Matthew 8 Cross References - Williams

¹ When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him. ² And a leper came up to Him, and prostrated himself before Him, and said, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me." ³ Then He put out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once his leprosy was cured. ⁴ Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and, to testify to the people, make the offering that Moses prescribed." ⁵ When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him, ⁶ "Lord, my servant-boy is at home bedridden with paralysis and suffering terrible tortures!" ⁷ He said to him, "I will come and cure him." ⁸ But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured. ⁹ For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it." ¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, He was astounded, and said to His followers, "I solemnly say to you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this. ¹¹ I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven, ¹² while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth." ¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; it must be done for you as you have believed." And his servant-boy was cured that very hour. ¹⁴ When He went into Peter's house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed sick with fever. ¹⁵ He touched her hand, the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on Him. ¹⁶ When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and at a mere word He drove the spirits out, and cured all who were sick, ¹⁷ and so fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, "He took our sicknesses and bore away our diseases." ¹⁸ Now Jesus, because He saw a crowd about Him, gave orders to cross to the other side. ¹⁹ And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go." ²⁰ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." ²¹ Another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go back and bury my father." ²² And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." ²³ And He got into a boat, and His disciples went with Him. ²⁴ And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping. ²⁵ So they went to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Lord, save us; we are going down!" ²⁶ And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ²⁷ And the men were dumbfounded, and said, "What sort of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey Him!" ²⁸ When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way. ²⁹ And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?" ³⁰ Now there was not far from there a large drove of hogs feeding. ³¹ And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs." ³² And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. ³³ And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons. ³⁴ And suddenly all the town turned out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to move on and leave their neighborhood.

²² Now all this occurred to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

¹¹ and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

¹⁵ he stayed there until Herod's death, so as to fulfill what the Lord had said by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my Son."

²³ He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

² and saying, "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near."

⁹ and do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather? For I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones. ¹⁰ Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ I am baptizing you in water to picture your repentance. But He that is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry His shoes. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

¹⁴ But John tried to prevent Him, by saying, "I have need to be baptized by you, and you come to me!" ¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

³ And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."

⁹ and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me."

¹³ But He left Nazareth and made His home in Capernaum, by the sea, in the district of Zebulon and Naphtali,

¹⁸ As He was walking by the shore of the sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was summed Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men." ²⁰ And at once they left the nets and followed Him. ²¹ And as He was going on from that point, He saw two others, brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets in order; and He called them. ²² And at once they left the boat and their father, and followed Him. ²³ Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people. ²⁴ So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

²⁴ So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them. ²⁵ So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

¹⁷ "Do not suppose that I have come to set aside the law or the prophets.

¹ "Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

³⁰ Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

²² Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?' ²³ And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'

¹ When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

³ Then He put out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once his leprosy was cured. ⁴ Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and, to testify to the people, make the offering that Moses prescribed."

¹⁸ Now Jesus, because He saw a crowd about Him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

²⁷ And the men were dumbfounded, and said, "What sort of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey Him!"

²⁹ And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

³³ And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

¹ And He got into a boat and crossed to the other side, and went into His home town. ² And all at once some men were bringing to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a couch. And because He saw their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Cheer up, my child, your sins are forgiven."

⁹ And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

¹⁸ And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

¹⁸ And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life." ¹⁹ And Jesus got up and followed him; and His disciples, too. ²⁰ And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat.

²² And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

²⁸ After He had gone into the house, and the blind men had gone up to Him, Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe that I can do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord." ²⁹ Then He touched their eyes, and said, "In accordance with your faith it must be done for you."

²⁹ Then He touched their eyes, and said, "In accordance with your faith it must be done for you."

²⁹ Then He touched their eyes, and said, "In accordance with your faith it must be done for you." ³⁰ And their eyes received strength to see. Then Jesus sternly charged them, "See that nobody knows it."

³⁰ And their eyes received strength to see. Then Jesus sternly charged them, "See that nobody knows it."

⁸ Keep on curing the sick, raising the dead, healing lepers, and driving out demons. You received and gave no pay; you must give and take none.

