Luke 8 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now it happened after this that He started going around town by town, village by village, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God, and the twelve were with Him; ² also certain women who had been healed of malignant spirits and infirmities: Mary (the one called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out; ³ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, an official of Herod; and Susanna, and many others—these were providing for Him from their substance. ⁴ Now when a large crowd had gathered, with people coming to Him from town after town, He spoke by a parable: ⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it. ⁸ The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ⁹ Then His disciples asked Him saying, “What does this parable mean?” ¹⁰ So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand’. ¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God. ¹² Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, in order that they not be saved, having believed. ¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.” ¹⁶ Upon saying these things He called out: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he sets it on a lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ Further, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor anything concealed that will not be made known and come into the open. ¹⁸ So be careful how you hear: Because whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.” ¹⁹ Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and they could not get near Him because of the crowd. ²⁰ And it was told Him by some saying, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you”. ²¹ But in answer He said to them, “My mother and my brothers are these, the ones who hear the word of God and do it!” ²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out. ²³ But as they sailed He fell asleep. A windstorm descended on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in jeopardy. ²⁴ So they came and awakened Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He got up and rebuked the wind and the waves of water—and they stopped, and there was a calm! ²⁵ So He said to them, “Where is your faith?” But being terrified they marveled, saying to each other: “Who can this be? Because He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!” ²⁶ Then they sailed to the district of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. ²⁷ Well when He stepped out on the land, a certain man of that town met Him, who had had a demon for a long time—he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but among the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus he gave a yell, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!” ²⁹ Because He had commanded the unclean spirit to get out of the man (it had seized him many times—he would be bound with chains and shackles, being kept under guard; then bursting the bonds he would be driven by the demon into deserted places). ³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion” (because many demons had gone into him). ³¹ And he kept imploring Him that He would not order them to go away into the Abyss. ³² Now a herd of many pigs was feeding there on the hillside; and they started begging Him that He would allow them to go into those; so He gave them permission. ³³ Then the demons exited the man and entered the pigs—and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned! ³⁴ Well when the herders saw what had happened they ran away and reported it in the town and in the countryside. ³⁵ So they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus; they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. ³⁶ Also, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demonized man was healed. ³⁷ Then the whole multitude from the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, because they were overcome by fear. So He got into the boat and returned. ³⁸ Now the man from whom the demons had gone out had started begging Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ “Return to your house and recount how much God has done for you”. So he went his way and proclaimed all over town how much Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ Now it happened, when Jesus returned, that the crowd welcomed Him, because they were all waiting for Him. ⁴¹ And then, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; he fell down at Jesus’ feet and started begging Him to come to his house, ⁴² because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. Now as He was going, the crowds were pressing against Him. ⁴³ And a woman—suffering with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole livelihood on physicians, but could not be healed by any— ⁴⁴ approaching from behind touched the border of His garment; and immediately the flow of her blood stopped! ⁴⁵ So Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said: “Master, the people are pressing against you and crowding in, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’” ⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, because I noticed power going out from me”. ⁴⁷ Now when the woman saw that she could not hide, she came trembling, and falling down before Him she told Him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she was healed immediately. ⁴⁸ So He said: “Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go into peace.” ⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, here came someone from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying to him: “Your daughter has died. Don’t bother the teacher.” ⁵⁰ But upon hearing it Jesus reacted by saying to him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe and she will be healed”. ⁵¹ When He arrived at the house, He allowed no one to go in except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother. ⁵² Now all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping”. ⁵³ They started ridiculing Him, knowing that she had died. ⁵⁴ So He put them all outside, and grasping her hand He called, saying, “Child, arise!” ⁵⁵ Then her spirit returned, and she got right up! And He directed that she be given something to eat. ⁵⁶ Her parents were astonished, but He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

¹¹ And coming into the house they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and falling down they worshipped Him; and opening their treasures they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

²³ Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every illness among the people. ²⁴ So His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were sick—suffering with various diseases and torments, and being demonized and being moonstruck and paralytics—and He healed them.

¹³ You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt becomes insipid with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing except to be thrown out and trampled down by the people.

¹⁵ Nor do they light a lamp and place it under the hamper, but on the lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house. ¹⁶ So also let your light shine before the people so that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father in the heavens.

⁵ And whenever you pray do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, so that they may be seen by the people. Assuredly I say to you that they already have their reward. ⁶ But you, whenever you pray, go into your room, and having shut the door pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you openly.

²⁴ “No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. ²⁵ Therefore, I say to you not to worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, you little-faiths?

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. ²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’

²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’ ²⁴ “Therefore whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will compare him to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock; ²⁵ and the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and attacked that house; and it did not fall, because it was founded on the bedrock. ²⁶ But every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand;

³ So reaching out His hand Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed”. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴ And Jesus says to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a proof to them.”

⁷ And Jesus says to him, “I will go and heal him”. ⁸ But in answer the centurion said: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof; but only speak a word and my servant will be healed.

¹³ Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; and let it be done for you just as you believed”. And his servant was healed in that very hour.

