John 9 Cross References - Williams

¹ As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth. ² So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?" ³ Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to show what God could do in his case. ⁴ We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." ⁶ On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes, ⁷ and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing. ⁸ Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?" ¹¹ He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see." ¹² Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know." ¹³ They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see." ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them. ¹⁷ Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet." ¹⁸ But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again, ¹⁹ and asked them, "Is this your son, and do you affirm that he was born blind? If so, how is it then that he now can see?" ²⁰ His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. ²¹ But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself." ²² His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues. ²³ This is why his parents said, "He is of age, ask him." ²⁴ So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner." ²⁵ Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see." ²⁶ Again they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He make your eyes to see again?" ²⁷ He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?" ²⁸ Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We do know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from." ³⁰ The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see! ³¹ We know that God does not listen to sinful men, but He does listen to anyone who worships God and lives to do His will. ³² It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see. ³³ If this man had not come from God, He could not have done anything like this." ³⁴ Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?" ³⁶ He answered, "Who is He, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in Him." ³⁷ Jesus answered him, "You have seen Him; you are talking to Him right now!" ³⁸ So he said, "Lord, I believe!" Then he worshiped Him. ³⁹ Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind." ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?" ⁴¹ Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

¹⁶ The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

¹¹ "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

²³ But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

³ "Are you the One who was to come, or should we keep on looking for a different one?"

⁵ the blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.

¹ At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the wheat fields, and His disciples became hungry, and began to pull the heads of wheat and eat them. ² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Just look! Your disciples are doing something that it is against the law to do on the sabbath!"

² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Just look! Your disciples are doing something that it is against the law to do on the sabbath!" ³ But He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry? ⁴ How he went into the house of God, and they ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for him or his soldiers to eat, or for anyone except the priests? ⁵ Or, did you never read in the law that the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and yet are not guilty? ⁶ But I tell you, there is something greater than the temple here! ⁷ If you only knew what that saying means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. ⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath." ⁹ And on leaving there He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?" ¹¹ But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out? ¹² And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the sabbath." ¹³ Then He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and it was cured so that it became like the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and held a consultation against Him, to put Him to death.

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man is not driving out demons except by the help of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

¹¹ He answered: "It is you and not they who are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven. ¹² For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. ¹³ This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand. ¹⁴ So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all, ¹⁵ For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'

³³ And the men in the boat worshiped Him, and said, "You are certainly God's Son."

¹² Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?" ¹³ He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."

¹⁴ They answered, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

¹⁷ And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector. ¹⁸ I solemnly say to you, whatever you forbid on earth must be already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be already permitted in heaven.

¹¹ And the crowds kept saying, "He is the prophet Jesus of Nazareth in Galilee."

⁷ to be greeted with honor in public places, and to have men call them 'Teacher.'

¹⁶ A curse on you, you blind leaders who say, 'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is not duty-bound, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is duty-bound.' ¹⁷ You blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar is not duty-bound, but whoever swears by the offering on the altar is duty-bound!' ¹⁹ You blind men! which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred? ²⁰ So whoever swears by the altar swears by everything on it; ²¹ whoever swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells in it; ²² whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. ²³ "A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former. ²⁴ You blind leaders, who are straining out the gnat but gulping down the camel! ²⁵ A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ You blind Pharisees! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too. ²⁷ "A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead people's bones and everything that is unclean! ²⁸ So you, too, on the outside seem to people to be upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the temple of God, and build it again in three days.'"

³⁹ And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads

⁹ Then Jesus met them Himself, and said, "Good morning!" And they went up to Him and clasped His feet, and worshiped Him.

¹⁷ and as soon as they saw Him, they fell down and worshiped Him, though some were in doubt about it.

¹ The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

²³ On the Sabbath He was passing through the wheat fields, and His disciples started to make a path by pulling off the wheat heads.

²⁷ then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how.

⁶ And He wondered at their lack of faith in Him. Then He made a circle of the villages and continued teaching.

³³ So He took him off from the crowd by himself and put His fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with saliva.

²³ He took him by the hand and led him outside the village, then spit in his eyes, laid His hands upon him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

⁴⁶ Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho, with His disciples and a great crowd, Timeus' son, Bartimeus, a blind beggar, was sitting on the roadside.

²⁷ They crucified two robbers along with Him, one at His right and one at His left.

⁷⁰ "as He promised by the lips of His ancient prophets,

⁷⁹ to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

³² a light of revelation to the heathen, and a glory to your people Israel."

