John 18 Cross References - WNT

¹ After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--Himself and His disciples. ² Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples. ³ So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons. ⁴ Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them. ⁵ "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied. (Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.) ⁶ As soon then as He said to them, "I am he," they went backwards and fell to the ground. ⁷ Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said. ⁸ "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way." ⁹ He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one." ¹⁰ Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. ¹¹ Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword. Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?" ¹² So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him. ¹³ They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year. ¹⁴ (It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.") ¹⁵ Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so also was another disciple. The latter was known to the High Priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest's palace. ¹⁶ But Peter remained standing outside the door, till the disciple who was acquainted with the High Priest came out and induced the portress to let Peter in. ¹⁷ This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied. ¹⁸ Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself. ¹⁹ So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching. ²⁰ "As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said nothing in secret. ²¹ Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I said to them: these witnesses here know what I said." ²² Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?" ²³ "If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?" ²⁴ So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest. ²⁵ But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not." ²⁶ One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" ²⁷ Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed. ²⁸ So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover. ²⁹ Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation have you to bring against this man?" ³⁰ "If the man were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you." ³¹ "Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law." "We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death." ³² They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die. ³³ Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" ³⁴ "Do you say this of yourself, or have others told it you about me?" replied Jesus. ³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin." ³⁷ "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ "What is truth?" said Pilate. But no sooner had he spoken the words than he went out again to the Jews and told them, "I find no crime in him. ³⁹ But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?" ⁴⁰ With a roar of voices they again cried out, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

³⁰ So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

³⁶ Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, "Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray."

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

³² So they came to a place called Gethsemane. There He said to His disciples, "Sit down here till I have prayed."

³⁹ On going out, He proceeded as usual to the Mount of Olives, and His disciples followed Him. ⁴⁰ But when He arrived at the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not come into temptation."

³¹ So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. ³² Moreover God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him without delay. ³³ Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you. ³⁴ A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another. ³⁵ It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

¹ "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also. ² In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you. ³ And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be. ⁴ And where I am going, you all know the way." ⁵ "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?" ⁶ "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him." ⁸ "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father: that is all we need." ⁹ "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work. ¹¹ Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do. ¹² In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth. ¹⁷ That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

³¹ but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

²⁶ One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"

¹¹ So He came into Jerusalem and into the Temple; and after looking round upon everything there, the hour being now late He went out to Bethany with the Twelve. ¹² The next day, after they had left Bethany, He was hungry.

³⁷ His habit at this time was to teach in the Temple by day, but to go out and spend the night on the Mount called the Oliveyard.

³⁹ On going out, He proceeded as usual to the Mount of Olives, and His disciples followed Him.

⁴⁷ He had scarcely finished speaking when Judas came--one of the Twelve--accompanied by a great crowd of men armed with swords and bludgeons, sent by the High Priests and Elders of the People. ⁴⁸ Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them. He had said, "The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him." ⁴⁹ So he went straight to Jesus and said, "Peace to you, Rabbi!" And he kissed Him eagerly. ⁵⁰ "Friend," said Jesus, "carry out your intention." Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and seized Him firmly. ⁵¹ But one of those with Jesus drew his sword and struck the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear. ⁵² "Put back your sword again," said Jesus, "for all who draw the sword shall perish by the sword. ⁵³ Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?" ⁵⁵ Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. ⁵⁶ But all this has taken place in order that the writings of the Prophets may be fulfilled." At this point the disciples all left Him and fled.

⁴³ Immediately, while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came and with him a crowd of men armed with swords and cudgels, sent by the High Priests and Scribes and Elders. ⁴⁴ Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. "The one I kiss," he said, "is the man: lay hold of him, and take him safely away." ⁴⁵ So he came, and going straight to Jesus he said, "Rabbi!" and kissed Him with seeming affection; ⁴⁶ whereupon they laid hands on Him and held Him firmly. ⁴⁷ But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck a blow at the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear. ⁴⁸ "Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber? ⁴⁹ Day after day I used to be among you in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But this is happening in order that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.' ⁵⁰ Then His friends all forsook Him and fled.

⁴⁷ While He was still speaking there came a crowd with Judas, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, at their head. He went up to Jesus to kiss Him. ⁴⁸ "Judas," said Jesus, "are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" ⁴⁹ Those who were about Him, seeing what was likely to happen, asked Him, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?" ⁵⁰ And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹ "Permit me thus far," said Jesus. And He touched the ear and healed it. ⁵² Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels? ⁵³ While day after day I was with you in the Temple, you did not lay hands upon me; but to you belongs this hour--and the power of darkness."

