John 9 Cross References - YLT

¹ And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth, ² and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?' <sup>3</sup> Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him; ⁴ it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: — ⁵ when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.' ⁶ These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, ⁷ `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;
<sup>8</sup> the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?' ⁹ others said—`This is he;' and others—`He is like to him;' he himself said, —`I am he .' <sup>10</sup> They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?' ¹¹ he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;' <sup>12</sup> they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'
<sup>13</sup> They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind, <sup>14</sup> and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. <sup>15</sup> Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash—and I see.' ¹⁶ Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, `How is a man—a sinful one—able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them. ¹⁷ They said to the blind man again, `Thou—what dost thou say of him—that he opened thine eyes?' <sup>18</sup> and he said—`He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight, ¹⁹ and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?' <sup>20</sup> His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.' ²² These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him—Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue; ²³ because of this his parents said—`He is of age, ask him.' <sup>24</sup> They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;' ²⁵ he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner—I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.' <sup>26</sup> And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?' ²⁷ He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?' <sup>28</sup> They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples; ²⁹ we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one—we have not known whence he is.' ³⁰ The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes! <sup>31</sup> and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear; <sup>32</sup> from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind; <sup>33</sup> if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.' <sup>34</sup> They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.
³⁵ Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?' <sup>36</sup> he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?' ³⁷ And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;' <sup>38</sup> and he said, `I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.
³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' <sup>40</sup> And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?' ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say—We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

¹⁴ and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

² and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

³⁴ They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?' <sup>9</sup> And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God? ¹⁰ Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath—round about? ¹¹ The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath—if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!' ¹² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath is in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!' <sup>4</sup> And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life. ⁵ Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh—if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!' ⁶ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, he is in thy hand; only his life take care of.'

²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

⁵ Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities. ⁶ For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off. ⁷ Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread. ⁸ As to the man of arm—he hath the earth, And the accepted of face—he dwelleth in it. ⁹ Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised. ¹⁰ Therefore round about thee are snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly. ¹¹ Or darkness—thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee. ¹² Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high. ¹³ And thou hast said, `What—hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge? <sup>14</sup> Thick clouds are a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,
<sup>15</sup> The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? <sup>16</sup> Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation. <sup>17</sup> Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them? ¹⁸ And he hath filled their houses with good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.) ¹⁹ See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them, ²⁰ `Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'
<sup>21</sup> Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good. <sup>22</sup> Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart. <sup>23</sup> If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. <sup>24</sup> So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering. <sup>25</sup> And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver is strength to thee. <sup>26</sup> For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, <sup>27</sup> Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest. <sup>28</sup> And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone. <sup>29</sup> For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth. ³⁰ He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them. ² The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

⁵ blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,

² and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things? <sup>3</sup> No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish. <sup>4</sup> `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵ No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

⁴ and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

⁴⁰ Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

¹¹ believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.
¹² `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do—that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father; ¹³ and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

²¹ And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

³² and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected; <sup>33</sup> but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem. <sup>34</sup> `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

¹⁹ Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

³⁶ `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

³² Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

³⁷ if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

⁹ Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; ¹⁰ and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

³⁵ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

⁴ I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do it .

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

¹⁰ therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

⁵ in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

⁶ I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations. ⁷ To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

⁶ And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'

¹ Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. ² For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. ³ And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

¹⁶ the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.'

³² a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men,
⁵ and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it. ⁶ There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name is John, ⁷ this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him; ⁸ that one was not the Light, but—that he might testify about the Light. ⁹ He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; ²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; ²¹ but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

³⁵ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth; ³⁶ while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

⁴⁶ I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me—in the darkness may not remain;

⁴⁷ for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations—for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

²³ and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it is the Lamb;

³³ And having taken him away from the multitude by himself, he put his fingers to his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue,

²³ and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put his hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

¹⁰ and Elisha sendeth unto him a messenger, saying, `Go, and thou hast washed seven times in Jordan, and thy flesh doth turn back to thee—and be thou clean. <sup>11</sup> And Naaman is wroth, and goeth on, and saith, `Lo, I said, Unto me he doth certainly come out, and hath stood and called in the name of Jehovah his God, and waved his hand over the place, and recovered the leper. ¹² Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? do I not wash in them and I have been clean?' and he turneth and goeth on in fury. ¹³ And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say, `My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto thee—dost thou not do it ? and surely, when he hath said unto thee, Wash, and be clean.' ¹⁴ And he goeth down and dippeth in Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh doth turn back as the flesh of a little youth, and is clean.

