John 9 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now as He was passing by He saw a man blind from birth. ² And His disciples asked Him saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, in that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but so that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ I must accomplish the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.” ⁶ Upon saying these things He spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the blind man’s eyes. ⁷ And He said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, ‘Sent’). So he went and washed, and came away seeing. ⁸ Then the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind started saying, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?” ⁹ Others said, “This is he;” still others, “He is like him.” He kept saying, “I’m the one!” ¹⁰ So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!” ¹² Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He says, “I don’t know.” ¹³ They bring the man who was formerly blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ (Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.) ¹⁵ So once again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. So he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man can’t be from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them. ¹⁷ So they address the blind man again, “What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” ¹⁸ However the Jews did not believe concerning him that he was blind and received sight until they summoned the parents of the one who had received sight. ¹⁹ And they asked them saying, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰ So his parents answered them and said: “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ but by what means he now sees we don’t know, or who opened his eyes we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, because the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ he would be barred from the synagogue. ²³ That’s why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” ²⁴ So they summoned the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” ²⁵ So he answered and said, “That He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that having been blind I now see!” ²⁶ So they said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷ He answered them: “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?” ²⁸ They reviled him and said: “You are that fellow’s disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses; but this fellow—we don’t know where he’s from.” ³⁰ The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes! ³¹ Now we know that God doesn’t listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, to him He listens. ³² Since time began it was never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God He wouldn’t be able to do anything.” ³⁴ They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us ?” And they expelled him. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and finding him He said to him, “Do you believe into the Son of God?” ³⁶ He answered and said, “And who is He, Lord, that I may believe into Him?” ³⁷ So Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and He is the One who is speaking with you.” ³⁸ So he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshipped Him. ³⁹ And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may become blind.” ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?” ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see’, so your sin remains.”

¹⁶ The people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and upon those sitting in the place and shadow of death light has dawned.”

¹¹ “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and speak all kinds of evil against you, lying, because of Me.

²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

³ to say to Him, “Are you the Coming One, or do we look for another?”

⁵ blind regain sight and lame walk, lepers are cleansed and deaf hear, dead are raised and the poor are evangelized.

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

¹ At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbaths. But His disciples became hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. ² And upon seeing it the Pharisees said to Him, “Hey, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!”

² And upon seeing it the Pharisees said to Him, “Hey, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!” ³ But He said to them: “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and those who were with him, ⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests? ⁵ Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶ Yet I say to you that a greater than the temple is here. ⁷ If you had but known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’, you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸ Furthermore, the Son of the Man is Lord of the Sabbath!” ⁹ Now moving on from there He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ And there was a man with a withered hand! And they asked Him saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him. ¹¹ So He said to them: “What man will there be among you who has one sheep, and should this one fall into a ditch on the Sabbath, will he not lay hold of it and lift it out? ¹² Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” ¹³ Then He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand”. And he stretched it out, and it was restored whole like the other. ¹⁴ But going out the Pharisees plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

²⁴ But upon hearing it the Pharisees said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.”

¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you (ye) will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. ¹⁵ Because the \up6 a\up0 hearts of this people have grown dull, and their \up6 b\up0 ears hard of hearing, and their \up6 c\up0 eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their \up6 c\up0 eyes and hear with their \up6 b\up0 ears and understand with their \up6 a\up0 hearts, and turn around; and I would heal them.’

³³ Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped Him saying, “Truly you are the Son of God!”

¹² Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do you know that upon hearing this saying the Pharisees were offended?” ¹³ But in answer He said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

¹⁴ So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets”.

¹⁶ So in answer Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

¹⁷ And should he refuse to hear them, tell it to the congregation. But should he refuse to hear even the congregation, let him be to you just like the heathen and the tax collector. ¹⁸ “Assuredly I say to you, whatever (pl.) you (pl.) may bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.

¹¹ And the crowds kept saying, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Natsareth of Galilee.”

⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces, namely to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by the people.

¹⁶ “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’. ¹⁷ Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is obligated’. ¹⁹ Stupid and blind!! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all the things on it. ²¹ And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him who used to dwell in it. ²² And he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. ²³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay a tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier items of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These it was obligatory to do, while not neglecting those. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat but gulp down a camel! ²⁵ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean. ²⁷ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you resemble whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead bones and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁶¹ and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days’.”