² While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

²⁷ Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him. ²⁸ But why He said this no one else at the table understood. ²⁹ Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out. And it was night.

¹² So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

¹⁶ "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled--the prediction, I mean, which the Holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

²¹ From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again.

²² As they were travelling about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men; ²³ they will put Him to death, but on the third day He will be raised to life again." And they were exceedingly distressed.

¹⁸ "We are going up to Jerusalem, and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and Scribes. They will condemn Him to death, ¹⁹ and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

² "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

²¹ and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

³¹ Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, 'I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK WILL BE SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS.'

³³ "See," He said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and the Scribes. They will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles; ³⁴ they will insult Him in cruel sport, spit on Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death; but on the third day He will rise to life again."

³¹ Then He drew the Twelve to Him and said, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written in the Prophets which refers to the Son of Man will be fulfilled. ³² For He will be given up to the Gentiles, and be mocked, outraged and spit upon. ³³ They will scourge Him and put Him to death, and on the third day He will rise to life again."

⁶ He is not here. He has come back to life. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, ⁷ when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

⁴⁴ And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."

⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

¹⁷ For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again. ¹⁸ No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

¹ Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

¹¹ For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean."

⁷ Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.

²⁸ After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty."

²⁸ THOU HAST MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE: THOU WILT FILL ME WITH GLADNESS IN THY PRESENCE.'

²⁴ And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, ²⁵ and didst say through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David Thy servant, "'WHY HAVE THE NATIONS STAMPED AND RAGED, AND THE PEOPLES FORMED FUTILE PLANS? ²⁶ THE KINGS OF THE EARTH CAME NEAR, AND THE RULERS ASSEMBLED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED.'" ²⁷ "They did indeed assemble in this city in hostility to Thy holy Servant Jesus whom Thou hadst anointed--Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel-- ²⁸ to do all that Thy power and Thy will had predetermined should be done.

²² "And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit, at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.

¹ Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin--

²³ and went and settled in a town called Nazareth, in order that these words spoken through the Prophets might be fulfilled, "HE SHALL BE CALLED A NAZARENE."

¹¹ "This is Jesus, the Prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee," replied the crowds.

⁴⁶ "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

⁵⁴ When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Master, do you wish us to order fire to come down from Heaven and consume them?" ⁵⁵ But He turned and rebuked them. ⁵⁶ And they went to another village.

²⁹ And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage, ³⁰ whilst Thou stretchest out Thine arm to cure men, and to give signs and marvels through the name of Thy holy Servant Jesus."

⁴ Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them.

⁵⁶ But all this has taken place in order that the writings of the Prophets may be fulfilled." At this point the disciples all left Him and fled.

⁵⁰ Then His friends all forsook Him and fled. ⁵¹ One youth indeed did follow Him, wearing only a linen cloth round his bare body. Of him they laid hold, ⁵² but he left the linen cloth in their hands and fled without it.

²⁸ I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.

³⁶ "Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later."

³² "Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

¹³ No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.

⁹ but His reply has been, "My grace suffices for you, for power matures in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I boast of my infirmities rather than complain of them--in order that Christ's power may overshadow me.

²⁵ Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

⁷ Throw the whole of your anxiety upon Him, because He Himself cares for you.

¹² While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

⁵¹ But one of those with Jesus drew his sword and struck the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear. ⁵² "Put back your sword again," said Jesus, "for all who draw the sword shall perish by the sword. ⁵³ Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?"

³⁰ "I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that to-day--this night--before the cock crows twice, you yourself will three times disown me."

⁴⁷ But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck a blow at the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

³³ "Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

⁴⁹ Those who were about Him, seeing what was likely to happen, asked Him, "Master, shall we strike with the sword?" ⁵⁰ And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear. ⁵¹ "Permit me thus far," said Jesus. And He touched the ear and healed it.

²² "None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

³⁹ Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest."

⁴² Again a second time He went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is impossible for this cup to pass without my drinking it, Thy will be done."