¹⁸ Seeing large crowds around Him Jesus gave an order to depart for the opposite shore.

²³ Now when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. ²⁴ And then—a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping. ²⁵ So the disciples came and awakened Him saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” ²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ²⁷ So the men marveled, saying, “What sort of being is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” ²⁸ Upon His coming to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, two demonized men met Him, coming out from the tombs, very dangerous, so that no one could pass that way. ²⁹ And then—they cried out saying: “What do you have to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

²⁹ And then—they cried out saying: “What do you have to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” ³⁰ Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding.

³⁰ Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding. ³¹ So the demons kept imploring Him saying, “Since you are going to cast us out, permit us to go into the herd of pigs”.

³¹ So the demons kept imploring Him saying, “Since you are going to cast us out, permit us to go into the herd of pigs”. ³² So He said to them, “Go!” And coming out they went off into the herd of pigs. And then—the whole herd of pigs rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the water!

³² So He said to them, “Go!” And coming out they went off into the herd of pigs. And then—the whole herd of pigs rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the water! ³³ So the swineherds ran away, and going into the town they told everything, including about the demonized men.

³³ So the swineherds ran away, and going into the town they told everything, including about the demonized men.

³³ So the swineherds ran away, and going into the town they told everything, including about the demonized men. ³⁴ And then, the whole town went out to meet with Jesus; and upon seeing Him they begged Him to depart from their borders.

³⁴ And then, the whole town went out to meet with Jesus; and upon seeing Him they begged Him to depart from their borders.

¹ So getting into the boat He crossed over and came into His own city. ² And then, they came to Him carrying a paralytic lying on a pallet. And seeing their faith Jesus said to the paralytic, “Courage, son; your sins are forgiven you!”

¹⁸ While He was saying these things to them, there he was; a certain ruler came and worshipped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live”. ¹⁹ So Jesus got up and followed him, with His disciples. ²⁰ And then—a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.

²⁰ And then—a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. ²¹ For she kept saying to herself, “If only I may touch His garment I will be healed”.

²¹ For she kept saying to herself, “If only I may touch His garment I will be healed”. ²² But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well”. And the woman was healed from that very hour.

²² But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well”. And the woman was healed from that very hour.

²² But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well”. And the woman was healed from that very hour. ²³ When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flutists and the crowd making a commotion, ²⁴ He says to them, “Go away, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping”. So they began to ridicule Him. ²⁵ But when the crowd had been put outside, He went in and grasped her hand, and the girl got up.

²⁵ But when the crowd had been put outside, He went in and grasped her hand, and the girl got up. ²⁶ And the report of this went out into all that land.

³⁰ And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them saying, “See to it that no one knows!”

³⁵ Then Jesus went around to all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon (the one called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James (the son of Zebedee) and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew (the tax collector), James (the son of Alphaeus) and Lebbaeus (who was surnamed Thaddeus), ⁴ Simon (the Canaanite) and Judas Iscariot (who also betrayed Him).

²⁶ So do not fear them; because there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be known.

¹ And so it was, when Jesus finished directing His twelve disciples, that He moved on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

¹⁵ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

¹⁷ and saying, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we mourned for you and you did not lament’.

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.

²⁰ A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench, until He sends justice forth to victory.

⁴⁶ But then, while He was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. ⁴⁷ So someone said to Him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with you”. ⁴⁸ But in answer He said to the one who told Him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹ And stretching out His hand toward His disciples He said: “Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

² And large crowds were gathered together to Him, so He got into a boat to sit down; and the whole crowd stood on the shore. ³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: “Listen, a sower went out to sow.

³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: “Listen, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them.

⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth.

⁵ Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. ⁷ And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them.

⁷ And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them. ⁸ But others fell on the good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ¹⁰ And the disciples approached and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 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.

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.’ ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear; ¹⁷ for assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it. ¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road. ²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy, ²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended. ²² But the seed sown among the thorns—this is he who hears the word, but the care of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless. ²³ Now the seed sown on the good ground—this is he who hears the word and understands, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” ²⁴ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; ²⁵ but while the people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. ²⁶ But when the stalk sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

³⁶ Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples approached Him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field”. ³⁷ So He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of the Man.

⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joses and Simon and Jude? ⁵⁶ And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus

²² Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.

³⁰ But seeing the strong wind he became afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out saying, “Lord, save me!” ³¹ And immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him and says to him: “You little-faith! Why did you doubt?”

¹⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us”.

¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

⁵ While he was still speaking a brilliant cloud overshadowed them and, double wow, a Voice came out of the cloud saying: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am always well pleased. Hear Him!”

²⁰ So Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed has, you (ye) will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

³⁴ So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.

¹³ So the one who perseveres to the end, he will be saved.

²⁹ For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ ⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on His left: ‘Go away from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴⁵ Then He will answer them saying, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me’.

¹¹ You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me .

⁵³ Do you actually suppose that I cannot call upon my Father right now and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of angels?

