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" ²⁷ He said, "The things that are impossible with men are possible with God."

³¹ Taking the twelve aside, he said to them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things written through the prophets will be fully done to the Son of Man.

³⁵ As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.

⁴³ Immediately he received sight and followed him, giving glory to God. All the people upon seeing this gave praise to God.

¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

¹² He said, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to get for himself a kingdom and return. ¹³ Calling his ten servants, he gave them each an equal sum of money and said to them, 'Do business until I come.'

¹³ Calling his ten servants, he gave them each an equal sum of money and said to them, 'Do business until I come.' ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.'

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.' ¹⁵ When he returned, having secured the royal power, he ordered those servants to whom he had given the silver to be called to him that he might know what each had gained in trading. ¹⁶ The first came saying, 'Sir, your money has gained tenfold.' ¹⁷ He said, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in the least you shall be ruler over ten cities.' ¹⁸ Then came the second, saying, 'Your money, Sir, has made fivefold.' ¹⁹ He said to this one, 'And you shall be over five cities.' ²⁰ Another one came, saying, 'Sir, here is your silver, which I kept laid away in a napkin.

²⁰ Another one came, saying, 'Sir, here is your silver, which I kept laid away in a napkin. ²¹ For I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down and you reap where you did not sow.' ²² He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow? ²³ Then why did you not put my silver into the bank, so that when I came I could have exacted it with interest?' ²⁴ Then to those who stood by he said, 'Take from him the silver and give it to him who has tenfold.' ²⁵ They said to him, 'Sir, he has tenfold.' ²⁶ 'I tell you,' he said, 'that to every one who has, shall be given, and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken. ²⁷ But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to be king over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.'

²⁷ But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to be king over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.'

³² Those who were sent went and found everything just as he had said to them.

³⁷ and as he approached the descent of the Mount of Olives all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen,

⁴² saying, "If this day you also knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes!

⁴² saying, "If this day you also knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes! ⁴³ For days will come when your enemies will throw up a palisade against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴ and level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time when you were visited."

⁴⁴ and level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time when you were visited."

⁹ He began and gave the people this illustration: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to grape-growers and went abroad for a long time.

¹⁶ He will come and destroy those grape-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they exclaimed, "May it never be!"

¹⁹ The scribes and the high priests were eager to lay hands on him at that very time, for they knew that he had aimed the illustration at them; but they were afraid of the people. ²⁰ So watching insidiously for an opportunity they sent spies, who pretended to be honest men, to seize upon anything he might say, so as to hand him over to the authorities and to the power of the Governor.

⁶ he said, "As to these things that you are looking at, there will come days in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be thrown down."

²⁰ "But when you see Jerusalem encircled by camps, then know that her desolation is near. ²¹ Then those who are in Judaea are to flee to the mountains, and those in the midst of it are to depart, and those in the country places must not come into the city; ²² for these are days of vengeance, that all the prophecies may be fulfilled.

²² for these are days of vengeance, that all the prophecies may be fulfilled. ²³ Alas for the women with child and the nursing mothers in those days! For there will be great distress on earth and wrath upon this people, ²⁴ and they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be taken as captives into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles have gone by.

²⁴ and they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be taken as captives into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles have gone by.

³⁷ During the days he continued to teach in the Temple courts, but every night he went out and stayed on the mount called Olive Orchard.

³⁷ During the days he continued to teach in the Temple courts, but every night he went out and stayed on the mount called Olive Orchard. ³⁸ All the people came early every morning to him in the Temple courts to listen to him.

² The high priests and the scribes were intent upon finding some way to destroy Jesus; for they were afraid of the people. ³ But Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve, ⁴ and he went away and talked over with the high priests and officers how he could betray him.

⁸ and Jesus sent Peter and John, telling them, "Go and make ready the Passover for us so that we may eat it." ⁹ They said to him, "Where do you wish us to make ready?" ¹⁰ He said, "As you are entering the city a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house that he enters ¹¹ and say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, Where is the dining room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?' ¹² And he will show you an upper room, large and furnished. There make ready." ¹³ They went away and found everything just as he had said, and they prepared the Passover.

¹³ They went away and found everything just as he had said, and they prepared the Passover.

³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁹ He went out and made his way, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

⁸ Herod on seeing Jesus was much pleased because for a long time he had been anxious to see him on account of hearing about him, and he was hoping to see some miracle done by him.

⁵⁰ He led them out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands and blessed them. ⁵¹ While he was blessing them he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

¹¹ He came to his own things, but his own men did not receive him.

⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

¹³ The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Finding in the Temple courts the sellers of cattle and sheep and doves and the money-changers sitting there, ¹⁵ he made a whip of cords and drove them all from the courts — all the sheep and the cattle, — and he poured out the small coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ He said to those who were selling doves, "Take these things out. Do not make my Father's house a house of trade." ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house will devour me."