³⁸ "You know not," said He, "what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?" ³⁹ "We are able," they replied. "Out of the cup," said Jesus, "from which I am to drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I am to be baptized you shall be baptized;

³⁵ Going forward a short distance He threw Himself upon His face and prayed repeatedly that, if it was possible, He might be spared that time of agony; ³⁶ and He said, "Abba! my Father! all things are possible for Thee: take this cup of suffering away from me: and yet not what I desire, but what Thou desirest."

³⁰ For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them.

⁴² "Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup away from me; yet not my will but Thine be done!"

⁴¹ So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me. ⁴² I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

²⁷ Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again."

¹⁰ If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

²⁴ "Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

³⁶ "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin."

¹⁷ "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

¹⁵ You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!" ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs too--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, in order that we may also be sharers in His glory. ¹⁸ Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

⁷ by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;

⁴ The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.

¹¹ Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand firm against all the stratagems of the Devil. ¹² For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare. ¹³ Therefore put on the complete armour of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground on the day of battle, and, having fought to the end, to remain victors on the field. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness ¹⁵ as well as the shoes of the Good News of peace-- a firm foundation for your feet. ¹⁶ And besides all these take the great shield of faith, on which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Wicked one; ¹⁷ and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.

² simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, "MY SON, DO NOT THINK LIGHTLY OF THE LORD'S DISCIPLINE, AND DO NOT FAINT WHEN HE CORRECTS YOU; ⁶ FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES: AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE ACKNOWLEDGES." ⁷ The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons. ⁹ Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

⁵⁷ But the officers who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the Scribes and the Elders had assembled.

² and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor.

⁵³ So they led Jesus away to the High Priest, and with him there assembled all the High Priests, Elders, and Scribes.

¹ At earliest dawn, after the High Priests had held a consultation with the Elders and Scribes, they and the entire Sanhedrin bound Jesus and took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate.

⁵⁴ And they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the High Priest's house, while Peter followed a good way behind.

³ So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons.

³¹ But while they were trying to kill Paul, word was taken up to the Tribune in command of the battalion, that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.

³⁷ When he was about to be taken into the barracks, Paul said to the Tribune, "May I speak to you?" "Do you know Greek?" the Tribune asked.

²⁴ the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him. ²⁵ But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?" ²⁶ On hearing this question, the Captain went to report the matter to the Tribune. "What are you intending to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen." ²⁷ So the Tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said. ²⁸ "I paid a large sum for my citizenship," said the Tribune. "But I was born free," said Paul.

¹⁰ But when the struggle was becoming violent, the Tribune, fearing that Paul would be torn to pieces by the people, ordered the troops to go down and take him from among them by force and bring him into the barracks.

¹⁷ and Paul called one of the Captains and said, "Take this young man to the Tribune, for he has information to give him." ¹⁸ So he took him and brought him to the Tribune, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, called me to him and begged me to bring this youth to you, because he has something to say to you." ¹⁹ Then the Tribune, taking him by the arm, withdrew out of the hearing of others and asked him, "What have you to tell me?" ²⁰ "The Jews," he replied, "have agreed to request you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin to-morrow for the purpose of making yourself more accurately acquainted with the case. ²¹ I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you." ²² So the Tribune sent the youth home, cautioning him. "Do not let any one know that you have given me this information," he said.

³ Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,

² during the High-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the Desert.

⁵¹ It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,

²⁴ So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

⁶ with Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the other members of the high-priestly family.

⁴⁹ But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it. ⁵⁰ You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish." ⁵¹ It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

⁵⁸ And Peter kept following Him at a distance, till he came even to the court of the High Priest's palace, where he entered and sat down among the officers to see the issue. ⁵⁹ Meanwhile the High Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death; ⁶⁰ but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two ⁶¹ who testified, "This man said, 'I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'" ⁶² Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?" ⁶³ Jesus however remained silent. Again the High Priest addressed Him. "In the name of the ever-living God," he said, "I now put you on your oath. Tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." ⁶⁴ "I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND of Omnipotence, AND COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY." ⁶⁵ Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety. ⁶⁶ What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied. ⁶⁷ Then they spat in His face, and struck Him--some with the fist, some with the open hand-- ⁶⁸ while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."

⁵⁴ Peter followed Jesus at a distance, as far as the outer court of the High Priest's palace. But there he remained sitting among the officers, and warming himself by the fire.

⁶⁹ Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."