⁵⁵ Many women who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, were there looking on from a distance; ⁵⁶ among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

⁸ So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to report to His disciples.

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to them: “Do not be afraid! Go report to my brothers that they must go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” ¹¹ Now while they were going, get this, some of the guard went into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.

²⁴ saying: “Hey, what do you want with us, Jesus Natsarene?! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” ²⁵ So Jesus rebuked him saying: “Shut up and get out of him!” ²⁶ The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. ²⁷ And all were astounded, so that they questioned among themselves, saying: “What is this? What can this new doctrine be? Because with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

³¹ So He went and grasping her hand lifted her up; immediately the fever left her and she began to serve them.

³⁹ He was constantly preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and also casting out demons.

⁴⁵ However he went out and began to proclaim it freely, spreading the news, so that He was no longer able to enter a town openly, but remained outside in deserted places; yet they kept coming to Him from all over.

¹⁶ namely Peter (a name He gave to Simon); ¹⁷ James son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (and a name He gave to them was Boanerges, that is, ‘Sons of thunder’); ¹⁸ Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

²¹ Well upon hearing this His family came to apprehend Him, because they were saying, “He is out of his mind!”

³¹ Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. ³² A crowd was sitting around Him; so they said to Him, “Look, your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you”. ³³ He answered them saying, “Who is my mother or my brothers?” ³⁴ And looking around at those seated in a circle around Him He said: “Behold my mother and my brothers! ³⁵ Because whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, my sister, my mother.”

¹ Once again He began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He got into the boat and sat down, out on the water, while the whole crowd was on the land, at the water’s edge. ² Then He began teaching them many things by parables and said to them in His teaching:

² Then He began teaching them many things by parables and said to them in His teaching: ³ “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow.

³ “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil.

⁵ Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil. ⁶ But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

⁶ But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up. ⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit.

⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit. ⁸ And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

⁸ And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.” ⁹ Then He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ¹⁰ But when He was alone, those who were around Him, with the twelve, asked Him about the parable. ¹¹ So He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, everything is being given in parables,

¹⁴ The sower sows the Word. ¹⁵ These are the ones where the Word is sown along the path: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts.

¹⁵ These are the ones where the Word is sown along the path: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts. ¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy,

¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy, ¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away.

¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word,

¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word, ¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.” ²¹ Also He said to them: “The lamp is not brought to be put under a box or under a bed, is it? Is it not to be placed on its stand? ²² For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light.

²² For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light. ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” ²⁴ Then He said to them: “Pay attention to what you hear. With the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return; and to you who hear, more will be added. ²⁵ Because whoever has, to him more will be given; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.” ²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground ²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the earth produces fruit: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full grain in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

³⁴ But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples. ³⁵ On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us go across to the other side”. ³⁶ Since He was already in the boat, they took off with Him, leaving the crowd behind (other little boats were also with Him). ³⁷ Well a strong cyclonic wind came up, such that the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling up. ³⁸ But He was on the poop deck, sleeping on the cushion; so they awakened Him and said to Him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are perishing?” ³⁹ Then, having been awakened, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Shut up; be muzzled!” So the wind stopped and there was a complete calm. ⁴⁰ And He said to them: “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?” ⁴¹ They were terrified and started saying to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!?”

¹ Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes. ² And when He got out of the boat, right away a man with an unclean spirit met Him, coming from the tombs

² And when He got out of the boat, right away a man with an unclean spirit met Him, coming from the tombs ³ —he had his dwelling among the tombs. No one could bind him, not even with chains,

³ —he had his dwelling among the tombs. No one could bind him, not even with chains, ⁴ because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, only to have had the chains torn apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; no one had been strong enough to tame him.

⁴ because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, only to have had the chains torn apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; no one had been strong enough to tame him. ⁵ Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

⁵ Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. ⁶ When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and kneeled down to Him,

⁶ When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and kneeled down to Him, ⁷ and with a loud cry he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, don’t torment me!”

⁷ and with a loud cry he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, don’t torment me!” ⁸ Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!”

⁸ Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!”

⁸ Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!” ⁹ Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “Legion is my name, because we are many”.

⁹ Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “Legion is my name, because we are many”. ¹⁰ He started begging Him repeatedly that He would not send them out of that region. ¹¹ Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside.

¹¹ Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. ¹² So all the demons begged Him saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them”.

¹² So all the demons begged Him saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them”. ¹³ And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea.

¹³ And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea. ¹⁴ So those who were tending the pigs ran off and reported it in the town and the country-side. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁴ So those who were tending the pigs ran off and reported it in the town and the country-side. And they went out to see what it was that had happened. ¹⁵ They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

¹⁵ They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. ¹⁶ Those who had seen it related to them how it happened to the demonized man, and about the pigs. ¹⁷ Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders.

¹⁷ Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders. ¹⁸ Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him. ¹⁹ But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy on you”. ²⁰ So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all were marveling. ²¹ Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to Him; and He was by the sea. ²² And then, one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, comes, and upon finding Him he falls at His feet ²³ and pleads earnestly with Him, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; do come and lay your hands on her so that she may be saved, and she will live”. ²⁴ So He went with him. A large crowd was also following Him, and they were pressing around Him.

