Mark 8 Cross References - YLT

¹ In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them, ² `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; <sup>3</sup> and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.' <sup>4</sup> And his disciples answered him, `Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?' ⁵ And he was questioning them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven.' ⁶ And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before them; and they did set before the multitude. ⁷ And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed, he said to set them also before them; ⁸ and they did eat and were filled, and they took up that which was over of broken pieces—seven baskets; ⁹ and those eating were about four thousand. And he let them away,
¹⁰ and immediately having entered into the boat with his disciples, he came to the parts of Dalmanutha, ¹¹ and the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, tempting him; ¹² and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, `Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.' <sup>13</sup> And having left them, having entered again into the boat, he went away to the other side; <sup>14</sup> and they forgot to take loaves, and except one loaf they had nothing with them in the boat, <sup>15</sup> and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,' ¹⁶ and they were reasoning with one another, saying—`Because we have no loaves.' <sup>17</sup> And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember? ¹⁹ When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, `Twelve.' <sup>20</sup> `And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, `Seven.' <sup>21</sup> And he said to them, `How do ye not understand?'
²² And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him, 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: ²⁴ and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.' <sup>25</sup> Afterwards again he put his hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly, <sup>26</sup> and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell it to any in the village.'
²⁷ And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, `Who do men say me to be?' <sup>28</sup> And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.' ²⁹ And he saith to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering saith to him, `Thou art the Christ.' ³⁰ And he strictly charged them that they may tell no one about it, ³¹ and began to teach them, that it behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again; ³² and openly he was speaking the word. And Peter having taken him aside, began to rebuke him, ³³ and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.' <sup>34</sup> And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me—let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me; ³⁵ for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it; ³⁶ for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? ³⁷ Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life? ³⁸ for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.'

³² And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.' <sup>33</sup> And his disciples say to him, `Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?' ³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven, and a few little fishes.' ³⁵ And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground, ³⁶ and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. ³⁷ And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full, ³⁸ and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children. ³⁹ And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.

³⁴ and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things. ³⁵ And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, —`The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced, <sup>36</sup> let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.' <sup>37</sup> And he answering said to them, `Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, `Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?' <sup>38</sup> And he saith to them, `How many loaves have ye? go and see;' and having known, they say, `Five, and two fishes.' ³⁹ And he commanded them to make all recline in companies upon the green grass, ⁴⁰ and they sat down in squares, by hundreds, and by fifties. ⁴¹ And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves, and was giving to his disciples, that they may set before them, and the two fishes divided he to all, ⁴² and they did all eat, and were filled, ⁴³ and they took up of broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full, and of the fishes, ⁴⁴ and those eating of the loaves were about five thousand men.

¹³ As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

⁸ Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

¹⁵ The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,

¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.

² and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger. ³ And the Tempter having come to him said, `If Son thou art of God—speak that these stones may become loaves.' <sup>4</sup> But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; ³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

³⁶ And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

¹⁴ And Jesus having come forth, saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion upon them, and did heal their infirm;

³⁴ and having been moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

⁴¹ And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, `I will; be thou cleansed;'

¹⁹ and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own friends, and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

³⁴ and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.

²² and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'

¹³ And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'

²⁰ `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

⁶ and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour; ⁷ there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;' ⁸ for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

³⁰ They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him. ³¹ And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;' <sup>32</sup> and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.' ³³ The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?' <sup>34</sup> Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

¹⁷ wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

¹⁵ for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner—apart from sin;

² able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

⁴ And Gideon cometh in unto the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who are with him—wearied, and pursuing, ⁵ and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who are at my feet, for they are wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.' <sup>6</sup> And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?'

²⁸ And a man of the people answereth and saith, `Thy father certainly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who eateth food to-day; and the people are weary.' <sup>29</sup> And Jonathan saith, `My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, that mine eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey. ³⁰ How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.' ³¹ And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,

¹⁰ and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor), ¹¹ and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eateth, and they cause him to drink water, ¹² and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs, and two bunches of raisins, and he eateth, and his spirit returneth unto him, for he hath not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights.