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.

⁴ And Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: 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.

²³ And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you belong to the regions of the dead! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued until today.

⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

¹⁵ But because Jesus knew it, He left there. And many people followed Him, and He cured them all, ¹⁶ and charged them not to publish Him, ¹⁷ and in this way fulfilled the saying spoken by the prophet Isaiah: ¹⁸ "Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom my soul delights itself. I will endow Him with my Spirit, and He will announce a judgment to the heathen. ¹⁹ He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

²² At that time some people brought to Him a man under the power of demons, who was blind and dumb, and He cured him, so that the dumb man could talk and see.

³² And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed are the members of the kingdom; the wild wheat seed are the followers of the wicked one.

⁴² and will throw them into the furnace of torturing punishment; there they will wail and grind their teeth.

⁵⁰ and will throw them into the furnace of torturing punishment. There they will wail and grind their teeth.

⁵⁸ He did not do many wonder-works there, because of their lack of faith.

¹⁴ So when He got out of the boat and saw a great crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, and He cured their sick people.

²² And He at once had the disciples get into the boat and cross to the other side ahead of Him, while He dismissed the crowds.

³⁰ But when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and as he began to go down, he cried out, "Lord, save me!" ³¹ Jesus at once put out His hand and caught hold of him, and said to him, "O you of little faith! Why did you waver so?"

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

³⁶ and they continued to beg Him to let them touch just the tassel on His coat, and all who barely touched it were completely cured.

²⁵ But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!" ²⁶ He answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the house dogs." ²⁷ She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." ²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, wonderful is your faith! You must have what you want." And her daughter was cured at that very moment.

³⁰ and great crowds came up to Him bringing with them the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He cured them, ³¹ so that the crowd was astonished to see the dumb talking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel.

⁸ Jesus knew it and said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Have you so little faith?

¹³ When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

²⁰ Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ.

²⁷ For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

⁹ And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

²⁰ He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

²⁵ He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?"

²⁶ So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.'

² And great crowds thronged after Him, and He cured them there.

²⁸ Jesus said to them: "I solemnly say to you, in the new order of life, when the Son of Man shall take His seat on His glorious throne, you too, who have followed me, will sit on twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to Him with her sons, kneeling to Him and asking a favor of Him.

²⁹ As they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed Him.

³⁴ Then Jesus' heart was moved with pity, and He touched their blinded eyes, and at once they could see again, and followed Him.

⁴³ "This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.

¹² So he said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding suit on?' But his lips were sealed. ¹³ Then the king said to his attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness on the outside, where he will have to weep and grind his teeth.'

³¹ And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His chosen people from the four points of the compass, from one end of the sky to the other.

⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and give him his share with the hypocrites, where they will weep and grind their teeth."

³⁰ And throw the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness on the outside, where he will weep and grind his teeth.'

⁶ When Jesus came back to Bethany, to the home of Simon the leper,

⁵⁴ And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

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.

²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!" ²⁵ Jesus reproved him, saying, "Hush up, get out of him!" ²⁶ Then the foul spirit convulsed him and with a deafening shriek got out of him. ²⁷ They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

²⁷ They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

²⁹ As soon as they left the synagogue, they went home with Simon and Andrew, in company with James and John. ³⁰ And Simon's mother-in-law was confined to her bed with a fever. So they at once told Him about her. ³¹ Then He went up to her, grasped her hand, and had her get up. The fever left her, and she began to wait upon them. ³² In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons, ³³ and the whole town gathered at the door. ³⁴ And He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not let the demons speak a word, because they knew who He was. ³⁵ Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there. ³⁶ And Simon and his companions diligently searched for Him ³⁷ and found Him, and said to Him, "Everybody is looking for you." ³⁸ And He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, to preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

⁴⁰ There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me." ⁴¹ And His heart was moved with pity for him, so He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do want to! Be cured!"