⁶⁶ Now while Peter was below in the quadrangle, one of the High Priest's maidservants came, ⁶⁷ and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene." ⁶⁸ But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court. Just then a cock crowed.

⁵⁵ And when they had lighted a fire in the middle of the court and had seated themselves in a group round it, Peter was sitting among them, ⁵⁶ when a maidservant saw him sitting by the fire, and, looking fixedly at him, she said, "This man also was with him." ⁵⁷ But he denied it, and declared, "Woman, I do not know him."

³³ "All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."

⁶⁹ Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean." ⁷⁰ He denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."

⁵ "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied. (Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.)

⁸ "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way."

¹⁶ But Peter remained standing outside the door, till the disciple who was acquainted with the High Priest came out and induced the portress to let Peter in.

²⁵ But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."

¹⁵ When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Master," was his answer; "you know that you are dear to me." "Then feed my lambs," replied Jesus.

¹³ When he knocked at the wicket in the door, a maidservant named Rhoda came to answer the knock;

⁶⁷ and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene."

⁴⁴ while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him--prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

⁵⁵ And when they had lighted a fire in the middle of the court and had seated themselves in a group round it, Peter was sitting among them, ⁵⁶ when a maidservant saw him sitting by the fire, and, looking fixedly at him, she said, "This man also was with him."

⁹ As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.

²³ After their release the two Apostles went to their friends, and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.

³³ Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

¹⁵ Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found? Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what compact has the Temple of God with idols? For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said, "I WILL DWELL AMONG THEM, AND WALK ABOUT AMONG THEM; AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND IT IS THEY WHO SHALL BE MY PEOPLE." ¹⁷ Therefore, "'COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND SEPARATE YOURSELVES,' SAYS THE LORD, 'AND TOUCH NOTHING IMPURE; AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU, AND WILL BE A FATHER TO YOU,

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them; ¹² for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of.

⁵⁵ Meanwhile the High Priests and the entire Sanhedrin were endeavouring to get evidence against Jesus in order to put Him to death, but could find none; ⁵⁶ for though many gave false testimony against Him, their statements did not tally. ⁵⁷ Then some came forward as witnesses and falsely declared, ⁵⁸ "We have heard him say, 'I will pull down this Sanctuary built by human hands, and three days afterwards I will erect another built without hands.'" ⁵⁹ But not even in this shape was their testimony consistent. ⁶⁰ At last the High Priest stood up, and advancing into the midst of them all, asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is the meaning of all this that these witnesses allege against you?" ⁶¹ But He remained silent, and gave no reply. A second time the High Priest questioned Him. "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?" he said. ⁶² "I am," replied Jesus, "and you and others will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the divine Power, and coming amid the clouds of the sky." ⁶³ Rending his garments the High Priest exclaimed, "What need have we of witnesses after that? ⁶⁴ You all heard his impious words. What is your judgement?" Then with one voice they condemned Him as deserving of death. ⁶⁵ Thereupon some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, while striking Him with their fists and crying, "Prove that you are a prophet." The officers too struck Him with open hands as they took Him in charge.

⁵³ After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points, ⁵⁴ lying in wait to catch some unguarded expression from His lips.

²⁰ So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.

⁶³ Meanwhile the men who held Jesus in custody repeatedly beat Him in cruel sport, ⁶⁴ or blindfolded Him, and then challenged Him. "Prove to us," they said, "that you are a prophet, by telling us who it was that struck you." ⁶⁵ And they said many other insulting things to Him. ⁶⁶ As soon as it was day, the whole body of the Elders, both High Priests and Scribes, assembled. Then He was brought into their Sanhedrin, and they asked Him, ⁶⁷ "Are you the Christ? Tell us." "If I tell you," He replied, "you will certainly not believe; ⁶⁸ and if I ask you questions, you will certainly not answer. ⁶⁹ But from this time forward the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God's omnipotence." ⁷⁰ Thereupon they cried out with one voice, "You, then, are the Son of God?" "It is as you say," He answered; "I am He." ⁷¹ "What need have we of further evidence?" they said; "for we ourselves have heard it from his own lips."

²³ Then Jesus travelled through all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

³⁵ And Jesus continued His circuits through all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and infirmity.