²⁴ So He went with him. A large crowd was also following Him, and they were pressing around Him. ²⁵ Now a certain woman—who had been bleeding for twelve years,

²⁵ Now a certain woman—who had been bleeding for twelve years, ²⁶ and had suffered many things under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse—

²⁶ and had suffered many things under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse— ²⁷ when she heard about Jesus, she came from behind in the crowd and touched His garment.

²⁷ when she heard about Jesus, she came from behind in the crowd and touched His garment. ²⁸ (She had kept saying, “If I can just touch His clothes, I will be healed”.)

²⁸ (She had kept saying, “If I can just touch His clothes, I will be healed”.) ²⁹ Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed from the affliction. ³⁰ And instantly Jesus perceived within Himself that some power had gone out of Him, and turning around in the crowd He said, “Who touched my clothes?”

³⁰ And instantly Jesus perceived within Himself that some power had gone out of Him, and turning around in the crowd He said, “Who touched my clothes?” ³¹ So His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’?”

³¹ So His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’?” ³² But He kept looking around to see who had done it.

³² But He kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ So the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

³³ So the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. ³⁴ And He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go into peace and be healed from your affliction.”

³⁴ And He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go into peace and be healed from your affliction.” ³⁵ While He was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying: “Your daughter died. Why trouble the teacher further?” ³⁶ But immediately upon hearing the spoken message Jesus said to the synagogue ruler, “Don’t be afraid; just believe!”

³⁶ But immediately upon hearing the spoken message Jesus said to the synagogue ruler, “Don’t be afraid; just believe!” ³⁷ He allowed no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

³⁷ He allowed no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. ³⁸ Then He came to the synagogue ruler’s house and found a commotion—weeping and loud wailing.

³⁸ Then He came to the synagogue ruler’s house and found a commotion—weeping and loud wailing.

³⁸ Then He came to the synagogue ruler’s house and found a commotion—weeping and loud wailing. ³⁹ So upon entering He said to them: “Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

³⁹ So upon entering He said to them: “Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

³⁹ So upon entering He said to them: “Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but is asleep.” ⁴⁰ But they started ridiculing Him. After He put them all out, He took the child’s father and mother, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying.

⁴⁰ But they started ridiculing Him. After He put them all out, He took the child’s father and mother, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying.

⁴⁰ But they started ridiculing Him. After He put them all out, He took the child’s father and mother, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying. ⁴¹ And taking the child by the hand He said to her, “Talitha koumi”, which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”

⁴¹ And taking the child by the hand He said to her, “Talitha koumi”, which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!” ⁴² Immediately the girl got up and started walking around (she was twelve years old). And they were overcome with great amazement. ⁴³ He gave them strict orders that no one should know about it, and said to give her something to eat.

⁴³ He gave them strict orders that no one should know about it, and said to give her something to eat.

³ Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they took offense at Him.

²⁰ because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a just and holy man. And consulting him he would do many things; indeed, he would hear him with pleasure.

⁴⁵ Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

⁵⁶ Wherever He entered—into villages, towns, or country-side—they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and they would beg Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment; and all who touched Him were healed.

¹⁷ When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable. ¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

¹³ Turning His back on them, He got back into the boat and went off to the other side.

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.

¹⁸ And wherever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. Indeed, I spoke to your disciples, that they might cast it out, but they could not.”

²⁰ So they brought him to Him. Upon seeing Him the spirit convulsed him, and falling to the ground he started wallowing, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood.

²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood. ²² Really, it has often thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

²² Really, it has often thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” ²³ Jesus said to him, “It’s ‘if you can believe’; all things are possible to the one who believes”.

²³ Jesus said to him, “It’s ‘if you can believe’; all things are possible to the one who believes”. ²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” ²⁵ When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again”. ²⁶ Then it yelled, convulsed him violently, and came out. Well he looked to be dead; so much so that many said, “He’s dead”. ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he stayed on his feet.

²² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Have faith in God. ²³ Because I tell you assuredly, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be picked up and be thrown into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that the things he says will happen, he will have whatever he says. ²⁴ That is why I say to you, whatever things you ask for in prayer, believe that you receive, and you will have them.

³⁷ Therefore David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; so how can He be his son?” The large crowd listened to Him with pleasure.

¹⁴ “Now whenever you see the ‘abomination of desolation’, the one spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where he should not”—let the reader understand—“then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

³³ But He took with Him Peter, James and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

⁴⁰ There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome ⁴¹ —they used to follow Him and minister to Him when He was in Galilee—and many other women who had come up with Him to Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ Well Pilate was surprised that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion he asked him when He had died. ⁴⁵ Upon the centurion’s confirmation he granted the body to Joseph.

¹ Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint Jesus.

⁹ Having risen early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.