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ This is the condemnation, that Light has come into the world and men have loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were wicked. ²⁰ Every one who is doing base things hates the Light and does not come to the Light, that his deeds may not be reproved. ²¹ But he who is doing the truth comes to the Light, that it may be plainly shown that his deeds have been done in union with God.

⁷ There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." ⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

³⁸ I have sent you to reap what you have not labored for. Others have labored and you have entered into their labor." ³⁹ From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." ⁴⁰ When the Samaritans came out to him, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ Many more believed on account of his own words, ⁴² and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him and we know that this is truly the Savior of the World."

¹ AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² There is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda. Around it are five colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids — blind, lame, withered.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet no one of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

⁴⁴ Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "Never any man spoke as this man speaks." ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deluded? ⁴⁸ Can it be that any one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd who do not know the Law are cursed."

³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham; but you are trying to kill me, because my word has no place within you. ³⁸ I am speaking what I have seen with my Father and you are doing what you have heard with your father." ³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." He said to them, "If you were children of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came Gods — and the authority of Scripture cannot be denied —

³⁹ Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands

³⁵ Jesus wept.

⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation."

⁵³ From that day they plotted to kill him. ⁵⁴ So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples. ⁵⁵ The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" ⁵⁷ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.

¹⁰ The high priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

¹² On the next day the great crowd which had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹² On the next day the great crowd which had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "God save him! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the King of Israel!"

¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "God save him! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the King of Israel!" ¹⁴ Jesus, finding a young ass, sat on it, as it is written,

¹⁴ Jesus, finding a young ass, sat on it, as it is written, ¹⁵ "Fear not, daughter of Zion! Behold, your King comes, sitting on the foal of an ass!" ¹⁶ These things his disciples did not understand at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.

¹⁶ These things his disciples did not understand at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.

¹⁹ The Pharisees said among themselves, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone off after him."

²¹ These came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

²⁶ If any one is serving me, let him follow me and where I am there my servant shall be. If any one is serving me, him my Father will honor.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so as to become sons of Light." Jesus said these things and then went away and hid himself from them.

³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled. Isaiah said, "Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" ³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them." ⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and he spoke of him.

²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him.

²⁹ Now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass you may believe.

¹⁸ "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and have hated both me and my Father.

¹¹ Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath. The cup that my Father has given me — shall I not drink it?"

²⁰ Jesus answered him, "I have spoken frankly to the world. I constantly taught in synagogues and in the Temple courts where all the Jews assemble, and I have spoken nothing in secret.

³⁷ Pilate said to him, "Are you not a king then?" Jesus answered, "I am a king, as you say. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth listens to my voice."

⁶ When they came together, they asked him, "Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

⁹ He said this and then, while they were looking on, he was taken up and a cloud lifted him from their sight. ¹⁰ They were gazing into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white robes were standing beside them ¹¹ and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing and looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven." ¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Orchard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey distant.

²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his dwelling become desolate and let there be no one living in it,' and, 'His overseership let another take.'

⁴¹ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

⁴⁴ All who believed had all things together in common. ⁴⁵ They would sell their lands and goods and distribute to all as any one had need. ⁴⁶ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart,

¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you. ¹⁵ You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. Of this we are witnesses.

¹ WHILE they were speaking to the people, the priests and the commandant of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them, ² being offended because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in the case of Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

¹⁶ saying, "What shall we do to these men? For that a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷ But that it may not spread further among the people, let us sternly forbid them to speak any longer in this name to any one." ¹⁸ So, calling them in, they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.

²⁷ for truly in this city Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered against thy holy servant Jesus, ²⁸ to do all that thy hands and thy will had predetermined should take place —

³⁴ Nor was any one in need among them, for all who were owners of lands or houses would sell them and bring the money for what had been sold ³⁵ and lay it at the apostles' feet, and it would be distributed to each as he had need.

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which one of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one of whom now you have become the betrayers and murderers —

³⁶ As to the message which he sent to the children of Israel telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ — who is Lord of all —

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas said with fearless plainness, "The message of God had to be spoken first to you. But since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of life eternal — now, we turn to the Gentiles.

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul. ¹⁵ When she had been baptized along with her household, she begged us, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay," and she insisted on our doing so.

³⁰ and led them out and said, "Men, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your household," ³² and they told the message of God to him and to all who were in his house.

³⁴ He brought them into his house and spread the table for them, and rejoiced with his whole family because he had believed in God.

³¹ since he has set a day in which he will soon judge the world in justice by the man whom he has appointed, and of whom he has given evidence to all men by raising him from the dead."