²³ He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching, the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him and asked Him, "By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?" ²⁴ "And I also have a question to ask *you*," replied Jesus, "and if you answer me, I in turn will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ John's Baptism, whence was it? --had it a heavenly or a human origin?" So they debated the matter among themselves. "If we say 'a heavenly origin,'" they argued, "he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' ²⁶ and if we say 'a human origin' we have the people to fear, for they all hold John to have been a Prophet." ²⁷ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." "Nor do I tell you," He replied, "by what authority I do these things."

²⁶ If therefore they should say to you, 'See, He is in the Desert!' do not go out there: or 'See, He is indoors in the room!' do not believe it.

⁵⁵ Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

⁶⁵ Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety.

¹⁵ And He proceeded to teach in their synagogues, winning praise from all.

⁴⁵ Then Jesus entered the Temple and proceeded to drive out the dealers. ⁴⁶ "It is written," He said, "'AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE THE HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it A ROBBERS' CAVE." ⁴⁷ And day after day He taught in the Temple, while the High Priests and the Scribes were devising some means of destroying Him, as were also the leading men of the people.

¹ On one of those days while He was teaching the people in the Temple and proclaiming the Good News, the High Priests came upon Him, and the Scribes, ² together with the Elders, and they asked Him, "Tell us, By what authority are you doing these things? And who is it that gave you this authority?" ³ "I also will put a question to you, "He said; ⁴ "was John's baptism of Heavenly or of human origin?" ⁵ So they debated the matter with one another. "If we say 'Heavenly,'" they argued, "he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?' ⁶ And if we say, 'human,' the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that John was a Prophet." ⁷ And they answered that they did not know the origin of it. ⁸ "Nor will I tell you," said Jesus, "by what authority I do these things."

⁴ For no one acts in secret, desiring all the while to be himself known publicly. Since you are doing these things, show yourself openly to the world."

¹⁴ But when the Festival was already half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and commenced teaching.

²⁶ But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

²⁸ Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

² At break of day however He returned to the Temple, and there the people came to Him in crowds. He seated Himself;

²⁶ "Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

²³ and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico, ²⁴ when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly." ²⁵ "I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give testimony about me. ²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand. ²⁹ What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one." ³¹ Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him. ³² Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said, "have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?" ³³ "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God." ³⁴ "Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'? ³⁵ If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled), ³⁶ how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'? ³⁷ If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father." ³⁹ This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.

²⁶ For the King, to whom I speak freely, knows about these matters. I am not to be persuaded that any detail of them has escaped his notice; for these things have not been done in a corner.

⁵⁹ Meanwhile the High Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death; ⁶⁰ but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two

⁵⁵ Meanwhile the High Priests and the entire Sanhedrin were endeavouring to get evidence against Jesus in order to put Him to death, but could find none; ⁵⁶ for though many gave false testimony against Him, their statements did not tally. ⁵⁷ Then some came forward as witnesses and falsely declared, ⁵⁸ "We have heard him say, 'I will pull down this Sanctuary built by human hands, and three days afterwards I will erect another built without hands.'" ⁵⁹ But not even in this shape was their testimony consistent.

⁶⁷ "Are you the Christ? Tell us." "If I tell you," He replied, "you will certainly not believe;

¹² and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me. ¹³ Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.

¹⁸ While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia. ¹⁹ They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me. ²⁰ Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

⁶⁵ Thereupon some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, while striking Him with their fists and crying, "Prove that you are a prophet." The officers too struck Him with open hands as they took Him in charge.

⁶³ Meanwhile the men who held Jesus in custody repeatedly beat Him in cruel sport, ⁶⁴ or blindfolded Him, and then challenged Him. "Prove to us," they said, "that you are a prophet, by telling us who it was that struck you."

³ Then they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice, "Hail King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with the palms of their hands.

² On hearing this the High Priest Ananias ordered those who were standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. ³ "Before long," exclaimed Paul, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me in accordance with the Law, and do you yourself actually break the Law by ordering me to be struck?" ⁴ "Do you rail at God's High Priest?" cried the men who stood by him. ⁵ "I did not know, brethren," replied Paul, "that he was the High Priest; for it is written, 'THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK EVIL OF A RULER OF THY PEOPLE.'"

³⁹ But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

¹ But as for me Paul, I entreat you by the gentleness and self-forgetfulness of Christ--I who when among you have not an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly outspoken in dealing with you.