⁴¹ And His heart was moved with pity for him, so He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do want to! Be cured!" ⁴² And the leprosy at once left him, and he was cured. ⁴³ But Jesus at once drove him out of their presence, and gave him this stringent charge:

⁴³ But Jesus at once drove him out of their presence, and gave him this stringent charge: ⁴⁴ "See that you tell nobody a single word about it. Be gone, show yourself to the priest, and to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification which Moses prescribed."

⁴⁴ "See that you tell nobody a single word about it. Be gone, show yourself to the priest, and to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification which Moses prescribed." ⁴⁵ But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

¹ After some days He came back to Capernaum, and it was reported that He was at home,

³ Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man.

³ Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man. ⁴ And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on. ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven." ⁶ Some scribes were sitting there arguing and saying to themselves, ⁷ "Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?" ⁸ Now Jesus at once felt in His spirit that they were arguing about this, and said, "Why are you arguing to yourselves about this? ⁹ Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, 'Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!" ¹⁰ But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said, ¹¹ "I tell you, get up, pick up your pallet, and go home." ¹² Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."

⁷ So Jesus retired with His disciples to the sea, and a vast throng of people followed Him from Galilee, and from Judea,

¹¹ And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

³⁵ That same day when it was evening, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other Side." ³⁶ So they left the crowd and took Him in the boat in which he was sitting. And there were other boats with Him. ³⁷ But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

³⁷ But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling. ³⁸ He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

³⁸ He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

³⁸ He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?" ³⁹ Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm.

³⁹ Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm.

³⁹ Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ Then He asked them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith yet?" ⁴¹ They were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can He be that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"

¹ So they landed on the other side of the sea in the region of Gerasa. ² As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him. ³ This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain, ⁴ for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him. ⁵ All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones. ⁶ On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

⁶ On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him, ⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me."

⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me."

⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me." ⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him." ⁹ He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ¹⁰ And they kept on earnestly begging Him not to send them out of that country. ¹¹ Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside.

¹¹ Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside. ¹² And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them."

¹² And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them." ¹³ So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned.

¹³ So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned. ¹⁴ Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place.

¹⁴ Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place. ¹⁵ When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened.

¹⁵ When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened. ¹⁶ And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.

¹⁶ And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs. ¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood. ¹⁸ And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

¹⁸ And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him. ¹⁹ However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you." ²⁰ And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded. ²¹ When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

²³ and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live." ²⁴ So He went off with him, and a great crowd kept following Him, and jostling Him.

⁴¹ Then He grasped her hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

⁴³ But He strictly charged them to let nobody know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

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

¹¹ And if any place refuses to welcome you or to listen to you, when you leave there shake off the very dust from the soles of your feet as a warning to them."

⁴⁵ Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

⁴⁸ And because He saw that they were struggling at the oars, for the wind was against them, a while before daybreak He started toward them walking on the sea, and He meant to go right up beside them. ⁴⁹ But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost and screamed aloud, ⁵⁰ for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid." ⁵¹ Then He went up to them and got into the boat, and the wind lulled. They were completely dumbfounded,

⁵¹ Then He went up to them and got into the boat, and the wind lulled. They were completely dumbfounded,

²⁹ Then He said to her, "Because you have said this, go home; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

³⁴ Then He looked up to heaven and sighed, as He said, "Ephphatha," which means, "Be opened."

³⁶ Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news. ³⁷ So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

¹³ And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

³⁰ But He strictly warned them not to tell this about Him to anybody.

²² and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!" ²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!" ²⁴ The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!" ²⁵ Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again."

³² Then the scribe said to Him, "Indeed, Teacher, you have properly said that He is one by Himself, and there is no other but Him, ³³ and to love Him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one loves himself is far more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices." ³⁴ So Jesus said to him, as He saw that he had answered thoughtfully, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one ventured to ask Him any more questions.

⁹ So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

³⁹ And when the captain who stood facing him saw that He expired in this way, he said, "This man was surely God's Son!"

⁷ and she bore her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him up and laid Him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

¹² And this is proof for you: You will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a manger."

¹⁶ So they hurried to the place and found Joseph and Mary; also the baby lying in the manger.

²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in Elisha's time, and yet not one of them was cured except Naaman the Syrian."