²⁵ They dispersed, disagreeing with one another, after Paul had said one word, "Well said the Holy Spirit through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers, ²⁶ 'Go to this people and say, You will hear plainly but you will not understand, and you will see plainly but you will not perceive. ²⁷ For the heart of this people has grown fat and with their ears they are hard of hearing and their eyes they have shut, so that they may never see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their heart and repent, so that I may heal them.'

⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God is calling you to a change of heart? ⁵ Are you with a hard and unrepentant heart treasuring for yourself wrath for the day of wrath and for the revelation of the just judgment of God?

²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

¹⁹ We know that all that the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world may come under the condemnation of God.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of faith that he had in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all who believe while uncircumcised, and righteousness should be credited to them; ¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is, of those who are not only circumcised, but who walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.

¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us

¹ SO then, since we have been accounted righteous by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ For while we were still without strength Christ, at the due time, died for the unrighteous.

⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be.

¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

² that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart. ³ For I could wish myself to be accursed and cast away from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁷ What then? Israel has not found what it is seeking, but the chosen have found it. And the rest have been made dull, ⁸ as it is written, "God gave them a stupid spirit, eyes not for seeing and ears not for hearing until this day." ⁹ And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and bow down their backs always."

⁶ Having gifts differing according to the grace given to us, if it is prophecy, let us use it according to the proportion of our faith; ⁷ if it is service, let us use it in service. Let the teacher use his gift in teaching. ⁸ Let the exhorter use his gift in exhorting. Let him who gives do it in simplicity. Let him who manages do it earnestly. Let him who helps the needy do it cheerfully.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God.

⁸ Each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

¹ LET a man view us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. ² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful. ³ But it is of very slight importance to me to be judged by you or any human court. I do not even pass judgment on myself. ⁴ For I am not conscious of any wrong, but I am not proved by that to be faultless. The Lord is my judge. ⁵ So do not judge anything before the time, before the Lord comes. He will throw light on the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the purposes of hearts. Then each one will have his praise from God.

⁵ So do not judge anything before the time, before the Lord comes. He will throw light on the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the purposes of hearts. Then each one will have his praise from God.

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁷ To each one is given some manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable. ⁸ To one are given, through the Spirit, words of wisdom, to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another works of power, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another varieties of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ One and the same Spirit produces all of these gifts, distributing to each one individually as he will.

²⁸ God placed some in the church first as apostles, secondly as prophets, thirdly as teachers, then miracle-workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, speakers of different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle-workers?

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

²⁵ For he must be king until he "puts all his enemies under his feet."

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars. For star differs from star in glory. ⁴² So also will be the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in decay; it is raised imperishable.

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; since you know that your labor is not fruitless in the Lord.

¹⁴ but their thinking was dulled. For to this day the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read; because it is done away only in Christ. ¹⁵ To this day when Moses is read the veil lies on their hearts; ¹⁶ "but when they turn to the Lord the veil is taken away."

³ If our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are going to ruin, ⁴ in whom the god of this world has blinded the thinking of the unbelieving so that the light of the glorious good news of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine in.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly. ² For he says, "At a favorable time I heard you and on a day of salvation I helped you." Now is a particularly favorable time, now is a day of salvation.

⁷ But as you excel in every way, in faith and speech and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love you learned from us, be sure to excel in this grace also. ⁸ I speak not by way of command, but testing the genuineness of your love by the earnestness of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor, that you by his poverty might become rich.

¹² For if there is first the readiness, a gift is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.

⁶ Remember this, he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

¹⁰ Am I now trying to please men or God? If I were still trying to please men I should not be Christ's servant.

¹⁵ But when he who had appointed me when I was in my mother's womb, and had called me by his grace, ¹⁶ was pleased to reveal his Son in me that I might tell the good news of him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

⁷ You know, then, that those who are of faith — they are children of Abraham.

¹⁴ in order that the blessing of Abraham might in Jesus Christ come on the Gentiles, that they might receive through faith the promise of the Spirit.

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.

¹⁵ Where now is the blessing you pronounced on me? For I bear you witness that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace which he bestowed on us in the Beloved,

¹² and we were made God's heritage in order that we might bring praise to his glory — we who first have fixed our hope on Christ.

²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. ²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

¹⁴ For he is our peace. He has made both Jew and Gentile one and has broken down the dividing wall, the enmity. ¹⁵ In his own flesh he has ended the force of the law of commandments in ordinances in order to make the two, in himself, into one new man, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in order to reconcile both in one body to God through his cross, by slaying the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were far and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through him we, both Jews and Gentiles, have access through one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁰ in order to disclose now to the archangels and powers in the heavenly heights, through the church, the varied wisdom of God,

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love,

²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all the generations of the ages! Amen.

⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²⁰ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross — all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven.

²⁸ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ. ²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out and do not please God and are enemies to all men, ¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. All this goes always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's fiercest wrath has overtaken them.