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

²¹ And Moses saith, `Six hundred thousand footmen are the people in whose midst I am; and Thou, Thou hast said, Flesh I give to them, and they have eaten, a month of days! <sup>22</sup> Is flock and herd slaughtered for them, that one hath found for them? —are all the fishes of the sea gathered for them—that one hath found for them?' <sup>23</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.'

⁴² And a man hath come from Baal-Shalishah, and bringeth in to the man of God bread of first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in its husk, and he saith, `Give to the people, and they eat.' <sup>43</sup> And his minister saith, `What—do I give this before a hundred men?' and he saith, `Give to the people, and they eat, for thus said Jehovah, Eat and leave;' ⁴⁴ and he giveth before them, and they eat and leave, according to the word of Jehovah.

² And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, `Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens—shall this thing be?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'

¹⁹ And they speak against God—they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?' <sup>20</sup> Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also—bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

³³ And his disciples say to him, `Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

³⁶ let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.' ³⁷ And he answering said to them, `Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, `Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?'

⁵² for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

⁷ Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;' <sup>8</sup> one of his disciples—Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter—saith to him, <sup>9</sup> `There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these—what are they to so many?'

¹⁵ and evening having come, his disciples came to him, saying, `The place is desolate, and the hour hath now past, let away the multitudes that, having gone to the villages, they may buy to themselves food.' <sup>16</sup> And Jesus said to them, `They have no need to go away—give ye them to eat.' ¹⁷ And they say to him, `We have not here except five loaves, and two fishes.'

³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven, and a few little fishes.'

³⁸ And he saith to them, `How many loaves have ye? go and see;' and having known, they say, `Five, and two fishes.'

¹³ And he said unto them, `Give ye them to eat;' and they said, `We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;'

¹³ At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'

¹⁸ And he said, `Bring ye them to me hither.' ¹⁹ And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

³⁵ And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground, ³⁶ and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

²⁶ And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;'

¹⁴ for they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, `Cause them to recline in companies, in each fifty;' ¹⁵ and they did so, and made all to recline;

³⁷ `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

³⁰ And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

⁵ His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you—do.'

¹⁰ And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand, ¹¹ and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.

²³ (and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),

⁶ He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard it, and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it . He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

³⁰ and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

¹⁷ and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus—giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

³ forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, ⁴ because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, ⁵ for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

¹⁹ And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

⁴¹ `And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

⁴¹ and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?' ⁴² and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

⁵ Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?'

⁸ and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes; ⁹ when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread.

¹⁴ for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The pitcher of meal is not consumed, and the dish of oil is not lacking, till the day of Jehovah's giving a shower on the face of the ground.' ¹⁵ And she goeth, and doth according to the word of Elijah, and she eateth, she and he, and her household—days; ¹⁶ the pitcher of meal was not consumed, and the dish of oil did not lack, according to the word of Jehovah that He spake by the hand of Elijah.

² And Elisha saith unto her, `What do I do for thee? declare to me, what hast thou in the house?' and she saith, `Thy maid-servant hath nothing in the house except a pot of oil.' ³ And he saith, `Go, ask for thee vessels from without, from all thy neighbours—empty vessels—let them not be few; <sup>4</sup> and thou hast entered, and shut the door upon thee, and upon thy sons, and hast poured out into all these vessels, and the full ones thou dost remove.' <sup>5</sup> And she goeth from him, and shutteth the door upon her, and upon her sons; they are bringing nigh unto her, and she is pouring out, <sup>6</sup> and it cometh to pass, at the filling of the vessels, that she saith unto her son, `Bring nigh unto me a vessel more,' and he saith unto her, `There is not a vessel more;' and the oil stayeth. <sup>7</sup> And she cometh and declareth to the man of God, and he saith, `Go, sell the oil, and repay thy loan; and thou and thy sons do live of the rest.'

⁸ They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men. ⁹ For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled with goodness.

¹⁶ Opening Thy hand, and satisfying The desire of every living thing.

¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

¹⁹ When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, `Twelve.' <sup>20</sup> `And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, `Seven.'

⁵³ The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

¹¹ and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished. ¹² And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;' ¹³ they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal—even God.'

³² Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven; <sup>33</sup> for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.' <sup>34</sup> They said, therefore, unto him, `Sir, always give us this bread.' ³⁵ And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst—at any time;

⁴⁷ `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during; <sup>48</sup> I am the bread of the life; <sup>49</sup> your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died; <sup>50</sup> this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. <sup>51</sup> `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.' ⁵² The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?' <sup>53</sup> Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; ⁵⁴ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; ⁵⁵ for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; ⁵⁶ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; ⁵⁸ this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live—to the age.'

¹⁶ they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, ¹⁷ because the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

³⁹ And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? —ye strive with me, what? —ye try Jehovah?'

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

³⁸ Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.'

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, ² and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red, <sup>3</sup> and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red—gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able! <sup>4</sup> `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.
⁵ And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves, ⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;' <sup>7</sup> and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.' ⁸ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves? ⁹ do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up? ¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread—to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?' ¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³ And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

²³ And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

¹⁸ And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

²³ In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

³⁴ and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him; ³⁵ and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying,

¹⁶ And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why—that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

¹ And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, ² and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands—that is, unwashed—eating bread, they found fault;

¹⁵ And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;'

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

¹⁶ and others, tempting, a sign out of heaven from him were asking.

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.

⁵⁴ And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so; <sup>55</sup> and when—a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is; <sup>56</sup> hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time—how do ye not make proof of it ? <sup>57</sup> `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

⁴⁸ Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

³⁰ They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

²² Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, ²³ also we—we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

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.

³⁹ And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; ⁴⁰ for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

⁴ `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

⁵ And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

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

³⁴ and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,' that is, `Be thou opened;'

¹⁹ And he answering him, said, `O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;'

²⁹ And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet, ³⁰ for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

²⁹ `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; ³⁰ and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. 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.'

⁴¹ And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,

⁶⁷ saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe; ⁶⁸ and if I also question you, ye will not answer me or send me away; ⁶⁹ henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.' ⁷⁰ And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, `Ye say it, because I am;'

³³ Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, ³⁴ `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;' ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!' <sup>37</sup> 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?' ³⁸ Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

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;' ⁴¹ these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of 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, ⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

³³ And when this people, or the prophet, Or a priest, doth ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? Then thou hast said unto them: Ye are the burden, and I have left you, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁷ Joined to idols is Ephraim, let him alone.

¹² For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

⁸ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me. ⁹ And I say, `I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.'

⁶ `Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned—may rend you.

¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

³⁷ And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.

²¹ therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

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,

⁴⁵ and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and speaking evil. ⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

⁶ and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

⁵ And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves,

¹⁸ `In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month, at evening; ¹⁹ seven days leaven is not found in your houses, for any one eating anything fermented—that person hath been cut off from the company of Israel, among the sojourners or among the natives of the land; ²⁰ anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'

¹¹ No present which ye bring near to Jehovah is made fermented, for with any leaven or any honey ye perfume no fire-offering to Jehovah.

¹⁹ and hast caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company, and hast charged him before their eyes, ²⁰ and hast put of thine honour upon him, so that all the company of the sons of Israel do hearken. ²¹ `And before Eleazar the priest he standeth, and he hath asked for him by the judgment of the Lights before Jehovah; at His word they go out, and at His word they come in; he, and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the company.' ²² And Moses doth as Jehovah hath commanded him, and taketh Joshua, and causeth him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company, ²³ and layeth his hands upon him, and chargeth him, as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses.

⁹ `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever. ¹⁰ See, now, for Jehovah hath fixed on thee to build a house for a sanctuary; be strong, and do.'

²⁰ And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, is with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

²⁷ Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.

¹ At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words, ¹⁶ and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men; <sup>17</sup> tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?' <sup>18</sup> And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

¹³ and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse,

¹ At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; ² and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;

¹⁵ And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

⁶ Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
⁷ cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed—Christ, ⁸ so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

²¹ I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

¹³ I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,

¹⁴ These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord—not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

⁷ and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.' <sup>8</sup> And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

⁴⁶ And there entered a reasoning among them, this, Who may be greater of them?