¹⁵ And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

⁸ Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

⁶ `Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

¹⁸ And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see. ¹⁹ And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.

³ And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.

⁵ Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

⁷ To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

¹⁶ And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them. ¹⁷ Removed backward—utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye are our gods.'
¹⁸ Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.

⁸ He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.

⁴ `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

¹¹ he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

³⁶ of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say—Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?

³⁷ and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

⁴ and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

¹⁹ and they go both of them till their coming in to Beth-Lehem; and it cometh to pass at their coming in to Beth-Lehem, that all the city is moved at them, and they say, `Is this Naomi?'

⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

¹¹ and the servants of Achish say unto him, `Is not this David king of the land? is it not of this one they sing in dances, saying, `Saul smote among his thousands, and David among his myriads?'

⁴⁶ And they come to Jericho, and as he is going forth from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, a son of Timaeus—Bartimaeus the blind—was sitting beside the way begging,

²⁰ and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores. ²² `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried;

³⁵ And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,

² and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple, ³ who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness. ⁴ And Peter, having looked stedfastly toward him with John, said, `Look toward us;' <sup>5</sup> and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them; <sup>6</sup> and Peter said, `Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.' ⁷ And having seized him by the right hand, he raised him up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened, ⁸ and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God; ⁹ and all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰ they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him. ¹¹ And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon's—greatly amazed,

⁵ As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, How—bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

²⁷ and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

¹⁵ Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash—and I see.'

²¹ and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

²⁶ And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

³⁵ But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

¹⁷ And they asked Baruch, saying, `Declare, we pray thee, to us, how didst thou write all these words—from his mouth?'

⁶ These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, ⁷ `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

²⁷ He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

¹⁸ And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, `Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?' <sup>19</sup> and they say, `A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;' ²⁰ and he saith unto his daughters, `And where is he? why is this? —ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.'

¹¹ He answered them, `He who made me whole—that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;' <sup>12</sup> they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?' ¹³ But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

¹¹ the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'

³ and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst, ⁴ they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime—committing adultery, <sup>5</sup> and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?' <sup>6</sup> and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground, <sup>7</sup> and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you—let him first cast the stone at her;' ⁸ and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,

⁴⁶ but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did; ⁴⁷ the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

⁵⁷ and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew it, so that they may seize him.

¹⁹ the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'

⁴² Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

¹ At that time did Jesus go on the sabbaths through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears, and to eat, ² and the Pharisees having seen, said to him, `Lo, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath.' <sup>3</sup> And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him— ⁴ how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to him to eat, nor to those with him, except to the priests alone? ⁵ `Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless? <sup>6</sup> and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here; <sup>7</sup> and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice—ye had not condemned the blameless, <sup>8</sup> for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath.' <sup>9</sup> And having departed thence, he went to their synagogue, <sup>10</sup> and lo, there was a man having the hand withered, and they questioned him, saying, `Is it lawful to heal on the sabbaths?' that they might accuse him. ¹¹ And he said to them, `What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise it ? <sup>12</sup> How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? —so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.' <sup>13</sup> Then saith he to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand,' and he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole as the other.
¹⁴ And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

²³ And it came to pass—he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields—and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

¹ And it came to pass, on the second-first sabbath, as he is going through the corn fields, that his disciples were plucking the ears, and were eating, rubbing with the hands, ² and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?' <sup>3</sup> And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him, ⁴ how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did take, and did eat, and gave also to those with him, which it is not lawful to eat, except only to the priests?' ⁵ and he said to them, —`The Son of Man is lord also of the sabbath.' <sup>6</sup> And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he goeth into the synagogue, and teacheth, and there was there a man, and his right hand was withered, <sup>7</sup> and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him. <sup>8</sup> And he himself had known their reasonings, and said to the man having the withered hand, `Rise, and stand in the midst;' and he having risen, stood. ⁹ Then said Jesus unto them, `I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?' <sup>10</sup> And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other; ¹¹ and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, ¹¹ and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all, ¹² and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;' <sup>13</sup> and he laid on her his hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God. <sup>14</sup> And the chief of the synagogue answering—much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed—said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.' ¹⁵ Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water it ? ¹⁶ and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?' ¹⁷ And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

¹ And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,

⁹ and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

¹⁶ and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder, ²² because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision—not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers—and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man; ²³ if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?