³⁹ And the passers-by kept blaspheming Him, wagging their heads

⁹ But as they were going to report to His disciples, wow, Jesus met them saying, “Rejoice!” So approaching, they held His feet and worshipped Him.

¹⁷ When they saw Him they worshipped Him; but some doubted.

¹ A beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God!

²³ Now it happened, on a Sabbath, that He was passing through some grain fields, and His disciples began to make a path, picking the heads of grain.

²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

⁶ And He marveled at their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

³³ After taking him aside, away from the crowd, He put His fingers in his ears; He also spat and touched his tongue.

²³ So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; then spitting into his eyes and laying hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

⁴⁶ They came to Jericho. Then as He was going out from Jericho, with His disciples and a large crowd, the blind Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting by the roadside begging.

²⁷ With Him they also crucified two bandits, one on His right and one on His left.

⁷⁰ — just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from antiquity—

⁷⁹ to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

³² a light for revelation to Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

³⁴ Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother: “Listen, this One is appointed to bring about the fall and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that is spoken against,

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because He has anointed me to evangelize poor people. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to blind people, to send those who are oppressed out in freedom,

¹ Now it happened on a second-first Sabbath that He was passing through the grain fields, and His disciples began to pick and eat the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. ² But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” ³ So in answer to them Jesus said: “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and even gave it to those with him—that which only the priests are allowed to eat?” ⁵ Then He said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath!” ⁶ Now it happened on a different Sabbath that He entered the synagogue and began to teach. Well there was a man there whose right hand was shriveled; ⁷ so the scribes and the Pharisees started watching, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against Him. ⁸ But He knew their thoughts and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in the center”. So he got up and stood. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them: “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” ¹⁰ And when He had looked around at them all, He said to him, “Stretch out your hand!” So he did that, and his hand was restored, as sound as the other. ¹¹ But they were filled with rage, and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

²² Blessed are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and heap insults on you and trash your name as ‘malignant’, for the Son of Man’s sake.

²¹ Well in that very hour He healed many from diseases and torments and malignant spirits, and to many blind He granted sight. ²² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Go and report to John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind regain sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, dead are raised, the poor are evangelized.

³⁹ Now as the Pharisee who had invited Him observed this, he was saying to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him, including what sort of woman she is—because she is a sinner!”

³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, whenever your ‘eye’ is good, your whole body is illuminated. But when it is malignant, your body also is darkened. ³⁵ So see to it that the ‘light’ in you not be darkness.

³⁹ So the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of greed and malignancy. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ Nevertheless, give what is possible as alms; then indeed all things are clean to you. ⁴² “But woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. These it was necessary to do, without leaving those undone. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.” ⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!”

⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!” ⁴⁶ So He said: “Woe to you lawyers also! You load men down with burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, it being your fathers who killed them. ⁴⁸ Thereby you witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, while you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’, ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation! ⁵² Woe to you lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering!” ⁵³ Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things, ⁵⁴ lying in wait for Him, trying to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

⁴ “Further, I say to you, my friends: do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ Rather, I will advise you whom you should fear—fear Him who after He kills has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes indeed, fear Him! ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ Even the hairs of your head are all numbered! So do not be afraid; you are far more valuable than sparrows! ⁸ “Also I say to you, whoever claims me before men, the Son of Man will also claim him before the angels of God. ⁹ But whoever disclaims me before men will be disclaimed before the angels of God.

⁴⁷ “That servant who knew his master’s will, but neither got ready nor did according to that will, will be beaten with many blows.

² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Do you suppose that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Do you suppose that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? ³ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish! ⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose they were worse offenders than all others living in Jerusalem?

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose they were worse offenders than all others living in Jerusalem? ⁵ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish!”

¹⁰ Now as Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, ¹¹ He saw a woman there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years—she was bent over and could not straighten up. ¹² So He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity!” ¹³ He placed His hands on her and immediately she was made straight and started glorifying God. ¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue reacted with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd, “There are six days in which one should work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath”. ¹⁵ So the Lord answered him and said: “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it away to water? ¹⁶ So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan kept bound during eighteen long years, be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” ¹⁷ When He said these things all His adversaries were put to shame, while all the crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.