⁵ And they reasoned with themselves, saying—`If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

¹⁷ Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

¹⁷ do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

⁸ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves? ⁹ do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

⁸ And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

¹⁴ Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

²⁴ and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men, ²⁵ and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

³⁰ now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.'

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; ¹³ and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes—with whom is our reckoning.

¹¹ concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, ¹² for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you—to each—according to your works.

⁴ and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

²³ Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou.

⁵ A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not, ⁶ Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not, ⁷ Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not; ⁸ Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

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 Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

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.

²¹ Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

² `Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house are they.

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.

¹² that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

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;'

²⁶ saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, ²⁷ for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

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,

¹² Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

¹⁷ And they say to him, `We have not here except five loaves, and two fishes.' <sup>18</sup> And he said, `Bring ye them to me hither.' ¹⁹ And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes, ²⁰ and they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full; ²¹ and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

¹² And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, `Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.' <sup>13</sup> And he said unto them, `Give ye them to eat;' and they said, `We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;' <sup>14</sup> for they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, `Cause them to recline in companies, in each fifty;' ¹⁵ and they did so, and made all to recline; ¹⁶ and having taken the five loaves, and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and was giving to the disciples to set before the multitude; ¹⁷ and they did eat, and were all filled, and there was taken up what was over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.

⁵ Jesus then having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' — <sup>6</sup> and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do. <sup>7</sup> Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;' ⁸ one of his disciples—Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter—saith to him, ⁹ `There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these—what are they to so many?' <sup>10</sup> And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,

³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven, and a few little fishes.' ³⁵ And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground, ³⁶ and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. ³⁷ And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full, ³⁸ and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

¹ In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them, ² `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; <sup>3</sup> and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.' <sup>4</sup> And his disciples answered him, `Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?' ⁵ And he was questioning them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven.' ⁶ And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before them; and they did set before the multitude. ⁷ And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed, he said to set them also before them; ⁸ and they did eat and were filled, and they took up that which was over of broken pieces—seven baskets; ⁹ and those eating were about four thousand. And he let them away,

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

¹² and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, `Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.'

¹⁷ And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?

⁹ Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

⁵ unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

³⁴ awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it .

³ and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, `I will, be thou cleansed,' and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

¹⁵ and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and was ministering to them.

²⁹ Then touched he their eyes, saying, `According to your faith let it be to you,'

²¹ `Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

³ And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

²⁷ having heard about Jesus, having come in the multitude behind, she touched his garment, ²⁸ for she said—`If even his garments I may touch, I shall be saved;' ²⁹ and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.

⁴⁵ And immediately he constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before to the other side, unto Bethsaida, till he may let the multitude away,

⁵⁵ having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is, ⁵⁶ and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

¹⁰ And the apostles having turned back, declared to him how great things they did, and having taken them, he withdrew by himself to a desert place of a city called Bethsaida,

¹³ `Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

⁴⁴ And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;

²¹ these then came near to Philip, who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

² Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.

¹⁸ There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

³² Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them—an affirmation of Jehovah.

²³ and he was calling upon him much, saying—`My little daughter is at the last extremity—that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

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,

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;
⁸ and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus,

⁹ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt—because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, —

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.

³⁶ and Gaal seeth the people, and saith unto Zebul, `Lo, people are coming down from the top of the hills;' and Zebul saith unto him, `The shadow of the hills thou art seeing like men.'

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.

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

⁹ for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; ¹⁰ and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. ¹¹ When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; ¹² for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

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.

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

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;

¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

⁴ And Jesus saith to him, `See, thou mayest tell no one, but go, thyself shew to the priest, and bring the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.'

³⁰ and their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, `See, let no one know;'

¹⁶ and did charge them that they might not make him manifest,

⁴³ and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.

³⁶ And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming it,

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:

¹³ And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, `Who do men say me to be—the Son of Man?' <sup>14</sup> and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.' ¹⁵ He saith to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' <sup>16</sup> and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' ¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. <sup>18</sup> `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it; ¹⁹ and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.' ²⁰ Then did he charge his disciples that they may say to no one that he is Jesus the Christ.

¹⁸ And it came to pass, as he is praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he questioned them, saying, `Who do the multitudes say me to be?' <sup>19</sup> And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;' ²⁰ and he said to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'

⁵ Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.