³⁴ Then Symeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to bring the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign continuously disputed --

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

¹ One Sabbath He happened to be passing through the wheat fields, and His disciples were pulling and eating the heads of wheat, rubbing them in their hands. ² And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?" ³ Jesus answered them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry? ⁴ How he went into the house of God and took and ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for anyone to eat except the priests, and gave some to his soldiers?" ⁵ Then He said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." ⁶ On another Sabbath He found Himself in the synagogue teaching; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered. ⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge against Him. ⁸ But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand at the front." So he got up and stood there. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "Is it right on the Sabbath to do people good, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" ¹⁰ Then He glanced around at them all and said to him, "Put out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was at once completely restored. ¹¹ But they were filled with fury and began to discuss what they could do to Jesus.

²² Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

²¹ At that very hour He cured many people of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and graciously granted sight to many blind persons. ²² And so He answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

³⁹ So when the Pharisee who invited Him saw it, he said to himself, "If He were really a prophet, He would know who and of what character the woman is who is clinging to Him -- that she is a social outcast."

³⁴ Your eye is the very lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light. But if your eye is unsound, your body is full of darkness. ³⁵ So be on your guard that the very source of light in you is not darkness.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰ You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹ But dedicate once for all your inner self, and at once you will have everything clean. ⁴² But a curse on you Pharisees, because you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny garden herb, but neglect justice and the love of God! These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have neglected the former. ⁴³ A curse on you Pharisees, because you like to have the front seats in synagogues, and to be greeted with honor in public places! ⁴⁴ A curse on you, because you are like unmarked graves which men walk over without knowing it!" ⁴⁵ Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

⁴⁵ Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too." ⁴⁶ He said, "Yes, a curse on you experts in the law, too, because you load people down with loads too heavy to carry, and yet you do not touch the loads yourselves with one of your fingers! ⁴⁷ A curse on you, because you build monuments for the prophets, whom your forefathers killed! ⁴⁸ So you testify to what your forefathers did and approve it, because they killed them and you build monuments for them. ⁴⁹ This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute'; ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the creation of the world may be charged against the men of this age -- ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against the men of this age. ⁵² A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in." ⁵³ After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him and to try to draw Him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

⁴ So I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body but after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom to fear. Fear Him who, after killing you, has power to hurl you down to the pit; yes, I tell you, fear Him. ⁶ Are not sparrows sold five for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten by God! ⁷ Yes, the very hairs on your heads have all been counted by God! Stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. ⁸ I tell you, everyone who owns me before men the Son of Man will own before the angels of God; ⁹ but anyone who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

⁴⁷ That slave who knows his master's wishes and does not get ready or act upon them will be severely punished.

² Then He answered them, "Do you think, because these Galileans suffered like this, that they were worse sinners than all the rest of the Galileans?

² Then He answered them, "Do you think, because these Galileans suffered like this, that they were worse sinners than all the rest of the Galileans? ³ By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. ⁴ Or those eighteen people at Siloam on whom the tower fell and whom it crushed to death, do you think that they were offenders worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

⁴ Or those eighteen people at Siloam on whom the tower fell and whom it crushed to death, do you think that they were offenders worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem? ⁵ By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did."

¹⁰ One Sabbath He was teaching in one of the synagogues, ¹¹ and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all. ¹² As soon as Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disease!" ¹³ Then He laid His hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God. ¹⁴ But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath." ¹⁵ Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not everyone of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead him out of the stable to water him? ¹⁶ And so was it not right for this woman, a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has for eighteen years kept bound, to be freed from this bond on the Sabbath?" ¹⁷ Even while He was saying this, His opponents were blushing with shame, but all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.

³⁰ And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last." ³¹ Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!" ³² But He said to them: "Go and tell that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish these tasks.

³² But He said to them: "Go and tell that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish these tasks. ³³ But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.'

³³ But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.' ³⁴ "O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

¹ One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.

¹¹ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

² And so the Pharisees and scribes continually grumbled, and said, "This fellow is welcoming notorious sinners, and even eating with them."

²⁰ And a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been laid at his gate, ²¹ and he was always craving to get a square meal from the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, the very dogs used to come and lick his sores. ²² One day the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to be Abraham's bosom companion, and the rich man too died and was buried.

³¹ Then he answered, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, even if someone rises from the dead.'"

¹⁰ "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax-collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. ¹² I fast two days in the week. I pay a tithe on everything I get.' ¹³ But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but continued to beat his breast, and say, 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner!' ¹⁴ I tell you, this man, and not the other, went back home forgiven and accepted by God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

¹⁴ I tell you, this man, and not the other, went back home forgiven and accepted by God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

¹⁷ I solemnly say to you, Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

³⁵ As He was approaching Jericho, a blind man chanced to be sitting by the roadside begging.