³⁰ Yes indeed, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.” ³¹ On that same day some Pharisees approached saying to Him, “Get out of here and go away, because Herod wants to kill you”. ³² He said to them: “Go tell that ‘fox’, ‘Take note, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third I will be perfected’.

³² He said to them: “Go tell that ‘fox’, ‘Take note, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third I will be perfected’. ³³ Nevertheless I must keep going today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not credible that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem!

³³ Nevertheless I must keep going today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not credible that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem! ³⁴ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

¹ Then it happened, when He entered the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely.

¹¹ Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

² Well the Pharisees and the scribes started complaining, saying, “This man welcomes ‘sinners’ and eats with them”.

²⁰ And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate, ²¹ just wanting to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table—why even the dogs would come and lick his sores! ²² In due time the beggar died and was carried away to Abraham’s bosom by the angels. “The rich man also died and was buried.

³¹ He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone should rise from the dead’.”

¹⁰ “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and started praying to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like all the rest—robbers, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week; I tithe all that I get.’ ¹³ The tax collector, staying a good ways off, did not even venture to look up to heaven, but started beating on his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ ¹⁴ I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁴ I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁷ I tell you assuredly, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God the way a little child does will by no means enter it.”

³⁵ Then it happened, as He approached Jericho, that a certain blind man was sitting alongside the road begging.

⁷ But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

⁵⁶ Then a certain servant girl, seeing him sitting by the fire, looked intently at him and said, “This man also was with him”. ⁵⁷ But he denied Him, saying, “Woman, I do not know him!” ⁵⁸ After a little while another saw him and said, “You also are one of them”. But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” ⁵⁹ Then after about an hour had passed, another started insisting, “Surely this fellow also was with him, because he is a Galilean”. ⁶⁰ But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. ⁶¹ And the Lord turned and looked directly at Peter; then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how He had said to him, “Before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times”.

⁶⁷ “If you are the Messiah, tell us”. But He said to them: “If I tell you, you simply will not believe.

² And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, declaring himself to be Christ, a king”.

¹⁹ He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him: “The things concerning Jesus the Natsorean, how the man was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

⁵² Worshipping Him, they returned to Jerusalem with great joy;

⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. ⁵ Now the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ⁶ There was a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ This man came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ He himself was not the Light but was to testify about the Light— ⁹ the true Light which illumines everyone who comes into the world.

¹⁷ Because the Law was given through Moses; the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. The Only-begotten Son, who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has interpreted Him . ¹⁹ Now this is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

³⁴ So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

³⁸ So turning and observing them following Jesus says to them, “What do you want?” So they said to Him, “Rabbi” (which translated means ‘Teacher’), “where are You staying?”

⁴⁹ In answer Nathanael says to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” ⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, “You believe because I said that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater than these.”

² The same went to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come as a teacher from God, because no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?” ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to Him: “You are the teacher of Israel, yet you don’t understand these things?

¹⁵ so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life. ¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant.

¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant. ²⁰ For whoever practices evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light so that his deeds may not be exposed. ²¹ But whoever does the truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”

³⁶ The one believing into the Son has eternal life, but the one disobeying the Son will not see the life, but the wrath of God will remain upon him.”

¹⁹ The woman says to Him: “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

²⁶ Jesus says to her, “I am He, the one who is talking with you.”

³⁴ Jesus says to them: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.

⁹ Immediately the man became well and picked up his pallet and started to walk.

¹¹ He answered them, “The one who made me well—He said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’.”

¹¹ He answered them, “The one who made me well—He said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’.” ¹² So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?” ¹³ But the man who was cured didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared, there being a crowd in the place. ¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Don’t sin any more, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

¹⁶ So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁹ Then Jesus answered and said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from Himself, except something He sees the Father doing; because whatever things He does, precisely these the Son also does.

²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life. ²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live. ²⁶ Because just as the Father has life in Himself just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man .

³⁶ But I have a greater testimony than John’s, because the works that the Father gave me to complete—the very works that I am doing—they testify about me that the Father has sent me.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from men and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses is the one who accuses you, on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶ Because if you really believed Moses you would believe me, because he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But since you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my sayings?”