³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One." ³⁵ But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ Amazement then seized them all and they continued to talk it over among themselves, and to say, "What does this message mean? For with authority and power He gives orders to foul spirits, and they come out."

³⁸ Then He rose to leave the synagogue, and He went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a burning fever; so they asked Him about her.

³⁸ Then He rose to leave the synagogue, and He went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a burning fever; so they asked Him about her. ³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. ⁴⁰ As the sun was setting, all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to Him. Then He continued to lay His hands upon them one by one and cured them.

⁴⁰ As the sun was setting, all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to Him. Then He continued to lay His hands upon them one by one and cured them. ⁴¹ Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ.

⁴¹ Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ. ⁴² As day broke He left the house and went to a lonely spot, and the crowds continued to look for Him; they overtook Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them. ⁴³ But He said to them, "To other towns also I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God, for that is what I was sent to do."

⁸ When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Lord, because I am a sinful man."

¹² Now while He was in one of the towns, a man covered with leprosy saw Jesus and fell on his face and begged Him, saying, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me." ¹³ So He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once the leprosy left him.

¹³ So He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once the leprosy left him. ¹⁴ Then He warned him not to tell anybody, but rather He said, "Go, show yourself to the priest, and, to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

¹⁴ Then He warned him not to tell anybody, but rather He said, "Go, show yourself to the priest, and, to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification, just as Moses prescribed." ¹⁵ But the news about Him continued to spread, and great crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

²⁰ When He saw their faith, He said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."

¹ When He had finished all these sayings in the hearing of the people, He went into Capernaum. ² There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he was sick and at the point of death, ³ When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, to ask Him to come and bring his slave safe through the illness. ⁴ So they went to Jesus and continued to urge Him earnestly, saying, "He deserves that you do this for him, ⁵ for he loves our nation, and he is the man who built us our synagogue." ⁶ Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

⁶ Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

⁶ Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. ⁷ And so I did not deem myself worthy even to come to you. But simply speak the word, and let my servant-boy be cured.

⁷ And so I did not deem myself worthy even to come to you. But simply speak the word, and let my servant-boy be cured. ⁸ For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

⁸ For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it." ⁹ When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!"

⁹ When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!" ¹⁰ Then the messengers returned to the house and found the slave well.

¹⁴ Then He went up and touched the hearse and the bearers stopped; and He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise."

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.

⁵⁰ But He said to the woman, "It is your faith that has saved you; go on in peace."

³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many other women, who continued to contribute to their needs out of their personal means.

²² One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

²² One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail. ²³ Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril.

²³ Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril. ²⁴ So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

²⁴ So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm. ²⁵ Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him." ²⁶ They landed in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee. ²⁷ As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!" ²⁹ For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places. ³⁰ So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

³⁰ So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him. ³¹ Then they continued to beg Him not to order them to go off to the bottomless pit.

³¹ Then they continued to beg Him not to order them to go off to the bottomless pit. ³² Now there was a large drove of hogs feeding there on the hillside. So they begged Him to let them go into those hogs. And He let them do so.

³² Now there was a large drove of hogs feeding there on the hillside. So they begged Him to let them go into those hogs. And He let them do so.

³² Now there was a large drove of hogs feeding there on the hillside. So they begged Him to let them go into those hogs. And He let them do so. ³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the hogs, and the drove rushed over the cliff into the lake and were drowned.

³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the hogs, and the drove rushed over the cliff into the lake and were drowned.

³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the hogs, and the drove rushed over the cliff into the lake and were drowned. ³⁴ When the men who fed them saw what had taken place, they fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

³⁴ When the men who fed them saw what had taken place, they fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around. ³⁵ So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

³⁵ So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened. ³⁶ Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured.

³⁶ Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured. ³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said, ³⁹ "Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him.

⁵⁴ But He grasped her hand and called out, "My child, get up!"

⁵⁷ While they were going along the road, a man said to Him, "I will follow you wherever you go." ⁵⁸ But Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." ⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go back and bury my father."

⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go back and bury my father." ⁶⁰ Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God."