¹⁰ The angel said to them: “Do not be afraid because listen, I am announcing the most joyful news to you, which will be to all the people! ¹¹ You see, today, in David’s city, a Savior was born to you, who is Lord Christ!

⁴⁶ So it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

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,

³³ Now in the synagogue was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon; he cried out with a loud voice ³⁴ saying: “Ugh! What do you want with us, Jesus of Natsareth? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God!” ³⁵ So Jesus rebuked him saying, “Be muzzled, and get out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the midst, it came out of him without harming him. ³⁶ Everyone was taken with amazement and they started conversing together, saying: “What is this word! For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

³⁹ So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

⁴³ But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because for this purpose I have been sent”. ⁴⁴ So He went preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

¹ Now it happened, as He had come along the Lake of Genesaret, that the multitude crowded Him to hear the Word of God;

⁵ And in answer Simon said to Him, “Master, we have worked hard the whole night and caught nothing, but based on your word I will let down the net”.

⁸ Upon experiencing this Simon Peter fell at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

¹⁴ Then He ordered him to tell no one, “But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing just as Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them.”

¹⁷ Now it happened on a certain day that He was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee, and from Judea and Jerusalem, sitting there—and the power of the Lord was there to heal them.

¹⁴ Simon (whom He also named Peter) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Phillip and Bartholomew,

¹⁴ Simon (whom He also named Peter) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Phillip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon (the one called ‘Zealot’), ¹⁶ Judas of James and Judas Iscariot (who also became ‘traitor’).

¹⁹ So the whole crowd kept trying to touch Him, because power was going out from Him and was healing all.

⁴⁵ The good man produces the good out of the good treasure in his heart, and the malignant man produces the malignant out of the malignant treasure in his heart; because his mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.

⁶ So Jesus went with them. But when He was no longer far from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him: “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

¹² But as He approached the town gate, mercy, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; a large crowd from the town was with her.

¹⁴ And advancing He took hold of the bier and the bearers stood still. Then He said, “Young man, to you I say, get up!” ¹⁵ So the dead man sat up and began to talk! Yes, He gave him back to his mother.

³⁸ and as she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and kept wiping them with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

⁵⁰ Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go into peace.”

² also certain women who had been healed of malignant spirits and infirmities: Mary (the one called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out;

⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.

⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it.

¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God. ¹² Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, in order that they not be saved, having believed. ¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out.

²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out. ²³ But as they sailed He fell asleep. A windstorm descended on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in jeopardy.

²³ But as they sailed He fell asleep. A windstorm descended on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in jeopardy.

²⁷ Well when He stepped out on the land, a certain man of that town met Him, who had had a demon for a long time—he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but among the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus he gave a yell, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion” (because many demons had gone into him).

³⁷ Then the whole multitude from the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, because they were overcome by fear. So He got into the boat and returned.

³⁷ Then the whole multitude from the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, because they were overcome by fear. So He got into the boat and returned. ³⁸ Now the man from whom the demons had gone out had started begging Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

⁴¹ And then, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; he fell down at Jesus’ feet and started begging Him to come to his house, ⁴² because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. Now as He was going, the crowds were pressing against Him. ⁴³ And a woman—suffering with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole livelihood on physicians, but could not be healed by any—

⁴⁵ So Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said: “Master, the people are pressing against you and crowding in, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

⁴⁸ So He said: “Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go into peace.” ⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, here came someone from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying to him: “Your daughter has died. Don’t bother the teacher.”

⁵¹ When He arrived at the house, He allowed no one to go in except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

⁵ But as many as do not receive you, when you depart from that town, shake off even the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

⁷ Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, ⁸ and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen. ⁹ But Herod said, “John I beheaded; so who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he started trying to see Him.

¹³ But He said to them, “You feed them!” So they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd”

²⁸ Now about eight days after these words, it happened that He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

³⁹ And oh, a spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams, and it convulses him with foaming, and it hardly departs from him, destroying him!

⁴² But while he was still coming the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.

⁴⁴ “Let these words sink into your ears, because the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men”.

⁵⁶ Further, the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save.” And they went to another village.

¹⁰ But into whatever town you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say: ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to us we wipe off against you. Nonetheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

¹⁶ “He who listens to you listens to me, and he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me!”

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit 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 ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.” ²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.” ²³ Then turning to His disciples privately He said: “Blessed are the eyes that are seeing the things that you see; ²⁴ for I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you are seeing but did not, and to hear what you are hearing but did not.”

³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who actually sat at Jesus’ feet listening to His words.

⁷ and he will answer from within and say, ‘Don’t bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give to you’?

²⁷ And then, as He was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” ²⁸ But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

²⁸ But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

³³ “No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in hiding or under a basket, but on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

² There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. ³ Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the ear behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’ ²¹ Just like that is he who accumulates treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

²⁸ So if God so clothes the grass that today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into an oven, how much more you, O little-faiths!

⁶ Then He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’ ⁸ But in answer he said to him, ‘Sir, let it be this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer, ⁹ in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down’.”

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.

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”.