²⁰ If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God. ²¹ And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps. ²² He never sinned, and no deceitful language was ever heard from His mouth. ²³ When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling; when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left His wrongs in the hands of the righteous Judge.

¹³ They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year.

⁷¹ Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said. ⁷³ A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it." ⁷⁴ Then with curses and oaths he declared, "I do not know the man." Immediately a cock crowed, ⁷⁵ and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.

³⁷ Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour? ³⁸ Be wakeful, all of you, and keep on praying, that you may not come into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

⁶⁷ and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene." ⁶⁸ But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court. Just then a cock crowed. ⁶⁹ Again the maidservant saw him, and again began to say to the people standing by, "He is one of them." ⁷⁰ A second time he repeatedly denied it. Soon afterwards the bystanders again accused Peter, saying, "You are surely one of them, for you too are a Galilaean." ⁷¹ But he broke out into curses and oaths, declaring, "I know nothing of the man you are talking about." ⁷² No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed for the second time, and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, "Before the cock crows twice, you will three times disown me." And as he thought of it, he wept aloud.

⁵⁶ when a maidservant saw him sitting by the fire, and, looking fixedly at him, she said, "This man also was with him."

⁵⁸ Shortly afterwards a man saw him and said, "You, too, are one of them." "No, man, I am not," said Peter. ⁵⁹ After an interval of about an hour some one else stoutly maintained: "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for in fact he is a Galilaean." ⁶⁰ "Man, I don't know what you mean," replied Peter. No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed. ⁶¹ The Master turned and looked on Peter; and Peter recollected the Master's words, how He had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times." ⁶² And he went out and wept aloud bitterly.

¹⁷ This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied. ¹⁸ Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.

¹¹ Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated with him to his face, because he had incurred just censure. ¹² For until certain persons came from James he had been accustomed to eat with Gentiles; but as soon as these persons came, he withdrew and separated himself for fear of the Circumcision party. ¹³ And along with him the other Jews also concealed their real opinions, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their lack of straightforwardness.

⁷³ A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."

⁷⁰ A second time he repeatedly denied it. Soon afterwards the bystanders again accused Peter, saying, "You are surely one of them, for you too are a Galilaean." ⁷¹ But he broke out into curses and oaths, declaring, "I know nothing of the man you are talking about."

⁵⁹ After an interval of about an hour some one else stoutly maintained: "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for in fact he is a Galilaean." ⁶⁰ "Man, I don't know what you mean," replied Peter. No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed.

¹ After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--Himself and His disciples.

¹⁰ Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

³⁴ "In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me."

⁶⁸ But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court. Just then a cock crowed.

³⁴ "I tell you, Peter," said Jesus, "that the cock will not crow to-day till you have three times denied that you know me."

³⁸ "You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus; "in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow before you have three times disowned me."

²³ "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay the tithe on mint, dill, and cumin, while you have neglected the weightier requirements of the Law--just judgement, mercy, and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done, and yet you ought not to have left the others undone. ²⁴ You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel! ²⁵ "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also. ²⁷ "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones and of all that is unclean. ²⁸ The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.

¹ When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death; ² and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor. ³ Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders ⁴ and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business." ⁵ Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself. ⁶ When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood." ⁷ So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city; ⁸ for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of 'the Field of Blood.' ⁹ Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, "AND I TOOK THE THIRTY SHEKELS, THE PRICE OF THE PRIZED ONE ON WHOM ISRAELITES HAD SET A PRICE, ¹⁰ AND GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

²⁷ Then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.

¹ At earliest dawn, after the High Priests had held a consultation with the Elders and Scribes, they and the entire Sanhedrin bound Jesus and took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate. ² So Pilate questioned Him. "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" he asked. "I am," replied Jesus. ³ Then, as the High Priests went on heaping accusations on Him, ⁴ Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply? Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you." ⁵ But Jesus made no further answer: so that Pilate wondered.

¹⁶ Then the soldiers led Him away into the court of the Palace (the Praetorium), and calling together the whole battalion

⁶⁶ As soon as it was day, the whole body of the Elders, both High Priests and Scribes, assembled. Then He was brought into their Sanhedrin, and they asked Him,

¹ Then the whole assembly rose and brought Him to Pilate, and began to accuse Him. ² "We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king." ³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied. ⁴ Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man." ⁵ But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started) to this city."