² and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

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

¹⁴ And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said—`John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.' <sup>15</sup> Others said—`It is Elijah,' and others said—`It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.' <sup>16</sup> And Herod having heard, said—`He whom I did behead—John—this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

¹¹ And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first. ¹² And he answering said to them, `Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought? ¹³ But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

⁷ And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead; ⁸ and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen; ⁹ and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

²¹ And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' —`The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

¹⁵ He saith to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' <sup>16</sup> and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

¹¹ and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

²⁰ and he said to them, `And ye—who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'

⁴¹ this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,) <sup>42</sup> and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)
⁴³ On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.' <sup>44</sup> And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter; <sup>45</sup> Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth;' ⁴⁶ and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.' ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;' <sup>48</sup> Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee—thou being under the fig-tree—I saw thee.' <sup>49</sup> Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

⁴² and said to the woman—`No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world—the Christ.'

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.'

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.

⁷ to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

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

¹ Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

²⁰ Then did he charge his disciples that they may say to no one that he is Jesus the Christ.

²⁶ and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell it to any in the village.'

⁹ And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

²¹ And having charged them, he commanded them to say this to no one,

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

¹⁹ and ye to-day have rejected your God, who is Himself your saviour out of all your evils and your distresses, and ye say, `Nay, but—a king thou dost set over us; and now, station yourselves before Jehovah, by your tribes, and by your thousands.'

²² A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.

² He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

¹⁷ And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

⁴⁰ for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

²¹ From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise. ²² And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, `Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;' <sup>23</sup> and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'
²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me, <sup>25</sup> for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it, <sup>26</sup> for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life? <sup>27</sup> `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work. ²⁸ Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'

²² And while they are living in Galilee, Jesus said to them, `The Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men, ²³ and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,' and they were exceeding sorry.

¹⁷ And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples by themselves in the way, and said to them, ¹⁸ `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, ¹⁹ and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

⁴² Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, `The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,' ³² but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

³³ —`Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations, ³⁴ and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.'

¹⁰ And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

²² saying—`It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.' <sup>23</sup> And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me; ²⁴ for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it; ²⁵ for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself? ²⁶ `For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father's, and the holy messengers'; ²⁷ and I say to you, truly, there are certain of those here standing, who shall not taste of death till they may see the reign of God.'

²⁵ and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

³¹ And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed—that have been written through the prophets—to the Son of Man, ³² for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon, ³³ and having scourged they shall put him to death, and on the third day he shall rise again.' ³⁴ And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.

⁶ he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee, ⁷ saying—It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'

²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

⁴⁸ `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

¹³ `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him, ¹⁴ and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man—a murderer—to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

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;

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye; ⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

²² And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, `Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

³⁸ and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, `Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

⁴⁰ and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

⁶ He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou—dost thou wash my feet?' <sup>7</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;' ⁸ Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet—to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;'

²⁵ `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

²⁹ His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

²⁰ Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;

⁴ And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die, ⁵ for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'
⁶ And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

¹⁷ `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

²² And David saith, `What—to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I am king over Israel?'

¹⁰ And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

⁵ The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee. ⁹ Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

¹⁰ Then saith Jesus to him, `Go—Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

³¹ therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? ³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

²³ And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying—`Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

³⁴ And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!

⁸ And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

⁵⁵ and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, `Ye have not known of what spirit ye are;

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;'

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; ⁶ for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace; ⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, ⁸ for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

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.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

²⁰ Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

¹³ this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter; ¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

²⁴ and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me—I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

⁸ and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, —and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in Mine eyes,

²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. <sup>30</sup> `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

¹³ `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; ¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

³⁸ and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

³² And coming forth, they found a man, a Cyrenian, by name Simon: him they impressed that he might bear his cross;

¹⁴ And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, `Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;

⁴³ `And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire—the unquenchable— <sup>44</sup> where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched. <sup>45</sup> `And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire—the unquenchable— ⁴⁶ where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire— ⁴⁸ where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;

²¹ And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, `One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast—sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.'