⁶⁰ Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God." ⁶¹ Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say 'Goodbye' to the homefolks." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then continues to look back, is fitted for service in the kingdom of God."

³⁷ Happy are those slaves whom the master, when he comes, will find on the watch for him. I solemnly say to you, he will tighten his belt and have them sit at table, and he will go around and wait on them.

²⁸ There you will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

²⁸ There you will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside. ²⁹ People will come from east and west, from north and south, and take their seats at the feast in the kingdom of God.

²³ "Then the master said to his slave, 'Go out on the roads and by the hedges and make the people come in, so that my house may be filled. ²⁴ For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited shall get a taste of my dinner!'" ²⁵ Now great crowds were going along with Him, and all at once He turned and said to them: ²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁷ Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

³³ "Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

¹⁵ So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs. ¹⁶ And often he craved to fill himself with the carob-pods which the hogs were eating, and nobody gave him a bite.

¹⁹ I no longer deserve to be called your son; just treat me like one of your hired men."'

²¹ His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion; I no longer deserve to be called your son; just treat me like one of your hired men.'

³² But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"

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.

¹² And as He was going into one village, ten lepers met Him, who got up at some distance from Him, ¹³ and raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, do take pity on us!" ¹⁴ So as soon as He saw them, He said to them, "Go at once and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going they were cured.

¹⁴ So as soon as He saw them, He said to them, "Go at once and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going they were cured.

¹⁴ So as soon as He saw them, He said to them, "Go at once and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going they were cured. ¹⁵ But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice,

¹⁵ But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice, ¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Were none found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹ Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."

¹³ It will furnish you an opportunity to testify.

³³ But Peter said to Him, "Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to death with you!" ³⁴ But He said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me!"

²⁷ He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

⁴³ The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

⁴ Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

⁵² So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

⁴¹ I do not accept any honor from men,

¹⁵ So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

¹⁷ and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. ¹⁸ The sea was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

¹⁸ Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

⁵⁰ However, I am not seeking honor for myself; there is One who is seeking it for me, and He is judge.

³⁸ So he said, "Lord, I believe!" Then he worshiped Him.

³⁷ If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing so, even if you will not believe me, believe the deeds, that you may come to know and continue to know that the Father is in union with me and I am in union with the Father."

⁵ Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.

¹⁵ and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

⁴³ On saying this, He shouted aloud, "Lazarus, come out!"

¹ Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead. ² So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus. ³ Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

⁶ Thus He came to Simon Peter. Peter said to Him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "You do not now understand what I am doing, but by-and-by you will learn." ⁸ Peter said to Him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "Unless I do wash you, you can have no share with me."

³⁶ Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me just now, but you will later follow me." ³⁷ Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow you right now? I will lay down my life for you." ³⁸ Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me! I most solemnly say to you, before a cock crows, you will three times disown 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.

²³ this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;

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.'

²⁸ to do all that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.

¹⁵ so that they kept bringing out into the streets their sick ones and putting them on little couches or pallets, that at least the shadow of Peter, as he went by, might fall on some of them.

⁷ For many of those under the power of foul spirits cried out and the spirits came out of them, and many paralyzed and crippled people were cured.

³³ There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years as a paralytic.

¹ Now at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a colonel in what was known as the Italian regiment, ² a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God. ³ One afternoon about three o'clock he had a vision and clearly saw an angel of God come to him and say, "Cornelius!" ⁴ He stared at him and in terror asked, "What is it, sir?" The angel answered him, "Your prayers and your deeds of charity have gone up and been remembered before God. ⁵ So now send men to Joppa and invite over a man named Simon, who is also called Peter. ⁶ He is a guest of a tanner named Simon, whose house is close by the sea." ⁷ After the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a religious soldier who was one of his devoted attendants,