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 But when he came to himself he said: ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have an abundance of bread, while I am dying of hunger!

² So he called him in and said to him: ‘What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be manager.’ ³ Then the manager said within himself: ‘What shall I do? My master is taking the management away from me. I don’t have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg ⁴ —I know what I’ll do, so that whenever I am removed from the management they may receive me into their houses.’

¹³ No servant can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!” ¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were also listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing Him.

¹⁹ “Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 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. ²³ And in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham at a distance, and Lazarus very close to him. And being in torment, ²⁴ he called out, saying, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; because I am tormented by this flame!’ ²⁵ But Abraham said: ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus had bad things; but now he is being comforted, and you tormented.

¹⁵ Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice;

¹⁵ Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice; ¹⁶ then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan!

¹⁶ then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan!

¹⁶ then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan! ¹⁷ So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine? ¹⁸ None were found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner!” ¹⁹ Then He said to him, “Get up and go; your faith has made you well.”

²⁶ Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building— ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

²⁴ When Jesus saw that he became sad, He said: “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is actually easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

⁴² Then Jesus said to him: “See again! Your faith has made you well.”

⁶ So he came down quickly, and received Him joyfully.

²⁶ ‘Indeed I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

³⁷ Then, as He was approaching the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, ³⁸ saying: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

⁴⁸ but could not figure out how to do it, because all the people were hanging on His words.

³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

³¹ Then the Lord said: “Simon, Simon! Indeed Satan has asked for you (pl) so as to sift you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.”

²⁷ A considerable crowd of people followed Him, including women who were also mourning and lamenting Him.

⁴⁹ But all His acquaintances, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

⁵⁵ The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed there.

¹⁰ They were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.

⁴¹ But as they were still disbelieving and marveling, because of the joy, He said to them, “Do you have any food here?” ⁴² So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb. ⁴³ And taking it He ate in their presence.

¹² But, as many as did receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe into His name: ¹³ who were begotten, not by blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the will of a man, but by God .

² Now both Jesus and His disciples had been invited to the wedding. ³ So when the wine had given out, Jesus’ mother says to Him, “They don’t have any wine!” ⁴ Jesus says to her, “What’s that to you and me, woman? My time hasn’t come yet.” ⁵ His mother says to the servants, “Do whatever He may tell you.” ⁶ (Now there were six stone waterpots set there, according to the purification rites of the Jews, containing 20 or 30 gallons each.)

²³ Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed into His name, observing the signs that He was doing. ²⁴ But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men ²⁵ and that He had no need that anyone should testify about man, because He Himself knew what was in man.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten from above he is not able to see the kingdom of God.” ⁴ Nicodemus says to Him, “How can a man be begotten, being old? He can’t enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” ⁵ Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten by water and Spirit he is not able to enter the kingdom of God.

²⁹ “Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

⁴⁶ So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

⁴⁶ So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you won’t believe!”

⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you won’t believe!” ⁴⁹ The official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

⁴⁹ The official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” ⁵⁰ Jesus says to him, “Go; your son lives.” Well the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and off he went. ⁵¹ Now while he was still going down his slaves met him and reported saying, “Your son lives!” ⁵² So he inquired of them the hour in which he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at the exact hour in which Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” Both he himself and his whole household believed.

⁵ Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years. ⁶ Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”

¹³ But the man who was cured didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared, there being a crowd in the place.

²¹ Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁵ That man was a burning, shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to be glad in his light.

¹ After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

²⁸ So they said to Him, “What should we do so that we may work the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.”

³ So His brothers said to Him: “Leave here and go up into Judea so your disciples also may see the works that you are doing, ⁴ because no one does anything in secret while he actually wants to be in evidence. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world!” ⁵ For not even His brothers were believing into Him. ⁶ So Jesus says to them: “My time isn’t here yet, but your time is always available.

³⁰ While He was saying these things many believed into Him. ³¹ So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples; ³² and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying .

¹ Now as He was passing by He saw a man blind from birth.

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.”

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.”

¹¹ Having said these things He says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going in order to awaken him.” ¹² His disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping he will get well.” ¹³ But Jesus had spoken of his death, while they thought He was talking about natural sleep.

²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died.

²⁵ Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

³⁹ Jesus says, “Remove the stone!” Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks; it’s been four days!” ⁴⁰ Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”

⁴³ Upon saying these things He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴ And out the deceased came! Bound hand and foot with bandages, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

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.”

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.

¹⁷ If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments.

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. ²⁴ The one who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words; further, the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.

⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.

¹⁵ “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.

¹¹ Jesus answered: “You would have no authority over me at all if it hadn’t been given to you from Above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

²⁵ Now Jesus’ mother and her sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing by His cross.

³³ But upon coming to Jesus, they did not break His legs, since they saw that He had already died. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. ³⁵ And the one who saw has testified, and his testimony is true (yes, he knows he is telling the truth), so that you may believe.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father—my God and your God.’”

¹⁴ All these were continuing with one purpose in prayer and petition, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

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),

²² because the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.