¹⁴ Now then, having seen the miraculous sign that Jesus performed the men said, “This One really is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not throw out;

⁵² At that the Jews started quarrelling among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?!”

⁶⁹ Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

¹¹ So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was a lot of murmuring about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is good”; others were saying, “On the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.” ¹³ However, no one was talking openly about Him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁷ If anyone wants to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

¹⁹ “Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you want to kill me?”

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them: “I did one work, and you all marvel. ²² Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

²⁷ On the other hand, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes nobody knows where He is from.”

⁴¹ Others were saying, “This One is the Christ!” Others were saying, “Surely the Christ isn’t coming out of Galilee, is He? ⁴² Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” ⁴³ So there developed a division in the crowd because of Him.

⁴⁵ Then the operatives came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?” ⁴⁶ The operatives answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” ⁴⁷ So the Pharisees answered: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you? ⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?

⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”

⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!” ⁵⁰ Nicodemus (the one who came to Him at night, being one of them) says to them, ⁵¹ “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing, does it?” ⁵² They answered and said to him: “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet has ever arisen out of Galilee.”

³ Then the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman caught in adultery; and placing her in the center ⁴ they say to Him: “Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the very act. ⁵ Now in our law Moses commanded that such women are to be stoned; so what do you say?” ⁶ They said this to test Him, so that they might have an accusation against Him. But stooping down Jesus began to write on the ground with His finger, taking no notice. ⁷ But since they kept on asking Him, straightening up He said to them, “Let the one without sin among you throw the first stone at her.” ⁸ And stooping down again He continued writing on the ground.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but will have the light of the life.”

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them: “Even though I testify about myself, my testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵ You are judging according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.

⁴¹ You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”

⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? So if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁹ Jesus answered: “I do not have a demon; rather, I honor my Father, while you dishonor me.

² And His disciples asked Him saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, in that he was born blind?”

⁶ Upon saying these things He spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the blind man’s eyes. ⁷ And He said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, ‘Sent’). So he went and washed, and came away seeing. ⁸ Then the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind started saying, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?” ⁹ Others said, “This is he;” still others, “He is like him.” He kept saying, “I’m the one!” ¹⁰ So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

¹⁰ So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!”

¹¹ He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!”

¹¹ He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!” ¹² Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He says, “I don’t know.” ¹³ They bring the man who was formerly blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ (Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.) ¹⁵ So once again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. So he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

¹⁵ So once again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. So he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man can’t be from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

²¹ but by what means he now sees we don’t know, or who opened his eyes we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, because the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ he would be barred from the synagogue.

²⁴ So they summoned the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” ²⁵ So he answered and said, “That He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that having been blind I now see!” ²⁶ So they said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

²⁶ So they said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷ He answered them: “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

²⁷ He answered them: “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

³⁰ The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes!

³⁰ The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes! ³¹ Now we know that God doesn’t listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, to him He listens. ³² Since time began it was never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God He wouldn’t be able to do anything.” ³⁴ They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us ?” And they expelled him. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and finding him He said to him, “Do you believe into the Son of God?” ³⁶ He answered and said, “And who is He, Lord, that I may believe into Him?” ³⁷ So Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and He is the One who is speaking with you.” ³⁸ So he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshipped Him. ³⁹ And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may become blind.” ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

¹⁹ Therefore there was another division among the Jews because of these words.

³² Jesus answered them: “Many good works I have shown you from my father. For which one of them are you stoning me?”

³⁶ do you say ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father sanctified and sent into the world because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.

⁴ Upon hearing it Jesus said, “This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁹ Jesus answered: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks in the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

²⁷ She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”

³⁷ But some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also kept this one from dying?”

⁴⁰ Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” ⁴¹ Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me. ⁴² I know that You always hear me, but I spoke for the sake of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent me.”

⁴⁶ But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said: “What can we do? Because this man performs many miraculous signs,

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had together issued an edict that if anyone knew where He was he should report it, so they could arrest Him.

¹⁹ So the Pharisees said among themselves: “You can see that you’re not making any difference! Just look, the world has gone off after Him!”