⁷ And when they all saw it, they began to grumble and say, "He has gone in to lodge with a notorious sinner!"

⁵⁶ A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire and fixed her eyes on him and said, "This fellow was with Him too." ⁵⁷ But he denied it and said, "I do not know Him, woman." ⁵⁸ A little later a man looked at him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not." ⁵⁹ About an hour later another man emphatically asserted, "He certainly was with Him, for he is a Galilean!" ⁶⁰ But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you mean." And all at once, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed. ⁶¹ Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter was reminded of the word that the Lord had spoken to him, "Before a cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

⁶⁷ "Tell us, if you are the Christ." But He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

² Here they began to make the following charges against Him: "We have found this fellow corrupting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar and claiming to be a king himself."

¹⁹ And He said to them, "What sort of things?" They answered Him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who in the sight of God and of all the people became a prophet mighty in deed and word,

⁵² And with great joy they went back to Jerusalem;

⁴ It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind. ⁵ So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it. ⁶ There appeared a man named John, sent from God. ⁷ He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe. ⁸ He was not the light; he came to testify to the light. ⁹ The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

¹⁷ For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known. ¹⁹ Now this is the testimony which John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?"

³⁴ I did see it; and my testimony is that He is the Son of God."

³⁸ Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

⁴⁹ Nathaniel answered Him, "Teacher, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!" ⁵⁰ Jesus answered him, "Do you believe in me because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this."

² He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

⁹ Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?" ¹⁰ Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and do not know this?

¹⁵ so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life. ¹⁶ "For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

¹⁷ For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son. ¹⁹ And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

¹⁹ And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light. ²⁰ For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight. ²¹ But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

³⁶ Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

¹⁹ The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

⁹ And at once the man was well, and picked up his pallet, and went to walking. Now it was the Sabbath.

¹¹ He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

¹¹ He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'" ¹² They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?" ¹³ The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

¹⁶ This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

¹⁹ So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

²² For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²³ that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ "I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life. ²⁵ I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live. ²⁶ For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself. ²⁷ He has also granted to Him authority to act as Judge because He is the Son of Man.

³⁶ But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God? ⁴⁵ Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes! ⁴⁶ For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

¹⁴ When the people, therefore, saw the wonder-works that He performed, they began to say, "This is surely the prophet who was to come into the world."

³⁷ All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,

⁵² But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

⁶⁹ and we have come to believe, yes more, we know by experience, that you are the Holy One of God."

¹¹ Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?" ¹² And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses. ¹³ And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

¹⁷ If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping that law. If so, why are you trying to kill me?"

²¹ Jesus answered them, "I have done just one deed, and yet you are all dumbfounded! ²² Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath. ²³ Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

²⁷ But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, however, no one will know where He is from."

⁴¹ Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He? ⁴² Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?" ⁴³ So the people were divided because of Him,

⁴⁵ So the officers went back to the high priests and Pharisees. The latter asked the officers, "Why have you not brought Him?" ⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever talked as He does!" ⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered, "You are not swept off your feet too, are you? ⁴⁸ None of the authorities or of the Pharisees have believed in Him, have they?

⁴⁸ None of the authorities or of the Pharisees have believed in Him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

⁴⁹ But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!" ⁵⁰ One of them, Nicodemus, who had formerly gone to Jesus, said to them, ⁵¹ "Our law does not condemn a man before it hears what he has to say and finds out what he is doing, does it?" ⁵² Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

³ And the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in adultery. And standing her in the middle, ⁴ they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ In our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say?" ⁶ They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger. ⁷ When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her." ⁸ Then Jesus again stooped and continued writing in the dirt.

¹² Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

¹⁴ Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵ You are judging in accordance with external standards, but I judge nobody.

⁴¹ You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

⁴⁶ Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁹ Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

² So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?"

⁶ On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes, ⁷ and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing. ⁸ Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?"

¹⁰ So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?" ¹¹ He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see."

¹¹ He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see."

¹¹ He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see." ¹² Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know." ¹³ They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see."

¹⁵ So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see." ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

²¹ But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself." ²² His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

²⁴ So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner." ²⁵ Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see." ²⁶ Again they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He make your eyes to see again?"

²⁶ Again they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He make your eyes to see again?" ²⁷ He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

²⁷ He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

³⁰ The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

³⁰ The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see! ³¹ We know that God does not listen to sinful men, but He does listen to anyone who worships God and lives to do His will. ³² It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see. ³³ If this man had not come from God, He could not have done anything like this." ³⁴ Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?" ³⁶ He answered, "Who is He, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in Him." ³⁷ Jesus answered him, "You have seen Him; you are talking to Him right now!" ³⁸ So he said, "Lord, I believe!" Then he worshiped Him. ³⁹ Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind." ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?"