¹⁵ to the point that they kept carrying the sick into the streets, placing them on cots and pallets, so that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

¹³ Even Simon himself believed, and having been baptized he stayed right with Philip; observing miracles and signs occurring, he was amazed. ¹⁴ Now when the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, ¹⁵ who upon coming down prayed about them, so that they might receive Holy Spirit, ¹⁶ because He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized into the name of Jesus, the Christ. ¹⁷ Then they laid their hands upon them and they received Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Well, upon observing that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the Apostles’ hands, Simon offered them money ¹⁹ saying, “Give this power to me also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive Holy Spirit.” ²⁰ But Peter said to him: “May your silver go with you into perdition, for thinking that the gift of God could be acquired with money! ²¹ You have neither part nor portion in this matter, because your heart is not right before God. ²² Turn away therefore from this your wickedness and make petition to God, in case the intent of your heart may be forgiven you; ²³ for I see you being into a gall of bitterness and a fetter of unrighteousness.”

¹³ But Ananias answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Moreover here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.” ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel; ¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

³⁶ Now there was a certain disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds that she kept doing. ³⁷ But it happened in those days that she took sick and died; so when they had washed her they placed her in the upper room. ³⁸ Now Lydda was near Joppa; the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent to him imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

³⁸ Now Lydda was near Joppa; the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent to him imploring him not to delay in coming to them. ³⁹ So Peter got up and went with them; upon arriving they took him up to the upper room; all the widows stood around him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas was making while she was with them. ⁴⁰ So Peter put them all out, kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, get up!” So she opened her eyes, and upon seeing Peter she sat up.

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

¹ Now in the congregation that was in Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon (the one called Niger), Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

¹⁵ After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, do speak”.

³² “Yes we proclaim to you the good news: the promise that was made to the fathers,

⁸ Well in Lystra a certain man with helpless feet was sitting (lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked). ⁹ This man was listening to Paul speaking; who looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

⁹ This man was listening to Paul speaking; who looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed, ¹⁰ said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk!

¹⁶ Now it happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain slave girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought considerable profit to her owners by divination. ¹⁷ Following Paul and Silas this girl kept calling out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to us the way of salvation!” ¹⁸ She kept this up for many days! So Paul, becoming increasingly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out that very hour.

²⁹ So calling for a light he ran in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

³⁹ and they came and appealed to them, and leading them out they asked them to leave the city.

¹¹ Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all good-will, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things might be so.

⁸ Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household; and as they were hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and being baptized.

¹⁷ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was a delay to Gallio.

¹² so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them.

¹² so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them. ¹³ Well some among the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had wicked spirits saying, “We adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches”. ¹⁴ In fact there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who were doing this. ¹⁵ But a particular wicked spirit reacted and said, “Jesus I know, and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶ And the man in whom the wicked spirit was jumped on them and overpowered them; he was so much stronger that they ran out of that house naked and wounded.

¹⁶ And the man in whom the wicked spirit was jumped on them and overpowered them; he was so much stronger that they ran out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷ Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being exalted.

³ “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as you all are today.

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.’

¹⁴ But not long after, a cyclonic wind blasted down from the land (it is called Euroclydon). ¹⁵ Well the ship was caught and could not head into the wind, so we gave up and were driven along. ¹⁶ Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we barely managed to secure the skiff; ¹⁷ when they had hoisted it aboard, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven along. ¹⁸ We were being so violently battered by the storm that the next day they began to jettison things, ¹⁹ and on the third we threw off the ship’s tackle with our own hands. ²⁰ When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a major storm was still pounding us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

²⁶ saying: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but never understand; you will keep on seeing, but never perceive”; ²⁷ because the heart of this people has become sluggish, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; in order that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor turn back, so I could heal them.’

⁴ Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance? ⁵ Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God’s wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,

⁷ to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life;

¹⁷ just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations” —in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the non-existent things as though they did exist.

²⁰ He did not waver at God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God,

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

²² But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.

¹⁸ Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I don’t find how to perform the good.

¹⁵ And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: “How timely is the arrival of those who bring good news of peace, of those who announce the good things.”

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.”

³ Based on the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to set your sights higher than you should, but set them sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each.

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³ Also, I was with you in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling.

⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory, ⁸ that none of the rulers of this age have understood (because if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory). ⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.” ¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ Now who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow.

⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, while another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds; ¹¹ for no one can lay any foundation other than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become ‘foolish’ so that he may become wise.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts. At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God’s commandments.

² And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁵ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

¹¹ However, the one and the same Spirit produces all of these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

³⁷ If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the Lord’s commands.

² through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain.

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,

¹⁶ So then, from now on we regard no one from a fleshly perspective—even if we have ‘known’ Christ in this way, we do so no longer —

¹⁸ And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the LORD Almighty.”

¹⁵ Also, his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers your collective obedience as you received him with fear and trembling.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁹ (I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

²³ —they just kept hearing that “He who once persecuted us now proclaims the faith he formerly tried to destroy.” ²⁴ And they glorified God about me.