¹⁰ They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?' <sup>11</sup> he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

²⁶ And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?' <sup>27</sup> He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

² and the Pharisees having seen, said to him, `Lo, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath.'

³¹ On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;' <sup>32</sup> and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected; ³³ but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

² this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come—a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

⁵² The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?'

¹² and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said—`He is good;' and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;'

⁴³ A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.

²⁴ They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes! ³¹ and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear; ³² from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind; ³³ if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

¹⁹ Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

¹¹ believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

⁴ And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,

¹¹ And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee.'

¹⁹ And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man—a prophet—powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

¹⁹ The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;

¹⁴ The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said—`This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'

²² `Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

²² `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said—A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; <sup>23</sup> and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; <sup>24</sup> and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days. <sup>25</sup> `Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ²⁶ to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

³⁸ Jesus who is from Nazareth—how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

¹⁴ And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

¹¹ O Jehovah, high is Thy hand—they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire—Thine adversaries, consumeth them.

¹ Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?

³¹ And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?'

⁴⁴ how are ye able—ye—to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

²² These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him—Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

³⁷ yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him, ³⁸ that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord—to whom was it revealed?' <sup>39</sup> Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said, <sup>40</sup> `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'

¹⁵ in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,' ¹⁶ for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; ¹⁷ but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? — ¹⁹ and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

¹¹ May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

⁸ the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?' <sup>9</sup> others said—`This is he;' and others—`He is like to him;' he himself said, —`I am he .'

¹⁰ they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him.

¹⁴ and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it,

¹ By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid? ² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

²⁵ Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

¹² I—I am He—your comforter, Who art thou—and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man—grass he is made!

¹¹ And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid it to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest not?

²² `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake—

⁴ `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do; <sup>5</sup> but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him. <sup>6</sup> `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God, ⁷ but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value. ⁸ `And I say to you, Every one—whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God, ⁹ and he who hath denied me before men, shall be denied before the messengers of God,

⁵⁶ and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!' <sup>57</sup> and he disowned him, saying, `Woman, I have not known him.' ⁵⁸ And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.' ⁵⁹ And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;' <sup>60</sup> and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew. ⁶¹ And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him—`Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'

¹³ no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.

⁴⁵ the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring him?' <sup>46</sup> The officers answered, `Never so spake man—as this man.' ⁴⁷ The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray? <sup>48</sup> did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? <sup>49</sup> but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.' <sup>50</sup> Nicodemus saith unto them—he who came by night unto him—being one of them, <sup>51</sup> `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?' ⁵² They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

⁴² Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, ⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

² out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

³⁸ And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea—being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews—ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,

¹⁹ It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;'

¹⁸ And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,

¹³ and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,

⁴⁰ And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, ¹² for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ¹³ and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

¹⁹ And Joshua saith unto Achan, `My son, put, I pray thee, honour on Jehovah, God of Israel, and give to Him thanks, and declare, I pray thee, to me, what thou hast done—hide not from me.'

⁵ and ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land; ⁶ and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not—when He hath rolled Himself upon them—send them away, and they go? ⁷ `And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house, ⁸ and ye have taken the ark of Jehovah, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him—a guilt-offering—ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone; ⁹ and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh—He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.'

¹⁴ Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. ¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

⁵ Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.

²⁷ And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on his left,

³⁹ And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

² and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying—This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

⁷ and having seen it, they were all murmuring, saying—`With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

²³ that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

⁴⁶ Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

⁴⁹ Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

¹⁶ Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, `How is a man—a sinful one—able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

³⁰ I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

³⁰ they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

⁶ When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him—ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;'

² for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, ³ for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit. ⁴ For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

¹¹ He answered them, `He who made me whole—that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

¹⁰ He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;

⁶⁷ saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;

¹⁰ They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?' <sup>11</sup> he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;' ¹² they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'
¹³ They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind, ¹⁴ and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash—and I see.'

¹¹ `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake—

³⁹ and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads,

⁴⁵ `Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses—in whom ye have hoped; ⁴⁶ for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me; ⁴⁷ but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

¹⁹ hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

¹¹ then they suborned men, saying—`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' <sup>12</sup> They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim; <sup>13</sup> they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law, ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'

¹⁷ Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

² and they say, `Only by Moses hath Jehovah spoken? also by us hath he not spoken?' and Jehovah heareth. <sup>3</sup> And the man Moses is very humble, more than any of the men who are on the face of the ground.
<sup>4</sup> And Jehovah saith suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, `Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting;' and they three come out. ⁵ And Jehovah cometh down in the pillar of the cloud, and standeth at the opening of the tent, and calleth Aaron and Miriam, and they come out both of them. ⁶ And He saith, `Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah—in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him; ⁷ not so My servant Moses; in all My house he is stedfast;

²⁸ And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart;

¹⁰ And there hath not arisen a prophet any more in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah hath known face unto face,

²⁷ and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.'