¹⁹ These words again led to a difference of opinion among the Jews.

³² Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

³⁶ do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? ³⁷ If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me.

⁴ When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."

⁹ Jesus answered, "Does not the day have twelve hours? If a man travels in the daytime, he does not stumble, for he can see the light of this world; ¹⁰ but if he travels in the nighttime, he does stumble, because he has no light."

²⁷ She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

³⁷ But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me; ⁴² yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."

⁴⁶ but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what He had done. ⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.

⁵⁷ Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself. ³⁷ Although He had performed so many wonder-works right before their eyes, they did not believe in Him,

³⁷ Although He had performed so many wonder-works right before their eyes, they did not believe in Him, ³⁸ so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?" ³⁹ So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said: ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them." ⁴¹ Isaiah said this, because he saw His glory; yes, he spoke about Him. ⁴² And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

⁴² And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue, ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.

⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, so that no one who continues to believe in me can remain in darkness.

¹¹ You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.

¹¹ You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing. ¹² I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.

²¹ Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him." ²² Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

³⁰ "I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

¹⁶ You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ Whoever continues to hate me continues to hate my Father too. ²⁴ If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

²⁴ If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

² Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

⁴ I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

³⁰ They retorted, "If He were not a criminal, we would not have turned Him over to you."

⁶ When the high priests and attendants saw Him, they shouted, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I can find no ground for a charge against Him."

³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body.

¹⁹ In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

²⁸ Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!"

³¹ But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.

²² "Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,

² when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple. ³ So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something. ⁴ Peter looked him straight in the eye, and so did John, and said, "Look at us." ⁵ The beggar looked at them, supposing that he was going to get something from them. ⁶ But Peter said, "No silver or gold have I, but what I do have I will give you. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth start walking." ⁷ Then he took him by the right hand and lifted him, and his feet and ankles instantly grew strong, ⁸ and at once he leaped to his feet and started walking; then he went into the temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God. ⁹ When all the people saw him walking about and praising God, ¹⁰ and recognized him as the very man who used to sit at The Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg, they were completely astounded and bewildered at what occurred to him.

¹⁰ and recognized him as the very man who used to sit at The Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg, they were completely astounded and bewildered at what occurred to him. ¹¹ While he was still clinging to Peter and John, all the people in utter amazement crowded around them in what was called Solomon's portico.

²² Moses, indeed, said: 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as He did me. You must attentively listen to everything that He tells you. ²³ The result will be, that any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.' ²⁴ Yes, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel down, have also foretold these days. ²⁵ And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.' ²⁶ It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."

¹⁴ and since they saw the man who had been cured standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

¹⁸ So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.

²⁰ for we cannot keep from telling what we have seen and heard." ²¹ So, after further threatening them, they turned them loose, because they could not find any way to punish them, on account of the people, because they all continued to praise God for what had taken place,

¹³ Not one of those on the outside dared to associate with them, although the people continued to hold them in high regard,

³⁸ So in the present case, I warn you, stay away from these men, let them alone. For, if this program or movement has its origin in men, it will go to pieces, ³⁹ but if it has its origin in God, you can never stop it. It is to be feared that you may find yourselves fighting God." ⁴⁰ They were convinced by him, and after calling the apostles in and having them flogged, they charged them to stop speaking on the authority of Jesus, and then turned them loose.

¹¹ So they instigated men to say, "We have heard him speaking abusive words against Moses and God." ¹² By this means they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, and so they rushed upon him, seized him, and brought him before the council. ¹³ Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law, ¹⁴ for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

³⁵ That very Moses whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and referee?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer, by the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ As they continued down the road, they came to some water, and the official said, "Look! here is some water! What is there to keep me from being baptized?"

²⁰ and at once he began to preach in their synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

³¹ and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your deeds of charity have been remembered by God. ³² So send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over. He is being entertained at the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seashore.' ³³ So at once I sent for you, and you have been kind enough to come. So now we are all here in God's presence to listen to anything that the Lord has commanded you to say."

³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

⁴⁷ For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

⁴ But the masses of the town were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.

²² They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!"

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

²² As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place, ²³ if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

⁴ When the natives saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Beyond a doubt this man is a murderer, for though he has been rescued from the sea, justice will not let him live."