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake you; the one who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake you; the one who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe into the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these things, and going away He was hidden from them. ³⁷ Although He had performed so many signs in their presence, they were not believing into Him;

³⁷ Although He had performed so many signs in their presence, they were not believing into Him; ³⁸ so that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what we heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD really been revealed?” ³⁹ Therefore they were unable to believe, in that Isaiah said again: ⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and should turn around, and I would heal them.”

⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and should turn around, and I would heal them.” ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory and spoke concerning Him. ⁴² Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they wouldn’t be expelled from the synagogue;

⁴² Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they wouldn’t be expelled from the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁴⁶ I, Light, have come into the world so that everyone who believes into me will not remain in the darkness.

¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or else, believe me because of the works themselves.

¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or else, believe me because of the works themselves. ¹² “Most assuredly I say to you, the one believing into me, he too will do the works that I do; in fact he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. ¹³ Further, whatever you (pl) may ask in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

²¹ The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him. ²² Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

³⁰ “I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; actually, he has nothing in me.

¹⁶ It wasn’t you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me hates my Father too. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

² —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!

⁴ I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work that You have given me to do.

³⁰ In reply they said to him, “If he were not an evil-doer we would not have handed him over to you.”

⁶ Well when the chief priests and the operatives saw Him they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” Pilate says to them, “You take and crucify him, because I find no crime in him.”

³⁸ After these things Joseph, the one from Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), requested Pilate that he might remove the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. So he came and removed Jesus’ body.

¹⁹ Then at evening on that first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and He says to them, “Peace to you!”

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

³¹ but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life through His Name.

²² “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Natsorean, a man from God attested to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst, as you yourselves well know,

² And a certain man, who had actually been lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried (they would lay him daily at the temple gate, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple), ³ who, upon seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, began asking for alms. ⁴ So Peter, with John, fastening his gaze on him said, “Look at us”. ⁵ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶ But Peter said: “I don’t have silver and gold, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, get up and walk!” ⁷ And grasping him by his right hand he lifted him up; immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened. ⁸ So jumping up he stood, and began to walk! And he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. ⁹ Well all the people saw him walking and praising God; ¹⁰ and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him.

¹⁰ and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him. ¹¹ Now as the lame man who had been healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico, the one called ‘Solomon’s’, really wondering.

²² “For example, Moses said to the fathers: ‘The Lord our God will raise up for you a Prophet, like me, from among your brothers. You must listen to Him, in all that He may say to you. ²³ It will be that every person who will not listen to that Prophet will be extirpated from among the people.’ ²⁴ “Yes and all the prophets, from Samuel on down, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. ²⁵ You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Yes, in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed’. ²⁶ God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.”

¹⁴ Further, seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

¹⁸ So summoning them they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of ‘Jesus’.

²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.” ²¹ So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;

¹³ None of the rest dared to join them, but the people were magnifying them.

³⁸ So now I say to you, keep away from these men and leave them alone; because if this counsel or this work should be of men, it will be abolished; ³⁹ but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it—lest you even be found to be fighting against God!” ⁴⁰ Well they were persuaded by him, and summoned the Apostles; after beating them they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

¹¹ Then they instigated men to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.” ¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders and the scribes; and coming upon him they seized him, and brought him in to the Sanhedrin; ¹³ and they put forward false witnesses who said: “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Natsorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

³⁵ “This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ Now as they were going down the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch said: “Look, water! What is keeping me from being baptized?”

²⁰ Immediately he started proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

³¹ and said: ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms are remembered before God. ³² Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea; upon arriving he will speak to you.’ ³³ So I sent to you at once, and you did well to come. Now then, we are all present before God to hear all the things commanded you by God.”

³⁸ Jesus of Natsareth, how God anointed Him with Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and healing all those being oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him

⁴⁷ Because that is just how the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you to be a light for ethnic nations, that you should be for salvation up to the last place on earth’.”

⁴ Well the population of the city became divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.

²² Well they kept listening to him until this statement, and then they raised their voice and shouted, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for it isn’t fitting for him to live!”

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

²² So then, having experienced the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying to both small and great, saying nothing beyond what both the prophets and Moses said would happen ²³ —that the Messiah would suffer; that as the first to rise from the dead He would proclaim light to both ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations.”