²³ And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

²⁶ `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple; ²⁷ and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

³³ `So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

²² and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things—as many as thou hast—sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'

⁴⁵ And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

³⁶ Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.' ³⁷ Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'

¹⁷ and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;

¹⁹ and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.'
<sup>20</sup> And Peter having turned about doth see the disciple whom Jesus was loving following, (who also reclined in the supper on his breast, and said, `Sir, who is he who is delivering thee up?')

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

⁶ this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ—if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

¹ And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; ² for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification, ³ for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

⁹ for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men; ¹⁰ we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; ¹¹ unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, ¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; ¹³ being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.

¹³ wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh—to the age—that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

¹⁹ for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

³¹ Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

²⁴ and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

¹⁴ And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—

¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

¹³ now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting;

¹⁴ having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁰ `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

¹¹ `All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto the king, unto the inner court, who is not called—one law of his is to put them to death, apart from him to whom the king holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived; and I—I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.' <sup>12</sup> And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther, <sup>13</sup> and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered in the house of the king, more than all the Jews, ¹⁴ but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?' ¹⁵ And Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai: ¹⁶ `Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that is not according to law, and when I have perished—I have perished.'

²⁰ `And also there hath been a man prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath-Jearim, and he prophesieth against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah, ²¹ And the king Jehoiakim, and all his mighty ones, and all the heads, hear his words, and the king seeketh to put him to death, and Urijah heareth, and feareth, and fleeth, and goeth in to Egypt. ²² And the king Jehoiakim sendeth men to Egypt—Elnathan son of Achbor, and men with him unto Egypt— ²³ And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.' ²⁴ Only, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan hath been with Jeremiah so as not to give him up into the hand of the people to put him to death.

¹⁰ `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake—because theirs is the reign of the heavens. <sup>11</sup> `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake— ¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

²² and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

³⁹ `He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

²⁵ for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

²⁹ and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

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— ²³ rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

²⁴ for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

³³ Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

²⁵ he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it; ²⁶ if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me—honour him will the Father.

²⁰ `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep; ²¹ but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

¹⁶ for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

²⁴ but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

¹³ and Paul answered, `What do ye—weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

²³ And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

¹⁰ wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

⁸ therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

¹¹ Stedfast is the word: For if we died together—we also shall live together; ¹² if we do endure together—we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us; ¹³ if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

⁶ for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; ⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord—the Righteous Judge—shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

³⁵ Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, ¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting; ¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ—happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified; ¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

¹⁴ and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

¹¹ and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life—unto death;

⁴ And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.

² To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?

¹⁷ For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

⁸ Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, ⁹ and saith to him, `All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.' <sup>10</sup> Then saith Jesus to him, `Go—Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

²⁵ for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be?

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, <sup>20</sup> and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, <sup>21</sup> 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. <sup>22</sup> `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; ²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; ⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

²⁴ by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, ²⁵ having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, ²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

⁹ And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation, ¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; ¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

⁷ `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see; ⁸ because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong is the Lord God who is judging her;

⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. ⁸ And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased—to the age.

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ's—

² and he saith: —`Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them.

¹⁰ A flood of fire is proceeding and coming forth from before Him, a thousand thousands do serve Him, and a myriad of myriads before Him do rise up, the Judge is seated, and the books have been opened.

¹³ `I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was one coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.

⁵ And ye have fled to the valley of My mountains, For join doth the valley of the mountains to Azal, And ye have fled as ye fled before the shaking, In the days of Uzziah king of Judah, And come in hath Jehovah my God, All holy ones are with Thee.

²⁰ and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

³² `Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens; ³³ and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

³⁹ And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

⁴¹ the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,

²⁷ `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

³⁰ and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;

³¹ `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

⁶⁴ Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.'

⁶² and Jesus said, `I am; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven.'

²⁶ `For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father's, and the holy messengers';

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,

²⁶ for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

⁵¹ and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

²⁷ and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

³⁴ the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain—to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this—the Son of Man?'

⁴¹ they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

¹⁶ for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

⁷ so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia, ⁸ for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard—to that day.

¹⁶ may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down; ³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

²³ every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.

¹⁴ And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam—Enoch—saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,
¹⁵ to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'