¹¹ And Jehu hath gone out unto the servants of his lord, and one saith to him, `Is there peace? wherefore came this madman unto thee?' and he saith unto them, `Ye have known the man and his talk.'

⁶ And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.

⁷ He maketh known His ways to Moses, To the sons of Israel His acts.

²⁶ He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.

¹⁶ And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

² Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him. ³ He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel—statutes and judgments.

²⁴ but the Pharisees having heard, said, `This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'

⁶¹ said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

² and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

²⁷ but this one—we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'

⁴¹ others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come? ⁴² Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem—the village where David was—the Christ doth come?'

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself—my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye—ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

³⁵ `This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;

²² And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

²² `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

² being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, ³ for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it, ⁴ for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God, ⁵ and Moses indeed was stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

¹⁴ Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

¹⁸ And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

⁶ and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

²² And Jesus answering said to them, `Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel—and these things thou dost not know!

³⁷ yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,

⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

²³ And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked? <sup>24</sup> peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty—the righteous who are in its midst? <sup>25</sup> Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?' <sup>26</sup> And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' ²⁷ And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I—dust and ashes; <sup>28</sup> peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.' ²⁹ And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do it not, because of the forty.' ³⁰ And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do it not, if I find there thirty.' ³¹ And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy it, because of the twenty.' ³² And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy it, because of the ten.' ³³ And Jehovah goeth on, when He hath finished speaking unto Abraham, and Abraham hath turned back to his place.

²⁹ And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

⁷ and now send back the man's wife, for he is inspired, and he doth pray for thee, and live thou; and if thou do not send back, know that dying thou dost die, thou, and all that thou hast.'

²⁰ and crieth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Jehovah my God, also on the widow with whom I am sojourning hast Thou done evil—to put her son to death?' <sup>21</sup> And he stretcheth himself out on the lad three times, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `O Jehovah my God, let turn back, I pray Thee, the soul of this lad into his midst;' ²² and Jehovah hearkeneth to the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the lad turneth back into his midst, and he liveth.

³⁶ And it cometh to pass, at the going up of the evening- present, that Elijah the prophet cometh nigh and saith, `Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to-day let it be known that Thou art God in Israel, and I Thy servant, that by Thy word I have done the whole of these things; ³⁷ answer me, O Jehovah, answer me, and this people doth know that Thou art Jehovah God; and Thou hast turned their heart backward.' ³⁸ And there falleth a fire of Jehovah, and consumeth the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water that is in the trench it hath licked up.

²⁰ And Hezekiah the king prayeth, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, concerning this, and they cry to the heavens, ²¹ and Jehovah sendeth a messenger, and cutteth off every mighty one of valour—both leader and head—in the camp of the king of Asshur, and he turneth back with shame of face to his land, and entereth the house of his god, and those coming out of his bowels have caused him to fall there by the sword.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? ⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

¹² There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

⁸ And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁴¹ They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry. ¹⁶ (The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

⁸ To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

¹⁸ Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear. ¹⁹ But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰ Blessed is God, Who hath not turned aside my prayer, And His loving-kindness, from me!

⁶ Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those proclaiming His name. They are calling unto Jehovah, And He doth answer them.

²³ And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

²⁹ Far is Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.

¹³ Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

⁹ Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

⁹ Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity,

¹¹ Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

¹² When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

¹ And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

¹⁸ And I also deal in fury, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in Mine ears—a loud voice—and I do not hear them.'

⁴ Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

¹³ And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or—I do speak from myself.

⁴¹ They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me; ⁴² and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said it, that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

⁷ then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

¹⁵ and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him. ¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man; ¹⁷ Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray—not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

⁴ This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

⁴ Even from antiquity men have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for those waiting for Him.

⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;

¹⁸ and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and a great earthquake came, such as came not since men came upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake—so great!

³⁸ and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown, ³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

⁹ And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

¹⁴ and he saith, `Who set thee for a head and a judge over us? to slay me art thou saying it, as thou hast slain the Egyptian?' and Moses feareth, and saith, `Surely the thing hath been known.'