¹ WITH regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to meet him, I beg you, brethren, ² not to be quickly unsettled in mind nor excited by either a revelation or by a message or a letter supposed to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is close at hand. ³ Let no one lead you astray in any way, because it will not come until the Apostasy has first come and the Man of Lawlessness has been revealed — the Son of Perdition,

⁹ For his coming will be when Satan is active in every sort of power and in false signs and wonders ¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this reason God sends to them a deceptive influence so that they believe a lie, ¹² that all who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness may be condemned.

¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost. ¹⁶ But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might show all of his long-suffering for an example for those who are to believe in him and gain life eternal. ¹⁷ To the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this world not to be haughty nor to fix their hope on uncertain wealth, but on God who provides all things richly for our enjoyment. ¹⁸ They must do good work, be rich in noble deeds, be generous, ready to share,

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control.

¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

⁷ I have played the grand hard game, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "To-day if you will hear his voice,

¹³ but encourage one another daily while it is called "to-day," that no one may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁵ When it is said, "To-day if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as when they made me angry" —

²⁵ And so he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, since he is forever living to intercede for them.

²⁸ so Christ was once for all offered to bear the sins of many and will appear the second time, apart from sin, to those who are looking for him, and bring them salvation.

¹³ for the future only waiting until his enemies are made his footstool.

²⁶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers. ²⁸ Any one who sets aside a law of Moses dies without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, who has thought the blood of the covenant, by which it was made holy, an unholy thing, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

² looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood which tells something better than the blood of Abel. ²⁵ Beware of rejecting him who is speaking. For if those did not escape who rejected him who taught the divine will on earth, much less shall we if we reject him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ His voice then shook the earth, but now he has announced, "Yet once for all I shall shake not only the earth but also heaven."

² Do not forget hospitality: for by this some have, without knowing it, had angels as their guests.

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the Twelve Tribes which are scattered in foreign lands: Greeting.

¹⁰ and let the rich brother glory in his lowly station, for he will pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flower of it falls and the beauty of its face perishes. So shall the rich man wither in his pursuits.

¹⁰ For he who keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all.

¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works." ¹⁹ You have faith that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons have that faith, and they shudder. ²⁰ Are you willing to learn, O vacant-minded man, that faith without works is useless? ²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, pronounced righteous because of works when he laid Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him for righteousness" and he was called "God's friend." ²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone. ²⁵ In the same way was not Rahab, the prostitute, pronounced righteous because of works when she had received the messengers and sent them out by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

⁵ Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously?

¹⁷ If any one, then, knows how to do good and is not doing it, he is committing sin.

⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,

¹² It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who have told you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven — things which angels earnestly long to look into.

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God: once you had not found compassion, but now you have found compassion.

¹² Keep your daily life among the Gentiles honorable, so that, although they talk against you as if you were wrongdoers, they may, from your noble deeds that they see, glorify God on the day of inspection.

²² Now that he has gone into heaven he is at the right hand of God, and angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him.

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

⁹ Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. ¹⁰ Let each, as he has received a spiritual gift, serve the others in that way, as good stewards of the varied grace of God. ¹¹ If any one speaks, let it be as uttering the oracles of God. If any one serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Thus in all things let God be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him be glory and strength for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been allotted a faith as precious as ours:

⁶ and if reducing to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah he condemned them to destruction, making them an example for the godless of what would come upon them,

⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another God abides in us and his love is made perfect in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has imparted to us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and we bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has pain. He who fears has not been made perfect in love.

⁸ Guard yourselves so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so that you may gain a full reward.

¹⁵ to do judgment upon all and to convict all the irreverent of all their deeds of irreverence which they have irreverently done, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him, irreverent sinners that they are."

⁷ He is coming with clouds and every eye will see him, even of those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts because of him. Yes, Amen.

³ You have endurance and you have borne for the sake of my name and you have not been discouraged.

²⁶ He who conquers and keeps my commands to the end — I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as earthenware is broken to pieces, just as I also have received from my Father. ²⁸ And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹¹ I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me.

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ and hast made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall be kings on the earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne and the voices of the four living creatures and of the elders — the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands — ¹² crying aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages." ¹⁴ The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.

¹ AFTER this I heard what seemed the loud voices of a great multitude in heaven saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, ² for true and just are his judgments. He has judged the great prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her lewdness and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants." ³ Again they shouted, "Hallelujah! Her smoke will ascend for the ages of the ages." ⁴ Then the twenty-four elders fell down and the four living creatures worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" ⁵ A voice came from the throne saying, "Praise our God, all of you his servants who reverence him, both small and great." ⁶ Then I heard what seemed like the voices of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters, like the sound of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty is king.