⁵⁵ The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

³³ Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

³⁹ But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?"

⁹ "What is your origin?" he asked. But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁴ It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

²⁸ He said to them, "You know better than most that a Jew is strictly forbidden to associate with a Gentile or visit him; but God has taught me to call no one unholy or unclean.

³ "You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."

¹¹ Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Governor, and the latter put the question, "Are you the King of the Jews?" "I am their King," He answered. ¹² When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply. ¹³ "Do you not hear," asked Pilate, "what a mass of evidence they are bringing against you?" ¹⁴ But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.

²³ "Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they kept on furiously shouting, "Let him be crucified!"

² "We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king." ³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

²⁸ And, wishing to know with certainty the offense of which they were accusing him, I brought him down into their Sanhedrin, ²⁹ and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment. ³⁰ But now that I have received information of an intended attack upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers also to state before you the case they have against him."

¹⁶ My reply was that it is not the custom among the Romans to give up any one for punishment before the accused has had his accusers face to face, and has had an opportunity of defending himself against the charge which has been brought against him.

³³ "See," He said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and the Scribes. They will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles;

³ Then, as the High Priests went on heaping accusations on Him,

¹⁹ At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them. ²⁰ So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority. ²¹ So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly. ²² Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?" ²³ But He saw through their knavery and replied, ²⁴ "Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said. ²⁵ "Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God." ²⁶ There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.

⁷ when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

¹² Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar."

⁶ As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him." ⁷ "We," replied the Jews, "have a Law, and in accordance with that Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God."

¹⁵ This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.

¹⁸ But, when his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with the misdemeanours of which I had been suspecting him. ¹⁹ But they quarrelled with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but--so Paul persistently maintained--is now alive. ²⁰ I was at a loss how to investigate such questions, and asked Paul whether he would care to go to Jerusalem and there stand his trial on these matters.

¹⁹ and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

⁷ when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again." ⁸ Then they remembered His words,

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

²⁸ So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

³¹ Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.

³³ "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

³² And I-- if I am lifted up from the earth--will draw all men to me." ³³ He said this to indicate the kind of death He would die.

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen, while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

¹³ Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us--because "CURSED IS EVERY ONE WHO IS HANGED UPON A TREE."

¹¹ Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Governor, and the latter put the question, "Are you the King of the Jews?" "I am their King," He answered.

² So Pilate questioned Him. "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" he asked. "I am," replied Jesus.

³⁸ "BLESSED IS the King," they cried, "WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD: in Heaven peace, and glory in the highest realms." ³⁹ Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, "Rabbi, reprove your disciples." ⁴⁰ "I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."

³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied. ⁴ Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are Israel's King!"

¹³ took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! BLESSINGS ON HIM WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD --even on the King of Israel!"

¹⁵ "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION! SEE, THY KING IS COMING RIDING ON AN ASS'S COLT."

²⁸ So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover. ²⁹ Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation have you to bring against this man?"

³⁷ "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write 'The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews." ²² "What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.

³⁴ For David did not ascend into Heaven, but he says himself, "'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND ³⁵ UNTIL I MAKE THY FOES A FOOTSTOOL UNDER THY FEET.' ³⁶ "Therefore let the whole House of Israel know beyond all doubt that God has made Him both LORD and CHRIST--this Jesus whom you crucified."

¹³ I charge you--as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith--

²⁸ So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

⁶ As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him."

¹¹ "You would have had no power whatever over me," replied Jesus, "had it not been granted you from above. On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more guilty than you are."

¹⁴ But, when Paul was about to begin his defence, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it had been some wrongful act or piece of cunning knavery I might reasonably have listened to you Jews. ¹⁵ But since these are questions about words and names and your Law, you yourselves must see to them. I refuse to be a judge in such matters." ¹⁶ So he ordered them out of court.

³⁸ "Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?"

²² Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live." ²³ And when they continued their furious shouts, throwing their clothes into the air and flinging dust about, ²⁴ the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.

²⁹ and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment.

¹ What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision? ² The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth.

⁵³ Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels?

¹⁴ "Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

²⁰ Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it. ²¹ Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."

¹⁵ Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

¹⁵ You judge according to appearances: I am judging no one.

¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit;

¹² and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light. ¹³ It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dearly-loved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have our redemption--the forgiveness of our sins.