⁴ So when the natives saw the beast hanging from his hand, they started saying to each other, “This man must be a murderer, whom Justice has not allowed to live, even though rescued from the sea”.

⁴ who was established to be God’s powerful Son (according to His spirit of holiness) by resurrection from the dead —Jesus Christ our Lord—

¹⁷ Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,

¹⁹ Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ²¹ You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

³ Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh,

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full knowledge. ³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness. ⁴ Now for everyone who believes into righteousness, Christ is the end of the law

¹⁴ How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone proclaiming it?

²⁰ But Isaiah is so bold as to say: “I was found by those who were not seeking me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me.”

⁷ What then? What Israel is seeking, this it did not obtain; but the election did obtain it, while the rest were dulled. ⁸ Just as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that were not to see and ears that were not to hear, to this very day.” ⁹ And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.”

¹² yes, we labor, working with our own hands. Upon being reviled, we bless; upon being persecuted, we endure it;

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.

¹³ Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.

¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.

³⁵ But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”

¹⁶ to these a smell of death into death, while to those a fragrance of life into life—and who is adequate for such things?

⁴ among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. ⁵ Now we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake; ⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision party. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews played the hypocrite with him as well, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁵ We natural Jews (and not ‘Gentile sinners’),

⁴ But at just the right time God sent out His Son, born of a woman, born under law,

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward everyone, but especially toward those who are of the household of faith.

³ among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

¹⁴ Therefore He says: “Wake up, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.”

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

⁵ Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages; ³ who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His\up6 [S]\up0 own power, when He had by Himself provided purification for our sins He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right, ⁴ having become so much superior to the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they have. ⁵ For to which of the angels did He\up6 [F]\up0 ever say, “You are my Son, today I begot you”, and again, “I will be ‘Father’ to Him, and He will be ‘Son’ to me”? ⁶ Again, when He introduces the Firstborn into the inhabited earth He says, “Let all God’s angels worship Him\up6 [S]\up0 ”. ⁷ Further, about the angels He\up6 [F]\up0 says, “Who makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire”; ⁸ while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; ‘Scepter of Uprightness’ is the scepter of Your kingdom. ⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultation beyond Your companions.”

² who was faithful to the One who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His\up6 [F]\up0 house. ³ For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself ⁴ —every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God— ⁵ also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken,

¹⁵ while it is still being said, “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” ¹⁶ So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was He\up6 [F]\up0 angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? ¹⁸ Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

⁷ Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God—thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’”

²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will deliver the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sin, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess your transgressions to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous one, being operative, is very powerful. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain; and it didn’t rain on the land for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.

⁹ But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a private-property people, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

²³ who being reviled did not revile in return, suffering did not threaten but committed it to Him who judges righteously;

⁵ Similarly, you younger ones, submit to elders. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, submitting to one another, because ‘God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones’.

⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous so as to forgive us those sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim that we have not sinned, we call Him a liar and His Word is not in us.

¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

²¹ Dear ones, if our heart doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁰ He who believes into the Son of God has the witness within himself; he who doesn’t believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son.

¹³ I have written these things to you who believe into the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life, really believing into the name of God’s Son.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to dominate the others, does not acknowledge us.

¹⁷ Because you say, “I am rich, even become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are the most wretched—yes, the most pitiable and poor and blind and naked— ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy gold from me, refined by fire, so that you may become rich; and white garments, so that you may be clothed, and your nakedness not be shamefully exposed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

⁹ And they sing a new song saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; because You were slaughtered, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and language and people and ethnic nation; ¹⁰ and You have made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth.” ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as it were the voice of many angels, around the throne and the living beings and the elders. And their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and a thousand thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” ¹³ And every creature which is in the heaven and upon the earth and under the earth, and those upon the sea, and everything in them—I heard them all saying: “To Him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb: the blessing and the honor and the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen!!” ¹⁴ and the four living beings saying the “Amen”. And the elders fell and did obeisance.

¹⁷ so that no one would be able to buy or sell who does not have the mark, the name of the Beast or the number of his name.

¹⁸ and there were lightnings and thunders and noises. And there was a tremendous earthquake, a terribly severe earthquake such as had not occurred since mankind existed on the earth.

⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light.