⁴ proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

¹⁷ Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

¹⁹ and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ a tutor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, since you have a knowledge of the truth as formulated in the law -- ²¹ you who teach others, do you not teach yourself too? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal yourself? ²² You who warn men to stop committing adultery, do you practice it yourself? You who shrink in horror from idols, do you rob their temples?

³ For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

² For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so. ³ For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing. ⁴ For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

¹⁴ But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?

²⁰ Then Isaiah was bold enough to say: "I have been found by a people who were not searching for me; I have made known myself to people who were not asking to know me."

⁷ What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it, ⁸ as the Scripture Says, "God has given them over to an attitude of insensibility, so that their eyes cannot see and their ears cannot hear, down to this very day." ⁹ And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution; ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."

¹² We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.

⁴ for when you met I too met with you in spirit by the power of our Lord Jesus -- ⁵ to turn such a man as this over to Satan for the destruction of his lower nature, in order that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

¹³ but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.

¹⁰ or thieves or greedy graspers for more or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers will not have a share in the kingdom of God.

³⁵ But someone will ask, "How can the dead rise? With what kind of body do they come back?"

¹⁶ to the one a deadly perfume that leads to death, to the other a living perfume that leads to life.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them. ⁵ For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

²¹ He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

¹¹ Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹² For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians, too, joined him in this pretense so that even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their pretense.

¹⁵ We ourselves are Jews by birth and not heathen sinners, and yet,

⁴ but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,

¹⁰ So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

³ once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.

¹⁴ So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

¹⁶ and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil.

⁵ Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

¹⁰ and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

² but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds. ³ He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty, ⁴ thus proving Himself to be as much superior to angels as the title He has inherited is superior to theirs. ⁵ For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have become your Father"? ⁶ Or again, "I will become His Father, and He shall become my Son"? But when He brings again His first-born Son into the world, He says, "And let all the angels worship Him." ⁷ However, regarding the angels He says: "He turns His angels into winds, and His attendants into flames of fire." ⁸ But regarding the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, will stand forever and ever; a righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom. ⁹ You loved the right and hated wrong; so God, your God, anointed you, with oil of exultation beyond all your companions."

² to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God. ³ For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses. ⁴ For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God. ⁵ Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken,

¹⁵ and yet the warning continues to be spoken: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me." ¹⁶ For who was it that heard and yet provoked Him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ With whom was He disgusted forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert? ¹⁸ To whom did He take oath that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed Him? ¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they could not be admitted to it.

¹¹ So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.

⁷ Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"

²⁶ For if we go willfully sinning after we have received full knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

¹⁵ and the prayer that is offered in faith will save the sick man; the Lord will raise him to health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man with feelings just like ours, and yet he earnestly prayed for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. ¹⁸ Then again he prayed, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced its crops.

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

²³ Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly.

⁵ You younger men, on your part, must be submissive to the elders. And you must all put on the servant's apron of humility to one another, because God opposes the haughty but bestows His unmerited favor on the humble.

⁸ If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong. ¹⁰ If we claim "We have not sinned," we are making Him a liar, and His message is not in our hearts.

¹¹ But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

²¹ Dearly beloved, if our consciences do not condemn us, we come with perfect confidence to God, ²² and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him.

¹⁵ Whoever owns that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in union with him and he in union with God.

⁵ Now who is it that continues to conquer the world, if it is not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁰ Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his own heart. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has borne to His Son.

¹³ I have written this to you who believe in the person of the Son of God, so that you may know that you already have eternal life.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to recognize the True One; and we are in union with the True One through His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

⁹ I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to be first among them, refuses to listen to me.

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich, I have already become rich, I need nothing,' and you do not know that you are the very one that is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked; ¹⁸ I advise you to buy of me gold that has been refined in the fire, so that you may become rich, and white clothes to put on, to hide your shameful nakedness, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.

⁹ Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the book and break its seals, because you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation, ¹⁰ and have made them a kingdom of priests for our God; and they will rule over the earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and heard the voices of many angels surrounding the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying in a loud voice: "The Lamb that was slaughtered deserves to receive power, riches, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing." ¹³ Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, and on the sea, and all that they contain, say: "Blessing, honor, glory, and power be to Him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb forever." ¹⁴ Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁷ and he permits no one to buy or sell anything unless he bears the mark; that is, the name of the wild beast or the number that represents the name.

¹⁸ Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder; then there was a great earthquake, an earthquake so great that none like it had ever been since man first existed on the earth.

⁸ But the cowards, the unfaithful, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the practicers of magic, the worshipers of idols, and all liars will have their portion in the lake that keeps on burning with fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

²³ The city does not need the sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God has lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.