⁷ After the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a religious soldier who was one of his devoted attendants, ⁸ and after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa. ⁹ The next day, while those men were traveling on and not far from the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray. ¹⁰ But he got very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance ¹¹ and saw the sky opened, and something like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the earth by the four corners, ¹² which contained all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and wild birds. ¹³ A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill something and eat it." ¹⁴ But Peter said, "Never by any means, sir, for I have never eaten anything common, or not ceremonially cleansed." ¹⁵ A second time the voice came to him, "The things that God has cleansed you must not call unclean." ¹⁶ This took place three times; then all at once the thing was taken up into the sky. ¹⁷ Now while Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for the way to Simon's house and had stopped at the gate; ¹⁸ and they called and inquired if Simon who was called Peter was staying there. ¹⁹ While Peter was meditating on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you. ²⁰ Get up and go down, and without hesitation go on with them, for I have sent them." ²¹ So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the man you are looking for. What is the purpose of your coming?" ²² They answered, "Cornelius, a colonel in the army, an upright man and one who reveres God, and a man of high reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to listen to a message you would bring." ²³ So Peter invited them in and entertained them. ²⁴ The next day he started off with them, and some of the brothers in Joppa went along with him. The day after that they reached Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for him, as he had invited in his kinsmen and close friends. ²⁵ When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him.

²⁵ When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him. ²⁶ But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself." ²⁷ As he continued to talk with him he went into the house and found a great crowd had gathered, ²⁸ and he said to him, "You know that it is against the law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one, but God has taught me not to call any man vulgar or ceremonially unclean; ²⁹ so I have come, since I was sent for, without any hesitation." ³⁰ Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me, 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.

⁴⁵ Then the Jewish believers who had gone along with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

¹⁸ When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

²² strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.

²⁷ On arriving there they called the church together, and in detail reported to them all that God had done through them as instruments, and how He had opened to the heathen the door of faith.

¹⁷ This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."

³⁹ and came and pleaded with them, and took them out and begged them to leave town.

¹¹ God also continued to do such wonder-works through Paul ¹² as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them. ¹³ But some wandering Jews who claimed to be driving out the evil spirits tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

¹³ But some wandering Jews who claimed to be driving out the evil spirits tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ Sceva, a Jewish high priest, had seven sons who were doing this. ¹⁵ But on one occasion the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know and Paul I know about, but who are you?"

¹⁵ But on one occasion the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know and Paul I know about, but who are you?" ¹⁶ So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

¹⁶ So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded. ¹⁷ This at once became known to everybody living in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and awe fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in high honor.

²⁵ But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

¹⁷ So Paul called one of the captains and said, "Take this young man to the colonel, for he has something to tell him."

²³ Then he called in two of his captains and said to them, "Get two hundred men ready to march to Caesarea, with seventy mounted soldiers and two hundred armed with spears, to leave at nine o'clock tonight."

¹³ When a light breeze from the south began to blow, thinking their purpose was about to be realized, they weighed anchor and coasted along by Crete, hugging the shore, ¹⁴ But it was not long before a violent wind, which is called a Northeaster, swept down from it. ¹⁵ The ship was snatched along by it and since she could not face the wind, we gave up and let her drive. ¹⁶ As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat. ¹⁷ After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift. ¹⁸ The next day, because we were so violently beaten by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard, ¹⁹ and on the next day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackle overboard. ²⁰ For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage, until at last all hope of being saved was now vanishing, ²¹ After they had gone a long time without any food, then Paul got up among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete, and you would have escaped this disaster and loss. ²² Even now I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship. ²³ For just last night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by my side ²⁴ and said, "Stop being afraid, Paul. You must stand before the Emperor; and listen! God has graciously given to you the lives of all who are sailing with you.' ²⁵ So keep up your courage, men, for I have confidence in my God that it will all come out just as I was told. ²⁶ And yet we must be stranded on some island." ²⁷ It was now the fourteenth night and we were drifting on the Adriatic sea, when at midnight the sailors suspected that land was near. ²⁸ On taking soundings they found a depth of twenty fathoms; and a little later again taking soundings, they found it was fifteen. ²⁹ Since they were afraid of our going on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and kept wishing for daylight to come. ³⁰ Although the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had actually lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to run out anchors from the bow, ³¹ Paul said to the colonel and his soldiers, "Unless these sailors remain on the ship, you cannot be saved."