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹⁴ What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? ¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. ¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman?

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

⁷ The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it—shame, And a reprover of the wicked—his blemish. ⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

¹⁰ Cast out a scorner—and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

¹ A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

⁵ Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.

¹⁷ `And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer. <sup>18</sup> `Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; <sup>11</sup> the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; <sup>12</sup> I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things—as many as I possess. <sup>13</sup> `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner! ¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁷ verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'

³⁷ all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

⁴¹ ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have—God;'

² and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

³⁵ Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ye being gathered together, also my spirit—with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹³ and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

¹⁵ we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them—Diotrephes—doth not receive us;

¹⁷ and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

⁷ I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

¹⁰ When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

³³ and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, `Truly—God's Son art thou.'

¹⁶ and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

¹ A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

¹⁸ God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father—he did declare.

³⁴ and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.' <sup>50</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

¹⁵ that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, ¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; ¹⁸ he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

¹⁴ After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

⁶⁹ and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

²⁷ believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

³¹ and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

³⁶ And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

²⁰ and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

²⁰ and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'

² in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; ³ who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might—through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
⁴ having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they. ⁵ For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?' ⁶ and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him—all messengers of God;' <sup>7</sup> and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;' ⁸ and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy reign; ⁹ thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee—God, thy God—with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

¹⁵ whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

⁵ who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹³ These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

³ Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know. ⁴ Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

⁹ What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

³ said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'

³⁸ And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, saith to them, `What seek ye?' and they said to them, `Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou?'

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant—to cause them to know.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

¹¹ And he answering said to them that—`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given, ¹² for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

²⁶ Jesus saith to her, `I am he, who am speaking to thee.'

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' ²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' <sup>23</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

³¹ and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God; ³² send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee; ³³ at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

¹¹ And the king doth desire thy beauty, Because he is thy lord—bow thyself to him,

⁹ and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.

¹⁷ and having seen him, they bowed to him, but some did waver.

⁵² and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,

⁹ and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, <sup>10</sup> and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.' <sup>11</sup> And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders—and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands— <sup>12</sup> saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!' ¹³ and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, is the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might—to the ages of the ages!' <sup>14</sup> and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.

⁹ And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye—to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye—to see, and ye do not know.

¹⁰ For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes—the prophets, And your heads—the seers—He covered.

¹⁸ Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see. ¹⁹ Who is blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah? ²⁰ Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.

¹⁸ They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

⁹ And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth. ¹⁰ See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'

²³ but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness—the darkness, how great!

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, ¹⁴ and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, ¹⁵ for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

⁷⁹ To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

³⁴ and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this one is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against—

¹⁸ `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

²¹ And in that hour he cured many from sicknesses, and plagues, and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.

³⁴ `The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened; ³⁵ take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

³⁰ and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

²² for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, ²³ that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him. ²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. <sup>25</sup> `Verily, verily, I say to you—There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live; ²⁶ for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

¹⁵ `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

²⁵ he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner—I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

³⁶ he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?' <sup>37</sup> And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;' ³⁸ and he said, `I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.

⁴⁰ `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;' ⁴¹ these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened, ⁸ according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' —unto this very day, <sup>9</sup> and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

¹⁶ to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

⁴ in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; ⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus—Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus; ⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹¹ and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

¹² Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?' <sup>13</sup> And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up; ¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹⁶ `Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary—is debtor! <sup>17</sup> Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold? <sup>18</sup> `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it—is debtor! ¹⁹ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift? ²⁰ `He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it; <sup>21</sup> and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it; <sup>22</sup> and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it. <sup>23</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law—the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect. ²⁴ `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing. <sup>25</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. ²⁶ `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean. <sup>27</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; ²⁸ so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; <sup>40</sup> unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? <sup>41</sup> But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you. <sup>42</sup> `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting. ⁴³ `Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places. <sup>44</sup> `Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.' ⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;' <sup>46</sup> and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens. ⁴⁷ `Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. <sup>48</sup> Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs; <sup>49</sup> because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, <sup>50</sup> that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; <sup>51</sup> from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation. <sup>52</sup> `Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.' ⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, ⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. ²¹ Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? ²² thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

¹⁷ because thou sayest—I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

²¹ Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

³⁵ And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

⁴⁷ `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

²² if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin. ²³ `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; ²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

²⁶ For we—wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth—no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; <sup>9</sup> if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; <sup>10</sup> if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.