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you not be persuaded by the Truth —Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as having been crucified, before your very eyes!

⁴ Have you suffered so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

¹⁵ So what about your blessedness? Because I can testify that if it were possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? ¹⁷ They zealously court you —not for good but intending to isolate you, so that you may seek them. ¹⁸ Now it is good to be zealous in a good thing at any time, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹ My little children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you ²⁰ —I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone; because I am perplexed about you!

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us also conform to the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

⁸ For by grace you have been saved, through the faith —and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God—

¹⁰ You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

³ how that by revelation He made known to me the ‘secret’ (as I have written briefly already, ⁴ with reference to which, when you read, you can understand my insight into Christ’s secret), ⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: ⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel, ⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to enlighten all as to the program of the secret that from the beginning of the ages has been hidden by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

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¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

²³ I am torn between the two: I have the desire to depart and be with Christ (far better),

¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father. ¹² So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed (not only in my presence but now much more in my absence), keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

⁴ (though I myself actually have basis for such confidence). If anyone else thinks he has basis for confidence in flesh, I even more:

¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have already claimed it, but this: forgetting the things behind and straining toward those ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize, the upward call from God because of Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ So then, those of us who are mature should have this mentality, but if on some point you think differently, God will reveal that to you as well.

²² All the saints greet you, but especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden from past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory; ²⁸ whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being united in love and into a great wealth of confident understanding, into a real knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ,

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

⁵ Yes, that’s why, no longer standing it, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had successfully tempted you and our labor come to be for nothing.

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 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. ¹¹ Yes, because of this God will send them an active delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness. ¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth, ¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief; ¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief; ¹⁶ precisely for this reason I was shown mercy, that in me, the ‘chief’, Jesus Christ might display all his forbearance, as an example for those who are going to rely on Him into eternal life.

¹⁹ holding on to faith and a good conscience (which some having rejected have suffered shipwreck concerning the faith;

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

⁸ But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁰ known for good works—she brought up children, she lodged strangers, she washed saints’ feet, she relieved the afflicted, she devoted herself to every good work.

⁹ But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires, that plunge people into ruin and loss; ¹⁰ because the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; in their greediness some have been led away from the faith and have impaled themselves on many distresses.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present world not to be haughty, nor to rely upon the uncertainty of riches but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

¹⁸ who have wandered away from the Truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His” and “Let everyone who claims the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.”

²⁵ correcting courteously those who oppose him, in hopes that God may grant them repentance leading to a real knowledge of Truth ²⁶ and that they may retrieve their senses out of the devil’s snare (having been taken captive by him to do his will).

¹⁰ for Demas, loving this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica—Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.

¹¹ For both He\up6 [S]\up0 who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’, ¹² saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in Him\up6 [F]\up0 ”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.” ¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.

⁷ Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you would hear His voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, during the time of the testing in the desert,

¹⁵ while it is still being said, “Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

⁷ Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God; ⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope; ¹² so that you not become lazy, but rather imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

³⁹ But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

⁴ but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: ¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products. ¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ because a man’s anger does not achieve God’s righteousness. ²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls.

²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. ²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.

²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.

²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror;

²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror;

²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like.

²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like.

²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like. ²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder!)

²⁶ For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

⁷ Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that would come to you, searched and inquired diligently, ¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

²³ having been begotten again, not from a corruptible seed but an incorruptible, through the living Word of God that remains valid forever. ²⁴ For: “All flesh is as grass, and all man’s glory as flower of grass. The grass withers and its flower falls off, but the Lord’s word endures forever.” ²⁵ Now this is the good word that was proclaimed to you.

¹ So then, laying aside all malignity —even all deceit and play-actings and envies, yes all malicious speaking— ² crave the pure spiritual ‘milk’, like newborn babies do, so that by it you may grow into salvation,

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;

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;

⁴ Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus to be reserved for judgment,

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.

²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.

³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us.

²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works.

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. ²³ Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded.

⁴ Dear children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than the one in the world.

¹¹ Dear one, do not imitate what is bad, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. ¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted);

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands that you saw are seven churches.

⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.’

¹¹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who overcomes will absolutely not be harmed by the second death.’

⁸ And when He took the scroll the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having harps and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints.

¹ So the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw a ‘star’ that had fallen out of the sky to the earth. And to him was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. ² So he opened the shaft of the Abyss and smoke went up out of the shaft, like the smoke of a burning furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the shaft.

¹¹ having as king over them the angel of the Abyss—his name in Hebrew is Abbadon, while in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

⁴ These are the two olive trees, even the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁷ When they finish their witness, the Beast of prey that comes up out of the Abyss will make war with them, overcome them and kill them

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him.

⁸ The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the Abyss and to go into perdition. And those who dwell upon the earth will be amazed, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not and will be present.

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

¹ And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the Abyss and a huge chain on his hand. ² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time.

⁷ Now when the thousand years are finished Satan will be released from his prison,

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet also are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.