³¹ Paul said to the colonel and his soldiers, "Unless these sailors remain on the ship, you cannot be saved." ³² Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it drift away. ³³ Until day was about to break Paul kept begging them all to take something to eat. He said, "For fourteen days today you have been constantly waiting and going without food, not even taking a bite. ³⁴ So I beg you to eat something, for it is necessary for your safety. For not a hair will be lost from the head of a single one of you." ³⁵ After saying this he took some bread and thanked God for it before them all; then he broke it in pieces and began to eat it. ³⁶ Then they all were cheered and took something to eat themselves. ³⁷ There were 276 of us on the ship. ³⁸ When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

⁴³ but the colonel wanted to save Paul, and so he prevented them from carrying out this plan, and ordered all who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land, and the rest to follow,

²⁰ and yet he never staggered in doubt at the promise of God but grew powerful in faith, because he gave the glory to God

⁴ For they are Israelites; to them belong the privileges of sonship, God's glorious presence, the special covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, the promises,

⁹ and for the heathen peoples to praise God for His mercy, as the Scripture says: "For this I will give thanks to you among the heathen, and will sing praises to your name." ¹⁰ And again: "Rejoice, you heathen peoples, with His people!" ¹¹ And again: "All you heathen peoples, praise the Lord, yea, let all peoples sing His praise." ¹² And again Isaiah says: "The noted Son of Jesse will come, even He who rises to rule the heathen; on Him the heathen will set their hope." ¹³ May the hope-inspiring God so fill you with perfect joy and peace through your continuing faith, that you may bubble over with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

⁵ It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?

²⁵ the secrets of his heart are laid bare, he falls upon his face and worships God, declaring, "God is really among you."

²⁰ But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁶ So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer.

⁹ For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once I was pelted with stones; three times I have been shipwrecked, and once I have spent a day and a night adrift at sea. ²⁶ I have served Him on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the heathen, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers,

²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if you belong to Christ, then you are real descendants of Abraham, and heirs in accordance with the promise made to him.

¹ You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

⁵ has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

¹¹ So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands. ¹² At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world. ¹³ But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near. ¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, He is the one who has made us both into one body and has broken down the barrier that kept us apart;

⁶ that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news,

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

⁵ You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ, ⁶ not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God.

¹³ Yes, although you were dead through your shortcomings and were physically uncircumcised, God made you live again through fellowship with Christ. He graciously forgave us all our shortcomings,

¹¹ In this new relation there is no Greek and Jew, no circumcised and uncircumcised, no barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is everything and in us all.

²² Slaves, practice obedience to your earthly masters in everything, not as though they were watching you and as though you were merely pleasing men, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

¹ Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

² So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

³ who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.

⁶ while a widow who gives herself up to luxury is really dead though still alive.

² Those who have Christian masters must not pay them less respect because they are brothers; they must serve them all the better, because those who get the benefit of their service are believers and so are dear to them. These are the things that you must continue to teach and urge them to do.

⁹ Continue urging slaves to practice perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction,

¹⁶ not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dearly loved brother, especially to me and much more to you, both as a servant and as a Christian.

⁴ Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.

¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

²⁴ He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but hurled them down to Tartarus and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

¹⁷ Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven by the storm, and they are doomed to densest darkness.

⁶ And angels, who did not preserve their original rank but left their proper home, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, for the day of judgment,

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame; wandering stars that are forever doomed to utter darkness.

²⁰ I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me. ²¹ I will give to him who conquers the privilege of taking his seat with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and taken my seat with my Father on His throne.

⁶ twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher; twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali; twelve thousand from the tribe of Manasseh;

² and he had a little book open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

¹² So celebrate your triumph, you heavens and you who live in them! Alas for the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in a great rage, since he knows that his time is short!"

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. ² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

⁷ When the thousand years have ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison.

⁸ It is I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me, to worship him. ⁹ But he said to me: "You must be careful not to do that; I am only a fellow-slave of yours, of your brothers the prophets, and of the people who practice the truths contained in this book. Worship God."