⁶⁴ "I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND of Omnipotence, AND COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY."

⁶² "I am," replied Jesus, "and you and others will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the divine Power, and coming amid the clouds of the sky."

⁷⁰ Thereupon they cried out with one voice, "You, then, are the Son of God?" "It is as you say," He answered; "I am He."

³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

³² What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.

¹⁷ If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

¹⁴ "Even if I am giving testimony about myself," replied Jesus, "my testimony is true; for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you know neither of these two things.

⁴⁷ He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

⁶ "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

²² Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

¹⁴ As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

¹⁹ And in this way we shall come to know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in His presence

⁶ The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One--that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.

⁴ John sends greetings to the seven Churches in the province of Asia. May grace be granted to you, and peace, from Him who is and was and evermore will be; and from the seven Spirits which are before His throne;

¹⁴ "And to the minister of the Church at Laodicea write as follows: "'This is what the Amen says--the true and faithful witness, the Beginning and Lord of God's Creation.

¹⁸ For he knew that it was from envious hatred that Jesus had been brought before him. ¹⁹ While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him."

²⁴ So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, "I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it."

¹⁴ "Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they vehemently shouted, "Crucify Him!"

⁴ Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."

¹⁴ "You have brought this man to me on a charge of corrupting the loyalty of the people. But, you see, I have examined him in your presence and have discovered in the man no ground for the accusations which you bring against him. ¹⁵ No, nor does Herod; for he has sent him back to us; and, you see, there is nothing he has done that deserves death. ¹⁶ I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

⁴ Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "See, I am bringing him out to you to let you clearly understand that I find no crime in him."

¹⁹ Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is? ²⁰ For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."

³² When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

²⁵ But when he dealt with the subjects of justice, self-control, and the judgement which was soon to come, Felix became alarmed and said, "For the present leave me, and when I can find a convenient opportunity I will send for you." ²⁶ At the same time he hoped that Paul would give him money; and for this reason he sent for him the oftener to converse with him.

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ--as of an unblemished and spotless lamb.

¹⁵ "Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired; ¹⁶ and at this time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. ¹⁷ So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them. "Whom shall I release to you," he said, "Barabbas, or Jesus the so-called Christ?" ¹⁸ For he knew that it was from envious hatred that Jesus had been brought before him.

²⁰ The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus. ²¹ So when the Governor a second time asked them, "Which of the two shall I release to you?" --they cried, "Barabbas!" ²² "What then," said Pilate, "shall I do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" With one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!" ²³ "Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they kept on furiously shouting, "Let him be crucified!"

⁶ Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment; ⁷ and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents--persons who in the insurrection had committed murder. ⁸ So the people came crowding up, asking Pilate to grant them the usual favour. ⁹ "Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate. ¹⁰ For he could see that it was out of sheer spite that the High Priests had handed Him over. ¹¹ But the High Priests urged on the crowd to obtain Barabbas's release in preference; ¹² and when Pilate again asked them, "What then shall I do to the man you call King of the Jews?" ¹³ they once more shouted out, "Crucify Him!" ¹⁴ "Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they vehemently shouted, "Crucify Him!"

¹⁶ I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him." ¹⁷ OMITTED TEXT ¹⁸ Then the whole multitude burst out into a shout. "Away with this man," they said, "and release Barabbas to us" ¹⁹ --Barabbas! who had been lodged in jail for some time in connection with a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder. ²⁰ But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free. ²¹ They, however, persistently shouted, "Crucify, crucify him!" ²² A third time he appealed to them: "Why, what crime has the man committed? I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him." ²³ But they urgently insisted, demanding with frantic outcries that He should be crucified; and their clamour prevailed.

¹⁶ and at this time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.

²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he ordered to be scourged, and gave Him up to be crucified.

⁷ and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents--persons who in the insurrection had committed murder.

¹⁵ So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, released Barabbas for them, and after scourging Jesus handed Him over for crucifixion.

¹⁸ Then the whole multitude burst out into a shout. "Away with this man," they said, "and release Barabbas to us" ¹⁹ --Barabbas! who had been lodged in jail for some time in connection with a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.

²⁵ The man who was lying in prison charged with riot and murder and for whom they clamoured he set free, but Jesus he gave up to be dealt with as they desired.

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go. ¹⁴ Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.